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1 Chinese Poetry. The first is a carbon of Ritchie’s from Adams’s radio play of the same name and was ACTON, Harold, & Ch’en Shih-Hsiang letter to Powell, dated 26 April 1985, asking for first published in London the preceding year. information on the print run and dust jacket (which £900 [136932] (trans.) Modern Chinese Poetry. Ritchie had not seen): “No record of the print run London: Duckworth, 1936 appears to survive. From your Duckworth experience Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles in English to spine could you hazard a guess as to the number printed?”, Signed by the author and in Chinese characters to front board, top edge gilt, and updates Powell on Acton’s activities: “Harold, 3 fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Together with: eternally young, has been entertaining the Prince 1) a carbon copy of a letter, single sheet folded, from Neil ADDAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull- Ritchie to Anthony Powell; 2) a typed letter signed, single and Princess of Wales …” Powell’s reply of 7 May sheet folded, from Anthony Powell to Neil Ritchie on 1985, a typed letter signed with an autograph House. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910 headed paper (The Chantry Nr. Frome Somerset BA11 3LJ); note at the end, notes that he possesses a copy, Large octavo. Original vellum-backed brown paper-covered 3) a blue paper envelope, addressed to: Neil Ritchie, Esqre, but without the jacket: “I should have thought boards, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, Case Giardo, 50020 Lucolena in Chanti, Firenze, Italy. a printing order of a thousand would have been others uncut. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, 11 plates, numerous illustrations to the text. An internally Melbourne bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spine the absolute maximum. There was an imbecile slightly cocked, light foxing to fore and bottom edges, crisp, clean copy, the last three leaves a little fragile along accountant there, who destroyed some of the early offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean and unmarked. creased top edges, the binding square and tight with some A very good copy, square and tight, in the original price- records, but even so publishers are not very good wear to extremities and a few small chips to boards. clipped and slightly foxed dust jacket, spine a touch at being able to produce these.” First edition, limited issue, number 28 of 210 copies sunned, with shallow chips to head of spine and tips. £875 [136704] signed by the author. Twenty Years at Hull-House is First edition, in a nice example of the scarce jacket, the first autobiography of social reformer and peace of Harold Acton’s English-language anthology 2 activist Jane Addams (1860–1935), the first American of contemporary Chinese poetry. It includes his woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (in 1931), and introductory survey, and specimens of the works ADAMS, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide the founder of the social work profession in the US. of Ch’en Meng-chia, Chou Tso-jen, Feng Fei-ming, to the Galaxy. New York: Harmony Books, 1980 The second settlement house to open in the Ho Chi-fang, Hsu Chih-mo, Kuo Mo-jo, Li Kwang- Octavo. Original purple cloth-backed blue paper-covered US and by far the most famous, influential, and t’ien, Lin Keng, Pien Chih-lin, Shao Hsun-mei, Shen boards, titles to spine and rear board in blue, device in blind innovative, Hull-House was co-founded in 1889 in Ts’ung-wen, Sun Ta-yu, T’ai Wang-shu, Wen Yi-tuo, to front board, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. A very Chicago by Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. “The and Yu Ping-po. Acton’s co-editor Ch’en Shih-Hsiang good copy in bright cloth, spine slightly cocked, a little bit of rapid expansion of programs offered at Hull-House (1912–1971) was professor of Chinese and comparative fading to spine ends, mild foxing to edges, old faint stain to during the 1890s mirrored the rapid development literature at the University of California, Berkeley. pp. 1–4, but still presenting nicely. In the bright dust jacket, of Addams’s own thinking about the purpose of This copy includes two letters laid in between with a couple of nicks to extremities, not price-clipped. a settlement house. Influenced by Ruskin and Neil Ritchie, Acton’s bibliographer, and the novelist First US edition, inscribed by the author on the half- Toynbee Hall and inspired by Thomas Carlyle’s elitist Anthony Powell, who had been an employee of title: “To John, Best wishes, Douglas Adams”. The philosophy that the rich had a duty to the lower Duckworth at the time of the publication of Modern Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was originally adapted classes, Addams and Starr originally envisioned the

2 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington settlement as a place where educated women could share their knowledge of art and literature with the working poor. Soon after opening Hull-House, however, Addams and Starr came to understand that the project’s success depended less on poetry readings than on the provision of very practical social services, including a day-care center for the children of working mothers and English literacy classes for those seeking U.S. citizenship” (ANB). The core residents were well-educated women bound together by their commitment to labour unions, the National Consumers League, and the suffrage movement; the facilities spanned a 13 building complex and included space for medical treatments, a night school, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a gym, meeting rooms, and a library. It is 4 estimated that, at its height, Hull-House was visited by some 2,000 people each week. Addams was the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction (later the National Conference of Social Work), vice president of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association, pro-suffrage columnist for the Ladies’ Home Journal, and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was also among the first generation of college-educated women in the US and the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale. £1,200 [137440]

A masterpiece of Western renaissance magic

4 4 4 AGRIPPA, Heinrich Cornelius. De occulta philosophia libri tres. [?: Johannes First collected edition. The first part of this summa the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the Bibliothèque Soter,] July 1533 of occult and magical thought had originally been municipale d’Orléans. These two copies also differ published in 1531, probably under the influence of from each other in textual layout and spellings, but Folio (279 × 185 mm). 18th-century marbled boards, Johannes Trithemius, abbot of Würzburg, whose have matching opening initials, although different rebacked and recornered to style in vellum, blue sprinkled notable students included Agrippa and Paracelsus. from the ones in this copy. No precedence has been edges. Title incorporating woodcut portrait of the author, letterpress astrological tables, woodcut figures (including 7 The privilege of the Emperor Charles V, to whom established between these variants: this copy has the cuts showing the proportions and properties of the human Agrippa was archivist and historiographer, is printed same setting of the Ad Lectorem leaf as the Herzog body), decorative and historiated woodcut opening initials. in French on the title verso, a “double anomaly”, as August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel copy. Partly erased early ink ownership inscription (“Temocri Caillet notes, for a Latin work printed in . Adams A–386; Caillet 93; Osler 1746; USTC 808117 (Orléans). Jarendu … Hiernimus Von …”) possibly dated 1553, Adams gives the place of publication as Basle. £5,750 [136927] occasional annotations; traces of a bookplate sometime There are several variants with the same removed from the front pastedown. Early ink ownership anonymous imprint; the present work shows, to inscription to title. Light wear to edges, somewhat name but a few, the correct spelling of “Romains” darkened, traces of abrasion and small repaired hole to title page’s inscription (not affecting portrait), small repaired in the first line of the dedication (others have holes to subsequent 2 leaves, very occasional worming just “Romaine” or “Romaines”, both grammatically touching a few letters, faint dampstaining, light finger- incorrect), and the proper use of French “ss” instead soiling, still a very good copy. of the German “ß” seen in the digitized copies from

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5 vol. 6, The Volsunga Saga; vols. 7, 8 and 9, The to spine, decorative floral borders in gilt and blind to boards, top and bottom edges gilt, corners of board edges ANDERSON, Erasmus B. (ed.) Norrœna Heimskringla; vol. 10, Burnt Njal; vol. 11, The Eddas; vol. 12, Epics and Romances; vol. 13, A Collection of and turn-ins decorated in gilt, colour fore-edge painting. Anglo-Saxon Classics. Embracing the Engraved title page. Printed in double column within single Popular Tales; vol. 14, The Arthurian Tales; vol. 15, line frame. Armorial bookplates of Villiers Hatton and history and romance of northern Europe. The Norse Discovery of America. John Norman Forster Newall to front pastedown and free London: Norrœna Society, 1905–07 £1,875 [137800] endpaper. A little colour to tips, front inner hinge slightly 15 volumes, octavo (231 × 151 mm). Contemporary red, blue, cracked, traces of bookplate removal to front free endpaper, or green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, elaborate pictorial light offsetting, occasional touch of foxing to contents, devices to spine and front panels in gilt, rear panel blocked 6 small burn mark to page 114. A very good copy. in blind, top edge gilt, others uncut. Partly unopened. (ARABIAN NIGHTS; FORE-EDGE A handsomely bound copy, with a fore-edge painting Colour frontispieces, illustrated half title, 51 plates with PAINTING.) The Arabian Nights’ of a scene inspired by the tales. This English edition tissue guards, 3 folding maps, illustrations to text. A fine set. features a preface from Galland, the first European A handsomely bound set of the Memorial Edition, Entertainments. Glasgow: printed by Malcolm translator of the Arabian Nights, whose number 76 of 350 copies only, privately printed and Griffin, for Richard Griffin & Co., and Thomas appeared in 12 volumes between 1704 and 1717. The for members of the Norrœna Society. The set Tegg, London, 1828 text follows the Jonathan Scott translation of 1811, combines the following volumes: vols. 1 and 2, Saxo Octavo (183 × 110 mm). Finely bound in near-contemporary but with proper names spelled differently, and some Grammaticus; vols. 3, 4 and 5, Teutonic Mythology; red straight-grain full morocco, gilt titles and decorations minor phrasing variations. The publishers’ preface notes their plan “to combine economy of price and portability of form” by using a small but legible type and by condensing the text through omitting the repetition of dialogue between Dinarzade and Scheherezade between tales after the 28th night. £750 [136763]

Inscribed by the author 7 (ATGET, Eugene.) ABBOTT, Berenice. The World of Atget. New York: Horizon Press, 1964 Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to front board in blind, 6 titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with

4 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 8 monochrome photographs throughout. Bottom edges of boards slightly sunned, top front tip a little bruised, contents bright and unmarked. A near-fine copy in a lightly sunned dust jacket, with one chip to lower rear panel, some short closed tears, and a little creasing and rubbing to extremities. First edition, inscribed by Abbott on the front free endpaper: “for Cecile & Bruno with love November 12 1981 Monson Maine”. The World of Atget is a record 8 of 19th-century Paris in the midst of modernization, with 176 of Atget’s plates published here for the William Greatbach after Ferdinand Pickering. Bound without Elliot) with a frontispiece by Delvaux after Chasselat first time. Abbott first met Atget in 1925, two years half-titles, terminal blanks and advertisements. Bindings (Paris: A. Bertrand, 1821). The Bentley illustrations, before his death. She purchased the majority of refurbished and in fine condition. Contents without by Ferdinand Pickering, played an integral part in the Atget’s archive from his friend André Calmettes any chipping or tearing; some light foxing, plates a little reception of Austen’s novels; according to one Austen browned, light running stain to Sense and Sensibility pp. 37–62, and was instrumental in ensuring the international scholar, they “promoted a sense that her novels were recognition of Atget as a pioneer of documentary offset discolouration to rear endpapers of Pride and Prejudice, light creasing to a few corners. A very good set. best understood as familial, female focused, and photography. Her first work on the photographer, sensational. For decades, these illustrations would Atget, Photographe de Paris, was published in 1930. First collected edition. In 1832–33 Richard Bentley have served to steer readers away from the conclusion bought the copyright of Pride and Prejudice from the £1,250 [136841] that Austen’s fiction ought to be understood as executors of Thomas Egerton and of the remaining social, comic, or didactic” (Looser, p. 20). novels from Henry and Cassandra Austen. Austen’s With a charming contemporary inscription to The first collected edition novels had not been reissued since 1818 so these the front endpaper of each volume, “J. L. Boulter. 8 printings – published by Bentley in his Standard The gift of my beloved pupils Theophila and Sarah Novels series – constitute early editions: Sense and Mary Spencer, Banstead Park”; Northanger Abbey and AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility; Pride Sensibility, third edition (pre-dating the first American Persuasion with an additional ownership signature and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; by a few months); Pride and Prejudice, fourth edition; underneath “Charles Richardson 1910”. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Mansfield Park, third edition; Emma, second edition Gilson D1–5; Sadleir 3735a. Davoney Looser, The Making of Jane Richard Bentley, 1833 (omitting the dedication to the Prince Regent of the Austen, 2017. first edition); Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, second 5 volumes, octavo (162 × 106 mm). Contemporary green calf, £12,500 [136404] expertly rebacked to style, red morocco labels, gilt double edition. These are also the first English editions to be rule and blind roll to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers illustrated. The very first Austen illustration appeared and sides. Engraved vignette titles and frontispieces by in a French translation of Persuasion (entitled La Famille

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10 operation of the British financial system, focusing on the economic role of the Bank of England. Bagehot’s AVEDON, Richard. Avedon: Photographs recommendation that the Bank alter gold reserves 1947–1977. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1978 based on economic cycles was highly influential, Folio. Original photographic laminated boards. With and “the wonderful clearness of Bagehot’s power the printed glassine dust jacket. 162 black and white of statement, his exact knowledge of the subject photographs in the text. Corners very lightly bumped, a few treated on, together with his firm grasp of economic 9 faint scuff marks to boards. An excellent copy in a rubbed theory, have caused this volume to exert an influence and scuffed jacket with a few minor nicks and light chipping which few books on a subject naturally so dry have to spine ends. 9 possessed” (Palgrave I, p. 81). First edition, inscribed by Avedon on the front Masui, p. 113. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 5–7. AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. free endpaper: “For Natalie and Donald with love, London: George Allen, 1894 Richard.” It was published to coincide with the £4,500 [133872] Tall octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt, retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. entirely unopened, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. 12 Frontispiece and illustrations printed on china paper by £650 [136635] Hugh Thomson. Spine and board edges sunned, rear board (BAKER, Josephine.) Hand-painted silk a little scuffed, couple of corners bumped, offsetting to “An undying classic” – Keynes handkerchief with original portrait of Baker. endpapers, contents clean and bright. A very good copy. 1920s First illustrated edition, large paper issue, one 11 Cream coloured silk handkerchief (385 × 385 mm). Creased of 250 copies released in England; a further 25 BAGEHOT, Walter. Lombard Street: where folded, minor toning, a few small pale spots not copies were released in the US. Thomson’s “light A Description of the Money Market. affecting image. In excellent condition, the portrait fresh touch and feeling for period manners provide and bright. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873 a charming and accessible gloss to the author’s Delightful memento of La Baker, a nicely executed work” (ODNB). This was the first edition to feature Octavo. Original brown cloth, recased, spine and covers portrait showing her facing left, smiling, wearing illustrations accompanying the text; Bentley’s 1833 lettered and ruled in gilt and black, dark green endpapers. earrings and a pearl necklace and sporting her famous Minor pencilled annotations. Without the publisher’s edition and subsequent printings had featured only brilliantined Eton crop. It is apparently based on the a frontispiece. Loosely laid in is the publisher’s advertisements at rear. Very minor bumping to spine ends and tips, light splitting to hinges with some restoration but photograph by the renowned portraitist Stanislaw publicity slip for the sale of Thomson’s original still firm, light creasing at corner of initial leaves, minor Julian Ignacy, Count Ostrorog (1863–1935), who drawings for this edition at the Fine Art Society. tape repair to final page. A good copy. established the studio Waléry in Paris, continuing Gilson E78. the business his father founded in Marseilles in 1872. First edition. Described by John Maynard Keynes £3,250 [137031] as “an undying classic”, Lombard Street analyses the £1,250 [136937]

6 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 13 BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1928 Octavo. Original blue sheep, titles and chandelier motifs to spine in gilt, Barrie’s monogram to front cover in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, blue book marker. Title page printed in red and black within double-ruled frame. Spine faded, covers a little scratched; a very good copy. First edition, deluxe issue, of the play text. The play opened on 27 December 1904 to huge success, breaking all previous theatrical records. In response Barrie sanctioned Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in collaboration with Arthur Rackham, the text of which was not based on the play but extracted, with minor revisions, from Barrie’s book-within-a-book London story-collection for adults, The Little White (1902). The familiar play text remained unpublished until 13 14 this edition was issued as part of The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie in 1928. This edition features a 29-page dedication “To the Five”, in which Barrie relates how he created Peter Pan. £700 [136522]

14 (BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel.) MARSHALL, Richard D., & others. Jean-Michel Basquiat. Paris: Galerie Enrico Navarra, 2000; 2010 3 volumes, quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to spines and front boards in grey and white, red endpapers. Housed in the original slipcase. A fine set in a very good slipcase with a split along the top of the spine panel and some minor wear and bumps to extremities. Third edition of the most comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Originally published in two volumes in 2000, this edition includes an appendix volume which corrects and expands on the original two-volume edition. £3,000 [136210]

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Best edition, revised and expanded The dictionary contains some 2,000 entries, including mostly biographies of religious and 15 historical figures as well as writers, in the latter BAYLE, Pierre. The Dictionary Historical case focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries, but 16 and Critical. London: Printed for J. J. and P. also articles on geography, all bolstered with a vast array of shoulder and footnotes. The views Bayle Knapton, et al., 1734–38 affectionately their friend Sylvia. Paris. September expressed in his detailed Life of Mahomet, which, in 1960”, with her bookplate on the front pastedown, 5 volumes, folio (356 × 224 mm). Contemporary mottled radical opposition with the opinion of the Church, annotated by her: “Please excuse this creased corner calf, twin red and green morocco labels, gilt motifs of “stresses the superior tolerance and rationality of couldn’t find another copy. S.B.” cornucopias disgorging grain to compartments, gilt Islam’s core teaching” (Israel), were reasserted by On 17 November 1919 Sylvia Beach (1887–1962) roll borders, marbled edges. Portrait frontispiece. 18th- Voltaire in his Traité sur la tolérance (1763). century bookplate of Thomas Barne to front pastedowns. opened Shakespeare and Company with the help Extremities a little rubbed, slight wear around foot of spine PMM 155b; En français dans le texte 129; ESTC T143097. of her lifelong companion, Adrienne Monnier. Jonathan I. Israel, Enlightenment Contested, 2006. of vols. II and III, minor patches of insect damage to calf, “Together they orchestrated much of the exchange light running dampstain at foot of pages, half-title in vol. IV £2,750 [137217] of English and French literature for the first half of creased. Notwithstanding, a very attractive set. the twentieth century”, including the publication Second, and best, English edition, following the Presentation copy, of James Joyce’s Ulysses (ODNB). Beach’s memoir, Shakespeare and Company, was first published the first English edition of 1710, from the French first inscribed in the year of publication edition of 1697. The second English edition was preceding year in the US. revised and expanded from its predecessor and 16 £6,000 [136528] used as the text of editions as late as 1984 and BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. 1997. “For over half a century, until the publication London: Faber and Faber, 1960 A beautifully bound set, of the Encyclopédie, Bayle’s Dictionnaire dominated one of 300 copies on handmade paper enlightened thinking in every part of Europe” Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground. With the dust jacket. With 16 black-and-white (PMM). French Protestant Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) plates. Spine gently cocked, a little rubbing to extremities, 17 wrote his Dictionnaire while in self-imposed exile several passages underlined in red and blue ink, with some (BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.) MALORY, Sir in Rotterdam as an “anti-clerical counterblast to marginal annotations, not in the author’s hand. Jacket Moreri’s [Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, 1674], in slightly faded and worn, price-clipped with a little chipping Thomas. [Morte Darthur.] The Birth, Life order, as he put it, ‘to rectify Moreri’s mistakes and to spine ends and tips. A very good copy. and Acts of King Arthur of his noble knights fill the gaps’. Bayle championed reason against First UK edition, presentation copy, inscribed by of the round table. London: Dent, 1893 belief, philosophy against religion, tolerance against the author three months after publication, “With 3 volumes, large square octavo (253 × 196 mm). superstition” (PMM). many good wishes for Louis Davis and Mark Davis Contemporary green half morocco by Worsfold, titles and

8 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 17 decorative ivy design to spines in gilt in compartments, illustrations for the Morte established Beardsley as the illustrations rejected the aesthetic of the Pre- marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, the voice of the 1890s, he was until that time largely Raphaelites who were Beardsley’s original mentors others untrimmed. Gravure frontispieces, 18 full-page an unknown young artist … La Morte Darthur proved and offered a revisionist and parodic treatment of wood engravings (including five double-page), numerous to be an immediate sensation upon publication and their medievalism. Ultimately, Beardsley went far text illustrations, and approximately 350 repeated designs for chapter headings and borders, all by Aubrey Beardsley. the impact of Beardsley’s Arthurian illustrations beyond his original intention to ‘flabbergast the Spines and cover edges uniformly browned, slight wear was tremendous … Today, Beardsley’s illustrations bourgeois’ of his day; he also challenged generations to board edges, faint offsetting from wood engravings to for the Morte, which constituted almost half his of readers and artists to view Arthurian society contents as often; a very good, attractive copy. lifetime’s artistic output, survive as the first example through his own modernist lens” (Lupack, Chapter First Beardsley edition, one of 300 copies on Dutch of modern Arthurian book illustration; and they 4). This is a masterpiece of book illustration in a handmade paper; a further 1,500 were printed remain arguably the best experimental visual striking binding by third-generation bookbinder on ordinary paper. “Commissioned by British reinterpretation of the Arthurian world. With their William Worsfold (1856–1929), at 12 Frith Street, publisher J. M. Dent in 1892 and first published in bold lines, strong visual themes, and numerous Soho. For more Malory, see also item 123. 12 monthly magazine instalments between June, memorable but unconventional details, the Morte Barbara Tepa Lupack, Illustrating Camelot, 2008. 1893, and mid–1894, Aubrey Beardsley’s Morte ‘pictures’ (which is how Beardsley himself referred £6,500 [137345] Darthur was one of the most original and certainly to them) created an important – although admittedly one of the most controversial of the 19th-century idiosyncratic – symbology and iconography. Often artistic reinterpretations of Malory. Although his shockingly overt in their sexuality and eroticism,

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18 others untrimmed. Housed in the publisher’s numbered slipcase. Portrait frontispiece, 16 colour plates BEATON, Cecil, & Daniela Palazzoli (ed.) of flies, 4 leaves of photographic illustrations, and Portfolio. : Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981 numerous in-text line-drawing illustrations. Spine a little sunned, an otherwise fine and unmarked copy. Folio. Original black card portfolio with label mounted to front, housed within a white gloss-laminated sleeve titled First edition, number 112 of a total edition of 19 in orange, together with the original plain cardboard outer 149 copies specially made for and signed by the packaging. 12 loose monochrome photographic prints author. Ray Bergman (1891–1967) was fishing editor with tissue guards, together with printed introductory of Outdoor Life magazine and has been described box, titles to front cover in silver. Sheet sizes: 760 × 600 mm. essay in Italian. A fine copy, a little creasing to slipcase, as “without doubt one of the most influential fly All in excellent condition. photographs fresh and unmarked. fishermen of his time … [whose] influence on Limited edition, one of 50 portfolios, each Limited edition, number 760 of 1,000 copies. many fly tiers is unquestioned … Bergman’s works containing ten signed prints from prominent Beaton “made a name for himself taking glamorous have not been forgotten and still serve as valuable artists, issued to mark the centenary of Save the photographic portraits of the ‘bright young things’ resources for fly tiers” (Valla, pp. 77–81). Trout is Children in 2019, with part of the original profits of the day, who soon thirsted for his talent [and] by considered “the all-time best seller of American going to the charity. The project was curated by the end of the 1920s – a decade which Beaton may angling books” (Francis). Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate from 1988 be said to personify – he had been granted sittings Austin M. Francis, Catskill Rivers: Birthplace of American Fly Fishing, to 2017, and by the artist Tracey Emin, who has by all whom he had aspired to photograph, except 1983; Mike Valla, The Founding Flies: 43 American Masters, Their contributed a print. The artworks are all based Queen Mary and Virginia Woolf ” (ODNB). The Patterns and Influences, 2013. around the theme of childhood, as a tribute to the glamour portraits presented here include Audrey £1,250 [137480] charity’s work, and together represent a significant Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe. collaborative effort by some of the leading figures in contemporary art. £750 [137157] 20 Each print is signed, numbered, and dated by the BERNHARDT, Katherine, Martin Creed, artist, the prints by Joyce Pensato and Rob Pruitt on The all-time bestseller of American angling books Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Harland archival labels, the rest directly: 19 Miller, Joyce Pensato, Rob Pruitt, Benjamin i. Katherine Bernhardt, African Violet. 10-colour lithograph on Somerset Velvet White 300 gsm BERGMAN, Ray. Trout. Philadelphia: The Penn Senior, David Shrigley, Rose Wylie. paper. Edition of 200. Publishing Company, 1938 Save the Children One Hundred Years. ii. Martin Creed, Work No. 3370. Screenprint with Large octavo. Publisher’s brown morocco, titles to spine in Margate: Counter Editions, 2019 6-colour hand-applied fluorescent glitter on gilt, pictorial design of a trout being caught on a line within Folio. Title page, and 10 original prints in various mediums Somerset Tub Sized Satin Radiant White 410 double rule frame in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, on paper. Housed in the original handmade grey clamshell gsm paper. Edition of 125.

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20: vi 20: vii 20: v iii. Tracey Emin, I Loved My Innocence. Original vi. Joyce Pensato, Margate Batman. Original viii. David Shrigley, I love … 4-colour screen print on lithograph on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400 lithograph in 2 colours on Somerset Tub Sized Somerset Tub Sized Satin White 410 gsm paper. gsm paper. Edition of 200. Satin White 410 gsm paper. Edition of 125. Edition of 125. iv. Antony Gormley, Free. Original lithograph in 4 vii. Rob Pruitt, Giant Pandas Spend About 12 Hours a ix. Benjamin Senior, Ball Games. 6-colour colours with screenprint glaze and hand-poured Day Eating Up to 15 Kilograms of Bamboo. Bamboo is lithograph on Somerset Velvet Soft White 300 varnish on Somerset Tub Sized Satin White 410 Rich in Protein as Well as Fibre, Which is Why They gsm paper. Edition of 100. gsm paper. Edition of 125. Poop Up to 50 Times a Day! Sometimes They Eat and x. Rose Wylie, Singing In The Rain. 4-colour lithograph v. Harland Miller, High on Hope. 20-colour screen Poop at the Same Time. 6-colour screenprint with and screen print on Somerset Tub Sized Satin Radiant White 410 gsm paper. Edition of 100. print on Somerset Radiant White tub Sized 410 hand-applied glitter on Somerset Tub Sized atin gsm paper. Edition of 75. Radiant White 410 gsm paper. Edition of 125. £38,000 [136265]

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Handsome Restoration Bible with a separate title page and pagination. The frontispiece, 59 collotype plates. Leather bookplate of additional Psalms are here not present. Wing lists it Haven O’More to front pastedown. Edges slightly rubbed, 21 as a separate book (B2476) and it may be that not all a few pages creased, rear free endpaper adhering to pastedown; a very good copy. (BIBLE; English; Authorized.) The Holy copies were issued with it. The text of both the Old Limited edition, number LXXV of 75 copies Bible. Cambridge: printed by John Field printer to and New Testaments is complete. ESTC R17083. printed on India paper and specially bound in one ye Universitie, 1661 volume, from a total edition of 1,575 copies. This Quarto (174 × 110 mm). Contemporary black English £2,000 [136992] groundbreaking work provided, for the first time, morocco, spine richly gilt to compartments, boards “a careful and accurate transcription of Blake’s panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled sides, gilt edges. 22 poetry” (Whitson and Whittaker, p. 38). “The Engraved title page; printed in double columns with red significance of the Keynes edition … cannot be ruling; divisional title page for New Testament. Some BILLINGHAM, Richard. Ray’s a Laugh. early manicules in red crayon and occasionally in pencil ; Berlin; New York: Scalo, 1996 underestimated” (ibid.). It remained the standard text until the Erdman edition 40 years later. to text; 20th-century bookplates of William T. Stevens to Quarto. Original pink boards, titles to front board and front pastedown and front free endpaper verso, ownership spine in purple, text to rear board in purple, pictorial Whitson and Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: signatures dated 1765 and 1771 (William Pickering) to front endpapers. With the dust jacket. Photographic illustrations Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media, 2013. pastedown and front free endpaper verso, early signature throughout in colour. Spine slightly rolled, else a fine copy, £1,500 [136956] S. Pickering to title page, 19th-century library stamp to in the bright jacket, with one short closed tear to head of front free endpaper verso (Williams Library), cutting on rear panel, nicks and rubbing to extremities. the engraver Robert Vaughan affixed to front free endpaper First edition of Billingham’s best-known book, One of 20 deluxe copies facing title page, alongside further pencilled ownership signature. A little rubbed, joints a little rubbed with very “a British family-album so cool that I can see and 24 minor splits at foot, light patch of wear to rear cover, final hear what goes on between the frames” (Robert few leaves a little tatty at fore edge with minor early paper Frank, dust jacket rear panel). BLAKE, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Clairvaux: The Trianon Press for The repair to final leaf, repair to short closed tear Old Testament £450 [136818] pp. 613–14 and New Testament pp. 20–21, very occasional William Blake Trust, 1960 short closed tears at leaf extremities, occasionally a little Folio (378 × 266 mm). Original green full morocco, titles gilt closely cropped at head with very occasional minor loss to One of 75 copies to spine, top edge gilt. With the original marbled slipcase. headings. An attractive copy. 23 Colour illuminated pages reproduced by collotype and A handsome English Bible from the early years stencil. With the bookplate of The Garden Ltd, from the of the Restoration period. The Bible is listed by BLAKE, William. Writings. Edited by Geoffrey collection of Haven O’More. Spine and mouth of slipcase ESTC as being issued with an additional book of Keynes. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925 sunned, small scuffs to ends of slipcase, a very good copy. the Psalms (alongside their inclusion in the Old Quarto. Original brown full morocco by Best & Co., title to First edition thus, deluxe limited issue: copy VIII Testament), with continuous registration although spine in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Photogravure of 20 deluxe copies with an original guide sheet

12 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 24 25 and stencil, and a set of hand-coloured plates 25 book was “mainly Ellis’s, the thinking is as much mine as his” (Wade, p. 224). Ellis greatly expanded showing progressive stages, as well as colour (BLAKE, William.) ELLIS, Edwin John, & collotype proofs, from a total edition of 526 copies Yeats’s original biographical section and was solely on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used W. B. Yeats. The Works of William Blake. responsible for “the ‘literary period’, the account by Blake, with each page watermarked with Blake’s London: Bernard Quaritch, 1893 of the minor poems, & the account of Blake’s art monogram. These deluxe copies were also bound 3 volumes, large octavo. Original green pictorial cloth theories”, while “the greater part of the ‘symbolic in full green morocco, where the ordinary issue was designed by Blake, titles and elaborate decoration to spines system’ was Yeats’s writing”. Richard Ellman only morocco-backed. and front boards in gilt, dark green coated endpapers, top suggests a certain level of self-interest for Yeats in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake’s boldest edges gilt, the others untrimmed. Photogravure portrait the project: “He was pleased to find that Blake’s and most directly philosophical work, was described frontispiece to each with tissue guards, numerous plates ideas harmonized with those of the Theosophists by S. Foster Damon as “Blake’s Principia, in which throughout, the “Prophetic Books” reproduced in facsimile, and the Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn, and 2 folding tables. Front pastedowns with Blackwell’s for he now had the authority of a great poet for he announced a new concept of the universe” (Blake bookseller’s tickets and black morocco book labels of Dictionary). Included at the rear of this deluxe copy is Haven O’More (with initials blocked in gilt); ownership using occult material … Blake, in short, bore an the final plate for Blake’s “Memorable Fancy” – after stamp of H. Linnell to front free endpapers. Spine ends astonishing resemblance to Yeats, extending even to Blake boldly confounds a judging Angel by imposing gently bumped and vol. 1 with small tear, slight wear to tips, his initials … Here was a lofty justifying precedent” his own counter-fantasy upon it, this sees the Angel else a clean and very good set indeed. (Ellman, p. 177). This is an important work, making complain “Thy phantasy has imposed upon me First editions thus, one of 500 trade copies; 150 large the Prophetic Books available in the later 19th century, & thou oughtest to be ashamed”, to which Blake paper copies were also issued. Yeats “marked down and helping to rescue Blake from a reputation of mere eccentricity. For more Yeats, see item 202. answers, “We impose on one another, & it is but William Blake as a master early on, and with Edwin lost time to converse with you whose works are Ellis produced a large-scale commentary on Blake’s Wade 218 (variant dark green coated endpapers). Richard Ellman, Yeats: The Man and the Masks, 1948 only Analytics”. prophetic writings in 1893. While often erratic and £3,000 [136923] idiosyncratic, it helped establish the importance of £2,250 [137102] Blake’s esoteric verse” (ODNB). Yeats later identified the nature of the collaboration, explaining that the

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26 27 BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Wundergarten Der (BODICHON, Barbara.) CHAPMAN, John 27 Natur. Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932 (ed.) The Westminster Review. January and Quarto. 16-page booklet and 120 loose plates in the original April, 1865. New Series. Vol. XXVII, XXVIII, scholar, Eugène Bodichon. As her husband hated brown card chemise portfolio, decoration and titles to front XXIX, XXXI, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII. London, in 1863 she built another house, Scalands cover and spine in black. With 120 full-page photogravures London: Trübner & Co., 1865–70 Gate, on the Glottenham estate, Robertsbridge, by Blossfeldt. Portfolio lightly toned to edges, otherwise an Sussex, which her brother Benjamin Leigh-Smith had internally bright copy. 7 volumes, octavo (214 × 135 mm). Contemporary inherited from their father. half calf and marbled boards, spines decorated gilt in First edition, portfolio issue: the preferred “Barbara had a sophisticated grasp of the format of one of the greatest and most influential compartments, lettered and numbered gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Ownership stamp of Scalands Gate, importance of the press in influencing public photographic books ever published, this being the Robertsbridge, to each front free endpaper, and to some opinion; her uncle, Octavius Smith, was a major second photobook in Blossfeldt’s pivotal trilogy. title and half-titles. Joints slightly rubbed and scuffed in shareholder in the Westminster Review. Subsequently The artist was by training a botanist; his use of places, corners lightly worn; a very good set. she became the major shareholder in the English extreme close-up technique began as part of his A selection of volumes of the Westminster Review Woman’s Journal (1858–64), founded primarily by study. However he swiftly developed a fully-fledged from the library of Barbara Bodichon, the artist and herself and Bessie Rayner Parkes, for which she abstracted aesthetic which found a ready audience women’s activist, with her Scalands Gate stamps. wrote many articles, continuing Smith family around the world. Many subsequent photographers “Barbara was an extremely striking young woman, tradition by writing a series of abolitionist articles cite his books as a key influence on their work. tall, with vivid expression and golden-red hair. She protesting against slavery in the southern states of This loose leaf version is by far the scarcest of all had several suitors, but in 1855 both her personal North America, which she had visited in 1857–58. In of Blossfeldt’s publications and by some margin attractions and her wealth attracted the attention of an article published in a feminist journal called the the most desirable. John Chapman, editor of the Westminster Review. He Waverley, and subsequently reprinted as a pamphlet Roth 101, p. 48. proposed a ‘free-love’ relationship with her, and she entitled Women and Work (1857), Barbara argued that £4,500 [136442] was deeply tempted despite his being already married. middle-class women must not be denied meaningful work. The offices of the English Woman’s Journal in She withdrew from his influence after her father Langham Place became a centre for a wide variety revealed that Chapman was feckless with both women of feminist enterprises” (ibid.). and money” (ODNB). Following a visit to Algiers, she married the French physician, ethnographer, and £2,500 [123361]

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Booth revised for the next generation London organizations. Smith took Booth’s overview plane engaging an Etrich “Taube” (Dove). The work of the London life of the 1890s as the standard of was subsequently issued in America as The Flying Ace 28 comparison, to analyze social changes over the last and then Cavalry of the Clouds. (BOOTH, Charles.) SMITH, Sir Hubert few decades. The study shows an improvement in the Alan Bott (1893–1952) was a British ace credited Llewellyn (ed.) The New Survey of London condition of the workers – around a third increase in with five aerial victories. An Airman’s Outings was written while he was still serving in , flying Life & Labour. London: P. S. King & Son Ltd, purchasing power – but also still highlights ongoing problems of slum life, unemployment, and poverty. Sopwith 1 Strutters and acting as observer/gunner 1930–35 It offers perhaps the most detailed study of the lives with Awdry Vaucour. In August 1916 the pair were 9 volumes (7 text volumes, 2 map volumes), octavo. Original of everyday Londoners in the inter-war period. It is shot up and forced to land by Leopold Reimann of blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt London School of hard to find sets all from the same source as here, Jasta 1, but in a two week period at the beginning of Economics device to front covers. Text volumes: portrait this coming from the Manchester Guardian Library September they succeeded in downing three Fokker frontispiece to vol. I, folding map frontispiece to other 6. Es. The citation for his MC reads: “For conspicuous 8 other folding maps, integral charts and tables throughout. with their stamps to title page rectos and versos (and Map volumes: 13 folding maps. Library stamp to titles. inner covers of map volumes), shelfmarks to spines, gallantry and skill. As observer he has been in many Contemporary newspaper clipping pasted to front free and shelf labels to front covers. fights, and furnished many good reports. On one endpaper of vol. I. One folding map in vol. I with acetate occasion, when his pilot was gliding back to our overlay which is now partly torn and fragmented but all £7,500 [136589] lines after his engine had been hit and stopped, he present. Light sunning to spines, slight wear to rear joint of drove off an attacking aeroplane and put out with his second map volume, but cloth generally fresh, all joints and 29 hands a fire started by anti-aircraft guns. On another hinges intact; contents with light age toning but clean and occasion, after driving down one hostile aeroplane, unmarked. An excellent set. [BOTT, Alan.] “Contact”. An Airman’s Outings. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and he fired at another, which dived and collided with First edition, a major re-evaluation by the London a third. This last one fell vertically”. School of Economics of Charles Booth’s Life and Sons, 1918 Falls, p. 189; not in Lengel (although he does list Bott’s Eastern Labour of the People in London, a generation on from Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With Nights, 1919). the dust jacket. Jacket worn and torn with loss, extensive its publication. Booth’s (1840–1916) study, a key £300 [136456] resource for the social and economic history of late repairs to verso, spine lettering retouched, binding a little Victorian London, was based on findings collected cocked, otherwise a very good copy, clean and sound. between 1886 and 1902, with editions published First edition, sixth impression, of this highly in 1889–91, 1892–97, and 1902–03. The New Survey popular memoir. Copies in the jacket, even in such was undertaken by Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith compromised condition as here, are extremely (1864–1945), one of Booth’s earliest assistants, and uncommon; it incorporates an image by C. R. W. was financed by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Trust Nevinson, taken from a lithograph of 1917 entitled and by donations raised by William Beveridge from “Swooping down on a Taube”, showing a British

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Limited issue, signed by both Bowie and Rock Attractively bound in contemporary russia full-page illustrations by Bradshaw. Light foxing to edges and contents, otherwise a very good copy, jacket rubbed and 30 31 foxed, chipped at extremities and reinforced on verso. (BOWIE, David.) ROCK, Mick. The Rise of BOYLE, Robert. The Works. London: Printed First edition. “This book contains forty-eight David Bowie 1972–1973. Cologne: Taschen, 2015 for J. and F. Rivington, L. Davis, W. Johnston, S. pictures of incidents and phases of aviation, both in war and peace. The author is one of an extremely Folio. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, hologram Crowder, T. Payne (& 11 others in London), 1772 small number of artists specializing in aerial art” combining several pictures of David Bowie to front board. 6 volumes, quarto (292 × 225 mm). Contemporary russia, (jacket blurb). Stanley Orton Bradshaw (1903–1950) Housed in a blue cloth solander box. Photographs and spines lettered in gilt, spine compartments and covers illustrations throughout, 3 of which are folding. A fine copy, ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, yellow edges. Portrait is now best known as the illustrator of some of the in the original numbered pink cardboard packing box. frontispiece to vol. I, diagrams in text, 24 engraved plates Biggles books, but was himself an ATA pilot who First edition, signed limited issue, number 1,499 of on 16 sheets (most folding). Expert restoration to joints trained cadets in Avro Ansons. The book is scarce in 1,972 copies signed by both Bowie and Rock. This and spine ends, a few very minor marks and patches of the dust jacket, designed by Bradshaw, depicting a unique collection features many iconic images from scuffing to bindings, contents lightly toned and soiled with Zeppelin illuminated by search lights. The incident occasional faint foxing, some creasing towards ends of in question was the German raid over London of Bowie’s official photographer between 1972 and books, yet still overall an excellent set. 1973, taken during the launch of The Rise and Fall of 8 September 1915, with the Zeppelin commanded Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. A handsome collected edition of the works of by Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Mathy. the chemist Robert Boyle, attractively bound in £3,000 [136861] contemporary russia, profusely illustrated with £325 [136517] scientific diagrams, and here in very desirable condition. Lowndes calls this the “best edition”; the first collection of Boyle’s works was published in 1699 under Richard Boulton’s editorship, followed by Thomas Birch’s more complete edition in 1744, with this being the revised second Birch edition, the first in quarto format (Boulton’s being in octavo, and the 1744 Birch edition in folio). ESTC T113550; Fulton 241; Lowndes I, p. 249. £9,750 `[135989]

32 BRADSHAW, Stanley Orton. Flying Memories. London: John Hamilton Ltd, [1934] Large octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover 30 lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. With 48 black and white 32

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33 BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne. The Works. London: Allan Wingate, 1949 35 6 volumes, octavo (185 × 123 mm). Contemporary tan half calf by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath, titles in gilt to 34 portrait of Camoens with verses, and of Vasco da Gama by Cross (slightly trimmed). Early 20th-century bookplate of red and grey morocco labels to spines, floral decoration BULGAKOV, Mikhail. Sobach’e serdtse. tooled in gilt to spines in compartments, brown marbled Erroll Hay; later book label of Eric Gerald Stanley (1923– paper boards, top edges gilt. Title pages printed in pink (Heart of a Dog.) Paris: YMCA Press, 1969 2018), Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Skilful restoration and black. Bookplate of George G. Stevenson to front Octavo. Original illustrated wrappers. Photographic of extremities, a little stripping to boards, leaves A2–4 a pastedowns. Spines uniformly a little sunned, a few tiny frontispiece. Spine somewhat rubbed with some superficial little frayed in fore margin not affecting text, a few scattered scuffs to spine labels, light offsetting from turn-ins to free cracking, wrappers a little toned, otherwise sound and marks internally, overall a very good copy. endpapers; an attractive, near-fine set. internally clean, generally very good. The Heather edition, handsomely bound by Baytun First Russian edition in book form of Bulgakov’s First edition in English of Os Lusíadas (1572), the epic poem describing Portugal’s rise from obscurity Riviere. The Heather edition was arranged and suppressed satirical masterpiece, originally written to greatness. Camoens based his Virgilian epic introduced by Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist in 1925 and not published in the Soviet Union until around Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route and expert on the Brontë family. 1987. The text had only been printed in Russian in clandestine samizdat editions, and in two European from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope in £1,250 [136650] 1497–98, coloured by his own experiences during magazine editions in 1968, the journal the 14 years he spent in the East (1553–67), including Grani, and the London journal Student. This YMCA wintering on Hormuz Island, where, Burton argues edition is the first appearance in Russian as a in Camoens: His Life and his Lusiads, he was exposed to separately published book. Persian literature. Proffer 50. Boies Penrose calls The Lusiad “one of the noblest £2,250 [136878] epics” and “the national poem par excellence and the supreme epic of Portugal’s conquests Vasco da Gama’s discoveries in epic verse in the East” (Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420–1620, New York, 1962, pp. 92 and 359). The 35 English translator, Sir Richard Fanshawe, part of CAMOENS, Luis de. The Lusiad, or the grouping often called the cavalier poets, was an accomplished linguist, who spent a good deal of Portugals Historicall Poem. London: Humphrey time on the Iberian peninsula. From 1662 to 1666 Moseley, 1655 he was ambassador to Portugal and from 1664 to Folio (276 × 169 mm). Early polished calf, spine with five 1666 he was also ambassador to Spain. raised bands, red morocco label. With 3 engraved portraits, ESTC R18836; Grolier English 349; Pforzheimer 362; Wing C–397. as issued, that of Prince Henry of Portugal, folding, trimmed 34 (slight loss of fore edge) and mounted as frontispiece, £9,500 [136059]

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Inscribed by the author morocco, titles and motifs to spines gilt, raised bands, Vitraux pour , and features various stages single rule to boards gilt, gilt roll of the four card suits of Chagall’s 12 stained glass window designs for 36 to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University fleece-lined blue cloth flat-back folding cases. With wood- Medical Centre in Jerusalem. CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. engraved illustrations by John Tenniel. Leather bookplates New York: Random House, 1965 of Haven O’More to front pastedowns. A lovely, clean set, £1,500 [137244] Octavo. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine and front with minor loss to fore corner of p. 169 of Adventures, text unaffected, handsomely bound. cover in gold and silver, red endpapers, top edge black, One of 20 reserved copies others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Housed in a A handsomely bound set of Carroll’s classic custom black slipcase. A fine copy in the fresh jacket. children’s novels, published in 1865 and 1871 39 First trade edition, inscribed by the author on respectively. The Alice books earned the author “a CHAGALL, Marc, & André Malraux. Et sur the first blank, “for Bob Thomas with all good place in the firmament of the great, for they are wishes Truman Capote”. Bob Thomas was a not only acts of imaginative genius but they also la Terre … Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1977 veteran Hollywood columnist who began writing revolutionized writing for children” (ODNB). Folio. Loose sheets as issued, in original beige cloth for the Associated Press in 1944 and was a friend portfolio with gilt lettering. Complete with 15 etchings of Capote. Capote wrote to Thomas regarding £3,000 [136966] and aquatints by Chagall (accompanying text by Andre the film adaptation of In Cold Blood in April 1967, Malraux, in French). Trivial wear at slipcase extremities, contents in fine condition, without creasing or blemishes. noting “[John] Forsythe has an absolutely uncanny 38 A very desirable copy. resemblance to [Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows. Copy VI of XX reserved copies, signed by Marc Alvin] Dewey” (Kennedy). New York: George Brazillier Inc. in association with Lisa Kennedy, “How ‘Blood’ circulated in the media of the ’60s”, Chagall and André Malraux on the limitation leaf. The Denver Post, 8 February 2006. Horizon Magazine, 1962 The full edition was 225 copies, 205 of which were Tall quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front cover numbered for general sale, the remaining 20 lettered £5,000 [136463] lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. copies retained for private distribution by Chagall, Housed in the original card slipcase. With 2 original Malraux, and the publishers. Malraux (winner of lithographs bound in, and colour illustrations throughout 37 the Nobel Prize for Literature) provided the text, by Chagall. In the near-fine jacket, with tiny chips at CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in extremities, slipcase worn; a fine copy. based on a previously unpublished manuscript from 1939, about his experiences in the Spanish Civil Wonderland; [together with:] Through the First edition in English, with two original War. Chagall executed the etchings, with the plates Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. lithographs prepared by Chagall for this edition, destroyed after printing. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876 & 1873 and with numerous beautiful chromolithographic Meyer, Chagall catalogue raisonné, p. 302. 2 volumes, octavo (178 × 117 mm). Finely bound by reproductions of the artist’s work. It was issued the Sangorski & Sutcliffe in mid-20th-century red crushed same year as the first edition in French, entitled £11,000 [137727]

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from Apsley’s wife Angela, to “My dear Jean”, presenting “this little memoir about Cherry”; she goes on to note that “The Worst Journey has just come out again and the Rev. George Seaver wrote this as a Foreword to the new edition” (2 pp., dated 14 December 1965, embossed letterhead of “Colegates”, 40 her home near Westerham, Kent). It appeared as the Foreword to the 1965 Chatto & Windus edition of The “The masterpiece of polar exploration” integral title page, creased at edges. Provenance: ownership Worst Journey, described by Rosove as “a significant inscription to front free endpapers, “S. G. Loveday, 1922”. edition”, being the first to be published after Cherry- accompanied by two rarities Loveday served in the Great War as a captain with the 10th battalion, Middlesex Regiment, posted to India in 1914; Garrard’s death in 1959 and was almost certainly 40 previously, he had played cricket for The City of London intended for presentation to a very small coterie of CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst School. Spines cocked and a little worn with some loss of those close to Cherry-Garrard. Copac and OCLC fabric, labels creased and chipped, yet the bindings remain Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910–1913. locate two copies only, at the British Library and sound and the set internally clean. Museums Victoria Library. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922; Interesting group comprising two polar rarities, It is also accompanied by a copy of the [with] Postscript to the Worst Journey in a first edition of The Worst Journey in the World, “Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World”, the World; [with] SEAVER, George. A. C-G. and two autograph letters. The Worst Journey in the described by Rosove as “very rare”, an offprint of the 1886–1959; [together with two autograph World, “the best written and most enduring account Postscript to the 1951 edition, printed for the author, letters signed from Apsley and Angela of exploits in the Antarctic” (Taurus) and “widely which re-examines the polar party’s fate. Rosove Cherry-Garrard.] regarded as the masterpiece of polar exploration” notes a single example, a presentation copy from (Books on Ice), is presented here in Cherry-Garrard’s Cherry-Garrard to George Seaver, at the Scott Polar 2 volumes, octavo. Original natural linen-backed pale blue preferred “Polar” binding of cloth-backed boards. Research Library, Cambridge; WorldCat adds Brown boards, printed paper labels to spines, blue endpapers. Colour frontispieces with tissue guards, 4 other coloured Accompanying The Worst Journey is a copy of the University and British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge) plates in all, 43 black and white plates, 5 maps, 4 of them first and sole edition of the rare offprint of George only; we have traced no copies on auction records. folding. Postscript to the Worst Journey in the World, Printed Seaver’s 31-page biography of Apsley Cherry- An autograph letter signed from Apsley Cherry- for the Author, 1951: 2 large folded unopened sheets, with Garrard, accompanied by an autograph letter signed Garrard to “Dear Mr. Savill” completes the quintet

20 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington of items. In it, he returns a book and remarks that he has tickets for the cricket: “I have kept this book far too long. I am very interested because I am interested in Curzon who came out of it as a most awful blackguard which I am inclined to think he was … We have tickets for the Test Match at Lords”. It was Curzon who, as president of the RGS, decided not to hold a public committee of inquiry, and of whom Cherry-Garrard wrote “The Committee (Curzon) meant to hush up everything. I was to be sacrificed” (Annotated Diary). The Test series that summer was against New Zealand with all four matches being drawn (1 pp., dated 2 May 1949, addressed from 23 House, his London address after he was forced to sell his country house, Lamer, in 1947; Dorset House is an art deco block some 20 minutes from Lord’s). The recipients of this correspondence were Jean and Norman Savill, of Savills estate agents. “Cherry-Garrard seems an unlikely hero of Antarctic exploration, but he has achieved that status largely through this book … a young but wealthy patrician, near-sighted and frail, he paid his way onto the crew as an assistant zoologist, but performed 41 splendidly in many harrowing situations” (Books on Ice). The “worst journey” referred to in the title is Revolutionary work on the circulation of blood The eight years there marked the second period not “Scott’s ill-fated rendezvous with death,” but the of Chizhevskii’s career which was characterised earlier Ross Island Winter Journey, from Cape Evans 41 by a shift of focus to the study of the circulation to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier, with Edward CHIZHEVSKII, Aleksandr Leonidovich. of blood. Chizhevskii began his research on the Wilson and Henry “Birdie” Bowers. Both of his Strukturnyi analiz dvizhushcheisia krovi. structural and dynamic organisation of erythrocytes companions on this trip were to die on the Southern (The Structural Analysis of Moving Blood.) in the bloodstream at Karlag – Karaganda Journey with Scott, Cherry-Garrard being with the Corrective Labour Camp in Kazakhstan – where last group sent back before the final assault on the Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, 1959 he was transferred in 1950. Assisted by two other South Pole; he was also sent to rendezvous with the Octavo. Original publisher’s cloth, spine and front board sequestered scientists, P. G. Tikhonov and G. returning party of Scott and his four companions, and titles in dark red and in blind. Tables, schema to the text. N. Perlatov, he managed to organise an on-site Owner’s ink inscription on the front endpaper, very good. was the discoverer of the tent and their frozen bodies. laboratory and conducted experiments into the Books on Ice 6.12; Howgego, IV S14; Renard 305; Rosove 71.A2; First edition, inscribed by the author on the front disposition of red blood cells. After being freed Spence 277; Taurus 84. A. C-G.: Rosove 71.J1 (“very rare”). endpaper verso, “To big Misha for good memory. in 1954 Chizhevskii even asked for his sentence to Postscript: Rosove 71.H1 (“very rare”). Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Prof. A.L. Chizhevskii. May 8, 1960”. This was one of Annotated Diary, vol. 4, 12 October 1912 to 9 March 1913, be prolonged “because [my] programme of local SPRI MS 554/19/4. the last publications of Alexander Chizhevskii (1897– research has not yet been completed”. 1964), the eminent Soviet interdisciplinary scientist £12,500 [136850] More than a decade of experimentation and the founder of heliobiology and aero-ionization, culminated in this work in which the author opposed and widely considered to be his magnum opus. the idea that red blood cells move chaotically in the In 1924, Chizhevskii published Fizicheskiye faktory bloodstream, proving that erythrocytes form rings, istoricheskogo protsessa (Physical Factors of the Historical and the speed of their movement depends on the Process), proposing that social, biological, and distance between the rings and the axis of the blood historical phenomena on Earth were controlled vessel. Chizhevskii’s discovery overturned current by the cyclical electromagnetic activity of the Sun. thinking, securing his claim to lasting renown. This clashed with Soviet theories of the causation The book is well-represented institutionally, but of the Russian 1905 and 1917 revolutions, and in uncommon on the market, particularly so inscribed. January 1942 Chizhevskii was accused of anti-Soviet conspiracy and sent to a labour camp in the Urals. £3,500 [137282]

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First editions, first impressions 43 , Winston S. . London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1923–31 5 works in 6 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spines gilt and front covers blind, couple of volumes with bottom edges untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with 42 maps and charts (many folding). Book label of The Times Book Club to rear pastedown of vols. I and III. Spines Churchill on the mount, sent to his former coachman slightly cocked, spine ends and tips bumped and rubbed, Signed for his coachman edges foxed, vol I. with some marking to front cover, slight Fred Best. When Churchill bought the offsetting to endpapers. A very good set. 42 estate in 1922, Best had been coachman there for First editions. Volume 1 is the first state with the CHURCHILL, Winston S. Signed 40 years, living in the stable block. Churchill had no correct quotation mark in the footnote on p. 472 photograph. [London: 1 April 1941] need of a coachman, but nonetheless employed Best for another decade, to take care of the ponies and to and with the errata slip tipped onto p. 339; volumes Mounted portrait photograph. Image size 96 × 73 mm, mount 2, 3, and 5 are first impressions, and volume 4 is the teach his children to ride. size 165 × 110 mm, photographer’s stamp on reverse of mount. second state of the first impression. Working with A two-page autograph presentation letter Slight silvering at edges, mount sometime hole punched, astonishing speed and energy, Churchill produced signed from Churchill’s daughter Mary Soames crease to mount, yet otherwise in very good condition. this mammoth history of the First World War in the accompanies the photograph. “My dear Best, I told Walter Stoneman’s photographic portrait of aftermath of electoral defeat. The work deals with his Mr. Churchill about my visit to you the other day, and Churchill, this example signed and dated 1949 by reorganization of the in the years leading he was so pleased to know you’d asked after him. He up to the War, defends his Gallipoli policy, and has asked me to send you this photograph, which he criticises Haig’s strategy. has signed – with his best wishes, and in memory of John Buchan considered these volumes “the best old times. I hope you are keeping well; I expect you thing anyone has done in contemporary history like this mild spring weather. With kindest regards since Clarendon” (Cohen A69). “A stupendous to you and Miss Best. Yours v. sincerely, Mary narrative of the war in Europe featuring masterly Soames”. Best died later in 1949. set-piece accounts of major battles. Dictated to Included are other associated ephemera: three secretaries as he strode up and down the room, Christmas cards from Soames; a photograph of it exhibited his passionate interest in war and his horses and riders with notes on verso; a childhood romantic conception of the ‘true glory’ of the troops portrait presumed of Soames; an obituary clipping who perished on the Somme” (ODNB). of Best; and a facsimile letter sent by Churchill to Cohen A69.2(I).a; A69.2(II).a; A69.2(III–1 & 2).a; A69.2(IV).b; well-wishers in 1945 after the conclusion of the war. A69.2(V).a. 42 £5,250 [137428] £1,500 [136731]

22 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 44 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Beating the Invader. A message from the Prime Minister. London: Issued by the Ministry of Information in co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, 1941 Quarto single-sheet flyer (280 × 210 mm), text both sides. Without the additional notice printed in red found in the minority of copies. First edition. “If the invasion comes everyone – young or old, men and women – will be eager to play their part worthily … When the attack begins, it will be too late to go … for all of you then the order and the duty will be: ‘stand firm’ … where there is no fighting going on and no close cannon fire or rifle fire can be heard, everyone will govern his conduct by the second great order and duty, namely ‘carry on’.” Churchill’s inspirational message is followed by detailed instructions on just how to stand firm and carry on. Print run details show that more than 14 million copies were printed: “The huge print run might leave one with the impression that the leaflet would be commonly found today. It was, however, only a leaflet anticipating an event that never came to pass. In the event very few copies have survived” (Cohen). Stocks of Beating the Invader were delivered from the HMSO Press at Harrow to the GPO between 19 and 23 May 1941. Deliveries to each household in the country began on 27 May and were completed within a week. The imprint code includes “(2 kds.)” meaning “2 kinds” of leaflet, indicating those with and those without the additional notice in red at the head of the front page. Those with the notice were issued to what became known as the “38 towns”, those coastal communities that were to be evacuated under compulsory orders in the event of invasion. Initially there had been 17 communities on the list, from Great Yarmouth round to Hythe. This was later extended to take in Littlehampton and certain inland towns (Ipswich, , Canterbury, etc.). Cohen B76; Woods A69; our special thanks to Mr Peter Scott for information regarding the two variants of the leaflet. £850 [136697]

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45 the endpapers. Housed in two red quarter morocco plush- “Winston S. Churchill, 1951, for Mrs. Arnison”, above lined book-style folding boxes by Asprey, title gilt to spines, CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World mounted newspaper picture of Winston and his wife raised bands, dotted gilt roll, rampant lion, linked “Cs”, and Clementine, Arnison’s ownership inscription verso of portcullis devices to the first, fifth and sixth compartments War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948–54 front free facing: vol. IV inscribed, “To Mrs. Arnison respectively. Maps and diagrams, some folding. Cloth clean 6 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spines, and with very little of the spotting endemic to the title, from Winston S. Churchill, 1951” above the band grey endpapers decorated with a design that alternates a from an Aroma de Cuba cigar taped to the first blank, lion rampant with the initials W.S.C., top edges red. In the front hinge of volume I just starting, the others remain related newspaper clipping tipped onto the half-title: typographical dust jackets with background design as per tight, some light toning of the book blocks, the jackets just a little rubbed, spines mildly sunned, but the red titles still vol. V, inscribed “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill, legible, a few minor nicks or closed tears and small chips, 1953” on half-title: vol. VI inscribed on the first blank, but overall a well-cared-for set, very good indeed. “Inscribed for Mrs. Arnison by Winston S. Churchill, First editions of Churchill’s masterpiece, signed 1954”, Arnison’s ownership inscription to the front or inscribed contemporarily in each volume, and flap of the jacket. exceptionally uncommon thus. The set was presented Churchill was MP for Woodford from 1945 to to Theresa Arnison, who with her husband Rowland, 1964, and Clementine was the President of the was a stalwart of the Woodford Conservative Woodford Conservative Association. They were Association. Vol. I, inscribed on the half-title: closely linked with the Arnisons: Rowland, the “From Winston S. Churchill to Mrs. Arnison, managing director of a scientific instrument Christmas, 1948”, and with facsimile holograph company, was Chairman of the Association, and “thank you” slip taped to verso of front free facing: Theresa was the Chairwoman of the Women’s vol. II, Christmas card taped to the front free Advisory Committee of the Association. endpaper, printed greeting, signed by Churchill on The Churchills knew well the importance of the the first blank, Arnison’s ownership inscription, political spouse. Despite campaigning vigorously in his “T[heresa] C[atherine] Arnison”, on verso of front own constituency at election time, such was Winston’s 45 free: vol. III, inscribed by Churchill on the first blank, prestige that he was in great demand to bolster the

24 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington campaigns of other candidates, so he was frequently called away. In his absence, Clementine and Rowland ran the campaign in Woodford; Rowland recalled the influence of Clementine: “It is wrong to assume that Sir Winston’s eminence as a world statesman makes his Parliamentary election automatic. We never take his victory for granted. That is why his wife’s work during election time is a tower of strength to her husband as at all other times … No man knows more about fighting an election than Winston, for there is no man living who has been a candidate more often. His wife is of tremendous importance to him as a candidate. Though as President of the Woodford Conservative Association, she naturally takes a close interest in all constituency matters, her most important role is at election time when she plays a personal part in every phase of the campaign … Many of our divisional meetings end with a call of ‘Three cheers for Churchill!’ Whereupon he will come forward and, with his broadest smile, call for another three for his wife” (Fishman, p. 342). Through their work together on these campaigns the couples became firm friends. Correspondence between Churchill and the Arnisons is preserved in the Churchill Archives, Cambridge (reference CHUR 3/13). Churchill’s work is widely recognised as the single most important historical account of the Second World War. Max Beloff observed that there was no statesman of the 20th century “whose retrospective accounts of the great events in which he has taken part have so dominated subsequent historical thinking.” A man who had always primarily made his living by his pen, Churchill was the only major war leader to give an authoritative account of the conflict, and his ringing phrases seeped into the collective memory. As J. H. Plumb 46 noted in his essay in A. J. P. Taylor’s Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, “Churchill the historian lies at the very heart of all historiography of the Second World Finely bound for Asprey the political wilderness in the early 1930s, but did not complete it until after his retirement in War, and will always remain there… [we still] move 46 down the broad avenues which he drove through the late 1950s. war’s confusion and complexity”. CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the The events of the Second World War, the major This is a wonderful association set, inscribed English-Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and interruption in the writing process, had reconfirmed throughout and handsomely presented, linking the his belief in the “special relationship” between Company Ltd, 1956–58 Britain and the United States. Consequently he famously uxorious Churchills with a couple who had 4 volumes, octavo (236 × 149 mm). Bound for Asprey in late- a significant role in Winston’s post-war political life. gave considerable attention to the key events of 20th-century red half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, red American history: around a quarter of the third Cohen A240.4; Woods A123(b). Jack Fishman, My Darling cloth sides, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Several maps volume, The Age of Revolution, is dedicated to the War Clementine: The Story of Lady Churchill, 1963. and genealogical tables to text. Very light sunning to spines and at extremities, minor foxing to initial and final leaves, of Independence, and a full third of the final volume, £27,500 [137316] otherwise a fine set. The Great Democracies, contains a detailed study of the American Civil War. First editions, finely bound for the luxury purveyors Asprey. Churchill began his history of the British Cohen A267.1(I)–(IV); Woods A138(a). Empire and the United States during his period in £2,250 [136564]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 25 “Thine in sackcloth & ashes” – Crowley’s copy, with his annotations, presented by the author 49 (CROWLEY, Aleister.) MARLOW, Louis (pseud.) Forth, Beast! London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Cocked, somewhat faded, a couple of small stains, front hinge split after the half-title (showing a little webbing); a very good copy. First edition, author’s presentation copy, twice inscribed on the half-title, firstly to Aleister Crowley – “For Aleister Crowley – With apologies for the very imperfect sketch of him herein attempted – From Louis Marlow. April 1946” – and subsequently to Deirdre Patricia “Patsy” Doherty, Crowley’s last lover and the mother of his child Aleister Ataturk – “And now for Deirdre MacAlpine, April 1948”, with Crowley’s ownership inscription and self-mocking critique to the front pastedown: “On Crowley the Immortals sardonically look. He sought fame as a poet, and found it as a cook!” (on p. 190 he is referred 47 to as “one of the best cooks in the world”), a number of comments in his hand to the text, and more than 20 passages relating to, or quoting him, A masterpiece of facsimile reproduction 48 marked in the margins. 47 COWARD, Noël. South Sea Bubble. A Light The author, Louis Umfreville Wilkinson Comedy in Three Acts. London: William (1881–1966), is probably best remembered today for (CODEX MANESSE.) Facsimile of Codex Heinemann Ltd, 1956 his associations with Oscar Wilde (with whom he Manesse. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1925–27 conducted a correspondence while still at Radley), Octavo. Original blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. With Quarto. Original white pigskin, spine and front cover Frank Harris, Somerset Maugham, the Powys the dust jacket. Head of spine lightly bumped, a couple of lettered in blind. Very light soiling to covers, contents fine. brothers, and Crowley, whom he befriended in his last marks to boards, small crease and short closed tear to first An excellent copy. years. Wilkinson became one of Crowley’s executors, blank, light foxing to edges and rear endpaper. A very good Limited edition facsimile, number 3 of 320 copies. copy, in the foxed dust jacket with gently sunned spine. which is how this copy came to pass through his The Codex Manesse, compiled c.1304–40, is the hands twice. First edition, signed by the author on the front free The present work is a sequel to his single most comprehensive source for Middle endpaper. The play was first performed as Island High German poetry, and among the most widely autobiographical novel Swan’s Milk. The books include Fling in 1951 in the USA, and in London premiered as non-fictional accounts of a number of his friends, esteemed of all German manuscripts, renowned for South Sea Bubble at the Lyric Theatre in 1956. the beauty of its illustration. A triumph of early 20th- including Crowley. Crowley has added a number of century reproduction, this facsimile is remarkably £800 [136690] characteristic comments to the text, noting at the accurate, retaining every detail down to the head of the ‘Wives’ chapter, “In all, the only wives of importance as wives are The Shrew, Hamlet’s mother, discolouration to the pages, the unnevenness of the and Lady Macbeth!” and above a discussion of Huxley page edges, library stamps, and early annotations. and Leonardo’s opinions on the ugliness of the sex act The original manuscript is held at the library of the in the top margin of p. 164, “Rot. He’s never been to University of Heidelberg, where it is rarely exhibited, a partouse”. The front free endpaper has a pencilled due to its fragility. A copy of this facsimile is on note, “Lidell [sic] Hart Revolution in Warfare” recto, display instead. Future facsimiles were produced, referring, for obscure reasons, to a publication of but none surpass or equal this edition, and it the same year by the military theoretician and friend remains the most desired among collectors. of Crowley’s old acolyte/antagonist J. F. C. “Boney” £12,500 [137734] 48 Fuller and on the verso: “I want to ask Dr Joad what is

26 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 48 48 his answer to the very serious attack on his integrity Crowley’s “666” sigil embossed in red and dated 25 This is an exceptional association copy, bringing on p. 98 of this book”. This latter comment refers September, is addressed from “Netherwood, The together two who stayed loyal to Crowley to the very to Wilkinson’s account in the book of a dinner party Ridge, Hastings”, Crowley’s final home, and regards end. Deirdre Doherty met Crowley in 1934 when she with Cyril Joad (1891–1953): “Soon after he had written his critique of Wilkinson’s efforts to capture his was just 19 years old and he was 58. Two years later, that religious book of his and cashed in on God”; character: “Dear Louis, Peccavi! Mea maxima culpa! she bore his only son, Randall Gair Doherty (1937– Crowley has underlined the last four words in pencil. … The reason for my apparent greed & ingratitude 2002), whom Crowley nicknamed “the Christ Child”, The “religious book” in question may be a reference is simply that when criticising, I am a critic; & I am “a title both humorous and sincere in terms of the to Joad’s Common Sense Theology (1922), in which he a Magister Templi (i.e. I can think about A.C. as if I spiritual hopes he held for his son” (Sutin). “declared Christianity moribund and rejoiced that were totally alien from him) … you have failed to tell Deirdre and Crowley lived entirely separately, clergymen would be extinct by 1960” (ODNB). the world that my craziest actions are based on the and he left the boy’s upbringing to her. However, in Accompanying this copy are a letter and a postcard coldest logic. Oh damn! I’m mad at myself anyhow 1946 Deirdre joined him in Hastings and stayed until from Crowley to the author. The letter, headed with I can’t say how proud I am that you have found so his death in 1947. Wilkinson also tended to Crowley much in me worth recording. Thine in sackcloth & at the end, found him his place at Netherwood ashes. Aleister”. The postcard, dated August 1946, and notoriously carried out Crowley’s last request, reads “Have been ill – still too weak to [check] up reading the “Hymn of Pan”, extracts from The Book of the other address. Occupiers please read & forward, the Law, and the “Collects” from the Gnostic Mass at AC”, with the address “5 Oakhill Park” struck out and his funeral at Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton. corrected to “107 Eyre Court NW8” in another hand. Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, p. 472; The front of the card features Augustus John’s 1945 Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt, pp. 373–4. pencil portrait of Crowley, which Crowley has signed. £5,750 [136597] He appears to have had a small number of these cards produced to give out to friends and well-wishers in 48 the period not long before his death.

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50 CUNARD, Nancy. Man-Ship-Tank-Gun- Plane. London, 1944 Octavo, 4 pp. Unbound bifolium as issued. 3 cm closed tear to fore edge of each leaf, lightly toned, else very good. First edition, one of 400 copies, here out of series, as often for this title. Cunard left London during the Blitz of 1944 to stay in Dorset. There she wrote this poem evoking the terror of war raids. 52 Gordon & Gordon, Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist, p. 293. A near-fine copy £650 [136389] 52 Inscribed by the author DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 51 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title DAHL, Roald. Kiss Kiss. device to front board in blind, top edge purple, dark yellow London: Michael Joseph, 1960 endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a brown quarter morocco solander box. Illustrations by Joseph Schindelman Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge throughout. Ownership signature to head of front free pink. With the dust jacket, designed by Charles E. Skaggs. endpaper. Light foxing to fore edge; a near-fine copy in Slight fading to spine ends, edges foxed, a touch of foxing the bright jacket, spine a touch toned and with a few light and offsetting to endpapers. A very good copy, square marks to panels. and firm, in the slightly rubbed dust jacket, spine a little toned, some shallow chipping to spine ends and tips, light First edition, first issue. The first issue can creasing to head of rear panel, not price-clipped. Laid in is a be distinguished by the six lines of printing newspaper clipping in Japanese about Dahl. information on the final page: this was cut to five in First UK edition, inscribed by the author on the all subsequent issues. The US edition precedes the front free endpaper “To Ian Love Roald Dahl”. It was UK edition by three years. originally published in the US earlier the same year. Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature, 98. £1,750 [136686] £6,500 [137010] 51

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53 DAHL, Roald. Going Solo. London: Jonathan Cape, 1986 Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, several photographs throughout text, 2 maps. Head of spine and two tips slightly bruised, else a fine copy, in the bright dust jacket. First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. Going Solo continues Dahl’s autobiography from his account of his childhood years in Boy, describing his travels in Africa and his experiences in the RAF. £750 [136794]

First issue, original cloth 54 54 DARWIN, Charles. On the various hinges, slight offsetting from a piece of pink blotting paper Freeman estimates the number of copies printed to contrivances by which British and previously laid in at pp. 108–9, still a very good copy. be no more than 2,000, and probably less. It is the Foreign Orchids are fertilised by insects, First edition, first issue, with advertisements dated only Darwin title issued by Murray between 1859 and on the good effects of intercrossing. December 1861. It is Darwin’s first book after the and 1910 not bound in the characteristic green cloth. Origin of Species, and the first volume of supporting London: John Murray, 1862 Provenance: with the pencilled ownership evidence – it attributes the symbiosis between inscription of W. Spottiswoode on the front free Octavo in twelves. Original purple fine diaper-grain cloth orchids and insects to natural selection. Darwin endpaper; presumably William Spottiswoode (1825– vertically ruled in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, wrote to his publisher that “I think this little volume blind ornamental panels to covers, gilt orchid motif to front 1883), mathematician, printer, friend of Darwin, will do good to the ‘Origin’, as it shows that I have cover, terracotta coated endpapers, Edmonds & Remnants and later president of the Royal Society and one binder’s ticket. Folding wood-engraved plate of the Orchis worked hard at details” (cited in Freeman). However, of Darwin’s pallbearers. although praised by botanists, it was not a great mascula, 33 wood-engravings in the text; publisher’s 32-page Freeman 800, variant a. catalogue at end dated December 1861. Lightly rubbed, success with the public, who were more interested a touch of wear to extremities, superficial cracks to inner in the controversy of evolution than the details. £4,000 [137117]

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First edition, first issue, the Darwin volume printed before he was elected to the Royal Society and so without the letters F.R.S. after his name on the second title. The accounts of the voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle include Darwin’s first published book, his Journal and Remarks, “now famous as the genesis of his theory of evolutionary biology” (Hill). It is an outstanding account of natural history exploration, describing the fieldwork that ultimately led to the Origin of Species. “The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin’s intellectual life and in the history of biological science” (DSB). Darwin himself would state that “The voyage of the ‘Beagle’ has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career ... I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved” (Life and Letters, vol. I, p. 61). Volume I contains Philip Parker King’s account of the expedition in the Adventure made 55 between 1826 and 1830, surveying the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In Volume II (and its appendix bound separately as issued) 55 maps bound at rear of respective volumes. Complete with all Captain Fitzroy describes the narrative of the half-titles, addenda, errata, and binder’s instructions; the Beagle’s second voyage between 1831 and 1836, to DARWIN, Charles; Robert Fitzroy; Philip appendix volume without the publisher’s advertisements Parker King. Narrative of the Surveying sometimes found, but Freeman notes that many copies South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand and , and other countries. Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure were issued without them. A few patches of very light rubbing to calf, light discolouration around spines and foot Volume III is Darwin’s account of the Beagle’s voyage. and Beagle. London: Henry Colburn, 1839 of vol. II part II, minor wear to tips, but bindings generally The popularity of Darwin’s volume exceeded the 4 volumes, octavo (228 × 141 mm). Contemporary calf, in excellent condition. Maps and plates with a few tiny tears companion volumes, leading to Colburn bringing expertly rebacked to style retaining original brown morocco around stubs, one split along fold of map in vol. II part I, out a separate edition of it in the same year. labels, spines gilt in compartments, sides with two-line but without the repairs and frequent tearing often seen. Freeman 10; Hill 607; Norman 584; Sabin 37826. Francis Darwin gilt rules and beaded roll in blind, marbled endpapers, The contents exceptionally fresh, with a few instances (ed.), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, 1887 brown speckled edges. With 48 engraved plates (including of very minor toning, foxing, or soiling but generally clean 2 frontispieces and 1 folding map), 8 other folding engraved and unblemished throughout. An excellent copy. £39,500 [136908]

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plates. Dickens disliked the final “Fireside” plate and asked Cruikshank for a new design, the “Church” plate. He also decided that he no longer wished to be styled “Boz”. The first issue, as here, was published on 9 November; the second, with cancel titles, omitting the subtitle and giving Dickens’s name as the author, and with the “Church” plate at the end, was issued on 16 November. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley’s Miscellany, and in the present three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). The novel remains one of the best-known of all works of English fiction. “Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses, and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation (he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865). Once the scene shifted to London, however, Oliver Twist developed into a unique and compelling blend 56 of a ‘realistic’ tale about thieves and prostitutes and a melodrama with strong metaphysical overtones. The pathos of little Oliver (the first of many such An excellent copy in original cloth usual. Half-titles to vols. I and II, as issued; publisher’s child figures in Dickens), the farcical comedy of the advertisements at end of vol. 1 and beginning of vol. III. Bumbles, the sinister fascination of Fagin, the horror 56 Ownership signature of John Nott dated 1838 to front free endpapers. Light bumping at extremities and very light of Nancy’s murder, and the powerful evocation of DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. rubbing to cloth, yet otherwise clean and fresh, a few very London’s dark and labyrinthine criminal underworld, London: Richard Bentley, 1838 minor chips at page extremities with a few pages opened all helped to drive Dickens’s popularity to new 3 volumes, octavo. Original reddish brown fine-diaper a little roughly, slight staining to vol. II pp. 114–20, faint heights” (ODNB). cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers stamped in blind with foxing to plates. An excellent copy. Eckel, pp. 59–63; Smith 4. an arabesque cartouche, yellow endpapers. Housed in First edition in book form, first issue, with Boz custom green cloth chemises with green half morocco box, £9,750 [137286] spine lettered in gilt, green cloth sides. With 24 etched title pages and the “Fireside” plate. Bentley rushed plates by George Cruikshank including the “Fireside” plate Oliver Twist out in book form before serialization was (facing p. 313 in vol. III), occasionally trimmed at foot as complete, forcing Cruikshank to hurry the last few

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 31 A bitter Dickens reflects on his trip to America 57 DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed. 1 September 1842 Folded bifolium (total leaf size 377 × 226 mm), one page of letter text, another of integral address (and note to send by the Great Western, the first regularly scheduled transatlantic steamship), verso blank, two British postmarks: “Ship Letter” and the cancellation stamp “New York Ship, Sept. 18”, wax seal. Housed in a custom green half morocco folding box, green cloth sides, spine and front panel lettered in gilt, latter on green morocco ground. General light toning. In very good condition. Autograph letter signed from Charles Dickens to Thomas C. Grattan (1792–1864), Irish novelist and British consul in Boston, upon Dickens’s return from his first trip to America, in total around 200 words in his hand. A bitter Dickens reflects upon his trip, generally seen as unsuccessful following controversies over copyright, and has come back to find that the only change in Britain is an increase in income tax. He is nonetheless friendly, asking to be commended to their mutual friend and to Grattan’s family, commenting on the death of a well-known publisher, and wishing him well. Dickens visited America on a six-month tour in 1842, partly as he had always admired the country, and also with the intent of publishing his observations, which were indeed published as American Notes for General Circulation in October 1842. Dickens landed in America in January 1842, welcomed by local dignitaries and cheering crowds, and was lined up with an itinerary including a visit to the White House, meetings with various literary and political figures, and numerous banquets. However, he soon found his literary stardom oppressive, being unable to keep up with the flood of correspondence and overwhelmed by the surge of admirers. 57 It was the issue of copyright which was the greatest blight on the trip. Throughout his Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, no doubt fed by publishers who had a vested interest publishing career, the lack of effective copyright was Oliver Twist, and The Pickwick Papers – had proved in the continued absence of international copyright Dickens’s bugbear. Even within Britain, where he bestsellers in various pirated editions, for which agreements, but also reflecting American outrage was protected under British copyright law, Dickens Dickens had not received a penny. In his frustration, that their feted author had debased himself with found that from the publication of The Pickwick Papers Dickens sought to use the trip to raise the issue, the subject of money, especially at banquets meant onwards his novels were plagued by unauthorized which he recounts to Grattan, “You will have seen for his honour. stage adaptations, piracy, parodies, and “sequels”. that I have followed up the International copyright The press attacks were often blatantly offensive, In America, which had no legal requirement to question”. In two speeches, at public banquets in his attacking his character and motives. However, it was recognize British copyright or to pay royalties to honour on 1 February and 8 February, he criticized one incident which particularly angered Dickens, authors, Dickens was most afflicted with piracy. the lack of an international copyright agreement. albeit not surprising him, as he writes to Grattan: Dickens’s success in America had been as great as The American reaction was instantly negative, with “They have forged a letter under my hand in the in Britain, and his novels – already in 1842 including widespread condemnation in the newspapers, partly American papers – which does not surprise me in the

32 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington least. Nothing but Honesty or common sense would startle me, from such a quarter.” On 11 August 1842 (after Dickens had returned to Britain) the New York Tatler published a letter allegedly written by Dickens to the Morning Chronicle in July, full of contempt for his American hosts and for the hospitality he had received. This forgery, for Dickens, was emblematic of the contempt he was facing, further embittering him against the country. “Dickens’s romantic dream of America as a pure, free, ‘innocent’ land, untrammelled by the corrupt institutions and the pernicious snobberies and class hatreds of the Old World, was rapidly turning sour, and he resolved to decline all future invitations of a public nature” (ODNB). Notwithstanding Dickens’s bitterness, his letter to Grattan is affable. Born in Dublin, Grattan was initially educated for the law, but turned instead to 58 59 writing, publishing a few novels, and the travelogue Highways and Byways (1823). He took up residence as British consul in Boston in 1839, and would himself 58 A very good copy of the first UK edition publish a book critical of America, Civilized America, DIX, Gertrude. The Girl from the Farm. in 1859. Dickens writes to Grattan “let me report that 59 London: John Lane; Roberts Bros., Boston, 1895 we are all well and happy, as I shall hope to hear you DOYLE, Arthur Conan. are”. He writes concerning the recently deceased Octavo. Original brown cloth, title to spine gilt, key monogram to spine, title and decoration to sides in light The Return of Sherlock Holmes. publisher Thomas Longman, who had died three days grey, all designed by Aubrey Beardsley, top edge trimmed, London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1905 before Dickens’s letter: “the older Longman is just others untrimmed. With the publisher’s advertisements to Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine dead. He fell from his horse, and never recovered. the rear, unopened. Title page design by Aubrey Beardsley. and front board. Housed in custom blue quarter morocco I have not heard to whom he has bequeathed his Spine slightly darkened, front inner hinge partly cracked clamshell box with titles in gilt to spine. Frontispiece and valuable collection of authors’ skulls”, the last line but firm. A very good copy. 15 full-page black and white plates after Sydney Paget, and a sardonic comment on the large number of writers First edition, number 14 in Lane’s Keynotes series. 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Spine ends gently whom Longman published, including Coleridge, The Keynotes Series, comprising 33 novels and bumped, a little rubbed with a few small marks to boards, Southey, Wordsworth, and Scott. Dickens mentions faint foxing to edges and contents; an otherwise unmarked short story collections, were produced by John and very good copy. the great English tenor John Braham – “If you should Lane between 1893 and 1897. Aubrey Beardsley foregather, any of these odd days, with Braham, provided designs for 22 Keynotes volumes while First UK edition. Published on 7 March 1905, the UK commend me to him heartily” – which may well be a working on The Yellow Book, a quarterly periodical also edition was preceded by the US edition, which was pointed comment, as Braham had also made a largely published by John Lane. The series shared a close released in February of the same year. unsuccessful trip through America from 1840 to 1842. relationship with the progressive literary trends of Green A29a. Maintaining the friendly tone, Dickens asks that he 1890s, emphasised by their designs by Beardsley, £3,250 [137430] also pass on the commendations “with all manner a leading figure in the aesthetic movement whose of remembrance from Mrs. Dickens to Mrs. Grattan often scandalous art contributed heavily to the – and to your sons and daughter”. Though obviously development of the . happy to be back in Britain, Dickens’s woes were Gertrude Dix’s The Girl from the Farm was a “new added to upon finding that Robert Peel had instituted woman” novel, a popular Victorian literary genre a tax on income over £150 a year. He reports back to which sought to provide a window into the lives of Grattan: “everybody is cursing the Income Tax, except middle-class working women and explore utopian the men to whom it gives places – and that there is ideals” (Harris, p. 1409). nothing else new in this Hemisphere”. Lasner 38; Wendell V. Harris, “John Lane’s Keynotes Series Published in The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens, vol. and the Fiction of the 1890’s”, PMLA, Vol. 83, No. 5 (October, III, 1974, p. 317. 1968), pp. 1407–1413. £15,000 [137058] £975 [137100]

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A fine copy of the final Sherlock Holmes novel endpapers. Frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 28 62 colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Tiny split to foot of spine, 60 light foxing to fore edge and small green mark to top edge ELIOT, T. S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical of book block, a little offsetting to rear free endpaper, else Cats. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. clean internally. A very good copy. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine and central London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1915 First US trade edition, published the same year vignette to front cover in red, fore and lower edges Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered as the first. untrimmed. With the yellow dust jacket designed by the in gilt. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco clamshell author. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. A very good box with titles in gilt to spine. Frontispiece by Frank £650 [136772] copy, binding square and firm, slight toning to spine and Wiles, and 6 pp. of publisher’s advertisements at end. Ink board edges, a little foxing to edges. In a nice example of ownership inscriptions (7 June 1915) to front free endpaper the dust jacket, with a couple of marks, fading to spine, and (8.8.15) to rear pastedown, and discreet ownership a few nicks to head. stamp (Jos. Lowrey) to top corner of first two leaves. Faint First edition, one of 3,005 copies printed. Eliot wrote discolouration along top and fore edge, head of spine a trifle bumped, free endpapers a little toned as usual; a remarkably the whimsical poems included in this collection well-preserved, fine, and otherwise unmarked copy. throughout the 1930s, and included them under his assumed name “Old Possum” in letters to his First UK edition of the fourth and final Sherlock godchildren. The work was adapted by Andrew Holmes novel. Published on 3 June 1915, the UK Lloyd Webber into the musical Cats, which opened edition was preceded by the US edition, which in London’s West End on 11 May 1981. was released on 27 February of the same year. Gallup A34a. It is, however, far less common, with some 20,000 fewer copies issued in Britain. £2,250 [137436] Greene & Gibson A39a. £2,000 [137426] 63 ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets. London: printed 61 by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the (DULAC, Edmund.) ANDERSEN, Hans Officina Bodoni in Verona, for Faber & Faber, 1960 Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. Quarto. Original white quarter vellum marbled boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911 the publisher’s marbled slipcase. Slipcase only lightly Quarto. Original tan ribbed cloth, titles and pictorial worn at the extremities, but entirely intact, the book decoration to spine and front board gilt, pictorial 61 fine and bright.

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First Bodoni edition, number 250 of 290 copies signed by the poet. A magnificent piece of book production executed in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the greatest printer of the 20th century. Gallup A43c. £4,500 [137131]

64 ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land. 65 London: printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona, for Signed by the author town, dispatched an employee together with 25 copies Faber & Faber, 1961 [1962] of Tender is the Night which the by-then neglected Quarto. Original white pigskin backing marbled boards, 65 author had agreed to sign. The bookshop assistant titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, other untrimmed. returned with just 19 copies, having apparently been With the original marbled slipcase. Slipcase lightly worn FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. at the corners and splitting at bottom edge, the book in New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934 “taxed” half a dozen by the great author. This is almost certainly one of those 19 copies. fine condition. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald’s fourth novel, First Bodoni edition of Eliot’s masterpiece, dust jacket. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby. number 143 of 300 copies signed by the poet. box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrations in the text by Edward Shenton. Bookseller’s ticket (Hochschild, Kohn & Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many See previous item. Co., Baltimore, Maryland) to rear pastedown. Spine and ways revolutionary work of fiction. The struggle Gallup A6d. edges of front cover silver-fished, front inner hinge cracked of its inception was matched perhaps only by the £4,500 [137130] but firm, a very good copy in the jacket, spine and rear scale of critical disdain for it. Fitzgerald was so panel mildly toned, with a few shallow chips, some splitting along folds with tape repairs to verso. distressed by the antagonism that he agreed to allow later editions to be published with the narrative First edition, first issue dust jacket, signed by the rearranged chronologically. Only years after his author on the front free endpaper, and with the small death was the original text restored. booksellers’s label of Hochschild, Kohn & Co. of Bruccoli A15.I.a. Baltimore, to the rear pastedown. This enterprising concern, on learning of Fitzgerald’s presence in their £30,000 [136034]

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Uncorrected proof copy of the first UK edition. Both the US edition, published in January 1966, and the UK edition that followed in May, are dated 1965 on their respective copyright pages. £500 [136688]

Friedman refutes Keynes 68 FRIEDMAN, Milton. A Theory of the Consumption Function. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Graphs and charts throughout. Ownership 66 stamp of B. Wesson to front free endpaper. Endpapers discoloured from adhesive residue, but the book otherwise In a lovely example of the dust jacket issued on 7 April 1955. The third book in the James in nice condition, tight and bright. The jacket in very good Bond series, Moonraker was adapted into a film of the condition, spine panel darkened, light nicks at extremities, price-clipped. 66 same name in 1979, starring Roger Moore. First edition of what is perhaps Friedman’s most FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. Gilbert A3a (1.3). significant academic work, in which he argued London: Jonathan Cape, 1955 £7,500 [136616] against the Keynesian use of government policy to Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered regulate the economy. This work resolved several in silver. With the dust jacket. Spine minimally cocked, 67 paradoxes regarding the relationship between the covers a little dusty; in a very nice example of the jacket, wealth and spending habits of consumers and it spine and rear panel panel faintly toned with couple of FOWLES, John. The Magus. remains a foundational work in economics. nicks to head of spine panel. Near-fine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 £1,750 [136431] First edition, one of two variant states, printed on Octavo. Original pale green wrappers, printed paper title thicker paper stock and with the word “shoot” on label to front wrapper. Spine slightly rolled with a little page 10 correctly printed. The entire first impression rubbing and creasing to extremities, contents slightly (containing both “shoot” and “shoo” states) was toned. A very good copy.

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Inscribed to an Englishman Free to Choose is the companion book to 70 “who must fight this battle in Friedman’s ten-part PBS series of the same title, FROST, Robert. North of Boston. a less friendly country” which investigated various regions, historical events, and social issues from the perspective that London: David Nutt, 1914 69 laissez-faire economics is the most effective and Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered fair way to manage societies. The series and book in gilt, single blind border rule to top and bottom of front FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose. Free to were a response to John Kenneth Galbraith’s earlier cover. Bookplates of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. and Peter Beilenson to front pastedown. Slight sunning to spine, Choose. A Personal Statement. New York & documentary The Age of Uncertainty, and both proved offsetting to endpapers, contents clean. A near-fine copy. London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980 extremely popular, with the book remaining on the First edition, first issue, one of 200 copies, Crane’s Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, red sides, spine best-seller list for five weeks. This is a later printing lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine ends lightly of the first edition (code DE on copyright page), binding F. North of Boston is a collection of 17 of bumped. A very good copy in like jacket, very slightly toned published the same year as the first. Frost’s poems, including three of his most famous: and foxed, tiny nicks at extremities. “Mending Wall”, “After Apple-Picking”, and “Death £1,500 [137172] Inscribed by Milton Friedman on the half-title: of the Hired Man”. “For Victor Ross, who must fight this battle in a This copy has the bookplate of Frederick Baldwin less friendly country, Milton Friedman”, with Rose Adams Jr. to the front pastedown. Adams Jr. was an Friedman adding her own signature and the date American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont 21 April 1980 underneath. The recipient was Victor Morgan Library in from 1948 to 1969. Ross (born 1919), a senior executive at Reader’s Digest Crane A3. and head of the firm’s European division. A quote £2,000 [137200] from Ralph Kinney Bennett’s review in Reader’s Digest was used on the rear flap of the jacket “Milton Friedman … puts us back in touch with how a free and abundant society can work – if we will let it. This is why he deserved his Nobel Prize in economics, and it is why you should read this book”. It was through Victor Ross’s Reader’s Digest role, while on business in America, that he met with the Freidmans and had the book inscribed. Ross was a proponent of free-market economics and had done some work with the recently-elected Margaret Thatcher, helping her draft her speeches. 69 70

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Signed by George and Ira Gershwin saying they ought to get together to discuss the idea” “Twenty Drawings clearly demonstrate the (Rimler, p. 21). The plan to adapt it into an opera was mystical qualities Gibran imbued in all his works” 71 curtailed by Heyward’s wife first adapting the novel as GERSHWIN, George. a stage play, Porgy and Bess, which opened in 1927. 72 Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. It was not until 1933 that Heyward and Gershwin GIBRAN, Kahlil. Twenty Drawings. settled on doing the adaptation, with the agreement New York: Random House, 1935 on 3 November 1933 that “Gershwin would write the New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919 Quarto (311 × 230 mm). Original red morocco, spine lettered score, Heyward the libretto, and that Heyward and Small folio. Original brown cloth-backed cream boards, in blind with raised bands, black morocco label to front Ira would collaborate on the lyrics” (ibid.). On its spine and front cover lettered in gilt, central roundel board lettered in gilt with publisher’s device in blind, silken to front cover in gilt. With part of the dust jacket: front straw weave endpapers, top edge gilt. Housed in the original opening night, 30 September 1935, Boston’s Colonial flap and attached panel, and part of the rear panel. raffia-covered slipcase. Colour frontispiece and pictorial Theatre gave the performance “a 15-minute standing Colour frontispiece portraying the artist’s mother, and title page by George Biddle. Customary wear to fragile raffia ovation”, and the work is now considered Gershwin’s 19 monochrome plates, all with captioned tissue guards. covering of slipcase, stain to one side, book spine a little masterpiece. “Combining the dramatic structure Light wear to corners, a few spots to front board, rubbed, darkened and a little worn at extremities, lacking “Porgy” and of opera and the musical style of jazz and Tin Pan small tear to one tissue guard not affecting the caption. An “Bess” labels to raised bands, inner hinge cracked at gutter Alley, the work was especially important in the internally clean and otherwise very good copy, with most of the jacket, front panel foxed. after title leaf but sound, short closed tear to fore margin development of American musical theater. Although of last leaf, yet this remains a very good copy. it did not recoup its investment, Porgy and Bess was an First edition, trade issue, of Gibran’s first and only First edition, signed limited issue, number 39 of outstanding achievement that brought black singers collection of drawings, retaining some parts of 250 copies bound in publisher’s full red morocco to the Broadway stage in significant roles” (ANB). the rare dust jacket laid in. “For Gibran the canvas and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose Walter Rimler, George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait, 2009. represented another form in which his poetry could Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian. In summer 1926 be expressed … Twenty Drawings clearly demonstrate George Gershwin read DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel £8,500 [137418] the mystical qualities Gibran imbued in all his Porgy, about the Gullah community in South Carolina, works, whatever the medium” (Allen, p. 184). in one sitting. “The potential of this book to become The collection, which includes a critical the basis of a powerful opera – his opera – jumped introduction by art historian Alice Raphael Eckstein, out at him. In the morning, he wrote to Heyward contains works considered “to be his best visual art

38 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 72 74 up to that date” (ibid., p. 184). Twenty Drawings, which Original cloth boards. Contemporary ownership inscription, “Murray was also issued in a signed limited edition, is now Downing 401 College Columbia, MO. 2nd Semester 1937– notably uncommon, with just five other copies of the 74 38”, to front free endpaper – when both authors taught at trade issue traced at auction. Columbia University’s business school; pencilled notes to GRAHAM, Benjamin, & David L. Dodd. rear free endpaper. Spine cocked, ends and corners lightly Roger Allen, Essays in Arabic Literary Biography 1850–1950, 2010. Security Analysis. Principles and Technique. bruised and rubbed, a few scuffs to cloth, small patch of £2,000 [137326] dampstain to book block fore edge faintly visible on first New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, few leaves. A very good copy. Inc., 1934 Pictorial binding by Riviere & Son First edition, fourth printing, of perhaps the most Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine ruled and lettered famous book written on the stock market, following 73 in gilt, title on black ground, double blind-rule border to the first printing of the same year. Graham and Dodd GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of “advocate the fundamental approach to determining investment value and develop techniques to analyze Wakefield. London: Printed at the Chiswick Press balance sheets and income statements. With the for Constable and Company Limited and Houghton hindsight of later developments, their primary Mifflin Company, 1926 failings were (1) not to consider the full role of Octavo (232 × 143 mm). Mid–20th-century blue morocco by diversification, (2) not to embed the role of risk Riviere & Son, spine lettered in gilt with gilt laurel wreath in determining value in an equilibrium context, motifs to compartments, elaborate gilt frame to covers with and (3) not to give sufficient consideration to the onlaid pink morocco flower cornerpieces, front cover with forces that tend to make markets informationally morocco onlay vignette of protagonist, gilt ruled turn-ins, efficient” (Rubinstein). Graham’s course at Columbia marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 24 coloured plates University influenced many fund managers, and by Rowlandson. Spine lightly sunned, trivial rubbing at extremities, very minor patch of rubbing to front cover his security analysis techniques are still taught vignette, light toning and exceedingly light staining around in many investment classes. extremities of endpapers. A near-fine copy. Dennistoun & Goodman 492. Rubinstein, A History of the Theory First Chiswick Press edition. An exquisitely bound of Investments, ebook, 2011. copy of Goldsmith’s classic, using the illustrations £5,500 [137412] produced by Thomas Rowlandson for Rudolph Ackermann’s edition of 1817. £1,500 [136761] 73

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75 jacket. Spine slightly rolled, a touch of foxing to edges. In the slightly sunned dust jacket with a little silver fishing, GREEN, John D. of Britain. mainly to rear panel, with a couple of nicks to spine ends. : H. M. Hieronimi, 1967 A near-fine copy. Quarto. Original red cloth boards, German titles to spine First edition in English. Originally published in gilt. With the dust jacket, and the German publisher’s Portuguese as Grande Sertão: Veredas in 1956, this is the wraparound band. Photographic illustrations throughout. book that “firmly established [Guimarães Rosa’s] Laid-in is the publisher’s postcard feedback questionnaire. international reputation” (Ency. Brit.). A landmark Slight bump to one tip, a little fading to edges, a touch of of South American literature, The Devil to Pay in the offsetting to front free endpaper and light foxing to laid- Backlands exhibits characteristics of the Brazilian in translation. A very good copy, in the lightly soiled dust jacket with a chip to rear panel, a few short closed tears regionalist novel while “giving to the picturesque and some rubbing to extremities. With the faintly soiled detailed notations of the environment a universal wraparound, with a few short closed tears. and philosophical weight in which the most common dramas of human kind are enacted” (Smith, p. 400). First edition in German. This edition is bilingual, with the text in English and the German translation Verity Smith (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Latin American Literature, 1997. laid in, as issued, on a slip to the front pastedown. £1,000 [137068] Birds of Britain was published simultaneously in England, the USA, France, Italy, Germany, and other Faithful reproduction of the first book printed The first American facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, the second overall following the German Insel Verlag countries. The book is a collection of photographs from moveable type of 1960s “birds” (period British slang for attractive facsimile of 1913–14; number 157 of 1,000 copies. The young women), mostly celebrity models, singers, and 77 Gutenberg Bible was the first complete book printed actresses, with captions by Anthony Haden-Guest. from moveable type, published in Mainz in 1455. This (GUTENBERG, Johann.) Biblia Sacra facsimile was derived from the Insel Verlag facsimile, £600 [137049] [Facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible.] which was taken from the copies at Berlin and Fulda, New York: Pageant Books, 1961 widely regarded as among the most beautiful copies. 76 2 volumes, large folio. Original brown morocco, spines This facsimile is suitably lavish, the text printed GUIMARÃES ROSA, João. The Devil to Pay in lettered in gilt, covers stamped in blind incorporating with lithography and the illuminations by sheet-fed Gutenberg’s initials, turn-ins ruled in blind, marbled gravure, all printed on rag paper and bound by hand. the Backlands. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963 endpapers, gilt edges. Colour illustrations and rubrication Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt and red, throughout, replicating the original. Light sunning £10,000 [137735] floral design in blind to spine and front cover, pale yellow to spines and extremities, very slight scratch to front endpapers, top edge red, others uncut. With the dust cover of vol. II, else near-fine.

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The Anniversary Edition, issued to celebrate attended by both authors, on 28 November 1984 in Hardy’s 80th birthday, out of series from an Auckland, to launch the book; and a card signed edition of 1,250 sets. From the library of the by the publisher, Brian Roylance, to certify that the American intellectual Gore Vidal, unmarked as copy was obtained there. such, but with a certificate of provenance from the The promotional material is housed in the dealer to whom Vidal’s library was sold. publisher’s colour-printed and illustrated card Purdy, p. 286. folder, and includes typed letters signed by Brian Roylance to a subscriber regarding an order for two £3,750 [136745] copies, two double-sided leaves of “Origo Special Issue” published in autumn 1982 and winter 1982/3 With the subscriber’s promotional pack respectively, reservation and order forms, sample pages, prospectus, and other such material reserved 79 for an elite of subscribers. (HARRISON, George, ed.) TAYLOR, Derek. £3,000 [136803] Fifty Years Adrift. [With promotional folder.] Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited in association with Hedley New Zealand and Hedley Australia, 1984 Quarto. Original brown half calf, red morocco title label, spine gilt in compartments, brown cloth sides ruled in gilt, vignette to front cover in red and gilt, Derek Taylor’s 77 signature to rear cover in gilt, edges gilt, illustrated endpapers from a design by Larry Smith, with the original Contemporary New York binding red silk ribbon and colour concert ticket book marker. Housed in the publisher’s brown paper slipcase with 78 white paper label to front. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, lavishly illustrated with Beatles memorabilia and HARDY, Thomas. The Writings. New York: photographs. Spine slightly sunned, a couple of scuff Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1920] marks, else a fine copy. 21 volumes, octavo (223 × 149 mm). Contemporary blue Signed limited edition, accompanied by the rare half morocco by Whitman Bennett of New York, bound promotional pack; number 488 of 2,000 copies for William Harrison with his name and rampant griffin signed by George Harrison, Derek Taylor, and the device in gilt to covers, twin orange and red morocco labels, illustrator Larry Smith. Taylor was the Beatles’s spines tooled in gilt, red marbled sides and endpapers, publicist; the present book is his autobiography, top edges gilt. With photogravure frontispieces and plates throughout printed on china paper and with descriptive with Harrison’s additions, and is “the companion tissue guards. Spines lightly sunned, some bumping to tips, volume to I Me Mine” (prospectus). a few patches of rubbing and stripping to morocco skilfully Loosely inserted are an invitation, numbered retouched. A very good set. 103, to the British Airways Literary Luncheon 79

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80 First UK edition, published simultaneously with 83 HASKINS, Sam. Cowboy Kate and other the US edition on 1 April 1988. One of the most HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. important scientific works of the second half of Stories. London: Ltd, 1965 the 20th century and a masterpiece of scientific New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929 Quarto. Original grey cloth backed boards, black titles and popularization, A Brief History of Time details for a Octavo. Original black cloth, printed gold labels to spine border to spine, black titles to front. With the dust jacket. lay readership the origin and eventual fate of the and front cover, untrimmed. In the near-fine dust jacket, With monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. universe. Loosely inserted is a press cutting of a somewhat darkened, minor chipping to corners. A fine copy. Spine slightly cocked, lower tips a touch bruised, light rippling to rear free endpapers. A near-fine copy in the dust review for this work. First edition, first printing, without the legal jacket, tips slightly chipped, a little rubbing to extremities, £1,500 [137407] disclaimer on p. x introduced in the second printing. slight mark to upper front panel. Grissom A8.1.a. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the 82 £4,750 [136995] photographer to his friend Jan Mostert of the HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Rembrandt Foundation: “For Jan, I dedicate this 84 copy of ‘Kate’ Sam Haskins. Sept. 2003”. This copy The Sensory Order. London: Routledge & Kegan is accompanied by a collection of related ephemera, Paul Limited, 1952 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take including a clipping of an article on his architectural Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver. Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933 photography of “Old Kimberley”, two covers of With the dust jacket. Trivial mark to front cover, very Octavo. Original black cloth, gilt title label to spine and Optima magazine, and profiles of the photographer light running crease to top corner of pages. A very good front, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust in German and English. copy in the jacket, former tears around base of spine panel jacket. Spine very slightly cocked, slightly toned jacket, and to folds expertly repaired on verso, one small split short closed tear to foot of front panel, minor loss to £1,000 [136826] remaining to front flap fold. one tip, a few nicks and some creases to extremities; First UK edition, published in Chicago in the same else a fine copy. A near-fine copy year. The Sensory Order, Hayek’s second book after First edition, first issue jacket (quoting Laurence 81 his move to Chicago, is the final form of a thesis Stallings’s review of Death in the Afternoon on rear Hayek had developed in Vienna in the 1920s on panel). This collection contains 14 short stories, of HAWKING, Stephen. A Brief History of philosophical psychology. Hayek argues that there which six (“The Light of the World”, “A Way You’ll Time. London: Bantam Press, 1988 are inherent limits to the human mind’s capacity Never Be”, “The Mother of a Queen”, “One Reader Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With to understand itself, and that human beings know Writes”, “A Day’s Wait”, and “Fathers and Sons”) the dust jacket. Illustrations and diagrams throughout. much more than they can ever explicitly explain. were printed here for the first time. Spine ends a little rubbed, top and fore edge a little foxed, Cody & Ostrem B–10. Grissom A12a. as usual; else a near-fine, unmarked copy, in the near-fine jacket, light foxing to verso, not price-clipped. £750 [136756] £1,875 [137032]

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85 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935 Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine on a black ground, facsimile of Hemingway’s signature in gilt on front cover. With the dust jacket. Chapter headings and other decorations by Edward Shenton. Spine slightly cocked and faded, board edges a little faded, small mark to bottom edge, else contents bright and clean. A very good copy in the dust jacket with lightly sunned spine panel, a few nicks to head of spine, extremities a little rubbed and creased. 83 First edition, in Grissom’s “Jacket B” (no priority), with the green band on the back panel of the jacket extending through nine lines of text. Grissom A13.1.a; Hanneman A13. Czech, African Big Game 1785 to 1950, p. 74 (“Hemingway’s classic is based very closely on his safari to East Africa”). £2,250 [137052]

86 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt on green ground and to front board gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. A little rubbing to spine, head of spine slightly bruised, else a fine copy in the bright jacket, head of spine panel just slightly nicked and creased. First edition, this a particularly nice copy. Grissom A.14.1.a. 84 85 £2,000 [136613]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 43 First edition, a fragile piece, relatively well- represented institutionally but exceedingly uncommon in commerce, a splendid celebration of the inimitable Krazy Kat, that “humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature” (e.e. cummings). George Herriman’s remarkable strip, much admired by Joyce, Eliot, Stein, and Don Marquis, for whose Archy and Mehitabel Herriman provided illustrations, was recently voted number 1 in the Comics Journal millennium survey “Top 100 Comics of the Century”. Carpenter’s “jazz pantomime” was probably notionally the highest-toned and best received of the spin-offs from the strip. With costumes and scenery designed by Herriman himself, and choreography by Russian-born dancer Adolph Bolm, who also took the title role, the ballet played two sold-out and critically acclaimed performances at the Town Hall, New York. One of the harshest critics of the 87 show was probably Krazy’s “most perceptive (and persistent) fan”, the cultural critic Gilbert Seldes, 87 editor of influential modernist journal The Dial, who HERRIMAN, George. “Krazy Kat” – A Jazz found the jazz accompaniment merely “sufficient”, and thought that Bolm had “missed the exquisite Pantomine. Music by John Alden Carpenter. grace of heart in that adorably ugly body”. Based on the “Krazy Kat” Newspaper Despite the faint praise on this occasion, Seldes Cartoons. Specially illustrated by Geo. was the most prominent promoter of the comic 88 Herriman. And Arranged for Pianoforte by strip as art, and of Krazy its most perfect exemplar: the composer. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1922 “It happens that in America irony and fantasy are practised in the major arts by only one or two men, “A well-conducted little monthly” Folio (305 × 235 mm). Wire-stitched in the original orange producing high-class trash; and Mr. Herriman, (Susan B. Anthony) and “a turning point in card pictorial wrappers. Images to both wrappers, pictorial title and 14 near full-page images by Herriman. Ex-library working in a despised medium, without an atom the committed women’s press” from the Dominican Conservatory of Music, San Rafael, of pretentiousness, is day after day producing California, library card pocket to front wrapper verso, neat something essentially fine. It is the result of a naïve 88 library stamps to head of front wrapper and title, couple sensibility rather like that of the douanier Rousseau; HIRSCH, Jenny (ed.) Der Frauen- of ownership inscriptions to same. A little creasing and it does not lack intelligence, because it is a thought- Anwalt. Organ des Verbandes deutscher abrading to spine, rust mark from staple to a couple of out, constructed piece of work. In the second order leaves (slight loss at head of p. 23) otherwise very good. of the world’s art it is simply first rate – and a delight” Frauenbildungs- und Erwerbvereine. I. (“The Krazy Kat That Walks By Himself ” in The 7 Jahrgang 1870–1871. II. Jahrgang 1871– Lively Arts, p. 231). 1872. III. Jahrgang 1872–1873. Berlin: Otto A wonderfully evocative souvenir with artwork Loewenstein [vol. 3: Elwin Staude], 1871–73 produced by Herriman for this publication. 3 volumes, octavo (212 × 134 mm); 12 consecutive issues, Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, continuously paginated, in each. Contemporary dark 2016, p. 296. brown half roan, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, dark £875 [137211] brown pebbled boards, marbled endpapers, edges red; vol. 3 bound to match but differing slightly in typeface and colouring. Vols. 1 and 2 with binder’s tickets of Eduard Arnold Jr., Baden-Baden to front pastedowns, library inventory labels of Schloss Neuweier (Baden-Baden) to front free endpapers verso of each vol. Bindings a little worn at extremities, contents evenly browned, occasionally foxed, inner hinges of vols. 1 and 2 strengthened with red 87 cloth tape. Overall a very good, clean set.

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Complete run of the first three years of Der Frauen- Anwalt (The Women’s Advocate), a scarce periodical from the early days of the German women’s emancipation movement edited by the social reformer Jenny Hirsch (1829–1902) and described by Susan B. Anthony and her fellow editors of the History of Woman Suffrage as “a well-conducted little monthly” (vol. II, p. 903). WorldCat locates copies of the I and III Jahrgang only at Harvard, and an 89 unknown number at the National Library of Sweden. Library Hub adds just one further institution, LSE, press [Frauenpresse]” (Mikota, p. 4). Devoted to With an original lithograph by Hockney which records an incomplete run, the earliest issue the industrial and general education of women, it dating from 1876. contained not only Hirsch’s own articles but also 89 In 1865 Hirsch, raised in an Orthodox Jewish those by important women’s rights activists such HOCKNEY, David, & Stephen Spender. family, attended the first women’s congress as Luise Büchner, Mathilde Lammers, and Fanny China Diary. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982 (Frauentag) in Leipzig, from which sprang the Lewald (her emancipatory essay, “Und was nun?” Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein. For many [“And what now?”], appeared as the lead article of Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and design to front cover gilt. With the original lithograph housed in years thereafter she was a leader in the Lette-Verein, the first issue). Contributions were also made by a women’s education society, in which she was the a printed red folder. Sheet size 48 × 54 cm. All housed in the men such as the lawyer Franz von Holtzendorff. publisher’s printed box. Illustrated with 158 watercolours, organization’s unpaid secretary and only female Underfunded from the start, the journal eventually drawings, and photographs. Original 5-colour hand-drawn board member. Her translation of John Stuart Mill’s went bankrupt, and soon after Hirsch broke ties lithograph drawn on 1 lithographic stone and 4 aluminium On the Subjection of Woman (Die Hörigkeit der Frau) with the Lette-Verein in 1883. Active in literature to plates on Somerset satin-finish mould-made rag paper, was published in Berlin in 1869, the year of its first the end, she went on to edit women’s periodicals folded 3 times to form 4 paper panels. A fine copy in a publication in English, and provided important and published several crime novels under the slightly rubbed and soiled box. stimuli for the German women’s movement and pseudonym Fritz Arnefeldt. First edition, signed limited edition, number 312 cemented Hirsch’s considerable influence within it. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn of 1,000 copies signed by Hockney and Spender; Der Frauen-Anwalt, of which Hirsch was editor Gage, & Ida Husted Harper (eds.), History of Woman Suffrage, vol. the print signed, numbered, and dated in pencil II, 1882; Jana Mikota, “Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen – wieder from 1870–81, was the monthly journal of the by Hockney lower right. League of German Women’s Educational and Trade entdeckt: Jenny Hirsch: Frauenrechtlerin & Kriminalautorin”, in Magazin für Jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, Medaon, 2008. Tokyo 234. Associations, an outgrowth of the Lette-Verein, and marked “a turning point in the committed women’s £1,500 [137506] £3,250 [136633]

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90 alphabet. The written contributions are by Douglas The grandest Portuguese flower book HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (ed.) Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William 91 Hockney’s Alphabet. London: Faber and Faber Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo HOFFMANNSEGG, Johann Centurius for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991 Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Graf von, & Heinrich Friedrich Link. Flore Folio. Original yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt on a Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes dark blue background, cream endpapers. Housed in the Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, original grey cloth slipcase. With 26 colour drawings, one for V. S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen qui croissent naturellement en Portugal. Berlin: each letter of the alphabet, by David Hockney. A fine copy. Spender, John Updike, Anthony Burgess, Ted Hughes, Charles-Fredéric Amelang, 1809[–40] Limited edition, signed by the artist and the editor Paul Theroux, Gore Vidal, and T. S. Eliot. Norman 2 volumes, folio (516 × 335 mm). Near-contemporary and specially bound in yellow buckram. This work Mailer declined his invitation, but his “letter refusing brown half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, brown cloth was a collaborative effort created to raise money seemed such a good model for Polite Rejection” that sides, patterned endpapers. Complete with 3 uncoloured for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited several it was published as his contribution (Preface). “Planches d’instruction” and 111 coloured plates with tissue British and American writers to contribute with texts guards (numbered 1–109, plus 90b and 108b), 109 of them that could accompany Hockney’s specially drawn £750 [137155] stipple-engravings printed in colours and finished by hand,

46 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington and two (nos. 20 and 22) coloured lithographs; engraved by Bollinger, Clar, Dumbte, Guimpel, Haas, Krethlow, Meyer, Schubert and Wachsmann after drawings by G. W. Voelker and Hoffmannsegg. Minor wear at extremities, short splits to joints, light creasing to initial few leaves of each volume, text pages heavily foxed, yet plates only lightly foxed, plates creased from plate 105 onwards. A very good copy. First edition of the grandest Portuguese flower book ever published, and among the finest flower books of the 19th century. The delicate illustrations – based on the travels of Johann Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849) through Portugal between 1797 and 1801 – are executed in the manner of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, yet as a record of newly discovered and previously undescribed species surpasses any of Redouté’s publications. Although unmarked as such, the book was formerly in the collection of Rupert C. Barneby (1911– 2000), curator of systematic botany at the New York Botanical Garden. Barneby discovered more than 70 new species of plants, and became the foremost authority in North American Astragalus and Dalea. By the time of his death, four genera and 25 species had been named in his honour. The text ends on p. 436 as usual: pp. 55–58 were never printed and consequently there is a gap in the pagination (see Stafleu and Cowan); the book has on occasion been miscatalogued as incomplete thus in the past, which may well have led to complete copies being broken up. Dunthorne 136; Great Flower Books, p. 59; Nissen 901; Nissen BBI 901; Stafleu |& Cowan TL2 2911; Sitwell & Blunt p. 59. 92 £17,500 [137002] India. “There he met the artists John Smart and in India, clearly delighted in painting landscapes … 92 William Hickey, and found work painting theatrical A curiosity of Home’s book is that it was intended scenery. Having sought and secured permission to for sale to an Indian market, with descriptions in HOME, Robert. Select Views in Mysore, The accompany the grand army to Bangalore during the Persian included. The book had some success for it Country of Tippoo Sultan; From Drawings Third Anglo-Mysore War, Home reached the troops was republished in 1812 in a smaller format with its taken on the Spot … with Historical on 5 March. He remained with them until early April plates engraved in line” (ibid.). Descriptions. London: Robert Bowyer, 1794 1792, sketching captured forts, officers, and the local Cox I 304; see Archer & Lightbown, India Observed, p. 41. countryside” (ODNB). He was present at the handing Quarto (322 × 265 mm). 20th-century tan half sheep, £975 [136881] marbled boards, black morocco label to spine, raised over of Tipu Sultan’s sons as hostages, an event bands, lozenges in blind to compartments. 29 engraved recorded in perhaps his best-known painting. Home plates, most with original tissue guards, 4 folding maps at settled in Calcutta in 1795 and “had a flourishing the rear, 1 with colour; abbreviated text in Persian. A little practice as a portrait painter until the arrival of rubbed at the extremities, one or two small scuffs, pale Chinnery in June 1807” (Archer & Lightbown). He toning to the text-block, the tissue guards foxed, the plates transferred operations to Lucknow where he became good impression and very clean, a very good copy. painter to the Nawab, on the death of whom Home First edition. Home was practising as a portrait retired to Cawnpore where he died in 1834. “He was painter in Dublin in the late 1780s when the arrival one of the few British artists to spend the greater of a rival, Gilbert Stuart, forced his return to part of his life in India. Although a portrait painter London. On the death of his wife in 1789 he left for by profession, Home especially during his first years

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it was drawn by Robert E. Young in the November 1950 issue of American Literature”; that is that Chapters XXVIII and XXIX had been reversed by some conscientious editor at Harper’s with an eye peeled for the chronological inaccuracy seemingly presented by James’s arrangement, which places a chapter set during an evening before one set during the preceding afternoon. This was in part due to the fact that the American edition was set up from a separate set of proofs of the serialization in the North American Review, with approximately three and a half 93 additional chapters which James had withheld to be inserted into the book. Edel notes that the error A bright, fine copy In the cloth dust jacket was confined to the American edition and relates that it “was perpetuated in the New York Edition, 93 94 Scribner having set type from the American edition”. HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: JAMES, Henry. The Ambassadors. New York Though James paid close attention to the revision of Chatto & Windus, 1932 & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903 his earlier works in the New York Edition, several of the later works, such as this, were virtually ignored. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles in gilt to blue morocco Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered James had hoped to set the English edition from spine label, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the a custom blue morocco-backed marbled paper-covered publisher’s blue cloth dust jacket, spine identically lettered the American proofs but, fortunately, as it turns clamshell box with titles in gilt to spine. A fine copy. and ruled in gilt. Title page printed in orange and black. out, Harper’s took too long to supply these; James First UK edition, signed limited issue, number 87 Contemporary ownership inscription of Agnes Carpenter instead sent to Methuen a compilation of tear-sheets of 324 copies signed by the author and specially to front free endpaper. Bookplate of Virginia bibliophile from the Review and carbon copy pages of text. bound. The UK edition was split into signed Geest to front pastedown. Closed tear Edel & Laurence A58b, 1903 issue; Supino 58.8.0, 1904. Cyril to lower margin of pp. 39–40 and 313–14. Spine minimally and trade issues, published simultaneously on 2 Connolly, The Modern Movement: A Discussion of 100 Key Books From cocked, negligible rubbing to board edges, tiny wormhole England, France and America 1880–1950, 1966, p. 16. February, following publication of the signed issue to front joint; a very good copy indeed in the jacket with a of the US edition on 21 January, and preceding the couple of marks to cloth, slight rubbing to extremities. £750 [136586] US trade issue on 4 February. First US edition. Edel and Laurence note that this Bromer A29.2. edition of The Ambassadors was “marked by a curious £6,500 [136596] error which remained unobserved until attention to

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95 96 hegemony in the philosophical world long enjoyed JAMES, William. A Pluralistic Universe. by idealism was beginning to break up – something JAMES, William. Pragmatism. noted by James in his first lecture – due in no small A new name for some old ways of thinking. Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College part to the very ideas aired in his lectures and the then New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907 on the Present Situation in Philosophy. newly emerging schools of pragmatism and realism” Octavo. Original beige quarter cloth, paper label printed New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909 (Hall, pp. 130–31). James would deliver the lectures in black to spine, brown cloth sides, top edge gilt. Printed Octavo. Original quarter green cloth, grey paper boards, again at Harvard in 1909. author’s presentation slip “From the Author” loosely paper label to spine printed and ruled in black, top edge McDermott 1909–5. See Richard A. S. Hall, “William James, inserted. Spine and corners lightly rubbed; a very good copy. gilt, others uncut. Printed author’s presentation slip A Pluralistic Universe: A New Philosophical Reading (review)”, The Pluralist, vol. 4, no. 3, 2009, pp. 130–37. First edition of the author’s most important “From the Author” loosely inserted. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, paper spine label a little worn £650 [136491] work, from the library of F. C. S. Schiller, with affecting one or two letters. A very good copy. his ownership inscription noting the gift from First edition of James’s lecture series titled “On William James. Schiller was “the chief promoter of The first appearance of James Joyce in the US pragmatism in England” (Richardson, p. 367) and a the Present Situation in Philosophy”, delivered at Oxford in 1908, from the library of F. C. S. Schiller lifelong champion of William James and his theories. 97 (see item 95). “Like many of his other texts, James’s Pragmatism “Initially he was reluctant to [give the lectures] JOYCE, James. Dubliners. … contains both a manifest and a latent image. since he feared undertaking them would divert him New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916 On the surface level, it is a ‘method only’. James from developing rigorously and systematically some Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover describes it as a corridor with various topics leading metaphysical ideas of his own that had preoccupied lettered in green. Spine sunned with light rubbing at ends, to different rooms by our asking ‘What difference him for some time. In the end, however, he relented light foxing to initial and final leaves and to edges, minor does it make?’ if a given theory is true. It is a way toning to contents yet clean. Binding square and cloth and in the spring of 1908 gave the lectures which clean, a near-fine copy. of resolving issues rather than dissolving them. were subsequently published as A Pluralistic Universe. In suggesting that ‘an idea is true if it makes As it happened, though, in the course of these First edition, US issue, one of 504 copies of the a difference’, James offered a theory of truth lectures James presented some of those metaphysical first edition sheets (published in London by fundamentally different from the paradigm offered ideas, though in a popular and informal style Grant Richards in 1914, total edition 1,250 copies) by René Descartes, for whom knowledge was appropriate to lecturing … When James addressed imported to the US from England, with the cancel equated with certainty” (Gavin, p. 36). his Oxford audience, the time was ripe for the title page with Huebsch’s imprint. This marked McDermott 1907–11. Robert D. Richardson, William James in the advancement of his own brand of metaphysical the first appearance of a book by Joyce in the US. Maelstrrom of American Modernism, 2006; William J. Gavin, William pluralism and radical empiricism in opposition With the bookplate of the Virginian poet Armistead James in Focus, 2013 to the still-regnant forms of monistic idealism as Churchill Gordon (1855–1931). £2,250 [136490] represented by Bradley, Green, and Royce. The £3,250 [137275]

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98 99 Inscribed by the author JOYCE, James. Collected Poems. KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, 100 New York: Black Sun Press, 1936 The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems. KENNEDY, Robert F. Small octavo. Original white boards, decoration to front London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820 To Seek a Newer World. board and titles to spine in blue, edges uncut, blue silk Duodecimo (158 × 98 mm). Early 20th-century red morocco bookmark, text printed in blue. With the original glassine by Stikeman, titles and delicate foliate motifs to spine in New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967 wrapper. Frontispiece portrait of the author in sanguine gilt in compartments, raised bands to spine, single rule gilt Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles in gilt on black from a crayon drawing by Augustus John, with tissue guard. frame to sides, marbled endpapers, turn-ins tooled in gilt, background to spine, blue endpapers, fore edge untrimmed. Sydney bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Only a little top edge gilt, red, white, and blue silk book marker. Housed With the dust jacket. Corners a little rubbed; else a fine copy spotted to the page edges, otherwise a fine, fresh copy. in a custom red cloth solander box. With the half-title and in the near-fine dust jacket, minor wear to corners. First edition, limited issue, an exceptionally nice publisher’s advertisement leaf. Bound without the 6-page First edition, inscribed “For Max Mont with copy in the glassine, number 584 of 750 copies publisher’s catalogue. Short closed tear to fore edge of final Best Wishes, Robert Kennedy” on the front leaf, not affecting text. Faint offsetting to endpapers; a (there were also 50 signed copies on japon) of free endpaper. Max Mont was a lifelong union handsome, near-fine copy. this beautiful Black Sun Press production, which activist and executive director of the Jewish Labor collects Joyce’s poetry from Chamber Music (London First edition of Keats’s third and final book Committee. He helped organise the Emergency 1907), Pomes Penyeach (Paris 1927, but this its first US published in his lifetime. Keats wrote to Charles Committee to Aid Farm Workers in the early 1950s, printing), and Ecce Puer (this the first edition). Brown in regards to the work in June 1820 noting and subsequently worked with Cesar Chavez in the Slocum & Cahoon A44. that he had “low hopes, though not spirits … this formation of the United Farm Workers of America. shall be my last trial; not succeeding, I shall try £1,000 [137279] To Seek a Newer World is a collection of essays that what I can do in the apothecary line” (White, Robert Kennedy developed from his speeches. p. 219). This last collection is Keat’s greatest single volume: it contains the magnificent series of odes £1,500 [136670] on which his reputation now rests. Also here are his longer narrative poems: two medieval romances (the chilling “Isabella or the Pot of Basil” and the gothic romance “The Eve of St Agnes”) and two mythological fantasies (the weird “Lamia” and the ambitious Miltonic fragment “Hyperion”). Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3; Sterling 523; Tinker 1420; R. White, John Keats: A Literary Life, 2010. £15,000 [138622]

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A masterpiece of 20th-century book illustration A near-fine copy in an excellent jacket, minor loss to tips One of the defining books of the century and small chip at bottom edge of front panel, a few discreet 101 edge-splits, but much better than usually encountered. 104 (KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. First edition of Kerouac’s “242 Choruses”, written KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Moby Dick or The Whale. New York: Random between 1954 and 1957, in the correct black Theory of Employment Interest and Money. and white jacket (the bibliographer Charters House, 1930 incorrectly calls for a jacket “printed in red, London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1936 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, green and black”, these being the colours of the Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, double illustrations to spine and front cover in silver after a design wrappers issue, and later dust jackets), hard to rules to spine gilt and to covers in blind. Contemporary by Kent. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by ownership signature to front pastedown dated November Rockwell Kent. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown of find in collectable condition. 1936, occasional pencil side-ruling, one comment in ink to J. W. Robinson Co. of San Francisco. Spine ends a touch Charters A8. pp. 123 and 333. Very light bumping at spine ends with small bruised, bottom edge of book block a little marked, else nick at foot of spine, light foxing to initial and final leaves, the contents crisp and clean. In the toned jacket with a few £2,000 [136575] two pin holes to pp. 385/386. Cloth bright and unmarked, shallow chips and nicks and a faint patch of dampstain spine very lightly sunned, binding tight. A near-fine copy. to spine panel, the blue of the front panel illustration 103 remaining particularly bright. A fine copy. First edition of perhaps the most significant KEYNES, John Maynard. A Treatise on economics book of the 20th century. Written in First Rockwell Kent trade edition. Kent’s imagining Money. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1930 the aftermath of the Great Depression, Keynes’s of Melville’s classic, first published the same year masterpiece “subjected the definitions and theories by the Lakeside Press of Chicago in a three-volume 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, double line rules in gilt to spines continued in blind of the classical school of economists to a penetrating limited edition, has been hailed as a masterpiece scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and of 20th-century book illustration and credited to front covers. Numerous tables and diagrams to the text. Spines lightly sunned with minor nicking at ends, patches inaccurate” (PMM). Its publication quickly and with reviving public interest in a sublime but of very minor rubbing, contents clean and unmarked. permanently changed the way the world looked at difficult novel. For more Melville, see item 126. A very good copy, square and tight. the economy and the role of government in society. £1,250 [137085] First edition. A Treatise on Money is the first of Keynes’s Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. two major contributions to economic theory and £1,750 [137300] 102 his most comprehensive work on monetary theory. KEROUAC, Jack. Mexico City Blues. It anticipates many of the ideas of the General Theory, which it immediately preceded and by which it has New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959 been, perhaps unfairly, overshadowed. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With the Moggridge A7.1. pictorial dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, abrasion to front pastedown from a bookplate sometime removed. £1,000 [139140]

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105 assured. More than any other individual he provided were loosely adapted into the 1967 and 2016 Disney KIERNAN, R. H. Captain Albert Ball V.C., the inspiration which, after the appalling losses of movies of the same name. ‘Bloody April’ 1916, raised and sustained the morale Richards A76 & A85; Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., Croix de Chevalier, of the RFC and later the Royal Air Force” (ibid.). Children’s Literature, 52. Légion d’Honneur, Russian Order of St £3,500 [136560] George. London: John Hamilton Limited, 1933 £500 [136497] Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in 107 gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 14 plates Kipling’s most famous prose work, in original cloth from photos. Small notation to rear free endpaper, loosely KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories For 106 inserted handwritten squadron index at rear. Jacket chipped Little Children. New York: Doubleday, Page & and slightly torn jacket, some restoration and reinforcements KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; to verso, slight lean to spine, otherwise a very good copy, Company, 1902 [together with:] The Second Jungle Book. First edition of this important and attractively Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front London: Macmillan and Co., 1894 & 1895 cover in dark green, illustration from “The Sing-Song of Old produced biography of British fighter ace Albert Man Kangaroo” in dark green to front cover. With 22 full- Ball (1896–1917), who at the time of his death in 1917 2 works, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, pictorial designs to front covers in gilt, green endpapers, page illustrations by the author. Bookplate of noted Virginian was credited with 44 victories. In 1916 Ball joined bibliophile Christopher Clark Geest to front pastedown. edges gilt. Illustrated frontispiece to The Jungle Book, Spine browned and minimally cocked, touch of wear to tips, No. 13 Squadron RFC in France, where he flew illustrations in the text of both volumes, by William faint ring mark to front cover, light toning to edges of covers reconnaissance missions, before being posted in Henry Drake, Paul Frenzeny, and the author’s father John and margins of contents; a very good, bright copy. May that year to No. 11 Squadron, a fighter unit. Lockwood Kipling. Bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest The following year he was posted to No. 56 (Virginia book collector and historian) to front pastedowns, First US edition of Kipling’s famous collection of 12 Squadron, which was deployed to the Western Front front pastedown of vol. I darkened where previous stories and 12 poems including “How the Camel Got in April 1917. Most of Ball’s successes were with bookplate removed, pencilled ownership inscription to first His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got His Spots”. the Nieuport 16 and he “became an enthusiastic blank of vol. II. Spines slightly cocked, light rubbing to tips, The US edition of this work, published in the same proponent of the French fighter” (ODNB). He was small spot to rear cover of vol. I, slight foxing to contents. year as the UK edition, is notably uncommon. A very good set indeed in bright cloth. killed in May 1917 when his plane crashed while Richards A181; Stewart 260. engaging a large German force in bad weather. His First editions of Kipling’s best-known prose works. Victoria Cross was awarded posthumously. “Ball’s The two Jungle Books were collections of stories which £600 [136649] victory tally of forty-four was soon surpassed, but his had previously appeared in periodicals prior to their place in the pantheon of British military aviators is publication in the present book form. The stories

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One of only five sets signed and so bound, Printed in blue and black. Extra-illustrated in vol. I with surely be the finest set from one of the most elaborately extra-illustrated original watercolour and ink drawings by Douglas Frost, desirable editions of Kipling’s works. The total Bellville Carter, S. T. Turner, J. Standly, Lee Choat, J. B. Bombay Edition was limited to 1,050 copies of 108 Smythe, and others. Expertly refurbished, presenting vols. I–XX, reduced to 500 copies for vols. XXI–XXV; as a very handsome set, contents clean. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Bombay Edition of a further six supplementary volumes were published between 1927 and 1938. the Works. London: Macmillan & Co., 1913–19 The Bombay Edition, number 1 of 5 sets signed by in vol. I and specially bound, Martindell 184; Richards D14; Stewart, p. 572. 25 volumes, octavo (237 × 160 mm). Original deluxe “dedicated to the King and Queen of England”. binding of autumn leaf calf, spines lettered in gilt, gilt to £15,000 [136936] compartments, gilt border to covers with central medallion Vol. I is additionally delightfully extra-illustrated in gilt to front covers, wide gilt turn-ins, watered silk with watercolours directly in the text by various doublures and endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. artists, mostly of landscapes and flora. This must

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A monumental survey of European armour Initially an art advisor at Christie’s, Laking and Lancelot Speed. A trifle rubbed, light foxing to edges; became internationally recognized as a leading a very good copy indeed. 109 expert on arms and armour while still a young man, First edition of the second instalment in the Fairy LAKING, Guy Francis. A Record of and in 1900 was appointed honourary inspector Book series, following the Blue Fairy Book (1889), the European Armour and Arms Through of the armouries at the Wallace Collection, then series eventually numbering 12 in all. The Red Fairy recently bequeathed to the nation. In 1902 Edward Book contains a range of tales including “The Twelve Seven Centuries. With an introduction VII created the post of keeper of the king’s armoury Dancing Princesses”, “Jack and Beanstalk” and by the Baron de Cosson; [bound with:] at Windsor especially for him. In 1911 he became the “Rapunzel”, as well as “The Story of Sigurd”, CRIPPS-DAY, Francis Henry. A Record of first keeper and secretary at the London Museum, a condensation of ’s Volsunga Saga. the greatest holder of that office, and essentially Armour Sales 1881–1924. London: G. Bell and £500 [136570] Sons, Ltd, 1920–25 the museum’s founder. “While organizing the new museum, Laking was also involved in, among Together 6 volumes bound in 3, large quarto (313 × 251 mm). other things, gathering material for what was to 111 Contemporary orange morocco by Worrall of Birmingham, spines lettered in gilt and richly gilt to compartments, be the other achievement for which he will be LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Yellow Fairy Book. covers with concentric gilt ruled panels enclosing gilt crest most remembered: his magnum opus, A Record of London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894 and motto “Forte et Fidele”, marbled endpapers, top edge European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Octavo (190 × 125 mm). Contemporary yellow half morocco, It was unfinished at his death – he lived only to gilt, others untrimmed, gilt turn-ins. With 1,805 black and titles in gilt to spine, raised bands, floral motif in gilt to white illustrations, and a further 210 similar illustrations see an advance copy of the first volume – and was compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge in the Cripps-Day volume. Bookplate of Trevor Rostron to completed by his literary executor, F. H. Cripps- gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece, title vignette, 21 front pastedowns, bookseller’s ticket of Thomas Heneage Day. It remains the largest and most fully illustrated plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by H. J. Ford. to front blank of vol. I. A few instances of light soiling to survey of its subject ever published” (ODNB). A trifle rubbed, light foxing to edges; a very good copy contents but generally clean. A fine set. indeed. £3,750 [136722] First edition of each volume of Laking’s First edition of the fourth instalment in the Fairy monumental survey of the history of European Book series, beautifully illustrated by H. J. Ford. The 110 armour, profusely illustrated, and here handsomely Yellow Fairy Book compiles fairy tales from around the bound, together with the supplementary volume, LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Red Fairy Book. world, including well known stories such as “The Cripps-Day’s index of armour auction results. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890 Emperor’s New Clothes” and “Thumbelina”. The antiquary Sir Guy Francis Laking (1875–1919) Octavo (190 × 125 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, £300 [136571] grew up under the shadow of royalty, with his titles in gilt to spine, raised bands, floral motif in gilt to father serving as physician to Queen Victoria and compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge her two successors, and studied antiques and art gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece, title vignette, from an early age. 3 plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by H. J. Ford

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113 LAWRENCE, D. H. The Rainbow. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1915 Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, titles to spine in gilt and to front cover in blind. Neat ownership initials to half-title verso. Touch of wear to spine ends and tips, small pierce to cloth to centre of front joint, water marks and a little rippling to front cover and front matter, inner hinges starting but firm; a good copy. First edition. Methuen published The Rainbow in September 1915 in a print run of 2,527 copies, but quickly withdrew it from sale in the face of almost universal hostility. The new Defence of the Realm 112 Act gave the government powers to suppress anything held detrimental to the conduct of the war. “The French Alice she produced was a considerable First Black Sun Press edition, number 361 of 420 Lawrence’s explicit portrayal of the marital and sexual shock to those brought up on Tenniel” copies for distribution in the United States, from relations of three generations, with suggestions of a total edition of 790; “the colophon is the only lesbianism and male impotency in a career soldier, 112 difference between the American and European was strikingly out of step with the tenor of the times. (LAURENCIN, Marie.) CARROLL, Lewis. issues” (Minkoff ). “For Alice in Wonderland, Caresse In November 1915 the book was prosecuted under the signed Marie Laurencin, one of the foremost French Obscene Publications Act. The presiding magistrate, Alice in Wonderland. Illustrated with Six artists, to do the illustrations. She had never before Sir John Dickinson, who had lost his only son at the Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin. illustrated a book, and the French Alice she produced front six weeks earlier, condemned the book as utter Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930 was a considerable shock to those brought up on filth and ordered it to be burned: “some 1,195 were Landscape quarto. Original printed wrappers, titles in Tenniel” (Tebbel, p. 625). The Dartmouth College destroyed” (Roberts & Poplawski). red and black to spine and front cover, fore and lower Library blog considers it “to be among the finest Roberts & Poplawski A7. edges untrimmed. In the original glassine but without the productions of Harry and Caresse Crosby’s Black slipcase. Frontispiece and 5 colour lithographs by Marie Sun Press” (“Not Your Usual Alice”). £1,000 [136890] Laurencin (with tissue guards); title printed in red and Minkoff A39; John Tebbel, History of Book Publishing in the United black. Light toning and foxing to wrappers, a touch rubbed. States, Vol. III, 1978. A near-fine copy in the very good glassine, a little toned, small losses to corners. £2,000 [136578]

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“Bound with freak covers” 114 LEVY, D. A. Cleveland undercovers. Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1966 Octavo. Original wrappers hand-assembled by the author, stapled at the fold. Vertical crease running through 115 wrappers and book from having been presumably once folded, the map inside front wrapper thus splitting, some a striking photograph of two Native Americans, A handsome leather-bound set of Narnia novels light wear down the spine, still very good condition. and newsprint collage), from a total edition of 500. First edition, this one of 65 special copies “bound This copy is inscribed on the title page, “many 115 with freak covers by the author” (each being thus thanks, d. a. levy”. LEWIS, C. S. [The Chronicles of Narnia:] The unique, this one incorporating old maps of Ohio, Levy (1942–1968) was a leading figure in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince countercultural movement known as the Cleveland Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Mimeograph Revolution. His productions, being hand-assembled with small print runs, now survive The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The in small numbers. He died by suicide in November Magician’s Nephew; The Last Battle. London: 1968, and signed or inscribed examples of his works Geoffrey Bles, [The Bodley Head] 1950–56 are not common. 7 works, octavo. Attractively bound in recent burgundy Levy’s introduction declares “to my knowledge morocco, raised bands to spines, titles and decoration to this poem is the first poem of any length to be spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, written about Cleveland in 150 yrs, it is a tourists gilt edges. Housed in a matching cloth slipcase. With colour frontispieces and black and white illustrations by Pauline guide to 150 yrs of absurd history, the poem exists Baynes. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent set. simultaneously in the past, the present, & with First editions of the complete set of the Narnia one hopeful eye in the future … what future?”. series. “The immediate inspiration for The Lion, the Included on a terminal fold-out leaf is an additional Witch and the Wardrobe was a series of nightmares that poem, “New Ethnic Folk Poem for the Beat Lewis had had about lions. More seriously, he was Generation in Cleveland & for the Neo-American concerned to do for children what he had done for an Church”, written in 1064 following a peyote ritual. adult readership in his science fiction trilogy … The £1,750 [138636] Narnia novels are not allegorical; they are entirely in

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encountered while deputy director of programmes at the BBC, and who had permitted him make the first film adaptation of one of his plays. Shaw’s high praise guaranteed the book’s immediate success: “This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either … This prince of pilots … had a charmed life in 116 every sense of the word”. keeping with the belief, shared by Lewis and his close and subsequent creasing to spine, negligible chips to head of £3,500 [136484] friend and Oxford colleague Tolkien, that stories in spine, tiny nicks to extremities. A fresh, near-fine copy. themselves, especially of the mythical type, can give First edition, uncommon in the dust jacket. Signed by the author spiritual nourishment without imparting abstract Sagittarius Rising is one of the classics of Great War 117 meaning … As Naomi Lewis has written, the books literature, widely considered the finest flying memoir are ‘intoxicating’ to all but the most relentlessly of the war. “At seventeen, standing 6 feet 4 inches tall LINDBERGH, Charles A. The Spirit of St. unimaginative readers, and must be judged the most and equipped with a precocious intelligence, Lewis Louis. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953 sustained achievement in fantasy for children by lied about his age to join the Royal Flying Corps. He Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in silver, a 20th century author” (Carpenter, p. 370). celebrated his eighteenth birthday in France, flying aeroplane device to front cover in silver, pictorial Humphrey Carpenter (ed.), Oxford Companion to Children’s patrols over the western front at a time when the endpapers, top edge green. With the original clear plastic Literature, 1995. average life expectancy of a pilot was three weeks. jacket. With 16 plates, double-page map to the text. Spine very slightly faded, a near-fine copy in the jacket £6,750 [136475] On 1 July 1916 he flew the first patrol of the Somme offensive and witnessed the mile-high column of with a couple of tiny chips to extremities. earth thrown up by the detonation of mines under First edition, signed limited issue, number 463 In the original dust jacket the German positions. Later he duelled with the of an unstated edition signed by the author. The Spirit of St. Louis is Lindbergh’s most famous book, 116 ‘circus’ of Manfred von Richthofen and was the last man to see the aircraft of Albert Ball VC, the allied containing the account of his record-breaking solo LEWIS, Cecil. Sagittarius Rising. ace who vanished in a bank of cloud. Lewis also non-stop flight across the Atlantic. London: Peter Davies, 1936 hunted Gotha airships over London by moonlight, £1,500 [136617] Octavo. Original grey marl cloth, titles to spine in dark blue. and in 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross for With the dust jacket. A little foxing to cloth, book block continuous bravery” (ODNB). edges, and endpapers, top edge dust toned. In the faintly On publication, the book was reviewed in the New browned yet still notably bright jacket with small puncture Statesman by George Bernard Shaw, who Lewis had

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One of 100 copies signed by the artist Spine ends and tips a little rubbed, a small scratch to foot A uniformly bound set of Mackay’s important of rear board. A very good copy. early work of social psychology 118 First edition, signed limited issue, one of 50 copies LOWRY, L. S. The Paintings: Oils and signed by the artist on a label to the front pastedown 121 Watercolours. With an introduction and specially bound, this copy out-of-series. This MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of and notes by Mervyn Levy. London: Jupiter monograph presents the drawings of Lowry, who Extraordinary Popular Delusions. believed that “a drawing is every bit as important, Books, 1975 and sometimes a damned sight more effective [than London: Richard Bentley, 1841 Quarto. Original blue morocco, titles to spine gilt, blue a painting]. Besides, it is more difficult … you haven’t 3 volumes, octavo (220 × 138 mm). Later blue half calf, endpapers, edges gilt, blue page marker. Illustrated with got colour to get you out of a mess” (Introduction). red morocco labels to second and fourth compartments, 31 colour and 99 monochrome plates. Spine ends and floral motifs to others, raised bands, blue cloth sides, blue extremities a little rubbed, a few small scratches to front £1,500 [136814] marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispieces to each cover. A very good copy. volume and 2 engraved portrait plates to vol. III. Bound First edition, signed limited issue, number 42 Fine review copy, signed by the author without the 2-page publisher’s advertisements of vol. I and the half-title of vol. II. Armorial bookplate of Alexander of 100 copies signed by the artist on a book label 120 D. Irwin to front pastedowns. Heads of spines and joints to the front free endpaper and specially bound. professionally repaired, endpapers browned from turn-ins With an introduction by his friend Mervyn Levy, McCARTHY, Cormac. No Country for Old and a little foxed, plates foxed with offsetting as typical, this collection has the plates arranged “by flavour, Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 contents bright and clean with occasional spotting, a few in the light of comparable conception and style: minor marks to D6–7 and 2A5 of vol. I, lower corner of R8 of Octavo. Original black boards, title to spine in gilt, fore vol. I slightly torn, and top corners of M7–8 of vol. III humour and satire; people doings things or doing edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. nothing in particular; expressionist or impressionist creased, overall a very good set. interpretation” (Introduction). First trade edition, signed by the author on the first First edition. Mackay’s important early work of blank; this a review copy, with the publisher’s slip social psychology discusses popular delusions of £1,250 [136817] laid in. It was preceded by a signed limited edition all types and considers the credulous enthusiasm issued earlier the same year. The book was the basis of mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, for the 2007 film of the same name, starring Tommy One of 50 copies signed by the artist witchcraft, relics, the Crusades, and urban myths, Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. 119 as well as economic events such as the tulip bubble, £1,500 [136612] the Mississippi Bubble, and the South Sea Bubble. LOWRY, L. S. The Drawings: Public and Still in print, Mackay’s book has had a profound Private. London: Jupiter Books, 1976 influence on economics and sociology, with many Quarto. Original brown morocco, titles to spine in gilt, modern economists referring to his work when endpapers gold, all edges gilt, light brown page marker. analysing the stock market bubbles of our own age.

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Octavo (220 × 149 mm). Later 20th-century red morocco, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, gilt panels to covers enclosing floral centrepiece with blue and green morocco onlays, gilt turn-ins, pink endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title page printed in blue and black, colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates by Sir William Russell Flint. Single slight scuff to spine, otherwise a fine copy. First thin paper one volume edition, following the arrangement of the two-volume edition of 1920. A finely bound copy of one of the best illustrated editions of Malory. For Malory, see also item 17. 121 £500 [137268]

“Charles Mackay’s passionate erudition and First edition, with the first printing issue points: urbane, unaffected prose style [made] him one of a digit missing to the ISBN on the copyright page, the chief figures in the establishment of Victorian “adways” for “always” on line 15, p. 27, and the ISBN journalism as a dignified profession” (ODNB). complete on the dust jacket rear flap. A River Runs Dennistoun & Goodman 58; Kress C.5560; Zerden, pp. 77–78; Through It is Maclean’s autobiographical collection not in Goldsmiths’ or Mattioli. of short stories, featuring “A River Runs Through £9,500 [122063] It”, “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your pal, Jim’”, and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in 122 the Sky”. A film adaptation, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Robert Redford, was released in 1992. MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It, and other stories. Chicago: University of £2,000 [137199] Chicago Press, 1976 123 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in silver, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription MALORY, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. to front free endpaper. The binding square and firm, the The History of King Arthur and of his Noble contents clean, in the jacket with light toning to spine, minor creasing to spine ends, tips rubbed, not price- Knights of the Round Table. Boston [&] clipped. A near-fine copy. London: The Medici Society Ltd, [c.1925] 123

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 59 as issued. With 8 plates by Robert Mapplethorpe; parallel texts in French and English. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, contents clean and without ownership marks. First Mapplethorpe edition and first edition of this translation by Paul Schmidt, number 76 of 1,000 copies signed by both Mapplethorpe and Schmidt. Mapplethorpe was commissioned to produce a photogravure series for the poem A Season in Hell, first published in 1873 by French writer Arthur Rimbaud. Separated by over a century, it brings together two of the most radical artists and writers of their respective periods. £1,500 [136883]

Original first issue binding 126 124 125 MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851 124 One of a 1,000copies illustrated and Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt with MANDELA, Nelson. The Illustrated Long signed by Robert Mapplethorpe decorative band in gilt at head and foot, covers blocked in Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography. blind with publisher’s lifebuoy device, orange endpapers. 125 Housed in a blue quarter morocco box, spine lettered in Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001 gilt, marbled sides. 20th-century bookplate of Miriam Dyer- Quarto (261 × 223 mm). Bound by Abbey Bookbindery in (MAPPLETHORPE, Robert.) Bennet to the front pastedown. Spine sunned and lightly contemporary brown morocco, titles to spine gilt and front RIMBAUD, Arthur. A Season in Hell. soiled, light wear around extremities with minor repairs board gilt on black, raised bands, facsimile signature to at spine ends, recoloured patch of abrasion to front front board gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. With the Translated by Paul Schmidt. [New York:] endpaper, foxed, creasing to pages around gutter and fore presentation box, containing 4 photographs signed by the The Limited Editions Club, 1986 edge. A very good copy. photographer Grant Warren. Colour and black and white Quarto. Original red morocco by Jovonis, black lettered First US edition, in the first issue binding (BAL’s “A” photographs throughout. A fine copy. spine and front cover. Housed in the black cloth slipcase state). Moby-Dick was originally issued in London Signed limited edition, number 66 of 250 copies (from a planned edition of 950 copies) attractively bound and signed by Mandela. This specially bound edition was produced to celebrate Mandela’s 85th birthday, on 18 July 2003. The book is an abridged version of the text of Mandela’s autobiography, with photographic illustrations, first published in 1994. £3,500 [137035]

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60 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 126 127 earlier the same year, set from the New York sheets 127 Logic” (ODNB). “To many generations of students, Mill’s Principles was the undisputed bible of economic and titled The Whale. The US edition was the first MILL, John Stuart. Principles of Political to appear under the familiar title, and contains doctrine” (Roll, p. 353). some 35 passages and the epilogue omitted from Economy with some of their Applications to Einaudi 3907; Goldsmiths’ 35525; Jevons, p. 280; Kress C.7500; the English edition. It was a “complete practical Social Philosophy. In two volumes. London: Mattioli 2408. Eric Roll, The History of Economic Thought, 1938. failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored John W. Parker, 1848 £6,000 [137310] by the public; and in 1853 the Harpers’ fire destroyed 2 volumes, octavo. Original grey-green vertical fine-ribbed the plates of all his books and most of the copies cloth, printed paper spine labels, double frames to covers remaining in stock” (DAB, vol. 12, p. 523). in blind, pale yellow coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. The present copy is in the first binding, BAL’s With 4 pages of advertisements at end of vol. I and II pages at the end of vol. II. Engraved armorial bookplate “A” state in grey, with orange endpapers and the of Thomas Barrett Lennard to front pastedown of vol. II. publisher’s device stamped centrally on the sides. Spines lightly faded, spine ends and joints a little worn, Copies in first issue bindings appear in purple, black, labels rubbed and a little chipped; a very clean, uncut copy. blue, grey, green, red, and slate (no priority, as Sadleir First edition of Mill’s great treatise on political notes on p. 221). For Melville, see also item 101. economy, unrestored in the original cloth. “From the BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Sadleir, Excursions in Victorian moment of publication, Mill’s Principles was hailed as Bibliography, p. 229. a classic, far more congenial to the public than earlier £30,000 [136810] economic textbooks, and far more readable than the

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With one of Miller’s original watercolours The author explains in his open letter that he enjoys illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. executing watercolours, and imagines they may fetch Frontispiece and illustrations in the text by E. H. Shepard, 128 high prices after his death if he becomes a famous of which 7 are full-page. Bookseller’s ticket to foot of front writer. “I have decided to anticipate the moment of pastedown. Small bumps to spine ends and tips, tiny MILLER, Henry. The Angel is my marks to top edge of rear board, cloth notably bright, pale Watermark. Fullerton, CA: Holve-Barrows, 1944 death and offer these post-mortem effects now. I am offsetting to endpapers, minor abrasion to rear pastedown; putting no price on these paintings, if I may call them in the jacket with lightly sunned spine, tiny nicks to spine Quarto. Original spiral-bound card boards. Housed in a black such. I offer them with the understanding that the and fold ends. A very good copy. cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Covers somewhat buyer may name his own price … The primary thing soiled, very light wear at extremities. A very good copy. First edition of Milne’s final Pooh book. is this, that whatever money is given me constitutes Signed limited edition, number 8 of a small number a mortgage on the future, my future as a writer”. £1,750 [137257] of copies signed by Henry Miller and enclosing one Porter, Henry Miller: a Chronology and Bibliography, p. 12; of Miller’s original watercolours. The number of Riley, Henry Miller: An Informal Bibliography, p. 70. One of 150 copies on vellum and hand illuminated copies is estimated by Porter as 15, by Riley as 15 or 16, and at any rate a very small number, each unique £10,000 [136512] 130 with a different watercolour. MILTON, John. Comus. The publication also contains a photographic copy A notably bright copy of the final Pooh book London: House Press, 1901 of “The Open Letter to All and Sundry”, a facsimile 129 of a chapter from Black Spring from which the title Duodecimo. Original stiff vellum, spine lettered in gilt, “Soul is Form” rose motif stamped in blind to front cover, is derived. This details his relationship with the MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. edges untrimmed. Hand-coloured frontispiece woodcut watercolour medium, with reproductions of recent London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928 by Reginald Savage, illuminated letters in gilt and red by watercolours, views of the artist at work in the Beverly Octavo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, vignette Florence Kingsford Cockerell, with tissue guards. Gift Glen studio, and facsimile pages of holographic text. in gilt to front cover within single gilt rule border, inscription in ink to foot of front pastedown, now smudged

62 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 129 130 130 and only partially legible, “To Miss [?] from Langford the illuminated letters. Kingsford Cockerell the more speculative of utilitarian philosophy Cathedral in gratitude for the sure touch of [?] in making studied calligraphy under Edward Johnston and as he understood it. He showed the major alternative books for the authors”. Artist’s name corrected in white predominantly worked for the Ashendene Press. approaches – Marxism, positivism, and historicism and red to colophon as always. Pale soiling to vellum, This copy is from the library of Cyril Flower, front cover just lifting; a near-fine copy. – despite their pretension to science, were first Baron of Battersea, with his bookplate to the untenable on epistemological grounds”. Instead, First Essex House edition, number 82 of 150 front pastedown. Flower was involved with the Mises gave “a sweeping epistemological vindication copies printed on vellum and hand illuminated. Pre-Raphaelite set, most closely with Edward Burne- of the case for liberty and capitalism” (Hülsmann, In 1634 Milton was asked to compose the text of Jones, and was a great collector and patron of the arts. pp. 949–50). a masque “which was to be mounted in Ludlow Franklin, p. 239; Amelia Fry, Suffragists Oral History Project, Sara in honour of the inauguration of John Egerton, Greaves and McGee, B20. Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mises: The Last Bard Field: Poet and Suffragist, The Regents of the University of Knight of Liberalism, 2007. earl of Bridgewater, as lord president of Wales. In California, 1979; Ransom, Essex House 31, misdated as 1902, 1637 or early in 1638 Lawes published Milton’s text p. 267; Tomkinson 31. £650 [136436] (without any indication of its authorship) as A Maske £1,750 [137091] Presented at Ludlow Castle, and Milton reprinted it in his Poems of 1645. Since the late seventeenth century 131 the masque has been known as Comus” (ODNB). It is presented here as the eighth work in the Essex MISES, Ludwig von. Theory and History. House Press Great Poems Series. London: Jonathan Cape: 1958 The Essex House Press was founded by Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt on Charles Robert Ashbee and Laurence Hodson black ground. With the dust jacket. Couple of minor fox following the closure of William Morris’s Kelmscott marks to rear endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in the very Press in 1897 and “came from the heart of the arts good jacket, price-clipped as issued with overprice stamp and crafts movement” (Franklin, p. 64). Ashbee of 30s, faintly soiled, residue of tape reinforcement at ends bought the Kelmscott Press’s Albion printing of spine panel verso. presses after William Morris’s death, and employed First UK edition, originally published in the US one of the Kelmscott compositors, Thomas Binning. the previous year. In Theory and History, “Mises In 1902 “a bindery was established in the Guild, made another case for his utilitarian philosophy. under the direction of Annie Power, who had been This time, the argument turned on the a student of Douglas Cockerell” (Crawford, p. epistemology of social analysis. Mises argued that 400). For this work Florence Kingsford Cockerell the only scientific interpretation of social reality (1871–1949), one of the leading book illuminators was based on economics and history, and that of the English , provided the conclusions of both these disciplines led to 131

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132 First edition, inscribed by the author on the front with Leni Mancuso and Tom Barrett from Castine MOLIÈRE, Jean Baptiste. Théatre Complet. free endpaper: “Yes: T. Barrett’s copy of these Collected (their correspondence with him is in the Archives Poems – Collected not corrected. Marianne Moore, of American Art)” (Little). Publié par D. Jouaust. Préface par M. D. April 10 1958”, under a previous gift inscription Loosely inserted is a postcard advertising a Nisard de l’Académie Française. Dessins reading “For Leni and Tom Barrett. With affection, reading by Moore at Dartmouth on the date that de Louis Leloir. Gravés à l’eau-forte par Christmas 1952. Bill Kienbush”. her inscription was penned. A lovely copy of Flameng. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1876 The recipients were the painters and art teachers Moore’s Pulitzer Prize winning poetry, with 8 volumes, octavo (247 × 163 mm). Mid-20th-century red and curators Thomas Barrett and his wife, Leni interesting association. morocco by Granghaud, spines lettered and blocked in Mancuso Barrett, both from New Hampshire. The Abbott A10.a1; Car Little, “William Kienbusch and the Gift of gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others book was gifted to them by fellow painter and friend Place”, Maine Arts Journal, Spring 2018. untrimmed. Original wrappers bound in. With 32 engravings William Kienbusch who “went on painting trips by Léopold Flameng after designs by Louis Leloir. A few £750 [136674] instances of light rubbing to spines and extremities, a couple of small patches of stripping to morocco expertly 134 retouched, yet bindings in generally very nice condition; contents with sporadic very light foxing otherwise clean, MORECK, Curt. Führer durch das original wrappers very lightly soiled. An excellent set. “lasterhafte” Berlin. (A Guide through A handsome set of Molière’s collected plays in “Depraved” Berlin.) Leipzig: Verlag moderner the original French, attractively bound, illustrated, Stadfuhrer, [1931] and printed. Small octavo. Original red cloth, titles gilt to spine and £975 [136729] front board, illustration gilt to front. With the original illustrated dust jacket and wraparound band. Colour and monochrome plates. Sound and bright, with the dust jacket 133 somewhat worn along extremities with a few very small MOORE, Marianne. Collected Poems. chips and tears, and a crease to front panel from the lower outer corner, the wraparound band also lightly chipped and London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1951 torn, but all intact. An excellent copy. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles in gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Slightly cocked, spine ends and front top First edition of this scarce guide to the notorious tip gently bumped. A near-fine copy in the very good dust nightlife of Weimar Berlin, rarely found complete jacket, light sunning to spine and top of front panel, wear with the jacket and wraparound band. The guide to corners, mostly to foot of spine. 133 has numerous lurid illustrations by (in order of

64 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington appearance): Paul Kamm, “Christophe”, Jeanne Mammen, Imre Goth, Hans Reinhard, F. Hilf, Hans Leu, Heinrich Zille, Christian Shad, George Grosz, Matthias Schultz, F. Meisel, “Duperrex”, “Kainer”, “Melchior”, “Benari”, W. Krain, Kurt Wirth, Otto Linnekogel, and Alois Florath. “Curt Moreck” was one of the many pseudonyms of prolific writer, translator and editor Konrad Haemmerling (1888– 1957). He studied as an actor in Cologne and Bonn, and then became a freelance writer in and later Berlin. He and his writings were proscribed by the Nazis from 1933. His works from immediately before this period are, as such, understandably hard to find – of this publication only eight copies are listed in libraries worldwide by OCLC. A copy of Moreck’s book and some of the original illustrations featured in it, were included in the London Barbican Centre’s exhibition, “Into the Night: Carabets & Clubs in Modern Art” (2019–20). A review by Lucy Scholes in The New York Review of Books made particular mention: “A moral panic about this culture of decadence and debauchery eventually galvanised the government, which plastered the warning ‘Berlin, stop and think, you are dancing with Death’ across the city’s advertising kiosks. For those who pooh-poohed such alarmism, Curt Moreck’s 1931 135 Führer durch das ‘lasterhafte’ Berlin (“Guide to ‘Depraved’ Berlin”) would have proved invaluable. With its skin, white legs walking away, a flash of light in a been adapted several times. Morrison wrote The striking cover, depicting an all-but naked woman stone corner … But the eye (and the eye is a part Bluest Eye while working as a senior fiction editor raising a coupe of champagne, the guide lists bars, of the mind), recollects the shards. Is there to be at Random House, waking at 4 am each morning pubs, and dance halls, accompanied by illustrations found anywhere else in the history of photographic to write before work. by familiar artists, including Paul Kamm’s picture of a bookmaking such a raw cry as this?” (Roth). £2,000 [136567] well-known lesbian bar, Café Olala.” Roth, pp. 218–19. £2,000 [138478] £6,500 [136819]

A near-fine copy, signed by Moriyama Morrison’s debut novel in the original dust jacket 135 136 MORIYAMA, Daido. Bye, Bye Photography, MORRISON, Toni. The Bluest Eye. Dear. Tokyo: Shashinhyoron-sha, 1972 New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970 Quarto. Original black printed stiff wrappers, titles in grey, Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, titles to white, and blue to covers and spine. With the dust jacket. spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom Monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. Joints beige cloth slipcase. Slight discolouration along top and a little rubbed, faint foxing to endpapers; else a near-fine bottom of cloth, bottom edge a little rubbed. Else a fine copy in the very good dust jacket, slight foxing and soiling. copy in the near-fine dust jacket, light overall toning, small First edition, signed by Moriyama on the title creases to flaps. page. This series of photographs were taken in the First edition of Morrison’s highly influential debut late 1960s and early 1970s during strikes, student novel. In spite of being regularly challenged (the protests, and violent anti-war demonstrations. “In American Library Association ranked it fourth on an extreme act of dissociation and disorientation, their list of most challenged books for 2014 alone), the image is scattered to the four winds: lovers’ it often features on schools’ reading lists, and has 136

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137 NANSEN, Fridtjof. Fram over Polhavet. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1897 2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles and border to spines, gilt titles and illustrations to front covers (“The Fram” to vol. I, and “Northwards through the Drift Snow” to vol. II), embossed publisher’s device to rear boards in blind, edges speckled brown. Photographic frontispiece to vol. I, etched portrait frontispiece to vol. II, 41 plates, 3 of them coloured lithographs, 3 folding coloured maps, over 150 black and white illustrations in the text. Very slight bruising to spine ends, else a fine set. First edition in the author’s native Norwegian, preceded by the English edition of the same year, of 138 the official account of the first Fram expedition; in the red cloth variant binding, other copies in blue. A veritable love letter to Nijinsky Süe, son admirateur et son ami respecueux, Paul A “remarkable achievement in Polar exploration” Iribe, Août 1910”. Cocteau’s pair of Nijinsky-inspired (PMM), it was undertaken to investigate “the polar 138 poetic triplets are broken down into single lines as basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the “captions” to Iribe’s Beardsley-esque illustrations. currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands (NIJINSKY.) COCTEAU, Jean & Paul Iribe. Vaslav Nijinsky. Six Vers de Jean Cocteau. “Nijinsky fascinated Cocteau most on account of across or near the Pole” (Arctic Bibliography). “Nansen his potent mixture of animality and fragility, at once returned to international acclaim not only for the Six Dessins de Paul Iribe. Paris: Société générale desirable and androgynous, half-angel and half- voyage itself but for its results, proof of a deep d’impression, 1910 leopard … He presented for Cocteau a unique, hybrid Arctic Ocean, free of any land masses or islands, Quarto (300 × 310 mm). Original silk-tied light card spectacle of desire, pain and sacrifice. In [this] little and extensive data on magnetism, zoology, and wrappers printed in red and black. With 6 plates from line known volume … Cocteau signed a veritable love oceanography. His account of the journey, Farthest drawings by Iribe. Some wear and soiling to the wrappers, letter to Nijinsky …” (Williams, Jean Cocteau, p. 46). North, was a worldwide bestseller and prepared him with scratches to the back wrapper and a light corner crease Paul Iribe (1883–1935) worked in Hollywood for an effective life of diplomacy” (Books on Ice). (not affecting the illustrations.) during the 1920s and was Coco Chanel’s lover from Arctic Bibliography 11983; Books on Ice 5.2; Howgego III N3; Printing First edition, limited to 1,000 copies on Japon, one 1931 to his death. He came to prominence when and the Mind of Man 384. of 934 standard copies, inscribed by the illustrator couturier Paul Poiret utilised his fluid, decorative £600 [136714] recto of the limitation leaf: “A Madame Suzanne line to create a modern style of fashion plate,

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138 subsequently collected in the volume Les Robes de untrimmed. With 34 double and 8 single-page plates Paul Poiret racontée par Paul Iribe. These images of after Botticelli. Very faint sunning to spine and rubbing uncorseted young women enjoying the luxurious at extremities. A near-fine copy. pastimes of the affluent were contentious, Cocteau First Nonesuch edition, number 262 from a remarking in Portraits-Souvenirs that “Iribe’s album limited edition of 1,475 copies on Dutch paper. disgusts mothers”. A beautifully presented and bound edition of Dante’s The recipient of this copy was the wife of Louis Divine Comedy, with Dante’s Italian printed parallel Süe, painter, architect and interior designer. Süe to Rev. Henry F. Cary’s English translation (1814, visited Vienna with Poiret in 1910 and was inspired a translation much loved by Coleridge), and with by the Wiener Werkstätte to create a similar design reproductions of Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations, collective, cofounding the L’Atelier Français in 1912, engravings of which were used in the first Florentine and establishing the Compagnie des arts français edition of the Divine Comedy (1481). with André Mare. A most attractive association. Ransom p. 367. £3,750 [136928] £1,000 [134395] 140 A triumph of the Nonesuch Press 140 First edition, so stated on the copyright page with 139 OBAMA, Barack. Dreams from My Father. the row of numbers running from 9 to 2, as called (NONESUCH PRESS.) DANTE ALIGHIERI. New York: Times Books for Random House, 1995 for. The future president’s first book, Dreams from My La Divina Commedia. London: The Nonesuch Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, Father was published as Obama began his run for the beige paper-covered sides, yellow endpapers, fore edge Press, 1928 Illinois Senate in July 1995, and helped to establish untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Ownership stamp to front his reputation and image. Folio. Original orange vellum, spine lettered in gilt, free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy in the near-fine jacket roundels and rules to covers in gilt, top edge gilt, others with very minor creasing at extremities. £800 [136693]

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Inscribed and with letters from Oshima to Binyon, and a typescript letter from Yeats 141 OSHIMA, Shotaro. Poems. Among Shapes and Shadows. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1939 Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in black with two decorative red stars, untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Foot of spine gently bumped, slight toning to endpapers. A near-fine copy in the very good jacket, spine darkened, a little toned and soiled, minor wear and creasing to corners. 142 First edition, number 177 of 350 issued copies, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free badly written as I have some difficulty in expressing endpaper “Mr Laurence Binyon, With all good On the struggle for the Conciliation Bill myself in good English. But I hope that you will find wishes from the Author, October 25, 1939”. Loosely something of interest in my book. And I shall be very 142 inserted are two letters (and washi paper envelope) much obliged if you kindly give me some remark to Binyon: one an autograph letter from Oshima, PANKHURST, Christabel. upon my poems, because it is the first and laborious dated October 27, 1939; the other a typed letter Autograph letter signed. 31 July 1911 attempt for me to write verse in English, and I am signed from W. B. Yeats, dated 5 July 1938. 2 bifolia (leaf size 208 × 128 mm) of WSPU Office headed quite uncertain as to the merits of my poetry. I am Shotaro Oshima was W. B. Yeats’s principal note paper, handwritten across 6 pages in black ink. Japane [sic] and a professor of poetry in Waseda advocate in Japan, author of many publications about Creased from folding, else in excellent condition. University in Tokyo, and I have ever sent to you an him, both in English and Japanese, and founder of A persuasively argued autograph letter signed from essay on ‘Blake and Macpherson’s Ossian’. About 10 the Yeats Society of Japan in 1965. The present items Christabel Pankhurst to the MP (1869– years ago I devoted much of my time to the study of relate to Oshima’s visit to a frail Yeats (1865–1939) 1948), entreating his public support for the passing the poetry of W. B. Yeats. And so when I saw the late at his home, when Yeats gave Oshima the enclosed of a Conciliation Bill and thanking him for “all you Mr. W. B. Yeats; he gave me the letter of introduction typed letter of introduction to fellow English poet do for the cause”. to you which is enclosed here. I had to cut my stay in Laurence Binyon (1869–1943). British Liberal politician Noel Buxton, 1st Baron England and in Europe short because of the Sudeten In his letter, the Japanese poet explains to Noel-Buxton, was at the time of Christabel’s letter Crisis; and, to my great regret, I lost the opportunity Binyon: “I am taking the liberty of sending you MP for the North constituency. An active of seeing you in England”. under separate cover a copy of my Poems: Among campaigner for women’s suffrage, he supported Shapes and Shadows. I am afraid that they are rather £1,750 [137118] other causes including antislavery, child welfare,

68 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 142 143 and miners’ welfare. He was a member of the respectively. The Bills aimed to enfranchise We can trace eight instances of autograph letters People’s Suffrage Federation, which sought to align property-owning women and some married women, by Christabel having appeared at auction since 1975. progressives of all parties to end property and sex which would have added an estimated one million all but one (Sotherby’s 1981, also numbering 6 pages) qualifications for the vote. In 1908 he proposed the women to the register. Despite many suffragists’ are shorter in content than the present. debate “that in the opinion of this House, female dissatisfaction with these limitations, it was Paul Foot, The Vote: How it was Won and How it was Undermined, suffrage would be beneficial to this country”, hoped that, given these restrictions, the Bills 2005; Jo Vellacott, From Liberal to Labour with Women’s Suffrage: a motion which lost by 14 votes to 6. stood a realistic chance of becoming law. The Story of Catherine Marshall, 2016. As Chairman of the Balkan War Relief Committee, Both the NUWSS and the WSPU campaigned £3,500 [137120] Buxton later worked with British suffragist and vigorously to drum up support; one tactic was aid-worker Mabel St Clair Stobart to convince the to approach sympathetic MPs individually to 143 government to send an all-female medical unit to the canvas support, of which Christabel’s letter is . Buxton’s death prompted the suffrage one such example. PANKHURST, Christabel. supporter Margaret Hirst to write in a letter that the The Bill was rejected each year. Christabel’s Autograph letter signed. 5 Vincent Square, movement was “heartbroken” (Vellacott, p. 32). letter references the rival Manhood Suffrage Bill Westminster SW1, 29 December 1937 In her letter to Buxton, Christabel begins by proposed by Asquith in 1911, one of the reasons for Single leaf of headed letter paper (125 × 200 mm), text mentioning the speeches made in support of the the Conciliation Bill’s failure that year. Asquith’s bill in manuscript to both sides. Very little pale foxing, tiny Conciliation Bill by his colleagues, Arthur Ponsonby would enfranchise the four million men currently creases to tips, central crease from postage. (1871–1946; MP for Stirling Burghs), Alfred Mond, 1st excluded from voting. Regarding the issue of the An early autograph letter signed by Christabel Baron Melchett (1868–1930; MP for Swansea), and women’s vote, he suggested that the movement Pankhurst to Lady Cynthia Colville, Woman of the Walter Roch (1880–1965; MP for Pembrokeshire). could subsequently lobby for an amendment Bedchamber to Queen Mary, recommending Dr H. She reminds Buxton of the promise by Sir Ellis to include women. This was felt to be deeply St John Rumsey of St Guys to help cure a speech Ellis-Griffith’s (1860–1926; MP for Anglesey at the unsatisfactory. The Pankhursts in particular “had impediment in her “two young relations”. Colville’s time) to speak at an upcoming Albert Hall event on invested a good deal of capital in the Conciliation relationship with Queen Mary raises the possibility 16 November. Hoping to persuade Buxton to speak Bill and had prepared themselves for the triumph that the relations had a royal connection: Queen at a subsequent meeting, Christabel promises that which a women-only bill would entail. A general Mary’s son King George VI undertook speech “your words would be very fully reported in ‘Votes reform bill would have deprived them of some, therapy with Lionel Logue from 1925. Dr Rumsey for Women’ and so would reach a really large public at least, of the glory, for even though it seemed was the author of a number of books on stammering, and of course there would be such reports as the likely to give the vote to far more women, this was including No Need to Stammer (1922) and Your Stammer, newspapers now give to speeches”. incidental to its main purpose” (Foot, p. 211). published the year this letter was written. The final paragraph reveals her anxieties about The defeat of each Bill divided the suffrage Alongside her court position Colville was the “serious danger” posed by the rival suffrage movement. Millicent Garrett Fawcett and the active as a social worker in Shoreditch focusing bill proposed by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. NUWSS chose to remain focused on legislative on lowering infant mortality rates. It is likely here Requesting Buxton’s advice on securing promises to change, forming an electoral alliance with the that she met Pankhurst, who mentions their recent ballot for their Conciliation Bill, she admits that she Labour Party. Embracing the more militant route, encounter at “Hopetown”, the street in Shoreditch. and her colleagues are “more than anxious to take the the Pankhursts and the WSPU expressed their preliminary steps to guard against it”. frustrations through new window-smashing £375 [137161] Christabel’s letter refers to the second of campaigns, targeting several newspapers and the three Conciliation Bills put before the House residences of leading Liberal politicians, including of Commons, proposed in 1910, 1911, and 1912 Asquith, Lloyd George, and Churchill.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 69 Pankhurst became very interested), Molinari’s Restaurant, the Agenda Press and the Students’ Bookshop Limited. The distinctive cover designs are by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (1878–1952), son of Camille Pissarro. An anarchist like his father, Rodo participated in the first Fauve exhibition at the Salon des Indépendents and produced wood engravings for several politically motivated journals like Germinal; some of his first were published in Le Père Peinard, and during his years in England he contributed to The Apple, Satire, and The Worker’s Dreadnought. Later he became best known for his contributions to art history, most notably for his compilation of the catalogue raisonné of his father’s paintings. The numerous other illustrations were provided by like-minded artists such as the radical Maurice Becker (1889–1975); American feminist, socialist, and political cartoonist Cornelia Baxter Barns (1888– 1941); British Impressionist painter Amy Katherine Browning (1881–1978), a friend of Pankhurst, with whom she created an art exhibition for the WSPU in 144 1909); portrait artist Herbert Cole (1867–1930), the staff artist for the WSPU who, like Pankhurst, had Strikingly illustrated revolutionary Institut national d’histoire de l’Art; Library Hub adds studied at Manchester School of Art; Hugo Gellert (1892–1985), considered to have produced some of socialist journal the National Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin. Suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford notes the best political artwork of the early 20th century; 144 that both issues are “extremely scarce. In 30 years Arts and Crafts painter Joseph Southall (1861– 1944); English artist and occultist Austin Osman PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. Germinal. [Vol. 1, of book-selling I have only found one other copy” (Catalogue 180, 2013). Spare (1886–1956), who had a particularly strong Nos. 1 and 2.] London: Sylvia Pankhurst, and Named after Emile Zola’s novel, Germinal was relationship with Pankhurst; and French costume printed by Agenda Press Ltd, 1923 founded with the Italian anarchist Silvio Corio, designer Marcel Vertès (1895–1961). The second 2 issues, quarto. Original pictorial colour wrappers, wire- a trained printer and typographer with whom she issue of Germinal notes that “prints and originals stitched. Errata leaf laid in at rear of No. 1. With woodcuts would later have a long term relationship. Aimed of the drawings appearing in Germinal may in some and illustrations by Maurice Becker, Cornelia Barnes, Amy at a working-class audience, the journal – and, by cases be obtained from the artists”. K. Browning, Herbert Cole, Hugo Gellert, Emerich Gondor, extension, “The Germinal Circle” – was “intended to Morag Shiach, “Sylvia Pankhurst: labour and representation”, M. C. Haythorne, F. S. Manner, Wyndham Payne, Grace assist in the artistic expression of current thought, Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, Potter, Ludovic Rodo (including two full-page portraits, 1890–1930, Cambridge University Press, 2004. of George Bernard Shaw and Rabindranath Tagore), Joseph in order to bring art into contact with daily life” Southall, Austin O. Spare, Bertram M. Stephens, Adelaide (first issue), rendering it a “fuller expression” of £4,375 [137508] Swift, Marcel Vertes, and A. Wardis; cover illustrations by Pankhurst’s “interest in the interrelations between Rodo. Contents browned and creased, a few gatherings political identities and imaginative representations” 145 pulling away from rusted staples but remaining firmly (Shiach, p. 103) which had first surfaced in her bound, one discreet Japanese tissue repair to verso of earlier newspaper, The Workers’ Dreadnought. PANKHURST, E. Sylvia. second issue cover. Overall in very good condition, colours Each issue is introduced by Pankhurst and Typed letter signed. 14 March 1939 of the first issue cover especially bright and clean. features fiction by Maxim Gorky (“Comrades” and Single leaf of New Times and Ethiopia News headed paper Very rare complete run of Sylvia Pankhurst’s “Her Lover”), drama by Ernst Toller (“The German (268 × 210 mm), typescript to recto only, hole punches to strikingly illustrated revolutionary socialist journal Hobbleman”), and poetry by Anna Akhmatova, left hand margin. Prior creases from folding for postage, Germinal, a short-lived publication of which just Alexander Blok, and Pankhurst herself (“London lightly foxed, slight tears to hole punches. two issues were printed. Just four institutions are Night”, “The Workgirl”, “Germinal”), among many Typed letter signed by Sylvia Pankhurst, thanking recorded as having complete runs (none with single other contributions. Several advertisements appear, Edward Philip Ockey for his help with her Esperanto, issues): WorldCat lists the British Library and the including those for learning Esperanto (in which and noting that she hopes he “will be able to bring

70 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 145 146 our paper to the notice of others”, written on New The antiquities of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), 147 Times and Ethiopian News headed paper. Ockey (1913– superbly engraved PETRARCH. Le Rime. : Molinari, 1820 2006) was editor of the British Esperantist and a port officer who served with the 132 Field Ambulance 146 2 volumes, sextodecimo (132 × 99 mm). Early 20th-century blue morocco signed “J.A.P. 1908” to rear pastedowns, titles during the Second World War. He was involved with PAOLI, Paolo Antonio. Avanzi delle to spines in gilt, raised bands, small white morocco onlaid the promotion of Esperanto throughout his life and antichità esistenti a Pozzuoli Cuma e Baia. blooms with gilt foliage to compartments, boards quartered in 1982 published a Bibliography of Esperanto Dictionaries and framed in single gilt rule, central diamond-shaped and Terminologies. Pankhurst also references the [Naples: 1768] medallion repeating the compartments’ bloom motifs, educationalist and author of Passive Polyglotism (1936), Large folio (499 × 350 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, double gilt fillet to turn-ins, blue endpapers, untrimmed Delfi Dalmau (1891–1965), who was a member of the spine gilt, red sprinkled edges. Engraved throughout, and mostly unopened. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Ink 69 plates numbered 1–68 & 42 bis, 38 engraved leaves of London Linguaphone Institute at the time. ownership inscriptions (L. Williams, October 1908) to front parallel text in Italian and Latin. Bookplate of Samuel free endpapers. Spines slightly sunned, top of front joint Sylvia Pankhurst founded the weekly journal James, Baron Waring (1860–1940), businessman and cracked, offsetting to endpapers; else a near-fine set. New Times and Ethiopian News in response to the promoter of the decorative arts. A little judicious First edition thus. A very attractively bound copy invasion of Ethiopia by Italian fascists in 1935. restoration to extremities, very clean internally, She edited the journal, which publicised the efforts an excellent copy of a superb production. of this edition of Petrarch’s poetry. made by Emperor Haile Selassie to persuade the First edition of this handsome book depicting £600 [137487] League of Nations to prevent colonisation, for 20 the antiquities of Puteoli (Pozzuoli), a major years. Pankhurst was interested in Esperanto and Roman port. Paoli was president of the Pontifical the role it could play in the development of Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome (1775–98), international socialism from the early 1920s and and a pioneering scholar and historian of the from 26 November 1921 included a regular series ancient civilizations of the region of Campania of Esperanto lessons featured in her journal the in southern Italy. The engravings are by Giovanni Workers’ Dreadnought as a key to fighting nationalism. Volpato, Antoine Cardon, Francesco La Marra, In 1927 she wrote a short book on the subject and Johann Dominik Fiorillo, based on drawings Delphos: the Future of International Language, in which by Natali, Ricciarelli, Magri, and others. Three she advocated for widespread use of Giuseppe of the engravings are double-page, and one is Peano’s version of Latin, Interlingua, citing a large folding view of the coast of Pozzuoli. Esperanto’s use of accents as a potential barrier The colophon indicates that the book originally for wider adoption. sold for 15 Neapolitan ducats. £500 [137160] £10,000 [136645] 147

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First US edition in notably bright condition Spine a little browned and rubbed, foxing to top edge, clean One of 190 copies, signed by the author internally. A very good copy. 148 First edition with “muffatees” (“muffetees” in the 150 PLATH, Sylvia. The Colossus & Other Poems. second impression onward) and “we” in Roman POUND, Ezra. Cavalcanti Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962 type (italics in the second impression onward) New York: New Directions, 1966 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in dark green, on page 15. The regular trade binding of the first Quarto. Original quarter vellum, buff paper covered sides, author’s initials to front board and publisher’s device impression was either grey or tan paper boards, titles to spine gilt, Pound’s initials to front cover gilt, top to rear board in blind, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. with no priority between them. edge gilt. Housed in the card slipcase with printed label, With the dust jacket. Pale offsetting to endpapers; faint Linder, p. 424; Quinby 6. as issued. A fine copy. browning to top edge of jacket and minor creasing to tips, Signed limited edition, number 9 of 190 copies else a fine copy. £1,200 [136892] signed by the author and printed on Perscia First US edition of the only collection of Plath’s paper. The poems were first published in 1953 in poetry printed while she was alive, originally The of Ezra Pound. published in the UK in 1960. This copy is from Gallup A86. the library of Anne Wilder, with her ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Wilder was £2,000 [136812] a confidant and lover of poet Anne Sexton. Plath and Sexton studied together at Boston University Each volume signed by the author and Sexton later paid homage to their friendship in her 1966 poem “Sylvia’s Death”. 151 Tabor A2c.1. PULLMAN, Philip. His Dark Materials. £1,250 [137016] Northern Lights; The Amber Spyglass; The Subtle Knife. London: Scholastic, 1995– 149 1997–2000 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin 3 works, octavo. Northern Lights, original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt; The Amber Spyglass, original black cloth, spine Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904 and front cover lettered in gilt, orange endpapers; The Subtle Sextodecimo. Original tan paper-covered boards, titles Knife, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt knife to spine and front cover in dark green, oval pictorial design to front cover. With the dust jackets. Northern Lights illustration inlaid to front cover, illustrated endpapers. with minor scuffing to cloth, jacket with very light staining Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. 149 on verso and with tiny chips at extremities, light sunning

72 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington to spine with sticker shadow at foot, overall very good; the latter two volumes fine copies in fine jackets. Overall an excellent set. First editions, each volume signed by the author on the title page. Northern Lights has the first issue points on the jacket: £12.99 price, “Point” to the spine panel, and 7–9 Pratt Street to the rear flap. Pullman’s epic trilogy is recognized as one of the best children’s fantasies of the 20th century. The Amber Spyglass won the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award, being the first children’s book to do so, while the trilogy as a whole came third in the BBC’s Big Read survey of 2003. An eight-part adaptation by the BBC of Northern Lights premiered on 3 November 2019. £3,500 [138494]

A masterpiece 152 RAFFLES, Thomas Stamford. The History of Java. London: Printed for Black, Parbury, and Allen, Booksellers to the Hon. East-India Company, and John Murray, 1817 152 2 volumes, quarto (264 × 208 mm). 20th-century half calf over earlier marbled boards to style, spines lettered in gilt. 10 hand-coloured aquatint costume plates after William poverty, not by means of territorial expansion but a importance … even those Dutch critics who Daniell, and 56 uncoloured aquatint plates (one folding), combination of commercial and moral pre-eminence: have found little to praise in his administrations 8 engraved vignettes, large folding map hand-coloured in reviving old cultures and spreading European of Java have recognised its merits … today it outline and numerous letterpress tables (2 folding). With enlightenment through economic progress, stands as one of the classics of South-East Asian recent tissue guards. A few minor pencilled annotations. liberal education, and the rule of law” (ODNB). historiography” (p. 9). Bound without half-titles and without one of the two The History of Java is a remarkable work of Provenance: i) Contemporary bookseller’s advertisement leaves at the end of vol. II. Endpapers lightly synthesis, combining natural history – Raffles label of Richard Reeds of Perey Street, London, to creased, toning and residue from a sometime inserted slip of paper to front endpapers of vol. I, chip to vol. II enlisted the help of the American botanist Thomas front pastedown of vol. I; ii) Ownership signature pp. xxxix–lx of appendix without loss to text, sporadic light Horsfield, who sent specimens to Banks at Kew – to title pages dated 1825 of Charles Baring Young foxing but generally clean internally. Map washed with a few history, anthropology, philology and topography. (1801–1882); iii) Bookplate to front pastedowns of expert repairs to closed tears, panels dissected and laid on The superb plates with their images of costume, the politician and writer Hilton Young, first Baron Japanese tissue backing, blue coastal outline diminished. architecture, native implements and weapons, Kennet (1879–1960) – in a varied political career, Overall a very nice, well-restored, and clean copy. Buddhist iconography, and alphabets; the extensive Young, a friend of E. M. Forster, served as Chief First edition of Raffles’s masterful account of Java. tabulation of population and cultivation province Whip for the Lloyd George Liberals (1922–23), Raffles was appointed lieutenant governor of Java by province; and the comparative vocabulary, delegate to the League of Nations (1926–27), MP in 1811 when the island and its dependencies were reflect the breadth of intention of the work. It is for Sevenoaks (1929–35), and Minister of Health occupied by Lord Minto following the annexation unsurprising that it caused a stir and quickly sold (1931–35), afterwards retiring from politics; iv) Late of the Netherlands by Napoleon. During the next through its print run of 900 copies. “The marriage 20th-century bookplate to front pastedowns of the four years he extended the area of European control of a scientifically original text with beautiful collector Adrian Bullock. and reorganized the Dutch colonial system in the illustrations by an accomplished aquatint engraver Abbey Travel 554; Bastin & Brommer 81; Goldsmiths’ 21787; island, as well as making an extensive study of the resulted in a book about Indonesia of outstanding Howgego pp. 494–97; Tooley 391. OUP facsimile edition of history, customs, and languages of the region. quality; indeed a masterpiece” (Bastin & Brommer). The History of Java, 1965. “A man of vision, with great ambitions for himself In his introduction to the OUP facsimile edition, £9,500 [136364] and his country, he saw Britain’s mission to raise the Bastin wrote “in the development of Indonesian people of the eastern archipelago from ignorance and studies … it would seem impossible to exaggerate its

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Reagan’s first book, signed wishes, Mel Laird”. It is uncommon to find the title Exceptional jacket with a provenanced signature, much more so than 153 for Reagan’s post-presidential autobiography. 155 REAGAN, Ronald, & Richard G. Hubler. Where’s the Rest of Me? was Reagan’s first book. RIEFENSTAHL, Leni. Schönheit im Where’s the Rest of Me? New York: Duell, Sloan It marked in some ways the beginning of his political Olympischen Kampf. Berlin: Im Deutschen career. In the 1964 presidential campaign Reagan had and Pearce, 1965 publicly supported Barry Goldwater, gaining national Verlag, 1937 Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust attention as a new conservative spokesman. This Quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered jacket. Light sunning at extremities and faint finger-soiling volume – later reprinted when he ran for president in gilt, Olympic rings to front cover in gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, to edges. A very good copy in like jacket, price-clipped, – tells his life story up to that point, including his toned, light chipping and nicking at extremities, short mostly full page. Ownership signature to jacket front closed tear at head of rear panel. career in Hollywood and his presidency of the Screen panel verso “Wien 10 Oktober 1938”. A fine copy in the Actor’s Guild, setting the ground for his entrance near-fine jacket, very minor nicking and tiny chips at First edition, signed by Ronald Reagan on the front into politics. The title is the classic line from his 1942 extremities expertly repaired on verso, small patch of free endpaper during his tenure as president. The filmKing’s Row, “that marked the peak of his film abrasion at foot of rear panel. book was signed for Victor Ross (born 1919), senior career and established the credo of a life as it is lived First edition. This photobook, which includes an executive at Reader’s Digest and head of the firm’s by a most unusual man” (jacket front flap). image of Jesse Owens before his record-breaking European division, with Reagan signing underneath £2,500 [137163] long jump (p. 100) and at the sprint start line (p. 68), the neat secretarial presentation inscription: was produced alongside Riefenstahl’s landmark “To Victor Ross with best wishes”. Ross acquired documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Olympia. 154 the signature through Melvin Laird (1922–2016), The film was truly innovative, experimenting with Republican Congressman for Wisconsin from 1953 RHYS, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. the most recent filming and editing techniques, to 2016, and United States Secretary of Defense London: Andre Deutsch, 1966 and won Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival from 1969 to 1973. After the Watergate crisis Laird after its premiere in 1938. The majority of the images resigned from politics to become senior counsellor Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in gold. With the dust jacket, designed by Eric Thomas. Spine slightly featured in this volume are taken from the film, to for national and international affairs at Reader’s cocked. A very good copy indeed, in the bright jacket. which the concluding section adds 31 behind-the- Digest, and through the company became acquainted scenes photos of the production. First edition. Written as a response to Charlotte with Ross. A collector of presidential and prime Riefenstahl’s legacy has been bitterly contested Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847), Wide Sargasso Sea tells ministerial signatures, Ross requested Laird have the since the Second World War. Some (including the story of the “madwoman in the attic”. This was book signed, with Laird returning the book with a Riefenstahl herself ) have attempted to portray her Jean Rhys’s return to the literary scene, and includes typed note dated 13 August 1984, loosely inserted in as an independent artist, with a purely aesthetic an introduction to her work by Francis Wyndham. the book: “Dear Victor: President Reagan was very mission, with little interest in the Nazi programme. pleased to autograph his book for you. With best £675 [136591] They have argued that this film, in fact, offended

74 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 156 157 the sensibilities of senior Nazis and that Goebbels shortened to simply “Troy Town”, a retelling of 157 tried to have it destroyed. the story of Dido and Aeneas; the opening lines ROWLING, J. K. Complete set of the Others have been less forgiving. Susan Sontag, in reading “When Troy Town had, for ten yeeres her essay “Fascinating Fascism”, attacked attempts past, Withstood the Greekes in manfull wise”. Harry Potter collector’s deluxe editions. to sanitize Riefenstahl’s reputation, asserting that The first sheet carries an image of an Arcadian London: Bloomsbury, 1999–2007 Olympia was “commissioned and entirely financed by scene and the second shows Dido looking out to 7 volumes, octavo. Original red, blue, green, purple, dark the Nazi government … and facilitated by Goebbels’s sea at what we assume to be Aeneas’s ships red, blue and grey cloth with pictorial onlays, titles and ministry at every stage of the shooting”. away. It was published in The Studio, vol. 36, facsimile of author’s signature to front covers in gilt, November, 1905, p. 105. spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. No dust jackets issued. Roth 101, p. 96. A near-fine set in bright cloth, with a little faint foxing to Born into a wealthy family, Walford Graham edges of Goblet of Fire. £3,250 [136726] Robertson (1866–1948) was a painter and theatre designer. “Encouraged in artistic pursuits by First deluxe edition. Created for the gift market, “And with these words she peerced her hart” introductions to Walter Crane, Thomas Armstrong the deluxe editions were issued out of sequence, and Edward Burne-Jones … paintings comprise with the third book, Prisoner of Azkaban, being 156 the first published in this format. It was issued imaginative Symbolist subjects, landscapes and simultaneously with the first trade edition of that ROBERTSON, Walford Graham. portraits, including that of Ellen Terry; designed sets title in July 1999. The first two titles in the series, and costumes for many stage productions in New “Troy Town”: pair of sheets with two Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets, followed two York and London 1890–1900s, including Wilde’s original watercolours, calligraphy and months later on 27 September 1999. Thereafter, Salome for Sarah Bernhardt and Undine and Pelleas musical notation, [c. 1905] Bloomsbury issued deluxe editions simultaneously and Melisande for Mrs Patrick Campbell; his own play with the trade editions for the rest of the series. Two sheets, folio. Textured watercolour paper Pinkie and the Fairies (1908) was a notable success; (390 × 280 and 390 × 240 mm), framed and glazed Errington A1(d); 2(e); 7(c); 9(b); 12(c); 13(b); 14 (aaa). (overall 480 × 650 mm). Faint wetstamp on verso of close friend and studio companion of painter Arthur Lambert & Co., Albert Gate, picture framers. Pale toning, Melville, as well as a collector and student of William £3,000 [136737] otherwise in excellent condition. Blake’s works; retreated from the modern world in later life, living without electricity or piped water in Highly attractive piece rather in the style of the Surrey” (National Portrait Gallery). Beggarstaff Brothers, illustrating the old English ballad “The Wandering Prince of Troy”, here £1,250 [136594]

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A major influence on the Latin-American boom 159 Presentation copy, 158 RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice. inscribed by the author to Irene Pirie London: George Allen, 1905 RULFO, Juan. Pedro Páramo. 160 3 volumes, octavo (188 × 123 mm). Contemporary red Translated by Lysander Kemp. morocco for Hatchards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Grand Canyon. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1959 marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With 53 plates after London: Michael Joseph, 1942 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. illustrations by the author. Spines lightly sunned, vol. II Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine in silver. With With the dust jacket. Light staining to bottom corners with slight scratch to front cover and short split at foot the dust jacket. Cocked, slight discolouration to spine ends, of rear joint. A near-fine copy. of covers, faint foxing to endpapers and edges. A very minor marginal staining to pp. 28–32. A very good copy good copy in the jacket, a little chipped and creased at A handsomely bound copy of one of the key texts indeed in the very good dust jacket, light wear to corners extremities without loss to text, faint soiling. of the aesthetic movement. The Stones of Venice was with small loss, a little toned. First edition in English, clothbound issue (also first published from 1851 to 1853 and was First edition, with the author’s signed presentation issued in wrappers, and in a signed limited edition). “a revolutionary success” (PMM). Its importance inscription to the front free endpaper: “Irene Published in Mexico in 1955, Pedro Páramo had a lies “in its celebration of the Byzantine and the from Vita”. The recipient was Irene Pirie, née major influence on the Latin-American Boom of Gothic, which had an immediate effect on Victorian Hogarth, a childhood friend of Sackville-West’s the 1960s and 1970s, and on authors such as Carlos architects, who began to introduce Romanesque living in Oxford, with whom Sackville-West Fuentes, Salman Rushdie, and Gabriel Garcia forms and Venetian and Veronese colour and remained close. In a letter to Harold Nicolson Marquez. Marquez was inspired to write Cien años sculptural features into their designs” (ODNB). on 9 July 1914 providing specifics too detailed for de soledad in part from reading the novel, which In the most famous chapter, “The nature of a will in case of her death upon the birth of their he learnt “by heart” (King). It was described by Gothic”, which was twice reprinted in his lifetime first child Sackville-West requested that Irene be Jorge Luis Borges as “una de las mejores novelas (first for the inauguration of the London Working given “some small jewel of mine” (Nicolson). Pirie de las literaturas de lengua hispánica, y aun de la Men’s College in 1854, and second by William Morris described Sackville-West, when both aged 17, as literatura” (“one of the best novels of Hispanic- in 1892), “Ruskin argued that under conditions of one who was “very very passionate and loyal and language literature, and even of all literature”). industrialization and the division of labour, social generous! but that you can hate as much as you John King, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American disharmony and industrial unrest were bound to can love!” (Sproles, p. 65). Culture, CUP, 2006, p. 97. occur, because the previously expressive craftsman Nigel Nicolson, Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and – Ruskin’s ideal working man – had been reduced to £1,500 [136392] Harold Nicolson 1910–1962, W&N, 1992; Karyn Z. Sproles, Desiring the condition of a machine” (ibid.). Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Printing and the Mind of Man 315 (for first edition). University of Toronto Press, 2006. £500 [136701] £1,250 [137173]

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161 penned the “and Ann”. The recipient was American Sassoon’s conversion to Catholicism in 1957. The book SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Garden. paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian is dedicated to Mother Margaret Mary McFarlin, the of science, Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), with his nun who first drew him towards the faith by writing London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1946 book label loosely inserted. In 1997, Gould dedicated to him out of the blue after sensing a spiritual struggle Octavo. Original brown cloth boards, titles and illustration his book Questioning the Millennium to Sagan, writing in his work when reading Sequences (1956). This copy to spine and front board in gilt, top edge gilt, others “In loving memory of my friend Carl Sagan, the most includes, loosely inserted, the blue slip with the untrimmed. With an attractive handmade pictorial passionate rationalist of our times, the best advocate poem “Awaitment”, written in November 1960 and dust jacket. Vignettes to title page and chapter headings for science in our millenium”. Sagan had died the printed by the Abbey Press after the book had been by James Broom-Lynne. Book label of Judith Adams Nowell- completed, in an edition of 624 copies. Smith and neat gift inscription from her husband, Simon previous year of a cancer, an illness that would also Nowell-Smith, to front pastedown. A couple of tape claim his friend, Gould. Copies signed by both Carl Keynes A62.a. residue marks to front endpapers, a little foxing to fore Sagan and Ann Druyan, his co-author and wife, are £450 [136712] edge, else a near-fine copy. uncommon; association copies are scarcer still. First edition, limited issue, number 744 of 750 Published to coincide with the return of Halley’s copies on handmade paper signed by the author. Comet in 1986, this work is a follow-up to the bestselling Cosmos. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A44(b). £600 [136647] £1,500 [136562] 163 Inscribed by both authors to Stephen Jay Gould SASSOON, Siegfried. The Path to Peace. 162 Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960 SAGAN, Carl, & Ann Druyan. Comet. Quarto. Original quarter vellum, blue and gilt marbled New York: Random House, 1985 boards, gilt titles to spine, bottom edge untrimmed. With the original acetate jacket. Gilt device to title page, Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in gilt and calligraphic initials by hand by Wendy Westover, first initial copper, colour pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust in gilt, subsequent initials in red. Contemporary review jacket. Extensively colour-illustrated. Spine ends a trifle and obituary clippings laid in. Slight offsetting to front rubbed; else a fine copy in like dust jacket. endpaper, one small spot to fore edge. A near-fine copy, First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Sagan in a nice example of the acetate jacket. “For Steve, Brave man, wise owl, with our fond regard First edition, number 411 of 500 copies only. The to you and Deborah. Carl and Ann”, Druyan having Path to Peace is a book of religious verse that followed

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164 166 endpapers, gilt edges. With 2 engraved portraits and 94 plates after Reynolds, Northcote, Porter, Bunbury, Opie, (SCHIELE, Egon.) KALLIR, Jane. [SEUSS, Dr.] LESIEG, Theo. Wacky Westall, Smirke, Stothard, Hamilton, and other eminent Egon Schiele: The Complete Works. Wednesday. New York: Beginner Books, 1974 artists. Recent book labels of Schøyen Collection to front pastedowns. Skilful restoration to joints and spines, Large octavo. Original illustrated boards, spine and London: Thames and Hudson, 1998 repair to front endpapers of vol. I, some foxing and front cover lettered in purple and blue, pink illustrated Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in gilt, vignette offsetting from the plates as usual and occasional endpapers. Illustrated by George Booth throughout. of two dolphins in gilt to front board, black endpapers. spotting to the text leaves, but a most handsome set. A very good copy, spine slightly cocked with tiny split to With the dust jacket. With over 3,275 illustrations, including head, but otherwise bright. 94 plates in colour and 107 in duotone. Spine slightly First Boydell edition. This lavish edition was the cocked, a near-fine copy. First edition. Wacky Wednesday was the 59th book brainchild of John Boydell (1720–1804), who had in the Beginner Books series published by Random been responsible for the publication in mezzotint First expanded edition, originally published in of some of the most impressive paintings of the 1990. This updated edition is a comprehensive House for younger readers. Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, published more than period. He and his nephew Josiah Boydell conceived annotated catalogue of Schiele’s work and includes this set, with typography by Bulmer and paper an additional 205 entries to the first edition. a dozen books under the pen name Theo LeSieg (his surname spelled backwards). by Whatman, to be embellished with one series £1,000 [136725] Younger & Hirsch, pp. 190–91. of large and another series of small prints, all taken from specially commissioned paintings by leading £950 [136900] 165 artists and engravers. The endeavour was not as successful as hoped. SEUSS, Dr. The Lorax. Among the most striking, bold, and desirable The costs were enormous, the first prints to come New York: Random House, 1971 editions of Shakespeare out in 1792 were not well received, and the European Quarto. Original pictorial boards. No dust jacket issued. trade in luxury goods was badly hit by the Napoleonic Illustrated throughout by the author. A very good copy, 167 wars. Nevertheless Boydell’s Shakespeare has long binding square and firm, contents clean and without SHAKESPEARE, William. The Dramatic retained its appeal to collectors, and Jaggard notes ownership marks, in bright pictorial boards, with spine its increasing rarity as parts are broken up for its Works of Shakspeare. London: by W. Bulmer toned, tips a little worn and bumped, board edges slightly decorative plates. While Jaggard calls for 100 plates, rubbed, but otherwise presenting nicely. and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, George and complete copies can have anywhere between 95 and First edition, first issue, with the three lines of W. Nichol; from the types of W. Martin, 1802 100 plates due to Boydell’s inconsistent methods of copyright and highlighted yellow panel to back cover. 9 volumes, folio (417 × 320 mm). Contemporary diced assembling the volumes. Seuss’s fable was adapted into a film in 2012. russia, spines gilt in compartments with double raised £8,750 [137384] Younger & Hirsch 49. bands, sides with wide gilt borders enclosing the central gilt arms of the second Earl Camden, KG, (1759–1840), £700 [137040] turn-ins with a gilt Greek key roll all round marbled

78 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington A near-fine set of a celebrated edition 168 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. London Nonesuch Press, 1929–33 7 volumes, large octavo. Original tan morocco by A. A. Bain, spines lettered in gilt, covers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut. Spines lightly sunned, a few instances of minor discolouration and rubbing to morocco, light offsetting from turn-ins but contents otherwise clean and unmarked. A near-fine set. 168 First Nonesuch Press edition, number 742 of 1,600 sets. A very handsome edition, elegantly printed and conjectural emendations are unobtrusively set in the attractively bound, and one of the more esteemed margins for the benefit of a glancing eye. This is the productions of the Press. “The Shakespeare 169 finest of all editions of our greatest poet” (Symons et represents the chef d’oeuvre of the Nonesuch Press, al, The Nonesuch Century, 1936, p. 69). and is a model of careful proof reading and The first and greatest classic imaginative setting. The best of ancient and modern £2,500 [139222] of modern economic thought 169 SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805 3 volumes, octavo (211 × 127 mm). Contemporary marbled calf, black morocco labels, gilt to compartments, serrated gilt roll to cover edges. Complete with half-titles in vols. II and III only and terminal advertisements in vol. III, all as called for. Spines expertly refurbished with headcaps neatly restored; short closed tear to vol. I leaf Dd4 and small chip to vol. II leaf X1, neither affecting text. An attractive copy. First Playfair edition of “the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM). William Playfair (1759–1823), best known for inventing three statistical graphs (the time-series line graph and the bar and pie charts), paired sharp criticism of Smith’s ideas with supplementary material to bring the work up to date. The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776; this is the eleventh edition overall. With the bookplate to the front and rear pastedowns of Lieutenant General Sir William Thornton (1779–1840), MP for New Woodstock from 1812 to 1818 (the bookplate having his MP title), and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey from 1830 to 1835. Goldsmiths’ 19009; Kress B.4976; Tribe 84. See Printing and the Mind of Man 221 (first edition). 167 £2,500 [136733]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 79 Inscribed by the author 172 STEINBECK, John. Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici-Friede, 1935 Octavo. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in blue, single horizontal rule continuing across boards, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. Housed in a custom blue quarter leatherette slipcase and matching chemise (slipcase worn). 8 full-page black-and-white illustrations by Gannett, 13 smaller illustrations in the text. Illustrated bookplate of Jean Hersholt to front pastedown, signed by him in ink below; his library label to inside of chemise, hand-numbered “S. 28”; bookseller label to rear endpaper, “Gelber Lilienthal Inc., San Francisco”. Inscription along gutter of front free endpaper in ink reading “2760 1935 [? illegible]”; likely referring to a former library identification system, sometime bleached in an attempt to lighten the writing. Spine gently bruised, a couple faint marks to top 170 172 edge of book block. A markedly bright, clean copy in the faintly toned jacket, spine browned, else the blue lettering 170 and illustrations remaining fresh, two small, neat tape Jean Hersholt (1896–1956), a Danish-American repairs to top edge verso, a few marks. SMITH, Clark Ashton. Genius Loci and Hollywood actor known for his role in Heidi and for his impressive collection of Anderseniana, Other Tales. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948 First edition, cloth issue, inscribed by the author “For Bob Bailey John Steinbeck” on the front which represented possibly the largest collection in Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the free endpaper. This copy is from the library of America of Andersen’s work. Another book inscribed pictorial dust jacket designed by Wakefield. Spine end slightly bumped; else a fine copy in the near-fine dust jacket, slight toning to spine. First edition, one of 3,047 copies printed, of this Arkham classic. Uncommon with the Wakefield- illustrated jacket in such excellent condition. £300 [136535]

A handsome leather-bound set inscribed by the author in “homecomings” 171 SNOW, C. P. Complete Strangers and Brothers series. London: Faber and Faber / Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1940–70 Together, 11 separately published works. Attractively bound in recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The occasional blemish, an excellent set. All first editions; inscribed by the author to the title page of Homecomings: “To Joan Hardinge with best wishes from C. P. Snow Sept 15/65/.” This 11-volume roman fleuve probably constitutes Snow’s chief contribution to English letters. £4,000 [136481] 171

80 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 172 to Bob Bailey by Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven (1932), was also part of Hersholt’s collection, and was sold at his sale at Parke Bernet in 1954. Bailey remains an untraceable recipient; it is possible that, given Hersholt’s film career and Steinbeck’s close involvement with the work of various Hollywood studios, he is the American radio and movie actor Bob Bailey (1913–1983). It was Tortilla Flat, Steinbeck’s fourth novel, that 173 174 established his reputation: within a decade the story of Danny and his Mexican-American paisanos, set The rare first issue – “established Swinburne as The book was learned and cosmopolitan in outlook. in Monterey, sold over a million copies and was It established Swinburne as not only the leading translated into almost every European language. not only the leading new poet of the day but an international icon for progressive thinkers” new poet of the day but an international icon for Of the first edition, 4,000 copies were issued in hard progressive thinkers. In the late 1860s and 1870s cover beige cloth and 500 in wrappers: “no evidence 174 Swinburne’s very name seemed a trumpet blast for has been found that these copies in wrappers actually those who wanted a more liberal, less puritanical precede the hard cover issue” (Goldstone & Payne). SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Poems society” (ODNB). Goldstone & Payne A4b. and Ballads. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866 The first reviews, on 4 April, were hostile, £20,000 [136583] Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers and Moxon, frightened by rumours of imminent panelled in blind with publisher’s monogram in blind to prosecution, withdrew the book from sale the very front cover. Housed in a custom green morocco-backed A notably attractive copy next day. The book was reissued by John Camden slipcase, spine lettered in gilt, and green cloth chemise. Hotten later in the year under his imprint, the issue With 8 pp. of publisher’s advertisements inserted at front, usually found. Swinburne corrected various errata 173 as issued, the text of the advertisements conforming to while the book was in print, leading to corrected STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. Wise’s first issue point. With the bookplate to the front pastedown of Edward Joseph Dent (1876–1957), British and uncorrected sheets, this being the former, but New York: The Viking Press, 1952 writer on music, and the loosely inserted bookplate, the variant sheets were apparently issued together, Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in dark green designed by Rockwell Kent, of Robert J. Hamershlag and Hotten also bound up some uncorrected sheets on brown ground, front cover lettered in dark green. With (1894–1973), sometime governor of the New York Stock for his issue. “It is doubtful whether many unaltered the pictorial dust jacket. Spine very faintly toned, minor Exchange. Hinges split though holding, very minor copies of the book got into circulation. Even with the rubbing to edges, a couple of light marks to book block rubbing to joints, very faint stain at head of first few Moxon title and the corrected leaves the book is by no edge; else a bright, near-fine copy in the jacket with slight leaves, otherwise a bright, clean copy. creasing and tiny nicks to extremities, gentle vertical crease means common. But an absolutely genuine example, to front panel, another couple to rear panel. First edition, first issue (with Moxon imprint), with every leaf excepting N.3 in the original state [as first state with Wise’s textual errors uncorrected, here – N3 is always cancelled] is of extreme rarity, First edition, with the misspelling of “bite” for of the most sensationally controversial book of and is very seldom to be met with” (Wise, p. 115). “bight” on line 38, page 281. English poetry of its century, its contents being Wise 25. Goldstone & Payne A32b. a heady mix of sadomasochism, necrophilia, £2,000 [136507] £1,500 [136483] egalitarianism, and blasphemy. “It was a dazzling collection. Swinburne had developed an original poetic voice, lyrical and possessed of an energy only matched in the period by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and written in a marvellous variety of stanza forms and metres …

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 81 The first book devoted entirely to plastic surgery 175 TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare. De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem. Venice: Gaspare Bindoni the Younger, 1597 Folio (322 x 220 mm). Bound c.1900 in half vellum, red spine label, raised bands tooled in gilt, red paper sides. Housed in a custom dark burgundy morocco- backed marbled slipcase and red cloth chemise. Separately paginated. With the blank H6 and errata leaf, without the blank conjugate to the frontispiece. Additional engraved title page as called for, letterpress title printed in black and red with woodcut printer’s device, divisional title page for Book III, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials; 24 woodcuts in text, including 2 on p. 57 of Book II and 22 full-page cuts in Book III with keys on facing pages. Pages 51–52 of Book I misnumbered 53–54. Lightly rubbed, corners gently bumped and one worn; engraved title leaf shaved at bottom edge (just touching one figure in the date but no loss of text), contents occasionally soiled or foxed, some bifolia lightly browned, a few heavily so; occasional faint dampstaining generally to lower outer corners, some minor paper losses at corners not affecting text, three discreet marginal paper repairs (E5, Ee5, and Bbb3); some worming to lower outer corners of gathering Ddd; these flaws generally minor, overall a very good well-margined copy. First edition of “the first book devoted entirely to plastic surgery” (Norman), second issue on 175 ordinary paper, with the licence printed on the title page verso. Haskell and Norman note the However, another Venetian printer called Roberto of the techniques described in the text” (Heirs of existence of a very few copies which they term Meietti took advantage of the lack of enforcement Hippocrates). The engraved title page, attributed to the first issue, printed on large and thick paper, of copyright laws in Venice at the time by openly Oliviero Gatti, includes an homage to the “divine without the licence, and suggest that these were publishing a piracy in the same year at a lower price, Hippocrates” and the “most wise Galen”. intended for presentation. using rather smaller paper and slightly less detailed Cushing T16; Garrison–Morton 5734; Heirs of Hippocrates 236; Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545–1599) had studied copies of the 22 full-page woodcuts, which must Hook & Norman 23; Norman 2048; Wellcome 6210. under Girolamo Cardano at , and later have been particularly galling to Tagliacozzi, £25,000 [135968] became professor of surgery and anatomy at that as he had gone to great expense to have the same institution. Though earlier Western writers illustrations prepared. The artist of the woodcuts, such as Celsus had discussed certain aspects of which depict Tagliacozzi’s instruments and the Plastic surgery and forensic science plastic operations, Tagliacozzi “was the first to individual steps of various reconstructive 176 work toward establishing their scientific validity operations, remains anonymous. by publishing surgical procedures that had for “The volume is divided into two parts: the first, (TAGLIACOZZI, Gaspare.) READ (or REID), generations been closed guarded secrets, and ‘Theory of the art of plastic surgery,’ is about the Alexander. Chirurgorum comes: or the by improving these procedures in the light of structure, function, and physiology of the nose; and Whole Practice of Chirurgery. London: by the best medical knowledge of his day” (ibid). the second part, ‘Practice of the art,’ describes and Edw. Jones, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1687 His innovative technique, which consisted of illustrates the instruments and operative procedures Octavo (186 × 117 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, red reconstructing parts of the face by grafting, is for restoration of the nose, lip, and ear. Tagliacozzi morocco label supplied to style, red sprinkled edges. masterfully described here in the work that also fully discussed the complications, such as Engraved plate of surgical instruments facing p. 1, text made him famous. hemorrhage and gangrene, that often occurred printed in double column. Collector’s book label with In 1597 Gaspare Bindoni the Younger was during these operations. The numerous full-page monogram GOM. Rubbed, old repair to foot of front joint, granted the exclusive right to print it by the Senate. woodcuts are well-executed and illustrate many the paper clean and fresh, a very good copy.

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First edition, a work notable for containing the first Reid’s main concern in his written works was endpaper. Slight loss to spine ends, wear to tips, translation into English of Tagliacozzi’s pioneering to provide clear introductory explanations for some soiling to boards, faint ring mark to front cover, work on plastic surgery. “The practice of chirurgery. newly qualified and student anatomists, making top edge dust toned, pale offsetting to endpapers; Part IV. Book VIII. Of supplying defects in the body”, available to them, in English, the standard works still a very good copy. pp. 645–704, is a summary of Book 2 of Gaspare of such writers as Bauhin and Paré. The anonymous First edition of Tennyson’s second solo collection Tagliacozzi’s De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, first editor of this posthumous collection continued in of poems, particularly desirable in the original published in Venice in 1597 (Garrison–Morton 5734). a similar vein. “An appendix concerning chirurgeon- boards. This collection, which follows his Poems, “Tagliacozzi of Bologna became famous for his reports before a magistrate, upon their view of a Chiefly Lyrical of 1830, features for the first time work on rhinoplasty, but Paré amd Fallopius wounded person”, pp. 415–473, is a summary of “The Lotos Eaters” (p. 108), “A Dream of Fair both abused him and his work, and the Church Fortunato Fidele’s De relationibus medicorum, published Women” (p. 122), and “The Lady of Shalott” (p. 8). (which regarded such operations as meddling with in in 1602, and appears to be the first £1,500 [137095] the work of God) exhumed his body and reburied it published account in English of forensic medicine. in unconsecrated ground” (G–M). “Chapt. XLII. Of lithotomy, or cutting for the stone”, The anatomist and surgeon Alexander Reid pp. 626–643, is a translation of Joannes Groeneveld’s The life of the Iron Lady, signed (c.1570–1641) graduated from King’s College, Dissertatio lithologica, published in London in 1684 178 Aberdeen, by 1600 and then travelled and studied on and 1687. A second edition was published in 1696. the continent. By 1609 he had returned to Britain and Bibliotheca Walleriana 7781; ESTC R217760; Wing R427A. THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. was practising surgery in the English midlands and London: Harper Collins, 1995 £2,000 [137136] Welsh borders. In 1616 Reid published his first work, Octavo. Original blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, blue A Description of the Body of Man, which was printed in endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk book marker. Housed in the London. On 29 May 1620 he was created doctor of In the original boards original blue cloth slipcase. A fine copy. medicine at the University of Oxford. In 1624 he was Signed limited edition, number 215 of 500 copies made a fellow of the College of Physicians and was 177 signed by Margaret Thatcher on the title page. incorporated at Cambridge University. For three years TENNYSON, Alfred. Poems. The Path to Power was the second volume of from the end of 1632 he gave an anatomy lecture every London: Edward Moxon, 1833 Thatcher’s autobiography, covering her childhood Tuesday in the Barber–Surgeons’ Hall, London, and Octavo. Original brown boards, spine sometime rebacked to her election as Prime Minister; it followed the subsequently published his lectures under the titles in matching brown paper, titles in black to paper labels Downing Street Years, published in 1993, which The Chirurgicall Lectures of Tumors and Ulcers (1635) and to spines. Housed in a custom pale brown cloth chemise detailed her time in office. A Treatise of the First Part of Chirurgerie (1638). He died in and slipcase by James MacDonald, New York. Two near- mid-October 1641. contemporary gift inscriptions in pencil to front free £1,250 [136394]

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Tice. Small pencil correction to p. 81. Newspaper clipping of a Rockwell Kent illustration for his Random House edition of Candide loosely inserted. Spine and board edges toned to green, a couple of spots and scuffs to covers. First Tice edition, limited issue, number 82 of 250 copies on Pannekoek paper, bound in variously coloured morocco; this copy additionally signed by the artist on the half-title with a small ink drawing of a nude, though uncalled for. A further 750 trade copies were also issued, bound in quarter cloth, with the plates uncoloured. Clara Tice (1888–1973) was a notorious New York bohemian artist, known as “the Queen of Greenwich Village”. She was, according to the New York Times, the first woman in New York to bob her hair, in 1908. She began exhibiting her art from 1910 and in 1915 her fame skyrocketed when the Society for the Prevention of Vice attempted to confiscate her works at the bohemian restaurant Polly’s. “Tice was apparently so highly regarded 179 and so instantly recognizable as one of those ‘queer artists’ that her role in the first Greenwich Village 179 Follies was simply to play herself. As ‘Clara,’ she stepped out onto the stage at the appointed time, (TICE, Clara.) VOLTAIRE. Candide, outfitted in one of her typically bizarre bohemian or All for the Best. Translated from the ensembles, and conducted a ‘quick chalk talk of French. With 10 etchings. New York: The nudes, bees and butterflies’” (Sawelson-Gorse). Bennett Libraries Inc., 1927 Throughout the 1920s she illustrated for Vanity Fair and other magazines, and illustrated several books, Octavo. Original blue morocco by Whitman Bennett, NY, such as this, with her softly erotic illustrations. designed by Tice, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender and Tice nudes to spine and front cover in gilt, turn-ins ruled in Identity, 2001, pp. 429–30. gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 179 Title page in red and black, with 10 coloured etching by £1,000 [137099]

84 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington First English edition, in original cloth 180 TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. I. Before Tilsit; II. The Invasion; III. The French at Moscow. London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886 3 volumes, crown octavo. Original moderate yellow green (sage) cloth, spines lettered in red, front covers lettered in red and black, front covers with four-line bands at head and tail blocked in black, running onto spines, and continued on rear covers in blind, vol. I trimmed at head and with plain endpapers, the case a little shorter than vols. II and III, which are untrimmed at head and have purple endpapers. Vol. II with initial advert leaf for Disenchantment and Vizetelly & Co.’s one-volume novels, and 32 pp. adverts dated September 1886 inserted at end; vol. III with 4 pp. conjugate adverts at end. Contemporary ownership inscription of Mrs [Sarah Norris Beveridge] Markheim, 20 Lennox Street, Edinburgh, at head of vol. II title page, without any other marks of ownership. Spines darkened, black spine-lettering rubbed on first two vols., extremities a little rubbed, but the bindings firm and sound, the cloth without nicks or tears; superficial crack to front inside hinge of vol. II; the text generally clean and fresh; overall a very good copy of a novel rarely found complete in first edition thus. First English edition of War and Peace, rare in commerce, published in October 1886 in the first flush of enthusiasm for previously disregarded Russian novelists. Russomania was first detectable in France, where Vizetelly had spent 12 years of his working life. After his return to England in 1878, the output of his new firm, Vizetelly & Co., consisted primarily of translations of French novelists (notably and controversially Zola), to which he next added 180 the Russians, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Lermentov, thereby helping establish the Russian canon for an Vizetelly used Clara Bell’s translation, published cloth is nipped in tighter over the board edges. The English-speaking audience. in New York in six volumes in Jan.–Aug. 1886, as the work appears to be have been well executed at an The first translation of War and Peace (1865–69) basis for his text, with some changes, and added to early date (there are no rust stains in the gutter). The from the Russian was into French by Princess it a translation of the introduction from Le Roman title page and sheets are all of the first edition. The Irina Ivanovna Paskevich in 1879, published in Russe (June 1886) by the marquis de Vogüé, most second and third volumes were always conventionally St Petersburg and sold in Paris. It was Turgenev who likely from the original form of that essay in Revue des stitched and so did not require similar treatment. found a French publisher and urged the translation deux mondes (15 July 1884). Complete sets with each volume in first edition on Zola, Flaubert, and Daudet. The second edition The first volume only, “Before Tilsit”, was bound are rare. As Vizetelly’s edition was long thought to was published in Paris in 1884. It was this edition in an experimental manner that proved a failure, the precede the more common six-volume New York that was hailed in de Vogüé’s influential survey, gatherings being stitched with metal staples. The edition as the first in English, it has always been Le Roman Russe (1886) and used as the basis for the few surviving examples are fragile, show rusting in sought-after and commanded much higher prices. English translation. The English translator Clara the gutter, and are inclined to spring; they are ink By clothing Tolstoy’s unruly novel in the standard Bell, née Poynter (1835–1927), was fluent in eight stamped on the rear free endpaper recto as the work three-decker of mainstream Victorian fiction, other languages: George du Maurier thought her of E. Symmons & Sons, London. As in the Sadleir set, Vizetelly familiarized the Russian master for an “the cleverest woman of our acquaintance”. Although the first volume here is resewn, recased, relined with English readership. resident in London, she was regularly published in uncoloured endpapers, and the top edge trimmed. Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 3192; not in Wolff. New York by William S. Gottsberger, who had already There are neither advertisement leaves nor a binder’s issued many of her translations to great acclaim. stamp. The boards are very slightly smaller and the £25,000 [137493]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 85 of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, which brought posthumous fame” (ODNB). He died in the Royal Infirmary in Liverpool; having set out to start a new life in Canada he got no further, was taken seriously ill, spent time in the workhouse, and “was buried in a pauper’s grave in the city’s Walton Park cemetery.” Kathleen, his orphaned daughter, his wife having died in South Africa, sold the manuscript to Grant Richards for £25. The publisher described it as a “damnably subversive, but … extraordinarily real” novel. Alan Sillitoe subsequently called it “the first great English novel about the class war”, and Michael Foot praised its “truly Swiftian impact”. What is certain is the authenticity of its voice, which offers “a unique view of early twentieth-century working-class life through the eyes of an articulate proletarian” (ibid.). Provenance: pencilled date and price to front 181 pastedown: “9–4–14”, six shillings; Tressell’s 182 biographer Dave Harker gives the publication date as “Damnably subversive, but extraordinarily real” 23 April. Elegantly miniscule ownership inscription (three US, and one apiece in Canada, France, the to front free endpaper of R. M. J. Knaster (dated Netherlands, and Germany). Eight UK institutions 181 1919), noted ephemera collector, educated at Perse hold copies (UCL, Oxford, , BL, Royal Society, TRESSELL, Robert. School and Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, schoolmaster Cambridge, LSE, Science Museum). The Origins of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. at Godalming before joining the office of the High Cyberspace copy is the only listing in auction records. Commissioner for India (1928). The symposium was held 26–29 September London: Grant Richards Ltd, 1914 NCBEL 4 751; Dave Harker, Tressell: The Real Story of The Ragged 1950. “Claude Shannon, who had published his Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front cover Trousered Philanthropists, Zed Books, 2003. landmark Mathematical Theory of Communication two in gilt, the latter decorated with an arabesque. A very good £1,750 [137406] years earlier, was the featured speaker, contributing copy, binding square and firm, cloth unfaded, gilt letters to three papers: ‘Communication Theory – Exposition front cover partially rubbed, touch of foxing to endpapers and prelims, the contents clean. of Fundamentals’ (pp. 44–47); “General Treatment The birth of cybernetics of the Problem of Coding” (pp. 102–04); and “The First edition. The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is Lattice Theory of Information” (pp. 105–07). Alan 182 a classic of English working-class literature, often Turing was also a participant; though he contributed compared with Zola’s Germinal and described by (TURING, Alan; SHANNON, Claude.) no papers, he took part in the discussions following George Orwell as “a book everyone should read” Symposium on Information Theory. A. M. Uttley’s ‘Information, machines and brains’, (Manchester Evening Times, 1946). London: Ministry of Supply, September 1950 (pp. 193–07) and Eliot Slater’s ‘Statistics for the The author, Robert Philippe Noonan (1870–1911), chess computer and the factor of mobility’ (pp. was the illegitimate son of an inspector in the Royal Narrow quarto. Original green-grey printed wrappers, wire-stitched, title “Information Theory” hand-lettered 198–200)” (OOC). The contents of the Report also Irish Constabulary. He settled in South Africa for in green ink along exposed spine. Mimeographed from includes the full programme, a list of participants ten years, where he helped found the Irish Brigade, typescript. Numerous full-page diagrams. Small closed divided by country and industry, and a glossary of which fought against Britain in the Anglo-Boer War, tear along horizontal fold to final leaf, wrappers lightly physiological terms by J. A. V. Bates. A lithographic with John McBride and Arthur Griffiths. However, browned and a little creased, three library markings to reprint of the Report was published in New York he left in 1899 before hostilities broke out and front cover (including red stamp of Central Radio Bureau), three years later by the Institute of Radio Engineers. “Mathematics Division” stamp to head of index. A very settled in Hastings. “Working in the building trade Origins of Cyberspace 922. at subsistence wages, he contracted tuberculosis, good copy, contents a little toned else clean. was influenced by socialist writers such as Robert Scarce first issue of the first British symposium on £3,000 [137071] Blatchford, and became an active member of the “information theory”, or cybernetics, the Report unusually large Hastings branch of the Social for which includes three major papers by Claude Democratic Federation, whose banner he painted. Shannon and two contributions to discussions by He spent his spare time during the last ten years of Alan Turing. WorldCat and Library Hub locates his life writing by hand the 1,800-page manuscript seven copies outside of the UK in institutions

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183 With an original Mark Twain manuscript leaf TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in 184 King Arthur’s Court. New York: Charles L. TWAIN, Mark. The Writings. Hartford, Conn., Webster & Company, 1889 American Publishing Company, 1901–07 Octavo (206 × 155 mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf 25 volumes, octavo (206 × 138 mm). Contemporary for Asprey in red morocco gilt, with the pictorial green red half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled sides cloth from the original binding preserved at end, titles and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. in gilt to spine, raised bands, helms and sword-in-crown 11 volumes with hand-coloured frontispieces and 84 crests with fleurs-de-lys in gilt within decorative frames to further full-page monochrome illustrations with captioned compartments, double gilt fillets and decorative rolls to tissues printed in red. Expertly refurbished, a couple of boards with sword designs to corners, turn-ins richly gilt volumes unevenly darkened, contents clean and fresh. with thistle motifs, peacock-style marbled endpapers, gilt A most handsome set. edges. Numerous illustrations by Dan Beard, with the 2 pp. of publisher’s advertisements at the end. A fine copy. Riverdale Edition, number 482 of 625 sets, here First American edition, first issue, of Twain’s with an original holograph leaf by Mark Twain, satirical interpolation of a 19th-century American comprising 18 lines (circa eighty words) from into the early medieval world of Malory’s Morte A Tramp Abroad with one emendation, written in Darthur. As with other Twain novels, for copyright purple ink on one side, and tipped-in to vol. I. reasons the publication of the edition The original manuscript of A Tramp Abroad and preceded the US edition by a few days. This copy has of The Gilded Age were both split up by Twain’s the primary state points of “The S King” caption to publisher, the American Publishing Company, the illustration on p. 59, and no half-title printed to some pages inserted into special editions of 184 recto of the frontispiece (copies with the half-title Twain’s works as here, others sold as individuals chapters to collectors (The Routledge Encyclopedia of are a rare variant). The last two lines of p. 72 occur The Riverdale Edition of Twain’s work was Mark Twain, p. 487). with both perfect and broken type, as in this copy, originally published in 22 volumes; volume 23 was The text of the manuscript passage is printed in without establishing precedence. added in 1903 and volumes 24 and 25 were added by this set in vol. IV pp. 79–80, and recounts Twain’s BAL 3429. Harper and Brothers in 1906 and 1907. unsuccessful attempt to recover a straw hat that £950 [136800] had blown over the edge of a cliff. £8,750 [136939]

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185 Presentation copy to fellow poet Jim Carroll was active in editing a number of other key VAN GOGH, Vincent. Beat publications (Oakes, p. 352). Jim Carroll 186 (1949–2009) was a poet, musician, and long time The Complete Letters. Greenwich, Connecticut: WALDMAN, Anne. Giant Night. friend of Waldman’s, best known for his memoir New York Graphic Society, 1959 New York: Corinth Books, 1970 The Basketball Diaries published in 1978. Waldman 3 volumes, octavo (245 × 178 mm). Finely bound by and Carroll were instrumental in establishing the Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 20th-century red crushed morocco, Octavo. Original illustrated paper wrappers, titles to spine Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in New York in in purple on white ground, titles to front cover in white. spines decorated in gilt with raised gilt bands, gilt initials 1966. Artistic Directors and poets connected with Cover illustration by Joan Wilentz. A very good copy in fresh “O.C.S” to front boards, marbled endpapers, edges and the project include William S. Burroughs, Bernadette turn-ins gilt. With mounted colour reproductions of Van condition, very faint browning to spine, tiny ink mark to Gogh’s drawings throughout. Spines lightly sunned, else a foot of front cover, contents clean and bright. Mayer, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Robert Mapplethorpe. The project celebrated its 50th fine copy, handsomely bound. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the anniversary in 2016 with a series of events called Second and expanded English edition. The first author to fellow poet and friend Jim Carroll on the “Giant Night: The Poetry Project at 50”. edition of Van Gogh’s letters was published in 1914– front free endpaper: “Don’t be bound & gagged Giant Night was Waldman’s third poetry collection, 15: two volumes of his Dutch letters and one of the before you’re 20 p. 63 Love to you Jim Anne 12/70”, this copy being one of 2,000 copies in wrappers; French. Since then, there has been one more edition referencing the final line of “Dark Commando” a further 1,000 clothbound copies were also issued, in Dutch and French, two in German, and one in printed on page 63. Carroll has humorously added to 50 of which were signed by the author. English. The present edition of Collected Letters, first the inscription himself in blue felt pen, writing “no! published in English in 1953 on the centenary of Judith R. Halasz, The Bohemian Ethos: Questioning Work and Making no! Not that!”, circling the page number, and drawing a Scene on the Lower East Side, 2015, pp. 69, 166–177; Elizabeth H. Van Gogh’s birth, contains all of the artist’s letters two small stars, perhaps referencing Waldman’s 1971 Oakes, American Writers, Facts on File, 2004. and the remaining ones that Theo (Dutch art dealer poem “Alive in Life”: “To be printed in a book, read, and Van Gogh’s brother) wrote to him. His life digested / isn’t the life of a poem / No, no! Not that!”. £1,250 [137340] history by Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger, Theo’s wife, Waldman has also annotated the poem “Dear Miss is published in its original form, with additional Waldman” (pp. 18–24) with an asterisk to Carroll’s 187 notes from the family history. Since 1953 seven more name by the word “poet” in the line “could it be the WALLACE, David Foster. Infinite Jest. letters turned up from different sources, and several little pill a certain poet speaks of ?”, on page 23. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996 sketches and illustrations are published in this Anne Waldman (b. 1945) is an American writer, edition for the first time. Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. poet, and lecturer connected to the Beat poets, in With the dust jacket. A fine copy. particular Allen Ginsberg, who once referred to £975 [136738] First edition, in the first state jacket with Vollmann Waldman as his spiritual wife. She is “known as one misspelled as “Vollman” on the rear panel. of the most influential performance poets of the 20th century”, founded the poetry journal Angel Hair, and £500 [136603]

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188 WARHOL, Andy. Catalog of the exhibition: October 1 – November 6, 1966. Boston Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1966 Quarto. Original stapled silver and black pictorial silkscreen wrappers, titles to rear wrapper in black, 4 pages printed on pink paper. With photographic illustrations throughout. A little rubbing to extremities and a small amount of faint scuffing to the rear panel. A very good, bright copy. 189

First edition. The catalogue for the 1966 Andy Warhol title page with his ‘trademark’ sketch of a broken exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art heart beneath the title. With a loosely inserted in Boston, with the iconic Warhol silkscreen self- newspaper cutting of Warhol’s obituary published portrait on the cover. in The Guardian on Monday 23 February 1987. £1,000 [137151] This is Warhol’s collection of 360 pictures of his famous friends, presenting a unique view of Signed by the author contemporary celebrity life. £1,750 [135504] 189 WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol’s Exposures. Text by Andy Warhol with Bob Colacello. London: Hutchinson, 1979 Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, index endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout. A fine copy. First UK edition, first printing, signed ‘Andy’ in black marker on dust jacket front panel beneath the 188 vertical title, and signed again in full on the half-

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190 head of spine and tips, short closed tear at fore edge A few instances of previous ownership: deaccessioning of contents page. A very good copy in the like jacket, stamp from RGO Library, dated 3/9/97, to front cover, small, WATSON, John B. Behaviorism. New York: spine panel a little darkened and scuffed with small chip, unobtrusive stamps of H. M. Nautical Almanac Office, The People’s Institute Publishing Company, 1925 light chipping at extremities. Herstmonceaux Castle, Sussex, to first and last leaves, Octavo. Original black cloth, printed paper labels to spine First edition. The discipline’s chief US proponent numerical code (perhaps a shelfmark) to top right corners and front cover. Light wear at head of spine, minor rubbing gives an overview of behaviorism for a popular of front cover and title page. A pleasing copy in fresh at extremities, cloth a little marked. A very good copy. condition, rarely found with its original wrappers intact, readership and its application in everyday problems. those slightly browned and creased in places, rear wrapper First edition in book form, signed by Watson on Much of the book was previously published in discreetly reattached at gutter. the front free endpaper, scarce thus. The 12 lectures Harper’s Magazine. Uncommon in the dust jacket. First public issue of Weik’s first survey, an were given by Watson from 1924 to 1925 for the £575 [136446] invaluably thorough description of 88 of the earliest People’s Institute as part of their adult education commercially available computers (including the programme. Each lecture was printed in pamphlet An analysis of the earliest commercially available SEAC, DYSEAC, ENIAC, Ferranti Mark I and II, and form, then collected and issued together. Variant Whirlwind I models). This is the second printing, issues are known, but can be distinguished only by computers, rare in wrappers with the added title leaf bearing the OTS imprint; the presence of the dust jacket, rarely found. 192 the first issue, privately circulated as Report No. £675 [136450] WEIK, Martin H. A Survey of Domestic 971 for the Ballistic Research Laboratories (BRL), Electronic Digital Computing Systems. does not include this. It is rarely found in its original wrappers: the Origins of Cyberspace copy is rebound 191 Ballistic Research Laboratories. Report in modern cloth (sold Christie’s 2014), the Tomash WATSON, John B. The Ways of Behaviorism. No. 971. December 1955. [Washington, D.C.]: copy lacks wrappers, and those three copies that New York and London: Harper & Brothers United States Department of Commerce, Office of have previously appeared at auction have either Publishers, 1928 Technical Services, 1955 lacked wrappers, been rebound, or remained Octavo. Original black cloth, printed paper labels to spine Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. disbound (Sotheby’s 2018, Bonhams 2014, and and front cover. With the dust jacket. With very light wear at Numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Bloomsbury 1999).

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Weik’s report comprises an analysis of the The first book on computer programming the title page indicating they were the book’s English computer field and its trends, plus a bibliography – one of the most influential early textbooks distributors (the Tomash copy bears the same). and 26-page glossary of computer engineering and Commonly referred to as “Wilkes, Wheeler, programming terminology, which borrows heavily 193 and Gill”, the present work “had its genesis in from Grace Murray Hopper’s “First Glossary of WILKES, Maurice V., David J. Wheeler, & the privately issued Report on the Preparation of Programmes for the EDSAC, a dittoed typescript Programming Terminology” (June 1954). Origins of Stanley Gill. The Preparation of Programs Cyberspace notes that “in addition to this information, prepared by the Cambridge University Mathematics which may be impossible to find anywhere else, for an Electronic Digital Computer. With Laboratory and distributed to a limited number Weik provides excellent photographic illustrations special reference to the EDSAC and the of computer researchers. Wilkes believed that the of many machines”. This is the first of four surveys use of a library of subroutines. Cambridge, report deserved a wider publication … Because thus: the others were published in 1957, 1961, and Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Press, Inc., 1951 Addison-Wesley was then a small publisher with no offices in England, Scientific Computing Service, 1964 respectively. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. founded by L. C. Comrie, handled the English Weik (1922–2007) was an American computer, 2 photographic frontispieces, one depicting a general view telecommunications, and fibre optic lexicologist of the Cambridge EDSAC, the other an operator punching distribution” (OOC). It was “so influential that a whose work aimed to establish English as the a programme tape on keyboard perforator; numerous number of computers were created that mimicked primary language in computer-age technologies. diagrams and figures in the text. Spine very slightly cocked, the EDSAC so that the subroutine techniques used While a member of the Computing Laboratory at the ends and corners a touch rubbed and bruised but the in this book could be implemented more readily” cloth otherwise clean and unmarked, previous ownership BRL he designed digital computer logic circuitry and (Tomash & Williams). signature pencilled to front free endpaper and neat pencilled Origins of Cyberspace 1030; Tomash & Williams W66. evaluated government and commercial computing marginalia to contents. A very good copy. systems. He authored many technical reports First edition of “the first book on computer £975 [137266] and bulletins, each accompanied by a glossary of programming” (Tomash & Williams) and one of the computer terminology. most influential textbooks of this early era. A printed Origins of Cyberspace 983; Tomash & Williams W19. slip with the imprint of Scientific Computing Service £3,000 [137255] Limited, 23 Bedford Square, London is tipped onto

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 91 Grundlagen der Mathematik in the same year. Although intended as the second part of the author’s Philosophical Investigations, this imposing and brilliantly edited work stands by itself. Lapoint, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Comprehensive Bibliography, p. 6. £1,250 [136755]

Spectacular Women’s Suffrage souvenir napkin by Sarah Burgess 196 (WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.) Souvenir napkin for the NUWSS procession and rally of 13 June 1908. London: printed and published by Mrs. S. Burgess, 1908 Square of plain crepe paper (375 × 390 mm), the central 194 195 printed illustration depicting a portrait of Lady Henry Somerset set within a scrollwork border and flanked 194 to England he joined the Royal Flying Corps as by two floral motifs, with two columns of explanatory text below, surrounded by a decorative border in pink an equipment officer. Finding that he lacked WILKINSON, Stephen. Lighter than Air. and green, comprising a somewhat geometric leaf-and-vine the motivation and patience for the role, he was London: Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd, [1939] frame enclosing budding and open flowers. Creased, reassigned as a kite balloon officer. Following a little browned, else very well-preserved given the Octavo. Original pale blue-grey cloth, spine and front training, he was on the point of being deployed material’s fragility. cover lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Half-tone overseas with a kite balloon section as an observer, portrait of the author, 3 similar plates, 5 humorous line Souvenir tissue napkin printed by Sarah Burgess for drawings in the text. Jacket torn and worn with extensive when he was called on to replace an instructor who the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies repairs to verso, part of spine lettering retouched, gilt had been mortally injured in a crash. Remaining in (NUWSS) demonstration on 13 June 1908, in which spine lettering oxidised, extremities sunned, internally Britain for the duration of the war, he served as a approximately 13,000 women processed through clean. A good, sound copy. balloon pilot and instructor, making a number of central London to the Albert Hall to prove to Prime First and sole edition, presentation copy from memorable flights and enjoying some interesting Minister Herbert Asquith the strength of feeling the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, experiences. For his valuable wartime service he was behind the demand that women be given the vote. “With salaams from the author, S. Wilkinson, awarded the Air Force Cross in June 1919. Detailing the particulars of the march route and its 7/8/39”, additionally signed across his portrait. Not in Lengel. Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, History of Flying, 2013, p. 17. estimated times – starting out from Embankment Copies with the jacket – the design of which is £350 [136445] at 2:30 p.m. to arrive at the Albert Hall for 4 p.m. a surprisingly jaunty affair – are seldom found, – and providing a roster of speakers, the napkin is even in such compromised condition. an excellent ephemeral survival and an attractive An imposing mathematical work, with the jacket At the outbreak of war Wilkinson (1876–1962) example of the creative ways in which the suffrage was practising as an architect in India. On returning 195 movement advertised their cause. Souvenir napkins or “handkerchiefs” were at the WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Remarks on the time commonly printed for large public ceremonies Foundations of Mathematics. Oxford: Basil or occasions. “The most spectacular napkins, Blackwell, 1956 however, were the souvenir issues of Mrs S. Burgess Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the of London, who created items for various historical dust jacket. Parallel text in English and German. A fine and period events” (Florey, p. 108). Elizabeth copy, in the very good jacket, very light nicks and chips at Crawford has tracked Burgess, known as “Auntie” extremities, spine panel darkened with a few faint stains, in the trade, to premises in Bishopsgate and, later, short split at foot of front fold. off the Strand, advertising as a “manufacturer of First edition in English of the author’s major work paper switches, cut tissues, lace paper and shelf on the philosophy of mathematics, originally trimmings & confetti, and stationer, wholesale 194 published under the title Bemerkungen über die and export”. Her earliest suffrage napkin examples

92 Spring Miscellany: Peter Harrington 196 date from 1908, when she produced the present, as a blank central area. After printing they were then important the concept of a suffrage ‘souvenir’ or well as versions for the WSPU rally of 21 June 1908. sold for about one penny by street traders lining the collectible had become to suffrage sympathizers, Subsequent napkins were printed by her for the route of the event. who wanted to retain a tangible memory of a major 29 June 1909 march to the House of Commons, “The WSPU had mixed feelings about event that they might have participated in” (ibid.). the 17 June 1911 Suffrage Coronation Demonstration, [Burgess’s] efforts. Disturbed by her producing an Elizabeth Crawford, “Ephemera: Mrs Sarah Burgess, Printer”, and for Emily Wilding Davison’s internment ‘unauthorized official programme’ for the June 29 Woman and Her Sphere blog, published 12 September 2019; in Morpeth on 14 June 1913. The squares were event, they nevertheless pointed it out as an example Kenneth Florey, Women’s Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. imported into London from Japan pre-printed of ‘how the movement interests the public’. Mrs with a decorative border in up to five colours and Burgess’s products demonstrated quite clearly how £1,000 [137140]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 93 Photographic material bringing to life early suffrage activity in London and the Isle of Wight 197 (WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.) Women’s Social and Political Union. Original photographs documenting local WSPU activity in London and the Isle of Wight. c.1909–1910s Together 12 items, all black-and-white photography but one, the majority silver gelatin prints laid onto card mounts. Comprising: 4 large-format photographs (overall size 255 × 300 mm when landscape), two stamped “W. Briggs” bottom left and “West Hendon N.W.” bottom right, the other two blank; 3 mid-sized professional portrait-oriented photographs (overall size 239 × 184 mm); 1 small landscape photograph set within grey window- aperture mount (overall size 112 × 157 mm); 3 photographic postcards (approx. 139 × 88 mm each); 1 small sheet of art paper (100 × 153 mm) hand-painted in colour. Some silvering through oxidation to edges, mounts browned (one with loss to bottom left corner and creased bottom right corner), a few images sunned, one instance of glue residue to verso. Overall in very good condition. A full description of the contents is available on request. A fascinating and varied gathering of photographic material providing a valuable glimpse into local WSPU activity during a time of great expansion for the organization, primarily during the 1910s, including three striking full-length portraits of a WSPU drum and fife band member in full uniform; two shots of the WSPU’s Kilburn office, one of which shows a grinning Vera ‘Jack’ Holme – the Pankhursts’ chauffeur – in the driver’s seat of a motor car; and a photograph of a suffragette addressing a crowded street whose caption reads “first suffrage meeting held by the W.S.P.U. in Newport I. of Wight. July 1910”. The same drum and fife band member, of unknown identity, is posed

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An attractive copy with an intriguing provenance 198 WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday. With woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1921 197 Octavo. Original quarter brown cloth, paper-covered boards, black and white woodcut to front cover designed next to Holme’s car, perhaps suggesting that she is photographs she poses with a large drum branded by Vanessa Bell. With 4 full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, the connection between the items in this collection. with WSPU lettering across an unfurled banner – and 1 p. of publisher’s advertisements at end. Slight wear to Accompanying this primary material are two either strapped to her chest or stood next to it – and corners, boards somewhat toned, first and last few leaves lightly foxed and toned, a little offsetting. An otherwise formally posed group photographs of nurses wears a leopard-skin tunic over her military-like remarkably well-preserved copy of a fragile book. and soldiers; three photographic postcards, each dress uniform. In the third photograph she plays the portraits of women (the first a three-quarters fife; her face and hands are slightly blurred, clearly First edition, one of 1,000 copies of this collection headshot; the second a full-length pose with caught in movement. of short stories, and an early Hogarth Press bicycle; the third a group photo with two women With the intention of removing the movement’s production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work and two children); and an amateur illustration of total dependence on male bands to front “was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt a kitten against a striped background of WSPU processions, the WSPU established their drum and Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on colours, tied to a railing by a blue ribbon and fife band in 1909, comprised of 29 members. “Being printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first captioned “Waiting for my vote”. Their connection in the band required a great deal of commitment. started the Hogarth Press” (Kirkpatrick). Woolf was to the suffrage material is as yet unclear, though Regular practice sessions and rehearsals were concerned about the quality of Monday or Tuesday and what its critical reception would be, and wrote likely linked through the compiler of the group. held in order to maintain the high standards of in her diary on 6 March 1921 that “Nessa approves The six main photographs in this gathering performance. The drum and fife band was important of Monday or Tuesday – mercifully; & thus somewhat can be seen as documenting three ‘categories’, not only as a part of the great ‘spectacle’ of women’s redeems it in my eyes”. each offering insight into the WSPU’s continued suffrage, but also as a symbol of a new movement This copy has an intriguing provenance, with the efforts to further establish and grow the movement of women which was led and organised by women” “Byrdcliffe” bookplate of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead across the UK. (Joannou & Purvis, p. 174). (1854–1929), founder of the utopian Byrdcliffe Arts The three portraits of the WSPU drum and fife Maroula Joannou & June Purvis (eds.), The Women’s Suffrage and Crafts Colony of Woodstock, New York. band member show her posed against patterned Movement: New Feminist Perspectives, Manchester University wallpaper, a full-length mirror in the background Press, 1998. Kirkpatrick A5; Woolmer 17. artfully offering a simultaneous profile view. In two £6,250 [137150] £2,500 [137334]

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The true first edition, signed by Woolf Woolf’s feminist literary manifesto 201 199 200 WOOLF, Virginia. The Letters; The Diaries; The Essays. [Together with:] The Complete WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. Shorter Fiction. London: The Hogarth Press, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928 London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the 1975–2011 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and English rose Hogarth Press, 1929 decoration to spine in gilt, publisher’s device to front cover Together 4 works in 18 volumes, octavo. Original purple, Small crown octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in in gilt, cream endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. blue and green boards, spines lettered in gilt, map gilt. With the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Housed Frontispiece and 7 photographic illustrations, including endpapers to vols. II–V of The Diaries. With the dust jackets. in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Spot of abrasion to front one of Virginia Woolf as Orlando. Spine a little sunned, tiny Frontispieces to vols. I, V, and VI of The Letters, and 34 patches of wear at extremities, very light rubbing to rear pastedown, a little offsetting to endpapers, else a fine copy plates. Negligible rubbing to board edges of The Letters ; an cover. A very good copy. in the jacket with restoration to spine ends and repairs to attractive, near-fine set in the fresh jackets, slight creasing folds and top and bottom edges. to head of spines, laminate on jacket to vol. I of The Essays First edition, signed by the author in her customary slightly wrinkled. purple ink on the verso of the half-title, this copy a First trade edition of Woolf’s feminist literary manifesto, in which she assesses the history of First editions of the complete set of Woolf ’s collected publisher’s presentation copy, out-of-series from letters, diaries, and essays, togetherwith the revised the stated edition of 861 copies, inscribed on the women as writers and the many challenges they have faced. She notes the effects of patriarchal and enlarged edition of The Complete Shorter Fiction colophon “for D., G., & J. Smith Feb. 28, 1930, from (1989). literary culture on female characters and makes James W.” by James R. Wells, who took over Gaige’s Edited by Nigel Nicolson, her letters record the the case that women must carve out both physical publishing firm in January 1929. This signed edition evolution of Woolf ’s style and provide a comprehen- and psychological space for themselves in order to preceded the first trade edition, published in the UK, sive gathering of her correspondence from childhood by nine days, and consequently constitutes the first become part of the literary establishment. until her death in 1941. publication of the novel. Crosby Gaige’s publishing The work is based on two papers read to the Woolf ’s diaries, which she kept from 1915, paint firm was a pioneer in publishing modern literature Arts Society at Newnham College and the ODTAA an extraordinary picture of literary London in the in fine-press editions, continued by Wells after his Society (standing for One Damn Thing After early 20th century, and are regarded by some as her takeover of the firm. Another, and inspired by the title of a John greatest work. Orlando is seen as a masterpiece of modernist and Masefield novel) at Girton College in October Her essays, which informed her fiction, “display feminist literature, and remains among Woolf ’s best- 1928. The signed limited edition was issued her perceptive understanding of writers and their known works. It was made into a critically acclaimed simultaneously with this in the US and in the work and offer us an important insight into her film in 1992 starring Tilda Swinton. UK three days earlier. creative mind”. Kirkpatrick A11a. Kirkpatrick A12.b. Kirkpatrick A44a, A47a, A48a, A51a, A52a, A53a, A54a. £3,000 [138492] £3,500 [136551] £2,000 [137290]

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202 tissue guards. Leather bookplate of Haven O’More to statistical methods to the study of agriculture, front pastedowns. A fine set, fresh and bright, with the investigating both the statistics of production and YEATS, W. B. The Poems. In Two Volumes. scarce glassine jackets. the costs of this particular industry. He obtained New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949 First and signed limited variorum edition, number his information from a series of extensive tours in 2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green cloth, letters and 337 of 375 copies signed by the author. Published by England, Ireland and France, where he studied the author’s monogram to spines and front boards in gilt, Macmillan as a Definitive Edition, as stated in the state of agriculture at first hand. These journeys bevelled edges to front boards, top edges gilt, fore and prospectus (loosely inserted here), it was personally resulted in the publication of about 250 books and bottom edges left untrimmed. With the original glassine overseen by Yeats’s widow, Georgie, the publisher pamphlets setting out his ideas and theories” (PMM). jackets. Housed in the publisher’s brown card slipcase. Harold Macmillan, and the publisher’s reader Printing and the Mind of Man 214. Photogravure portrait frontispieces of Yeats by Emery Thomas Mark. For more Yeats, see also item 23. £975 [137231] Walker after John Singer Sargent and Augustus John, with Wade 211n. £4,250 [136963]

203 YOUNG, Arthur. The Farmer’s Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms. London: printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll; B. Collins, Salisbury; J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1770 2 volumes, octavo (206 × 127 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco spine labels, compartments ruled in gilt, raised bands, edges sprinkled red. 10 engraved plates, 2 of which folding. Library labels to final spine compartments, faded. Extremities gently rubbed, spine head of vol. I frayed, a little light fading to front boards, endpapers browned from turn-ins, the occasional gathering foxed, with some tiny worming tracks to bottom margins of each vol., not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. First edition of agricultural reformer Arthur Young’s third work. “Arthur Young, like Jethro Tull, was a great agricultural reformer whose influence reached 202 far beyond his own country. … Young applied 203

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