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1 tory of the books of the Press’” (Colin Franklin, per with a little offsetting to facing pastedown. A little The Private Presses, p. 60). rubbing to joints and extremities, a few small darkened (ASHENDENE PRESS.) ECCLESIASTI- areas to front board. An excellent, crisp copy. Ashendene XXXVIII; Franklin, p. 219. CUS. The Wisdom of Jesus, The Son of first ashendene edition, one of 145 unnum- £3,750 [121634] Sirach, Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus. bered copies printed on Batchelor handmade pa- Chelsea: Printed by C. H. St J. Hornby at the per; a further two copies were printed on Japanese 2 Ashendene Press, 1932 paper and eight on vellum. “It is the only true (ASHENDENE PRESS.) MALORY, Sir English ‘epic’ … The matchless style, the humour, Quarto. Original orange limp vellum, spine lettered in Thomas. The noble and joyous book en- the magnificence, the magic that takes away the gilt, orange ties, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Initial breath, combine in a masterpiece of legendary letters hand-executed in red, blue, and green by Graily tytled Le Morte Darthur: Notwythston- narrative” (PMM). Hewitt and his assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. dying it treateth of the byrth, lyf, and Hinkley. Very pale speckling to rear cover, an excellent Ashendene XXVI; Franklin, p. 224; Printing and the Mind copy with spine entirely unfaded. actes of sayd Kyng Arthur, of his noble of Man 29. first ashendene edition, one of 328 copies knyghts of the Rounde Table . . . Chelsea: £10,000 [121307] printed in red and black Subiaco type on Batch- Ashendene Press, 1913 elor handmade paper; a further 25 were printed Folio. Bound for the publishers by W.H. Smith in brown 3 on vellum. “Booksellers continually declare the calf, spine lettered in gilt, boards and turn-ins ruled in AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. London: Ashendene Ecclesiasticus to be the finest book gilt. With 2 full page and 27 smaller woodcuts by W. H. from the private presses . . . A. D. Power stated ‘in Hooper and J. B. Swain after designs by Charles M. Gere Richard Bentley, 1833 my humble opinion it is one of the most satisfac- and his sister Margaret Gere. Initial letters by Graily Octavo. Original purple glazed linen boards, twin black Hewitt in red and blue; rubricated chapter headings and spine labels lettered in gilt. Engraved vignette title and shoulder-notes. Ownership stamp to front free endpa-

2 December 2017: Peter Harrington graved vignette title and frontispiece by William Great- bach after Ferdinand Pickering (tissue guards intact). Armorial bookplate of J. B. Gibson to pastedown. Spine faded to buff, as generally seen, a few marks to covers, tips slightly bumped, occasional faint spotting to contents. An excellent copy. first bentley edition, in the first issue binding, the second edition overall, and the first Eng- lish edition to be illustrated. Gilson D4. £2,000 [120846]

5 AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911–12 12 volumes, octavo (199 × 133 mm). Contemporary tan half calf, darker tan morocco labels, floral centre tool to spines gilt separated by raised bands, tan cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece to volume 1. Spines ever so slightly rubbed, couple of spines ever so slightly stained, overall an excellent set. the winchester edition, considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen’s works produced around this time. In this enlarged is- 2 3,4 sue, the set has two additional volumes, comprising “Lady Susan” and “The Watsons”, taken from the 1871 frontispiece by William Greatbach after Ferdinand Pick- 4 Memoir, together with Jane Austen’s letters. Rare in ering (tissue guards intact). Armorial bookplate of J. B. contemporary binding and in this condition. Gibson to front pastedown. Spine partially faded, a cou- AUSTEN, Jane. Northanger Abbey [and] ple of marks to covers. An excellent copy. Persuasion. London: Richard Bentley, 1833 £5,750 [121771] first bentley edition, in the first issue bind- Octavo. Original purple glazed linen boards, twin black ing, the third edition overall, and the first English spine labels lettered in gilt, green silk page-marker. En- edition to be illustrated. In 1832–3 Richard Bentley bought the copyright to all Austen’s novels, which had not been reissued since 1818, to include them in his Standard Novels series, of which this is no. XXVII. The Bentley illustrations, by the obscure Ferdinand Pickering, played an integral part in the reception of Austen’s novels; according to one Aus- ten scholar, they “promoted a sense that her novels were best understood as familial, female focused, and sensational. For decades, these illustrations would have served to steer readers away from the conclusion that Austen’s fiction ought to be understood as social, comic, or didactic” (Davoney Loos- er, The Making of Jane Austen, 2017, p. 20). Gilson D3. £2,250 [120842] 5

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 6 AYTOUN, Edmondstoune William. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870 Quarto (238 × 174 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, gilt titles to spine, gilt raised bands, gilt arms of Scot- land and armorial cornerpieces within gilt frame to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, blue page-marker. Numerous steel-engraved headpieces, vignettes and near full-page illustrations. Sympathetically refurbished with joints and extremities discreetly restored and the colouring enhanced, spine very slightly rolled and lightly toned, a couple of tiny scratches to covers. A very good, bright copy. presentation copy from victoria’s favourite daughter, princess beatrice, to the 6 7 queen’s favourite servant, john brown, inscribed by the princess on the front blank, “To Octavo. Original honeycomb-grain green cloth, spine joined a hunting trip to Zululand led by “Elephant John Brown, with best wishes for the season, from lettered and ruled in gilt, decorative blind rules to sides White”, travelling to St Lucia Bay to shoot hippo- Beatrice, Xmas. 1874”. An intriguing association: enclosing gilt hunting vignette to front, new endpa- potamus. In 1854 he hunted in Amatonga country Brown (1826–1883) had been a significant feature pers, edges untrimmed. Title page printed in red and (north-eastern Natal) and made a second trip to in the royal household for the majority of Bea- black, photogravure portrait frontispiece, folding map, 10 wood-engraved plates, 6 double-tint lithographs Zululand. In 1857 he visited the Transvaal, and the trice’s life, having been selected by Prince Albert not listed in the contents but still called for, wood-en- following year reached as far as Lake Ngami de- to be Victoria’s personal servant in Scotland in gravings to the text. Bookplate of Lancashire chemist spite the ongoing conflict between the Transvaal 1858. The Scotsman quickly became indispen- and bibliophile Robert J. Hayhurst. Spine rubbed, and and Orange Free State. “On a final journey in April sable to Victoria after Albert’s death in 1861, be- slightly rubbed at extremities, tips bumped, frontis- 1860 Baldwin set out from Potchefstroom, guided coming the cause of salacious gossip and familial piece foxed and offset, occasional spotting to text and only by a pocket compass, intent on reaching the tensions. Beatrice (1857–1944) was probably the to margins of lithographic plates, short closed tears to Victoria Falls which until then had been seen only closest of Victoria’s children to Brown, spending fore edges of sig. K2 and plate facing p. 424 just en- by David Livingstone. More by luck than judge- considerable time in his company, notably in Bal- croaching on image. A very good copy in the clean and fresh original cloth. ment he arrived at the falls on 3 August 1860 and moral, and helping him to carry out her mother’s about five days later encountered the celebrated wishes in her role as “the prop, comfort and com- first edition of “one of the best books describ- missionary . . . Apart from becoming only the panion” of Victoria. Victoria found solace in both ing early African big game hunting, and a nec- second European to set eyes on the falls, Baldwin Beatrice and Brown after Albert’s death, being essary volume in the African sporting library” was the first to provide their true dimensions and “over-protective of her ‘Baby’ until she was well (Czech), also noted for providing the first ac- the first to reach the falls directly from Natal. After into adult life” (ODNB). curate description of the Victoria Falls. Baldwin an estimated 24,000 kilometres of travel through (1826–1903) arrived in Durban in 1851, “seduced Aytoun’s Lays, first published in 1849, are mod- many parts of southern Africa, Baldwin returned to South Africa after reading Gordon-Cumming’s elled on the works of Macaulay and Scott. to England in 1863” (ibid.). His account, much en- Five Years of a Hunter’s Life (1850)” (Howgego), and £1,750 [120539] livened by its attractive lithographs, was reprinted “penetrated through Natal, Zululand, the Trans- the same year under a slightly variant title, and vaal, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Namaqua- again in 1894. 7 land, in days when some of these countries were Czech p. 17; Howgego IV B11; Mendelssohn I p. 73–4; hardly known even by name . . . Baldwin’s experi- BALDWIN, William Charles. African SABIB I p. 117. ences are written in a simple and unostentatious Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi. Lon- manner, but he went through more adventures £1,500 [121138] don: Richard Bentley, 1863 than almost any other of the great South African travellers” (Mendelssohn). Soon after arriving he

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members of the Russian Ballet when they first visited London in June 1911” (Terence Pepper, Cam- era Portraits by E. O. Hoppé, NPG 1978, p. 4). In 1914 Hoppe exhibited these portraits at the Ryder Gal- lery, Mayfair. The plates show principal dancers Karsavina, Adolph Bolm, Nijinsky, and Sofia Fedorova pos- ing in costumes designed for Le Pavilion d’Armide, Prince Igor, Cleopatre, Carnaval, Scheherazade, The Fire- bird, Le Spectre de la Rose, and Thamar. The two fine portraits of Nijinsky were taken in Paris by French photographer August Bert (b. 1856), who remains 8 a stubbornly obscure figure; Nijinsky did not “sit” for Hoppé until 1914 when the photographer “way- laid him” outside his dressing room at the London 8 first and sole edition of the great photog- Coliseum immediately after his final performance rapher’s first publication; with the opening plate in Le Spectre de la Rose. (BALLETS RUSSES.) HOPPÉ, E. O. [& signed in full on the mount by prima ballerina Ta- Auguste Bert]. Studies from the Russian mara Karsavina – a stunning head-and-shoulders Decidedly scarce in commerce and thinly rep- Ballet. London: The Fine Art Society, [1913] portrait showing her in her costume, designed by resented institutionally: Copac cites copies at only five British and Irish institutional libraries Small folio. Original greyish-brown card portfolio, patch Bakst, for The Firebird, a role that she created with (Oxford, Scotland, Cambridge, Essex University, label to front cover with embossed gilt titling and archi- Nijinsky and premiered at the Paris Opera in 1910. tectural frame, contents sheet (printed in brown) pasted “From Diaghilev . . . [Hoppé] secured the exclu- Trinity College Dublin; we have traced another at to inside cover. 15 photogravure plates from photo- sive rights to photograph at his studio the leading the V&A); OCLC adds a little over two dozen in- graphs (various sizes from 180 × 155 to 200 × 150 mm) ternationally. A particularly attractive copy of this showing Karsavina (7), Bolm (7: Karsavina and Bolm superb series of portraits: “Hoppé once said of his appear together in 3 images), Nijinsky (2), and Fedorova aesthetic mission: ‘To confirm the spirit behind (2), mounted individually on thick white card (355 × 240 the eyes is the test’” (ODNB). mm). Without the printed title leaf (as noted by Copac). Short split across spine and at head of front joint, light £2,500 [121869] creases to flaps. An excellent copy. 8

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 5 the Dutch, the Italian, and Spaniard”. His book, dedicated to Henry Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and his son William, later the co-dedicatee of the 1623 Shakespeare first folio, is finely printed by Shakespeare’s Stratford contemporary Richard Field. The downfall of Shakespeare’s Parolles in All’s Well that Ends Well (“the gallant militarist . . . that had the whole theoricke of warre in the knot of his scarfe, and the practise in the chape of his dagger” – IV, iii) may be an echo of the book’s title. Edmondes’s work is a commentary on books 1–5 of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, together with an abridged translation of the books. “Edmondes explained that the work was directed at English soldiers and he supplemented his comments on Roman military practice with observations on contemporary campaigns, including those of the English forces in France and the war in Ireland, as well as the battle of Dreux of 1562 between the royal army and protestant forces in France. He also discussed the question of how to deal with an invasion of England, whether to oppose an in- vading army at the coast or to withdraw and offer battle later. His preference was to fortify the coast of Kent and oppose a landing. As well as military 9 9 matters, he included an explanation of the causes of tides” (ODNB). his cousin, North Wales” and “R. G. Thomas 1842, from 9 STC (also Luborsky & Ingram) 1500 & 7488. his mother”) and later ownership inscriptions of Spen- BARRET, Robert. The theorike and prac- cer John Skipper, a South Australian-born journalist, £8,500 [121374] tike of moderne warres, discoursed in and his eldest son Herbert Stanley Skipper (1880–1962), solicitor and promoter of libraries, all to the front past- dialogue wise. London: printed [by Richard edown. Barret diagram on F6v just shaved at fore edge 10 Field] for William Ponsonby, 1598; margin; Edmondes first plate just shaved at fore edges, BELL, Clive. The Legend of Monte Della third plate with small loss of border at foot; these mi- [bound after:] EDMONDES, Sir Clem- nor flaws consequent to the folding plates being bound Sibilla or Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille. ent. Observations, upon the five first in and trimmed as double-page. Vellum a little short at Richmond: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the foot and likely re-cased at an early date, front joint split Hogarth Press, 1923 bookes of Caesars Commentaries, set- at head, small repair to fore edge of front cover, slight ting fourth the practise of the art mili- fraying to first two leaves of Edmondes, small dampstain Quarto. Original white boards, titles and illustration to tary, in the time of the Roman Empire. at foot, lower third of folding leaf O1 in Barret skilfully front board in black. With the dust jacket. Front cover reattached, a few minor marks and spill-burns, still a designed by Vanessa Bell; frontispiece, head- and tail- London: printed by Peter Short, 1600 very good copy. piece by Duncan Grant. A little toned to spine and 2 works bound in 1, folio (281 × 184 mm). Contemporary first editions of two of the most authori- around board edges, ends and corners lightly bumped, limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, lacks ties. internally sound and fresh, an excellent copy in the jacket tative of the military treatises issued in which is somewhat tanned to spine panel, lightly dust Barret: woodcut vignette to title, full-page woodcut arms the period. At a time when England had largely of dedicatee on title verso, woodcut diagrams in text, leaf soiled, and has a few minor chips and tears to the ex- O1 (a singleton) is a folded diagram, full-page woodcut been isolated from developments elsewhere, Bar- tremities but is nonetheless remarkably well preserved. arms of author on last leaf verso (Y6v). Edmondes: 6 en- ret derived his authority from “having spent the first edition, inscribed and twice signed graved plates (4 double-page). With 19th-century owner- most part of my time in the profession of Armes, by the author on the front free endpaper, ship inscriptions (“Mr R. Thomas, from Mr. Wm. Owen and that among forraine nations, as the French, “Clive Bell. August 24 1941 A la Sibilla de nos jours,

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Clive”; with, laid in, the original manuscript final Octavo. Original olive-green buckram, spine lettered 10 draft of Bell’s 19-line poem “To Lopokova Danc- and decorated in gilt, fore and bottom edges un- ing”, a romantic paean to Lydia Lopokova com- trimmed. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco posed in 1918 and published in Bell’s Poems (1921). brilliant executant”, contrasting Lopokova’s “true solander box. Complete with 16 pp. publishers’ adverts artist” to Tamara Karsavina’s mere “actress”, and to rear. Emery Walker-designed bookplate of P. H. The manuscript has three textual corrections, with Hood, English photographer, active 1890–1910, to front comparing her “deliciously gay temperament” to the published text matching the corrections made pastedown. Variably sunned to tan overall, extremities here. Signed by the poet, it has the additional Mozart and Fra Angelico. All this was calculated to lightly rubbed, superficial wear to tips and along fore presentation inscription “from Clive Bell. 46 Gor- flatter, and Bell, ever the womanizer, made a spir- edge of front board, contents toned, front free endpa- don Square. London. W.C.1.” It also bears an ear- ited attempt at seduction. Though he was unsuc- per browned from bookplate, rear inner hinge partially lier initial “C.B.” below the text and an earlier loca- cessful, he remained friends and correspondents cracked, but firm. A very good copy. tion “Garsington. Oxford” inked out, suggesting with her throughout their lives. This later inscrip- first edition, publishers’ presentation the original location of the poem’s composition. tion dates from the period when Lopokova was copy, with their blind stamp to the half-title and Bell lived at 46 Gordon Square from 1922 to 1929. nursing Keynes in his ill health. following three leaves, of Bell’s second published Although she is not named in the inscription, the Copies of this attractive Hogarth production, work, and the first to appear under her own name: recipient was undoubtedly Lopokova herself, for printed in an edition of 400 copies, are scarce in her celebrated translation of Hafiz, the 14th-cen- whom Bell had romantic feelings before she mar- the dust jacket, but inscribed copies in any state tury Sufi poet whose work is considered to repre- ried John Maynard Keynes in 1925 and with whom are rare – we have never handled another and can sent “the zenith of Persian lyric poetry” (Encyclo- he regularly corresponded in French. trace none recorded at auction. paedia Iranica). The leading ballerina of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, Woolmer 27. In 1892 Bell (1868–1926) set out on what proved to Lopokova did not appear in London until 1918, £3,750 [119957] be a formative journey to Tehran, where her uncle when she danced in Massine’s The Good-Humoured Sir Frank Lascelles was British minister. “Having Ladies (Le donne de buon umore). The following year studied Persian with the oriental scholar Sandford 11 she danced a raucous can-can alongside Mass- Arthur Strong during the winter prior to her jour- ine in the world premiere of The Magic Toyshop (La (BELL, Gertrude Lowthian, trans.) ney, she embarked on a verse translation of the Boutique fantasque). During his brief balletomane HAFIZ, Shams al-Din Muhammad. Po- mystical poet Hafiz . . . Her translation received a phase, Bell was smitten by her, as is evident from ems from the Divan. London: William favourable critical reception on its publication and his poem. In July 1919 he praised her in a New Re- was long regarded as the best free-verse transla- public article as “the finest danseuse that this gen- Heinemann, 1897 tion into English” (ODNB). eration has seen . . . not only a genuine artist but a £975 [122133]

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12 is the second title in the Madeline series, here in tions in Dutch), 6 large folding maps by Joseph Moxon lovely condition. after Nicolaes Visscher: one world map (showing Cali- BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline. New fornia as an island), “Paradise” (Cyprus to the Persian Silvery 40–1. York: Simon & Schuster, 1939 Gulf ), “Israel’s Peregrination” (Egypt, Israel, Lebanon), £1,000 [122183] fine plan of Jerusalem, “Travels of Saint Paul” (Italy and Quarto. Original pictorial boards, title printed to spine the Balkans in the North, north Africa across to Turkey and front board, illustrated endpapers. With the illus- and Persian Gulf ), “Canaan” (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, trated dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout. An 14 Syria); printed in double columns. Brief family history excellent copy in the bright dust jacket, couple of short (BIBLE; English; authorized version.) of one Maynard King (dated 1740s) on rear blank. Occa- closed tears to extremities, shallow chip to head of front sional browning, neat repair to fore margin of one leaf. panel, 6 cm closed tear to front flap. The Holy Bible containing the Old Tes- An excellent copy. first edition, with the relevant issue points tament and the New, newly translated a fine folio king james bible in a striking- (published by Simon & Schuster, not Viking; title out of the original tongues. [?Amsterdam:] ly well preserved and stylish queen anne page and copyright page dated; no reviews or testi- Printed in the Year, 1708; [together with] binding. The vigorous illustrations, here in good, monials on the dust jacket). Madeline was awarded The Whole Book of Psalms: collected strong impressions, date from the 1650s; the maps the Caldecott Medal Honor in 1940. into English meeter, by Thomas Stern- are by the printer, globe-maker and hydrographer Pomerance A24; Silvery 40–1. royal Joseph Moxon (1627–1691), who had strong hold, John Hopkins, and others. London: connections with the Netherlands, as his father, £3,750 [122184] Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1702. 13 Folio in sixes (398 × 235 mm). Contemporary black goat- skin, spine richly gilt tooled in seven compartments BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline’s Res- (decoration of massed scrolls, floriate tools, backward- cue. New York: Viking Press, 1953 looking birds and sunbursts), sides with two-line gilt rule border enclosing concentric ruled and roll tool Quarto. Original red cloth, title to spine and motif to panels, corner ornaments, triangular side ornaments front in black, illustrated endpapers. With the illustrated (made up of repeated floriate tools), central lozenge of dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. An scrolling floriate tools, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled excellent, fresh copy in the bright, price-clipped jacket, endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved “architectural” title spine ends slightly nicked. page (incorporating the figures of Moses and Aaron and first edition. Awarded the Caldecott Medal for a view of London from the south bank, showing the play- houses), 328 small engraved plates of Biblical scenes by “most distinguished picture book” in 1954, this Claes Jansz Visscher or Pieter Schut (8 to a sheet, cap- 14

8 December 2017: Peter Harrington 15, 16, 17, 18 an “extreme puritan” (ODNB), had printed English 16 dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations to the Bibles at Rotterdam during the 1630s and 40s. text by Eileen Soper. Spine faded, small puncture to rear BLYTON, Enid. Five Run Away Together. joint, some discolouration to cloth, very faint foxing to Herbert 897 (“No doubt printed abroad, probably at Am- edges, the jacket with spine panel chipped and marked, sterdam”). London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1944 extremities rubbed and slightly creased, faint ownership £5,000 [119587] Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettered in black to spine inscription to front flap. and front cover, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Ownership in- first edition of the fourth book in the Famous 15 scription to half-title. Spine discoloured, boards bowed, Five series. BLYTON, Enid. Five Go Adventuring small bump to foot foot of spine, in the creased and torn £750 [121709] dust jacket, with bright spine panel, chip to foot of spine Again. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1943 with some loss of text, closed tear to front panel extend- 18 Octavo. Original pale blue cloth, spine and front cover ing into spine. lettered in black, plain endpapers. With the pictorial dust first edition of the third book in the Famous BLYTON, Enid. Five Go Off in a Caravan. jacket. Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Five series. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1946 Eileen Soper. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Boards gently bowed, light foxing to edges, slight abrasion £2,000 [121714] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover let- to front free endpaper, in the slightly creased dust jacket, tered in black, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial spine panel faded and chipped at ends, a couple of short 17 dust jacket. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. Some discoloura- closed tears, nicks, and small chips to extremities. tion to spine, edges lightly foxed, in the slightly chipped BLYTON, Enid. Five Go to Smuggler’s first edition of the second Famous Five ad- dust jacket, faint marks to spine and rear panel, a couple of short closed tears to extremities. venture, following Five on a Treasure Island (1942). Top. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, All the early Famous Five titles are uncommon in 1945 first edition of the fifth book in the Famous Five series. dust jacket. Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine and front cover £800 [121715] lettered in black, pictorial endpapers. With the pictorial £1,500 [121711]

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19 BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791 2 volumes, quarto (271 × 212 mm). Contemporary tree calf professionally refurbished at joints and head of spines, richly gilt spines, red morocco lettering pieces, volumes numbered on oval pieces mounted on black. Housed in custom brown cloth slipcases. Portrait frontispiece engraved by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reyn- olds, 2 engraved facsimile plates by H. Shepherd. Closed tear across 2G2 in vol. I, a number of simple marginal marks in pencil. A very good copy. first edition of the most famous biography in any language. This copy has p. 135, vol. 1, in the 20 corrected state, reading “give”. This is not an issue point for the whole book; some copies read “gve”, 20 Bookplate of Adolphe de Milly; later collector’s book- but the correction was made in the press, and 1,750 plate of Harry C. Goebel to blank following the half-title. copies with either state were available on publica- (BRAUNER, Victor, illus.) GOLL, Yvan. Brief typed biography of Brauner tipped in to the same tion day, 16 May 1791 (800 were sold in the first two Le Char Triomphal de l’Antimoine. Paris: page. Clean tape reinforcement to head and tail of the weeks). jacket, some mild partial toning to covers, otherwise Éditions Hémispheres, 1949 fine. Courtney 172; Grolier, English, 54; Pottle 79; Rothschild Small quarto. Quires loose in the original card jacket as 463; Tinker 338. first and limited edition, pre-publication issued, titles to spine and front. With 3 original etchings presentation copy, inscribed by the author on by Brauner, each numbered and signed by the artist. £6,500 [120644] the half-title, “à Adolphe de Milly avec mon trés

10 December 2017: Peter Harrington 20 21 amical souvenir, Yvan Goll, Paris 11 avril 1949”; The book is a collection of surrealist poems and il- Quarto. Original yellow cloth-backed pictoral boards, number 90 of 300 copies on Rives (from a total lustrations of an occult nature, the title inspired by illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated edition of 333). The colophon notes that “cet ou- a 14th-century alchemical treatise by Basil Valen- throughout by Jean De Brunhoff. Light wear to spine vrage a été achevé d’imprimeur le 15 Mai 1949”. tin. Brauner’s etching represent the demons “Az- ends and tips, occasional spotting to text block. An excellent copy with creased jacket, sunning and rubbing to The recipient was a French-born writer, publisher, oth”, “Raziel”, and the fascinating “Lilith”, Adam’s spine and a bit of loss to spine ends. and cabaret owner who had worked with Goll on apocryphal first mate before Eve. first edition. This work was not first published the New York-based French Resistance wartime £5,750 [122170] newspaper, La Voix de France. In 1943 Goll founded in French until the following year. This is the sev- Éditions Hémispheres in New York to publish the enth and final Babar book by Jean de Brunhoff. works of surrealist writers exiled in the US during 21 £1,250 [122188] Nazi occupation. BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne. The Novels. Edited by Temple Scott. Edin- burgh: John Grant, 1924 12 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles and foliate decoration to spines gilt, green top edges. With the printed dust jackets. Photographic frontispiece showing Thornton Hall, and numerous photographic plates illustrative of Brontë country. Bookplate to front pastedowns, some occasional light foxing, otherwise a bright set in the jackets slightly chipped at the tips and some minor browning to the spine panels. the thornton edition, rarely found in the jackets. £1,250 [122174]

22 BRUNHOFF, Jean de. Babar and Father

20 Christmas. New York: Random House, 1940 22

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 11 24 BUCHANAN, Ben. Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat at AREA, NYC, 1985. 2017 Chromogenic print. Sheet size 50.8 × 38.1 cm. Presented in a black frame with conservation mount and UV preventive glass. Edition of 15. Signed, numbered and captioned in ink by the photographer to the margin. With photographer’s wet stamp on the verso. £950 [121561]

25 23 24 25 BUCHANAN, Ben. Jean-Michel Basquiat, PREE at AREA, 1985, NYC. 2017 themed nightclub in Manhattan, one of the “three 23 Photographic print direct on Dibond aluminium com- hot clubs” in the 1980s. Ben Buchanan was the offi- posite panel. 100 × 74 cm. BUCHANAN, Ben. Joe Strummer and cial photographer for the club and was there most Edition of 5. Signed, numbered and captioned in Jean Hill at AREA, NYC, 1985. 2010 nights documenting the scene. There are several ink by the photographer on the verso. Photographic print on canvas. 112.2 × 91.8 cm. mentions of AREA in Andy Warhol’s diaries. £2,000 [121669] Edition of 5. Signed, numbered and captioned in £2,000 [121677] ink by the photographer on the verso. AREA was a 26 BUCHANAN, Ben. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Needle on the Record at AREA, NYC, 1985. 2017 Chromogenic print. Sheet size 38.1 × 50 cm. Fine condition. Presented in a black frame with conservation mount and UV preventive glass. Edition of 15. Signed, numbered and captioned in ink by the photographer to the margin. With photographer’s wet stamp on the verso. £850 [122524]

27 BURGESS, Anthony. A Clockwork Or- ange. London: Heinemann, 1962 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom box by the Chelsea Bind- ery, black half morocco with black cloth-backed boards, red morocco labels lettered in gilt to spine, spine gilt to 26 compartments with 4 raised bands, black and red morocco design to cover mirroring the dust jacket design.

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Very slight bumping to head of spine, tiny spot of abra- caps and joints expertly restored, a few small marks to provenance: ownership inscription of noted sion to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in the dust sides, light wear to bumped tips, and occasionally to Anglo-Indian judge and educationalist Herbert M. jacket, very slightly nicked at extremities, spine panel board-edges, scattered mild spotting, pale foxing to a Birdwood (1837–1909), dated Bombay 1859, with very slightly faded, short closed tear to front panel. few plates, generally restricted to the margins only, pale his later inscription presenting the book to Ed- first edition, first issue binding and first tide-mark to upper outer corner of vol. 2 frontispiece, vol. 2 sigs. Z7–8 roughly opened along fore edge, the text ward J. Webb, Ahmedabad, 31 Oct. 1861. Birdwood issue dust jacket with the 16s. price sticker and unaffected, vols. 3 sigs. H4–5 loose at foot, held by upper arrived in Bombay in 1859. One of his early post- wider flaps. Signed by the author on the title page. cords. A very good copy. ings was as an assistant collector in Ahmedabad. Loosely inserted in the box are related ephemera, first edition. Burton made the hajj to the Is- Later he was a member of the executive council an auction slip from the book’s previous sale in lamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina in complete of the governor of Bombay, during which time he the Donald G. Drapkin Library sale at Christie’s in disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an served briefly as acting governor of the presidency. 2005, and a manuscript page of prompt notes for a exploit of linguistic and cultural virtuosity which Abbey Travel 368; Gay 3634; Howgego IV B95; Ibrahim- lecture which covered A Clockwork Orange. carried considerable risk. His book surpassed all Hilmy I p. 111; Penzer, pp. 49–50. Boytinck 75. preceding Western accounts of the holy cities, £8,750 [119481] £7,500 [121794] made him famous and became a classic of travel literature, described by T. E. Lawrence as “a most 29 remarkable work of the highest value”. 28 CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. New BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative York: Random House, 1965 of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Mec- Octavo. Original dark red cloth, title to spine and front cah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and board in gold and silver, red endpapers, top edge black. Longmans, 1855–6 With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the very slightly nicked dust jacket. 3 volumes octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title gilt to spines, decorated in black, reddish brown endpapers first edition. inscribed by the author on with adverts to pastedowns. 15 plates of which 5 are the first blank recto, “For Sean Krieger with all good chromolithographs (including the famous portrait of wishes, Truman Capote.” While signed copies of Burton as “The Pilgrim” mounted as frontispiece to vol. Capote’s ground-breaking work of “non-fiction fic- 2), 8 single-tint lithographs, engraved plate of “Bedouin tion” come to market from time to time, inscribed and Wahhabi Heads”, 4 maps and plans of which 3 fold- copies to a named recipient are genuinely rare. ing. Rubbed overall, spines darkened and rolled, head- 28 £5,000 [122178]

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30 arship but a prose epic, teeming with colourful Wonderland: somewhat inexpertly repaired, cloth slightly scenes of dramatic events and imaginative por- marked and bubbled, hinges repaired, small repair to CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolu- traits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at foot of p. 5, occasional faint spot of foxing. Looking- tion. London: James Fraser, 1837 once captured the English-speaking world, and Glass: an excellent copy in unusually bright cloth, hinges cracked but holding, text block sound. 3 volumes, large duodecimo (190 × 115 mm). Later 19th- has, outside France, moulded popular concep- century green cross-grain half morocco, flat bands with tion of the French revolution down to the present first editions. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland gilt rules either side to spines, second and fourth com- day” (PMM). The profuse annotations in this copy is the first published edition: famously the entire partments gilt-lettered direct, comb-marbled sides, neatly demonstrate this influence. first issue of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was orange endpapers, brown sprinkled edges. Each vol- withdrawn by Dodgson due to unsatisfactory Dyer p. 85; Printing and the Mind of Man 304; Tarr A8.1. ume with 20 leaves of lined paper bound in to the rear printing. The book was entirely reset by Richard (mainly left blank), and assiduous though unobtrusive £2,250 [121513] Clay for this authorized Macmillan edition which, annotations to margins and terminal blanks (and rear although dated 1866, was in fact ready by No- pastedown of vol. 1), mainly in pencil, with occasional 31 vember 1865 for the Christmas market. Likewise, dates in ink, all in a neat 19th-century hand; 2 sheets of notepaper annotated in the same hand are laid in to CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Through the Looking-Glass was published for the vols. 1 and 2. Extremities and joints rubbed, stripping to Christmas market and bears the following year’s morocco on vol. 3 front board, faint spotting to paste Wonderland; [together with:] Through date in its imprint. the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found downs and endpapers, tan-burn to the latter from turn- £15,000 [122198] ins, mild ink-staining to vol. 1 p. 356, browning to gutter There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 & of vol. 2 pp. 236–7, probably from a page-marker. A very good copy. 1872 32 first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed, this 2 works, octavo. Original red cloth, Wonderland rebacked CATLIN, George. North American Indi- with original spine laid down, spines gilt, gilt rules to copy without the terminal advert leaf in volume 2, ans. 1832–1839. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926 but retaining all the half-titles. “Carlyle wrote his covers, gilt roundels to covers, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in custom red chemises, in a red mo- 2 volumes, large octavo. Original pictorial red cloth, French Revolution as a secular ‘tract for the times’ rocco pull-off case. Frontispieces and 90 illustrations by and as a warning for his compatriots of the fright- gilt titles to spine and front cover, pictorial decoration John Tenniel. Bookplates of New York art dealer Samuel in gilt and black to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, ful consequences of materialism, utilitarianism Putnam Avery (1822–1904), and book collector Herbert others uncut. With the dust jackets. With 320 colour il- and democracy. Scottish puritanism and Ger- Ten Broeck Jacquelin (d.1931); with a typed letter from lustrations on 180 plates, including 3 maps, one coloured man romanticism were his lodestars; ‘History is E. P. Dutton & Co. to Jacquelin (11 November 1919) of- and folding. Extremities a little rubbed, small mark to the essence of innumerable biographies’ was his fering the present copies for sale. Bookseller’s ticket to rear cover of vol. I. An excellent, bright set in the slightly historical creed. The result is not a work of schol- front pastedowns, binder’s ticket to rear pastedowns.

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and initials throughout. With the terminal errata leaf cut round and mounted to rear blank. Later monogram book label “JE” and armorial bookplate of Frederick Eve- lyn to front pastedown, the Evelyn library press-marks “E6:7” and “G8” to the initial blanks, previous inscription washed from title page. 4 neat early manuscript annotations to the first book of Boethius’sConsolation of Philosophy (2M1v-2M2r). Extremities worn with some 33 loss to headcap, joints cracked but firm, title leaf creased and previous inscription washed from title page, portrait leaf a little creased along fore edge, small paper repair to soiled dust jackets, spines toned and chipped, text partly 33 bottom edge of b1, a few natural paper flaws (as often) affected, extremities chipped. CHAUCER, Geoffrey.The Workes of our to margins of b5–6, G1–2, M6, 2D1, 2K6, 3G2, 3G5, 3K2, A handsomely produced edition, scarce in the dust 3P6, and 3T6 not affecting text (excepting the catchword jackets. A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin Ancient and learned English Poet, newly of 3R4r), contents browned and occasionally spotted set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to printed. To that which was done in the with some very faint dampstain, overall a very good copy. record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North former Impression, thus much is now second speght edition (first 1598), the diarist America and their way of life. His eight years added . . . London: printed by Adam Islip, 1602 John Evelyn’s copy, characteristically inscribed among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the by Evelyn’s calligrapher and amanuensis Richard Rocky Mountains resulted in an enormous collec- Folio (330 × 215 mm). Bound for John Evelyn in near-con- Hoare facing the title leaf: “In Catalogo JEvelyni temporary Parisian mottled calf, red morocco spine lation of artefacts as well as more than four hundred inscriptus: Meliora Retinete.” This copy includes bel, compartments gilt-tooled with Evelyn’s monogram, paintings. The resultant book, first published with raised bands, boards gilt-tooled with triple fillet border the portrait of Chaucer, often lacking. Speght’s uncoloured plates in 1841, is “one of the most orig- and panel with Evelyn’s monogram within palm and lau- Chaucer is considered “the most durable of any inal, authentic and popular works on the subject” rel branches at panel corners and his crest blocked to Chaucer edition” (ODNB), and its second edition is (Sabin). centre, marbled pastedowns, edges gilt. Housed in the significantly enlarged and revised (being the first Hassrick 15; Sabin 11536. black cloth flat-back box, paper spine label printed in to attempt thorough punctuation). black. Printed in black letter in two columns. Woodcut ESTC S107210; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, £2,000 [121781] border title page, full page woodcut engraved portrait of 5080; Pforzheimer 178. See Keynes, John Evelyn: A Study in Chaucer within genealogical border titled “The Progenie Bibliophily (Cambridge University Press, 1934), p. 17. of Geffrey Chaucer” on A6r (often missing), woodcut armorial crest to additional title page on C4r, wood- £15,000 [121855] cut of the Knight on B1r, woodcut head- and tailpieces

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35 CHURCHILL, Charles Henry. Mount Lebanon. A Ten Year’s Residence from 1842 to 1852 describing the Manners, Customs, and Religion of its Inhabitants. London: Saunders and Otley, 1853 3 volumes, octavo. Unopened in original purplish brown cloth, title gilt to spines, sides elaborately panelled in blind, cream surface-paper endpapers. Lithographed 34 portrait frontispiece and single-tint lithographic view to 35 each, original loose tissue guards present throughout, 34 folding engraved map to vol. I, all half-titles present. with a member of the Shebab family, “the clan that Spines sunned to a uniform light tan, slight sunning at had provided the Emirs of Lebanon since 1700”. CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst the board edges, heads and tails of the spines crumpled Atabey 247 for a mixed set of second and third edi- Journey in The World. London: Constable with a couple of minor splits, but no loss, mild foxing front and back, short tear to the map stub, image unaf- tions; Blackmer 353, Quaritch third edition. See Lewis, and Company Limited, 1922 fected, but in all ways an exceptional set. “Churchill of Lebanon”, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, XL, 3–4. 2 volumes, octavo. Original mid-blue cloth, title gilt to first edition. Churchill (1807–1867) was Brit- spines and front covers. Coloured frontispiece with tis- ish consul at Damascus and author of a number £2,750 [120606] sue guard to each and 4 other coloured plates in all, 43 of important regional studies including the pre- black and white plates, 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps, 4 sent work and a major biography of Abd-el-Kad- of them folding. Bookplate and two pencil inscriptions to pastedown of volume I. Slight bumping to head and er, whom he had met during his exile in the city. foot of spines, spines slightly faded, spine of volume I “This work is not an account of Churchill’s stay in lightly rubbed, slight white marking to rear covers, end- the Lebanon but an amalgamation of information, papers browned, half-titles lightly foxed, 2 of the maps some of which is based on a Maronite chronology. in volume II have been folded in a way that they slightly An important work, rare” (Blackmer). overhang the rest of the text block. A very good set. Churchill was descended from Gen. Charles first edition of “the finest polar book ever writ- Churchill, brother of the first duke of Marlbor- ten … [Cherry-Garrard] had the sensibilities and ough, through his natural son. In 1841 he was as- extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope sistant adjutant-general in Damascus, but clashed with the complex and tragic subject” (Rosove). with the Turkish governor, who retaliated with “The ‘worst journey’ of the title was not Scott’s ill- rumours of “misbehaviour with a Moslem woman fated rendezvous with death, but the earlier Ross and of secret intrigue with Druze and other nota- Island winter trip from Cape Evans to the penguin bles of the region” (Lewis, p. 220). An enquiry was colony at Cape Crozier” (Books on Ice). held and Churchill cleared, but soon afterwards he A total of 1,500 copies of the first impression were quit official service and Damascus and went to live printed. The first choice “polar” binding of cloth- “as a country gentleman in Lebanon”, at Bhourra backed boards proved fragile and some copies some 15 miles from Beirut, just off the Beirut–Da- were issued in this “library” blue cloth. Renard re- mascus road. He was a skilled trader and compiled gards the blue cloth as “in many respects the most a diverse portfolio including real estate, silk, and mules. Unusually, he entered a mixed marriage 35

16 December 2017: Peter Harrington 36 (CHURCHILL, Clementine.) TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, Oxford University Press, 1942 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, map endpapers. Spine slightly faded and soiled, slight marking to covers, slight creasing to first few leaves, inscribed half-title very slightly loosening, short split neatly repaired with Japanese tissue verso. A very good copy. A superb memorial of the Russo-British alliance against the imperial aggression of the Third Reich, being an unprepossessing wartime reprint edition of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, carrying the inscriptions of both Clementine Churchill, wife of Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill, and, in photostat copy, that of Agniya “Agnes” Maisky, wife of Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to Britain (1932–43). Inscribed 36 36 by Clementine across the half-title in her generous hand: “This immortal work recalls memories of Maisky. She was not an easy woman to deal with, 1945, touring Soviet hospitals through the aus- Russia more than a hundred years ago, & the spirit and Clementine had to spend much time and exer- pices of the Aid to Russia Fund. She visited the of the Russian People at that time – These are both cise great patience in listening to her long lists of Maiskys several times – Ivan Maisky was by then alive to-day. Clementine S. Churchill”. Maisky’s imperious demands or complaints. Fortunately, Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Clemen- inscription appears in photostat, pasted to the op- however, Clementine was neither small-minded tine’s account of her visit concludes with, “I prayed posite blank, and reads: “1812–1942 We destroyed nor easily offended – and she often gave quite as as I turned to take my farewell look at Moscow, our enemy then, we will destroy our enemy now good as she got! But she was soon accustomed to ‘May difficulties and misunderstandings pass, Agnes Maisky”. Though the intended purpose of Mme Maisky, and came to like this brusque, intel- may Friendship remain’” (My Visit to Russia, 1945). the inscriptions, and possible recipient, are un- ligent woman, whose fiery patriotism was so clearly Winston’s connection with Ivan “Mischa” Maisky known, the book compellingly links these two evident. When the Ambassador was recalled to began in the early months of 1936, when he was women and is a powerful symbol of historic, war- Moscow in September 1943 Agnes Maisky wrote eager to ascertain the reliability of Russia as an time common cause between their two countries. her a warm letter of farewell: ‘During my stay here ally. Martin Gilbert reprints a letter from Sir Mau- At least four similar copies are known, all with I greatly appreciated our close relations, and your rice Hankey to Sir Thomas Inskip (dated 19 April identical pasted photostat inscriptions by Agnes, friendliness and kindness to me; but most of al I 1936), in which Hankey writes: “In view of the dan- but with varying inscriptions by Clementine. am grateful to you for all that you have done to send ger from Germany he has buried his violent anti- During the Second World War, Clementine medical aid to my countrymen. This is a great work, Russian complex of former days and is apparently Churchill chaired the Red Cross Aid to Russia and we shall never forget it’” (Clementine Churchill a bosom friend of M Maisky” (Winston S. Churchill, Fund, launched when Germany invaded Russia in by Her Daughter, 2002, p. 326). Diplomatically, the companion volume V part 3, 1982, p. 108). Natu- June 1941. The Fund raised nearly £8,000,000 and Maiskys set quite a new tone in London: “unlike the rally, Churchill and Maisky met many times during provided clothing, blankets, medical supplies and reserved and harsh demeanour which characterized the war years and Maisky was in attendance when other items to the Soviet Red Cross and paid for the later ‘Soviet school of diplomacy’, Maisky and Churchill flew to Moscow in October 1944 to meet equipment so that the Russians could manufacture his wife Agniya worked as a team and did their ut- Stalin, for the conference codenamed “Tolstoy”. artificial limbs. It is possible that such inscribed most to influence British public opinion by a display A fascinating association that explicitly recalls the copies of War and Peace were “confected” as part of sheer friendliness” (Gabriel Gorodetsky, ed., The Russo-British alliance of 1812 and a union against the of a Red Cross fund-raising activity. Clementine’s Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s common enemy of Napoleonic France, which itself daughter, Mary Soames, commented that, “In all 1932–1943, 2015, p. xxiii). provided the inspiration for Tolstoy’s masterpiece. this work her chief link with the Soviet Embassy in In the closing months of the war, Clementine £2,500 [122218] London was the Ambassador’s wife, Mme Agnes spent five weeks, from late March to early May

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37 38 the publisher’s wife, passed the manuscript to the US National Churchill Museum archives in the 1980s. Ri- CHURCHILL, Winston S. My African CHURCHILL, Winston S. Three type- ley, who became director of the museum in May 2016, Journey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 script articles: “Are We Alone in the Uni- has just rediscovered it. To the best of Riley’s knowledge, the essay remained in the Reves’s [sic] private Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, titles and verse?”, “The River of Life”, “Mystery of collection and has never been published or subjected pictorial decoration to front board in black, blue, and the Body”. Together with galley proofs to scientific or academic scrutiny. Imagine my thrill grey. Publisher’s 16–page catalogue at end. Photograph- for each article. [Late 1930s] that I may be the first scientist to examine this essay. ic frontispiece, 46 photographic plates, and 3 maps. Gift (“Winston Churchill’s essay on alien life found”, Nature, inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Spine slightly Quarto. “Alone”: 11pp.; galleys: 3 pp.; “River”: 15 pp.; vol. 542, issue 7641, 15 Feb. 2017) faded, a little foxing to contents; an excellent copy in galleys: 4 pp.; “Mystery”: 14 pp.; galleys: 4pp. Each type- unusually bright cloth. script held with a paper-clip at head; galleys with single Livio’s piece aroused international media interest punch hole at top left and green Treasury tags. Holo- in Churchill’s “unpublished” article, although Pro- first edition of the first book to derive purely fessor Christopher Bell of Dalhousie University, from Churchill’s journalism, as distinct from his graph corrections and emendations (not in Churchill’s hand) to “Alone” and “Mystery”. In excellent condition. Nova Scotia, pointed out that an earlier, shorter work as a war correspondent. “The result bub- There has been considerable recent interest in version of “Are We Alone in the Universe?” had bles with Churchill’s irrepressible interest in eve- appeared in the Sunday Dispatch, a Beaverbrook rything new, whether it was the thrill of hunting Churchill’s essay “Are We Alone in the Universe?” In an article for Nature, astrophysicist Mario Livio weekly, on 8 March 1942 under the sensational rhino, the dangers of sleeping sickness, or the headline “Are There Men in the Moon?” The essay engagingly extempore justice of the District Of- describes his visit to the US National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri: appears in Cohen’s bibliography (C662), where he ficers” (Woods, Artillery of Words: The Writings of Sir comments: “Written before the war but published Winston Churchill, 1992, p. 81). Director Timothy Riley thrust a typewritten essay by Churchill into my hands. In the 11-page article, ‘Are here [i.e. the Sunday Dispatch] for the first time. Cohen A27; Czech, African Big Game Hunting, p. 37; Woods We Alone in the Universe?’ [Churchill] muses pres- Subsequently published in Collected Essays, Vol. IV, A12. ciently about the search for extraterrestrial life. He pp. 493–8”. £1,500 [119576] penned the first draft, perhaps for London’s News of Material relating to these articles in the Church- the World Sunday newspaper, in 1939 — when Europe ill Archive at Cambridge (CHAR 8/644) is headed was on the brink of war. He revised it lightly in the “Literary: News of the World articles by WSC” late 1950s while staying in the south of France at the villa of his publisher, Emery Reves. For example, he and dated 1939. This group of pieces “includes changed the title from ‘Are We Alone in Space?’ to ‘Are proofs for three unpublished articles (indicated We Alone in the Universe?’ to reflect changes in scien- by a 1962 note): ‘The Mysteries of the Body’ on tific understanding and terminology. Wendy Reves, cells, organs, blood, the digestive system, the

18 December 2017: Peter Harrington liver, the nervous system and the brain, the sens- es, reproduction, and genetics; ‘Are We Alone in Space?’ on the necessary conditions for life to develop outside the Earth; ‘The River of Life’ on the origin of life on Earth up till human life (with a supplement from the Illustrated London News showing human evolution)”. “Mystery of the Body” is in large measure the same essay as that published under the title “What Do You Know About Yourself ?” (Cohen 666, also written before the war, published in the Sunday Dispatch 5 April 1942 and reprinted in Collected Essays, vol. IV, pp. 499–503). “The River of Life” may be the article published as “Life Under the Microscope” (Co- hen C669, Sunday Dispatch 19 April 1942), but this is not reprinted in the Collected Essays so we have been unable to make a comparison. These ephemeral pieces attest to Churchill’s pro- digious output during the 1930s, when he lived by his writing and “many subjects were grist to his tireless mill. Apart from anything else, he had no Cabinet salary after 1929 and it was largely his journalism that enabled him to maintain his comfortable standard of living. He therefore accepted virtually every opportunity for publication with alacrity and professionalism. Articles may have been delivered by taxi at the last possible moment, but he never missed a copy date, even at the height of his political worries” (Frederick Woods, Artillery of Words: The Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, 1992, p. 11). Churchill material of this nature rarely comes onto the market and these may well be the only copies of the galley proofs outside of the Churchill Archive. provenance: from the private archive of Church- ill’s literary agent Emery Reves (1904–1981). Reves had been instrumental in promoting Churchill’s pre-War international profile by the worldwide syndication of many of his prophetic articles during the late 1930s. Their association blossomed again after the War when Reves negotiated the sale of the US rights for The Second World War, and purchased the international rights himself, selling se- rialization to 27 newspapers across the globe and securing book rights in 11 European countries. Cohen C662 (“Alone”), C666 (“Mystery”). £4,500 [121591] 38 38

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 19 that the ‘worldly men of business and politics were invariably presented by Steichen in a setting as static as their own large offices. He could be confident that Churchill, for instance, would only accept the traditional seated figure against a dark background format’” (Max Arthur, Churchill: The Life: An Authorized Pictorial Biography, 2015, p. 155, il- lustrating a different portrait). The setting may be static but the force of Churchill’s personality radi- ates from this beguiling image, captured in 1932 as a commission for Vanity Fair, while Churchill was on a speaking tour of the United States. A letter from Churchill’s private secretary, Violet Pearman, to Emery Reves (dated 16 December 1937) mentions that “the signed photograph was sent to you yesterday, and I hope it reaches you safely” (Martin Gilbert, ed., Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Cor- respondence 1937–1964, p. 87). It is quite possible that this refers to the present portrait. provenance: from the collection of Churchill’s literary agent Emery Reves, accompanied by a photograph of Reves with the same portrait (dif- ferently framed) on his desk. £7,500 [121582]

40 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Mes aventures de jeunesse. Paris: Payot, 1937 Octavo. Original pale green printed wrappers, front cover with photographic portrait of Churchill wearing the slouch hat of the South African Light Horse. Short closed tear at fore edge of front cover, a few slight nicks to extremities of spine, else an exemplary copy. first edition in french, presentation copy from churchill to his literary agent emery reves, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To I. Revesz from Winston S. Churchill”. A 39 superb association copy: Emery Reves had been instrumental in promoting Churchill’s pre-War 39 of image. Signed by Churchill across the lower, dark por- international profile by the world-wide syndication of the image (some letters touching his right hand). tion of many of his prophetic articles during the (CHURCHILL, Winston S.) Photograph- In excellent condition. late 1930s (see previous items). This presentation ic portrait by Edward Steichen. New York: One of the finest portraits of Churchill, captured dates from the year of their first meeting, 1937, Edward Steichen, 1932 by the celebrated American photographer Ed- the French edition appearing in December that ward Steichen, showing the 57-year-old Churchill year in an edition of 3,500 copies; My Early Life was Image: 240 × 190 mm; frame: 300 × 250 mm. Framed and glazed in a dark red leather, gilt tooled, desk frame. seated, smiling, with right hand in jacket pocket. originally published in the UK in October 1930. Reves’s name and image dimensions pencilled on verso “A critic wrote about the renowned photographer Churchill is using the original Hungarian form of

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Reves’s name – Imre Revesz; in later inscriptions at head of spine and panels, smudge in margin of p. 81. A he would use the anglicised version, Emery Reves. superior copy: clean, bright and tight. 41 Cohen A91.1.a (p. 329). first uk edition, presentation copy from £5,000 [121569] churchill to his literary agent emery pleted within a week. The imprint code includes reves, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To “(2 kds.)”, meaning “2 kinds” of leaflet, indicating Emery Reves from Winston S. Churchill – 1947”. 41 those with and those without the additional notice Secret Sessions Speeches, which was first published in CHURCHILL, Winston S. Beating the In- in red at the head of the front page. Those with the US a month earlier than the London edition, vader. A message from the Prime Minis- the notice were issued to what became known as is rarely encountered inscribed, or even signed, the “38 towns” – those coastal communities that and this is a superb association copy. (For Emery ter. London: Issued by the Ministry of Informa- were to be evacuated under compulsory orders Reves, see items 38–44) tion in co-operation with the War Office and the in the event of invasion. Initially there had been Cohen A227.2.a; see Peden “Sir Richard Hopkins and the Ministry of Home Security, 1941 17 communities on the list, from Great Yarmouth “Keynesian Revolution” in Employment Policy, 1929–1945” round to Hythe. This was later extended to take in in Economic History Review, NS, vol. 36, no. 2 (May 1983). Quarto single-sheet flyer (280 × 210 mm), text both sides. Littlehampton and certain inland towns (Ipswich, Without the additional notice printed in red found in the £7,500 [121532] minority of copies. Colchester, Canterbury, etc.). Cohen B76; Woods A69; our special thanks to Mr Peter first edition. Churchill’s inspirational message Scott for information regarding the two variants of the is followed by detailed instructions on just how to leaflet. stand firm and carry on. Print-run details show that over 14 million copies were printed: “The £850 [122037] huge print run might leave one with the impression that the leaflet would be commonly found 42 today. It was, however, only a leaflet anticipating CHURCHILL, Winston S. Secret Session an event that never came to pass. In the event very few copies have survived” (Cohen). Speeches. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, Stocks of Beating the Invader were delivered from 1946 the HMSO Press at Harrow to the GPO between Octavo. Original mid-blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, 19 and 23 May 1941. Deliveries to each household three vertical gilt rules to front cover. With the dust jack- in the country began on the 27th and were com- et. 16 plates from photographs. Jacket with closed tears

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 21 for Churchill’s The Second World War. “Life at La Pausa was idyllic. Churchill called the villa Pau- saland and was to return there ten times, usually twice a year” (Martin Gilbert, ed., Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 1937–1964, 1997, p. 18). The unsigned landscape format pencil portrait – clearly executed by Reves – is based on the September 1948 photograph of Churchill painting the river Sorgue (near Aix-en-Provence) by Life magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. Painting was, of course, one of Churchill’s great “escapes” and a haven from the spells of depression – his “black dogs” – that he suffered throughout his life. “Sir Winston himself has described (in Painting as a Pastime) how he turned to painting as a way of distracting a mind in turmoil with ideas, but without the means of acting upon them” (Da- 43 44 vid Coombs, Churchill: His Paintings, 1967, p. 14). A number of Churchill’s paintings are held at the 43 Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Wilson’s War Industries Board, finally meeting Museum of Art. during the Paris Peace Conference. Baruch was (CHURCHILL, Winston S.) Two origi- Churchill’s New York host and overall facilitator provenance: from the collection of Churchill’s nal portraits of Churchill painting, ex- for his tour of North America in 1929 – when his literary agent Emery Reves (1904–1981). ecuted by his literary agent Emery Reves, intent was to “See the country and meet the lead- one signed by Churchill. La Pausa, France: £15,000 [121616] ers of its fortunes” (WSC to BB 28 June 1929) – and [c.1949] for most of his subsequent visits, with Church- 44 ill reciprocating when his friend visited Europe. Two sheets of sketching paper (350 × 280 mm); one im- Their friendship developed and deepened over the age portrait format, the other landscape; along with CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of close to five decades that followed, Baruch writing 2 photographs of the signed portrait (305 × 230 mm) the English-Speaking Peoples. London: to Churchill on his 80th birthday that their friend- mounted on card; another copy of same (unmounted); photograph of portrait of Churchill smoking a cigar; 2 Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956–8 ship had been “a source of inspiration and pleas- negatives for the above. In excellent condition. ure which has grown more rewarding with each 4 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines passing year”. A very attractive original charcoal portrait of in gilt, top edges red. With the dust jackets. Illustrated Churchill painting, signed by Churchill in the throughout with maps and genealogical tables. An excel- The slightly laboured hand is indicative of Church- blank area above the image, signed by Reves low- lent, bright set in the jackets, spine panels a little marked ill’s poor health at the time. Wintering at La Pau- er left; with an unfinished preliminary charcoal and toned. sa, his agent Emery Reves’s home in the south sketch of the same subject on the verso. Reves’s first editions, warmly inscribed by the of France, late in February he had spent a day on portrait is based on an unpublished photograph author to his american friend bernie ba- Aristotle Onassis’s yacht, drinking “more alcohol of Churchill painting en plein air. Reves has added ruch on the front free endpaper of volume IV, than usual”, and playing chemin-de-fer “for high detail to the background in the form of a line of in the month of publication: “To Bernie, from stakes” becoming “very excited” (Gilbert, Winston trees and the outline of hills. It was executed while Winston. March 1958”. The recipient was one of Churchill and Emery Reeves, p. 375), resulting in bron- Churchill was staying at La Pausa, his “favourite Churchill’s oldest and most intimate friends Ber- chial pneumonia, compounded by obstructive South of France retreat from 1955 to 1960” (Roy nard (“Bernie”) Baruch, a brilliant American fi- jaundice. Jenkins, Churchill, 2001, p. 509). La Pausa, some 15 nancier, who advised nine US presidents, a highly Cohen A267.1(I)–(IV); Woods A138(a). miles east of Nice, was designed and built by Coco attractive association for this celebration of An- £7,500 [120392] Chanel in the early 1930s. In 1953 it was bought by glo-American relations. The pair had correspond- Emery and Wendy Reves using the proceeds from ed during the First World War when Churchill was the foreign-language rights, negotiated by Reves, Minister of Munitions and Baruch on President

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Octavo. Original white-cloth-backed buff paper boards hand-printed with pine-sprig and star motifs, spine lettered in gilt, dove vignette gilt to backstrip on front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed throughout on Silverflake paper. Mild toning to spine 45 ends, top edges of both boards a little rubbed, upper outer corners slightly bumped, very mild soiling to front 45 in double column in “large new Types, constructed pastedown. An excellent copy. (COOK, James.) ANDERSON, George on Purpose to comprise much Matter in a little Com- first and only edition, limited to 40 copies pass” and issued in 80 sixpenny parts with avowedly for personal distribution as the Christmas gift of William. A New, Authentic, and Com- philanthropic intentions, Hogg’s edition did much Viscount Carlow, founder of the Corvinus Press, plete Account of Voyages Round the to disseminate knowledge of the discoveries of Cook this copy inscribed on the presentation leaf “For World. London: Alexander Hogg, [1784–6] and others among a middle class readership. “An Eileen, from Carlow, 1938”. The text was printed important collection of English voyages . . . [which] verbatim from the original manuscript, which is Folio (378 × 238 mm). Contemporary reversed calf, ex- sometimes gives the original accounts, others are ed- pertly rebacked to style retaining original red morocco now in the National Maritime Museum in Green- label, foliate panel in blind to boards. With engraved por- ited or abridged versions, and frequently additional wich. It is naturally uncommon in commerce, with trait frontispiece and 156 other plates, maps, and charts, material from other sources are added to give scope 12 copies now confined to libraries. including large folding map showing the track of Cook’s and depth to the narratives” (Hill). George William “John Tillery, an American sailor, served on board voyages. 19th-century newspaper clipping mounted to Anderson is almost certainly a pseudonym. [HMS] Tigre under Sir Sidney Smith . . . Tillery and front pastedown; inscription to frontispiece verso, “Rich- Beddie Cook 18; Hill 18; Howgego I, C176; Spence, p. 26. 18 shipmates were captured by the French at Acre ard William Bloxham Fiander, the gift of his father, May 29th 1845”. Corners and board edges skilfully refurbished, £4,500 [119761] on 21 March 1799. Initially they were well treated – title page and prefatory leaf a little cropped at the tail, Napoleon even sent them a bottle of Jew’s Brandy folding map misfolded and with some splits, repaired 46 and a share of his provisions. Tillery was interro- with archival tissue verso, light browning throughout, gated by Napoleon himself and asked to identify plate facing p. 326 frayed and rumpled along bottom edge, (CORVINUS PRESS.) TILLERY, John. A the body of a dead marine. However, after Napo- but intact, final few leaves (list of subscribers and terminal Diary of the Travels with his fellow suf- leon’s failure at Acre, the prisoners were marched blanks) creased, overall very good. ferers thro’ Syria and Egypt while prison- to Egypt and kept in appalling conditions . . . The first edition of this omnibus compilation of ers with Gen. Bonaparte, 1799. [London:] prisoners were released on 22 December and re- Cook’s voyages, together with those of Byron, Wal- turned to England on board HMS Theseus.” Corvinus Press, 1938 lis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson, and Drake. Printed £1,250 [122044]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 23 48 50 COWARD, Noël. The Rat Trap; [together COWARD, Noël. Private Lives. London: with] Hay Fever; [and:] The Queen was William Heinemann Ltd, 1930 in the Parlour. London: Ernest Benn Limited, Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, ruling to 1924–6 boards and publisher’s device to rear board in blind. Oc- casional pencil marginalia, mainly concerning the part Together 3 works, octavo. The Rat Trap: original blue of Sybil. Spine lacking, boards worn, light spotting to boards with printed label to spine and front board, with prelims and endmatter. A poor copy. the original dust jacket. Hay Fever: original blue boards with printed label to spine and front board. The Queen was first edition, presentation copy to lau- in the Parlour: original orange wrappers, title printed to rence olivier, inscribed on the front free end- spine and front wrapper. Housed together in a custom paper: “For Larry from Noël, 1930”. This outstand- quarter calf slipcase. An excellent set, light rubbing to ing association copy, marking Olivier’s “break- extremities, occasional foxing internally, dust jacket of through” stage appearance, has an extraordinary The Rat Trap a bit nicked with slight loss to bottom of pan- show business provenance: it was presumably els, 13.5 cm horizontal tear to p. 107 of Hay Fever. presented to Olivier during the play’s West End first editions. The Rat Trap retains its dust jack- run, as Heinemann published the text one week 47 et, rare thus. It was one of Coward’s earliest plays, written when he was 18 but was not performed un- 47 til 18 October 1926 at Everyman Theatre. Hay Fever was first performed 8 June 1925 at Ambassador’s (COSWAY-STYLE BINDING.) NAPO- Theatre. The Queen was in the Parlour appears here in LEON. Napoleon’s Memoirs. Edited and its first paperback edition; it was first performed translated by Somerset de Chair. London: 24 August 1926 at St Martin’s Theatre. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 £575 [122019] 2 volumes bound as one, quarto (310 × 185 mm). Late 20th-century red full morocco Cosway-style binding by 49 Bayntun-Riviere, with a miniature portrait of Napoleon (under glass and set into the front cover) surrounded COWARD, Noël. Sirocco; [together with] by crossed banners, musket and sword, gilt panelled Home Chat. London: Martin Secker, 1927 50 spine with motifs of the Napoleonic bee and monogram Together 2 works, octavo. Original grey cloth, printed within a laurel wreath, two-line gilt border on sides, back paper labels to spines. With the dust jackets. Housed in after the opening at the Phoenix. The role was to cover with gilt stamp of the arms of the house of Bona- a custom brown quarter morocco slipcase and match- change the fortunes of one of the theatrical titans parte, front cover with overall pattern of Napoleonic ing linen chemise. A fine set in the bright dust jackets, of the 20th century, with Holden noting Coward’s bees and monogram within a laurel wreath, top edges spines just slightly sunned, short closed tear and crease gilt, untrimmed, richly gilt turn-ins, scarlet watered silk perceptive comment: “that young man, unless to head of rear panel of Home Chat. endleaves. Wood-engraved title page vignettes by John something goes radically wrong, will before long Buckland-Wright, collotype portrait frontispieces, map first editions, scarce in the jackets, and espe- be acknowledged as our greatest actor”. Private endpapers by Somerset de Chair bound-in at the end. An cially so in such nice condition. First written in Lives – dashed off by Coward in four days while excellent copy. 1921 and then revised into its final form in 1927, recovering from ‘flu in Shanghai – opened at the first golden cockerel press edition, num- Sirocco premiered on 24 November 1927 at Daly’s King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, on 18 August 1930, ber 61 of 500 sets, beautifully printed in Perpetua Theatre; Home Chat on 25 October 1927 at the Duke starring Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, with types on Arnold mould-made paper. This superbly of York’s Theatre. Neither play was well-received Olivier and Adrianne Allen as Victor and Sybil. It bound copy incorporates a fine miniature half- when first produced. toured the provinces for five weeks before opening in the West End on 24 September, and trans- length portrait of Napoleon as First Consul, based £600 [122027] on the famous full-length portrait by Jean-Baptiste ferred to Broadway in 1931. The only change in the Isabey. cast for this New York run was that Olivier’s first Cockalorum 167. wife, Jill Esmond, took the role of Sybil – in the present copy the part of Sybil is marked and an- £5,750 [119484] notated in pencil throughout, including stage di-

24 December 2017: Peter Harrington 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 rections and alternate readings, in a hand bearing Coward’s play, based on Feydeau’s farce, premiered first edition, presentation copy to vivien a resemblance to Esmond’s. A 1940 radio adapta- in 1959 on Broadway and opened in July of that year leigh, inscribed by the author on the front free tion, broadcast in America, featured Vivien Leigh in London at the Royal Court, with Vivien Leigh in endpaper: “Dear Darling, many many happy re- as Amanda. the lead role, before transferring to the West End turns, love Noëlie”. An excellent association: Cow- £3,000 [121721] (New Theatre, now the Noël Coward Theatre). A ard was a long-time friend of both Vivien Leigh superb association copy, dating to a difficult peri- and Laurence Olivier. He had launched Olivier’s od in Leigh’s life when Laurence Olivier had asked career by giving him the part of Victor Prynne in 51 her for a legal separation and she turned to Cow- Private Lives in 1932, and later worked with Leigh ard for solace. “She felt she owed Noël her confi- in South Sea Bubble (1956) and Look After Lulu (1959). COWARD, Noël. Look After Lulu. Lon- dence in this matter ... When the run [of Look After The novel Pomp and Circumstance has the same colo- don: Heinemann, 1959 Lulu] ended, Noël was to take Vivien to Les Avants nial island setting as his play South Sea Bubble. Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. for Christmas and keep the ‘charming newspa- £1,000 [121722] With the dust jacket. Monochrome portrait frontispiece per’ men and women at a friendly but firm arm’s of Vivien Leigh as Lulu. Text block faintly toned. An ex- length” (Barry Day, ed., The Letters of Noël Coward, cellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with lightly nicked 2007, p. 650). 53 and chipped extremities. £2,500 [121719] COWARD, Noël. Pretty Polly Barlow and first edition, the dedication copy, in- Other Stories. London: Heinemann, 1964 scribed by coward to vivien leigh on the 52 front free endpaper: “Kindly see Dedication and Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed oblige”, and further inscribed by him below the COWARD, Noël. Pomp and Circum- jacket with lightly nicked and creased extremitites printed dedication (”For Vivien with my love as al- stance. London: Heinemann, 1960 ways”) “So there!” Loosely inserted is a Christmas first edition, presentation copy to vivien card from Coward to Leigh (inscribed in red ink Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine white. With leigh, inscribed by the author on the front free the dust jacket. Board edges faintly sunned and bumped. ”Darling Dear love Dear Noely”), bearing the unfor- endpaper: “For Dear Darling, with Amore, Noelie”. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with a few gettable “winged” image of Coward taken by Horst minor nicks and creases to extremities. £1,000 [121720] Tappe at Les Avants, Switzerland, in 1963 and carrying the witty seasonal greeting “Heureux Noël”.

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54 DeVito and the successful stage musical which the end of the work are dated October 1866, a vari- CRADDOCK, Harry. The Savoy Cocktail premiered at the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Strat- ant not noted in Freeman. ford-upon-Avon in November 2010. Freeman 385. Book. London: Constable & Company, Ltd, £550 [121314] 1930 £4,250 [121494] Octavo. Original black cloth-backed metallic pictorial 56 57 boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illus- trations in colour throughout by Gilbert Rumbold. Spine DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Spe- DARWIN, Charles. Insectivorous Plants. lightly toned, minor rubbing to boards, spot of abrasion cies . . . Fourth edition, with additions London: John Murray, 1875 to front cover, two cocktail recipes tipped in to the final page. A very good copy. and corrections. (Eighth Thousand). Lon- Octavo. Original green bead-grain cloth neatly rebacked first edition, second impression. This classic don: John Murray, 1866 with the original gilt lettered and decorated spine laid down, corners refurbished, blind panelled covers, brown cocktail book features 750 of the most popular rec- Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered coated endpapers. Housed in a dark green quarter mo- and decorated in gilt, covers blocked in blind, black coat- ipes from the legendary American barman Harry rocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. 30 wood- ed endpapers, Freeman’s variant b (no priority). Folding Craddock, together with elegant art deco illustra- engraved illustrations in the text. Endpapers chipped at diagram at p. 130. Contemporary ownership inscription tions, and anecdotes behind the cocktails. fore edge. A very good copy. to head of title page. Spine gently rolled, slight bumps £675 [122190] and wear to extremities, light soiling to covers, corre- first edition, presentation copy to the bot- sponding marks to endpapers, top edge dust toned, in- anist and journal editor Maxwell Tylden Masters, 55 ner front hinge cracked but holding; a very good copy. inscribed in a secretarial hand (as usual) on the fourth edition of “the most important bio- half-title “From the author”. Tipped in to the half- DAHL, Roald. Matilda. London: Jonathan logical book ever written”. “The fourth edition of title verso is an autograph note signed by Darwin: Cape, 1988 1866 was of 1,500 copies. It was again extensively “I have told my publisher to send a copy of my In- Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in gilt. With altered, and it is in this one that the date of the sectivorous Plants to your private address, which I the dust jacket. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. An excel- first edition, as given on the verso of the half-title, hope that you will accept, & do not trouble your- lent copy with very minor creasing to head of spine, in is corrected from October 1st to November 24th self to acknowledge its receipt. – My dear Sir yours the jacket with slightly faded spine. [1859]” (Freeman). The 32 pp. of adverts bound at v[er]y sincerely Ch. Darwin”. The front free endpa- first edition. Matilda won the Children’s Book per is inscribed in pencil “Masters”; there is some Award in the year of its publication. It formed the pencilled marginalia and a newspaper clipping basis for both the 1996 film directed by Danny concerning insectivorous plants loosely inserted.

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Maxwell Tylden Masters (1833–1907) kept up a plants to impoverished conditions . . . The book was first edition, first issue, with “Stave I” on the long correspondence with Darwin. He was a spe- published on 2 July 1875, in a standard binding with- first page of text and green endpapers, all the first cialist in plant teratology, or the study of malfor- out inserted advertisements. It is stated that 3,000 edition textual points. The binding differs from mations and abnormal growth, an area that also were printed, of which 2,700 were sold to the trade Todd’s ordering in that the closest interval between greatly interested Darwin, particularly with regard at once. This cannot be strictly true because both the blind-stamping left margin and left extremity of gilt to that effect in peloric orchids.Insectivorous Plants second and third thousands of the same year stated wreath is 15 mm but the “D” of “Dickens” within was reviewed in the Gardener’s Chronicle under his their thousands on the title pages” (Freeman). This the gilt wreath has the upper serif broken off. The editorship. His father, William, a nurseryman, is is therefore one of the first 1,000 copies. hand-coloured green endpapers, Dickens’s original also described by Freeman as a “friendly corre- Freeman 1217. choice for his lavish gift book, proved a disappoint- spondent of CD” (Charles Darwin: A Companion). ment. The colour tended to dust off and smudge, so £18,750 [119449] Darwin’s “meticulous studies [of insectivorous the endpapers were changed to yellow, not requir- plants] form a minor contribution to the evolution- ing hand work. Probably in the middle of binding, 58 ary series by the study of the adaptations of such as demand grew faster than the current endpaper DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. stock, it was decided to use up the green paper, and London: Chapman & Hall, 1843 thereafter it was used indiscriminately with yellow, but discarded again when the initial supply of green Octavo. Original light reddish-brown vertical fine-ribbed became exhausted. Primary copies therefore occur cloth, spine and front cover decorated and lettered gilt, with either green or yellow endpapers, some collec- sides stamped in blind, green endpapers, gilt edges. tors preferring green as the author’s original pre- Housed in a red cloth chemise and red quarter morocco publication choice. solander box. Hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 steel-engraved plates after Leech, wood-engravings Eckel pp. 110–15; Smith II, 4; Todd, The Book Collector, within the text by W. J. Linton after Leech; title page 1961, pp. 449–54. printed in blue & red. Binding rolled and a little dulled, a £15,000 [122243] few nicks to extremities of spine. A very good copy.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 27 “A success that out-ran the wildest expectation” 59 DICKENS, Charles. Signed invitation card with holograph entry in Dickens’s hand and annotated playbill for the production of Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour given by Dickens’s company, the Amateur Players. London: printed by Brad- bury and Evans, 1845 Playbill (265 × 215 mm) printed in red, green, and gold, within an ornamental border; invitation card (98 × 136 mm) printed in green and gold. Playbill lightly creased where folded, both pieces evenly and lightly toned. In excellent condition. A superb memento of Dickens’s theatrical high- water mark, his bravura performance as the “craven and boastful” Captain Bobadil in his own “strictly private” production of Ben Jonson’s comedy Every Man in his Humour. The invitation card – in effect a ticket to the performance – carries his characteristic flourished signature on the verso and a holograph entry in his hand, requesting the pleasure of Miss Holskamp’s company at the first night, seat- ing her in “Boxes, Second Circle” number “44”. The success of Dickens’s performance is attested by a portrait of him in the role, painted by C. R. Leslie in 1846 and lithographed by Thomas Maguire. The playbill is annotated to give a virtually complete cast list and in this regard may well be unique. “Stimulated after giving a reading of The Chimes to a small audience of friends [at Christmas 1844], [Dickens] resolved to organize some amateur theatricals of his own. Returning from a spell of residence in Italy, ‘he flung himself with the passionate fullness of his nature into’ gathering a cast and choosing a play. On 20 September 1845, Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour was played to a private audience at Miss Kelly’s Theatre, ‘with a success that out-ran the wildest expectation’, as Forster recalled, ‘and turned our little enterprise 59 into one of the small sensations of the day’” (V&A Dickens centenary catalogue 1970). The attendee, Miss Holskamp, was one of four sis- ters, all born in the Somers Town area of London,

28 December 2017: Peter Harrington the de la Rues abroad, he wrote home to Catherine have given him the idea of punctuating the theatri- admonishing her that he thought it would become cal proceedings with Rossini’s irresistible music. her now to write Mme de la Rue a friendly letter, Both ticket and playbill are from the collection of which she obediently did). The Dickens family celebrated bibliophile William E. Self, who formed were back in London in July 1845 and Dickens en- a fine Dickens library. A copy of a note in his hand ergetically set about organizing a production of states that the names of the players were “filled in Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour to be given by a by Mrs. Charles Dickens”. The fact that Catherine band of his literary and artistic friends, the Ama- Dickens contributed to the production in some teur Players. This took place on 21 September [sic] small measure is attested by Lillian Nayder: “Cath- in a private theatre in Dean Street, Dickens’s own erine had seen the first performance, at Frances virtuoso performance as Captain Bobadil winning (‘Fanny’) Kelly’s Royalty Theatre, in September, many plaudits” (ODNB). writing many of the invitations herself ” (ibid.). 59 The playbill is annotated in another hand, list- In fact, in September 1850 Catherine appeared as ing all performers (bar two minor parts). This is Bridget in Jonson’s comedy during rehearsals for of importance as it sheds light on the roles taken another performance by Dickens’s troupe, sched- by Dickens’s siblings and friends: Henry Mayhew uled for November at Knebworth House, the home as Knowell, Fred Dickens as Edward Knowell, of Edward Bulwer Lytton (an onstage accident pre- Mark Lemon as Brainworm, Dudley Costello as vented her appearance). It is not wholly fanciful to George Downright, T. J. Thompson as Wellbred, speculate that the “Charles” who appears in the Forster as Kitely, Dickens as Bobadil, Douglas Jer- role of William (servant to Justice Clement) was rold as Master Stephen, “Leach” (John Leech) as the eldest of the Dickens children, eight-year-old 59 Master Mathew, Augustus Dickens as Thomas Charley Dickens. Cash, Percival Leigh as Oliver Cob, Marcus Stone Our example of the playbill may be unique in giv- near Saint Pancras. The most likely of the siblings as Justice Clement, Frederick Evans as Roger ing anything approximating a complete cast list; to be invited to this performance would be Mar- Formal, “Charles” as William, “Jerrold Jun[io] most Dickens biographers have apparently worked garet (1827–1908), who is cited as a correspondent r” (Blanchard Jerrold) as James, Miss Fortescue from the names printed on the ticket. A playbill of Kate Dickens by Lillian Nayder in her biography as Dame Kitely. “It is important to note that the included in the Stanford University Libraries ex- of Dickens’s wife: “In May [1846], Catherine’s de- rest of the cast – Mark Lemon, John Leech, Henry hibition “Dickens and Show Biz” (2006) has only scription of their trip [to Italy] was more defini- Mayhew, Douglas Jerrold, Gilbert a’Beckett [who the names of Lemon, Forster, Dickens (under his tive, particularly in regard to its southern bound- appears not to have performed on this first night early pseudonym “Boz”), and Douglas Jerrold. It ary, a line that she herself drew [the Dickenses dis- but is named on the ticket] – came from a specific is in any case rare to find the two pieces – ticket agreed about the ultimate destination of their year group, a little band of journalists known as the and playbill – offered for sale. We have traced just abroad]. ‘We are on the move again,’ she wrote ‘Punch brotherhood’ to themselves and as ‘those three such examples at public auction: (a) Sothe- Margaret Holskamp, who knew the de la Rues and Punch people’ to outsiders” (Peter Ackroyd, Dick- by’s London 30 November 1931 (lot 112), from the had discouraged the advances of Augusta [de la ens, 1990, p. 470). library of Dickens’s bibliographer Thomas Hat- Rue’s] brother William” (The Other Dickens: A Life of It was an extraordinarily lavish evening at Miss ton (sold for £4), similarly signed and annotated Catherine Hogarth, 2011, p. 139). Kelly’s Theatre: Jonson’s comedy was preceded by by Dickens (to a Mr ?Lane); (b) another, from the The friendship with the de la Rues is a minor but the overture to Rossini’s William Tell and followed remaining part of Hatton’s collection (Sotheby’s intriguing episode in Dickens’s life: “In Genoa [in by silver-fork novelist Catherine Gore’s one-act 20 February 1933, lot 135, price £2); (c) with letters 1845] and elsewhere he became intensely involved farce, A Good Night’s Rest; or, Two O’Clock in the Morn- and printed ephemera from the collection of Mari- in using, either directly or long-distance, the pow- ing (a two-hander, the characters being “Mr. Snob- on Ely, niece of Thomas Noon Talfourd, dedicatee er of mesmeric healing he discovered in himself to bington” and “The Stranger”), itself preceded by of The Pickwick Papers (Bonhams 12 June 2012). alleviate the condition of Mme de la Rue, an Eng- the overture to another Rossini opera, La gazza Forster Collection, V&A Dickens centenary exhibition lishwoman who suffered great distress from hal- ladra. Dickens had recently returned from Italy and catalogue 1970, G11 (playbill only); Gimbel H803 (playbill only: “printed in blue, gold, and red”); Suzannet F6 lucinations. This strange intimacy with Mme de in Pictures from Italy (published in May 1846) notes (playbill only); VanderPoel A207 (ticket only). la Rue caused Catherine considerable uneasiness, several visits to the Carlo Felice theatre in Genoa, not surprisingly. Dickens’s response was righteous where a “second-rate opera company” was per- £12,500 [122153] indignation (eight years later, when he again met forming. It is interesting to speculate that this may

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 29 ral design, morocco onlay in blue, purple, yellow, and red, onlaid initials “C.D.” in red and green morocco, cream moiré silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved frontispieces by Henry Furniss and 195 engraved plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Bookplates in all volumes. Spines faded consistently to brown, very slight loss to headcap of vol. 2. An excellent set in a very handsome binding. signed limited edition, the “autograph edition”, signed by the publisher. As is-

60 sued, this copy contains an original autograph cheque signed by Dickens for £5 dated 2 April 60 61 1864. Each work in this Autograph Edition was is- DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous sued with a similar piece of original signed material. The Autograph Edition was part of a highly am- illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Papers of the Pickwick Club. Edited with bitious project: this is copy number 9 of a planned Bradbury & Evans, 1855–7 annotations, bibliography and topogra- edition of 250 sets of 56 volumes printed on hand- 20 numbers bound in 19, as issued. Original printed blue phy by Frederic G. Kitton. New York: George made paper; of these, however, only 15 volumes wrappers designed by Phiz. Housed in a custom marbled D. Sproul, 1902–3 were issued. Pickwick Papers makes up the first three paper slipcase in green straight-grain morocco-backed volumes. It also comprised a “St Dunstan” edition green cloth and marbled paper chemises. With 40 black 3 volumes, octavo (249 × 173 mm). Contemporary printed on parchment, consisting of 15 sets of 130 and white plates, including 8 dark plates, all by Phiz. Blue green crushed morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet Bindery, volumes, and a “Bibliophiles Edition” printed on gilt spines with red morocco onlaid flowers, gilt motif leather booklabel of William Bunker to front pastedown special handmade paper with ornamental borders of chemises. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of to front covers, richly gilt doublures blocked in flo- John Du Boulay, Donhead Hall to head of front covers. Small clipping removed from front adverts in Part I, pp. 19–20, small pencil marginalia below. Minor creasing to edges, occasional light foxing; an excellent set. first edition, in the original monthly parts published between December 1855 and June 1857, first issue text with “Rigaud” for “Blandois” on pages 469–73 in Part 15. The wrappers and adverts differ from those called for by Hatton & Cleaver as follows: part II, missing back adverts; part X, missing back advert “S. & T. Gilbert”. This set with a newspaper clipping from the New York Times, 18 May 1913, announcing the death, aged 100, of Mary Ann Cooper, “the original Little Dorrit”. Hatton & Cleaver 307–330. £4,500 [121213] 61

30 December 2017: Peter Harrington 62 in colour, consisting of 50 sets of 112 volumes. 63 Learning, 2008). This connection was reaffirmed Only the “St Dunstan” edition was issued in full; when, shortly before Hardy’s death, Drinkwater the “Bibliophiles Edition” only achieved 26 sets. DRINKWATER, John. Tides, a Book of collaborated on a dramatization of Hardy’s novel Pierce Wheeler 19–91. Poems. London: The Beaumont Press, Sep- The Mayor of Casterbridge. tember 1917 £2,500 [122162] Tides was the first book issued by the Beaumont Octavo. Original boards with grey buckram backstrip Press, in a special binding by Sangorski and Sut- and patterned paper sides, title label to spine and front cliffe. The book was issued in the same year in a 62 cover, untrimmed edges, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Labels regular trade edition by Sidgwick & Jackson. a little tanned, corners lightly rubbed, an excellent copy. DISNEY, Walt. Alice in Wonderland produc- £1,500 [122181] tion cel and master pan production back- first beaumont press edition, presenta- ground set-up. “I warn you, child . . . if I tion copy to thomas hardy, with a presenta- lose my temper, you lose your head!” Hol- tion slip on Drinkwater’s letterhead tipped in to the front endpaper, inscribed “Dear Mr. Hardy, lywood: Walt Disney, 1951 this in homage, very sincerely yours, John Drink- Original hand-painted and hand-inked images featur- water”, dated 13 December 1917; and with Hardy’s ing Alice, The King of Hearts and The Queen of Hearts, Max Gate bookplate to the front pastedown; num- all trimmed to the cel outline. Height 12.8, 10.7 and 17.2 ber 181 of 250 copies on handmade paper (there cm respectively. Mounted on a hand-painted master pan were also 20 signed copies on Japanese vellum). production background of the Queen’s garden. 85 × 29.2 cm. The King is affixed to the background itself, while This is a marvellous association for Drinkwa- the Queen and Alice are on an acetate overlay with anoth- ter’s wartime poetry collection, in which several er acetate overlay on top to protect them. The overlays poems reflect the mood of Hardy’s famous war- are held in place with black tape along the border and time poem “In the Time of the Breaking of Na- there is slight paint separation in Alice’s leg and apron. tions”, first published in early 1916, particularly Otherwise in excellent condition. Drinkwater’s similarly morbid use of agricultural This image appears in the original animation of metaphors in poems like “The Plough”, which Alice in Wonderland at the 1:12:00 mark. The back- suggest “a clear connection to be made between ground is marked “2069 Seq. 12.0 Sc 8.1” in the Drinkwater and Thomas Hardy” (Adrian Barlow, right margin. “‘The Word Is Said’ – Re-reading the poetry of John Drinkwater”, Extramural: Literature and Lifelong £15,000 [119892] 63

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From the “extremely beautiful library” at co by Clarke & Bedford, richly gilt spines, gilt ornamental library which was sold by private contract in 1878 panels on sides, gilt supralibros of Archibald Acheson to the London bookseller James Toovey” (Seymour Gosford Park (third Earl of Gosford) on front covers, richly gilt roll tool de Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts, turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Monasticon: half- 1930, p. 156). A part of the library – “the history, 64 titles, additional engraved titles, letterpress titles in red topography, natural history and the important DUGDALE, Sir William, & Roger Dods- and black (in 8 volumes), 243 engraved plates (52 double- page); Saint Paul’s: half-titles, engraved frontispiece in part series of books on large paper” (ibid.) – were worth. Monasticon Anglicanum: a his- one, 64 engraved plates (7 double-page); wood-engraved dispersed through the sale rooms of Puttick and tory of the abbies and other monasteries, decorative initials throughout. From the library of the Simpson in April 1884 but some were retained by hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and col- Irish judge William O’Brien (1832–1899), whose discern- Toovey’s heirs, and the choicest books passed into ing collection is a microcosm of late 19th-century taste in the Pierpont Morgan library in 1899. legiate churches, with their dependen- book collecting, and included a handful of medieval man- cies, in England and Wales . . . By John uscripts, incunabula, Aldine editions, three Shakespeare Dugdale and Dodsworth’s monumental Monasticon Anglicanum was first published between 1655 and Caley, Henry Ellis and the Rev. Bulkeley folios, 16th-century English books and handsome editions of English literature; subsequent labels of Milltown 1673. “It gave the history of the various orders in Bandinel. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Park Library; spines (and some covers) lightly sunned, oc- England, and an account of all the individual mon- Orme, & Brown, 1817; [together with] casional dark mottling, internally some foxing and light asteries. The surviving foundation charters, and DUGDALE, Sir Wiliam. The History of offsetting from plates to letterpress. An excellent set. charters relating to the growth of the monastery, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, in London. Lon- first of these editions, each of the large were printed in full, and all known benefactions paper issue limited to 50 sets, with proof of land made to the monastery were set down. don: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor, & Jones; and plates; the gosford castle copy. “In the Monasticon Anglicanum established for the first time Joseph Harding, 1817–30 early ‘forties, [Archibald Acheson] the third earl the importance of charters as a primary source for 2 works in 8 volumes, bound as 18, folio (475 × 320 mm). of Gosford (1806–1864) had formed at Gosford the writing of medieval history, and as a source for Uniformly bound in mid 19th-century deep purple moroc- Castle, in Ireland, a large and extremely beautiful understanding the legal practice of earlier centu-

32 December 2017: Peter Harrington 65 ries and aspects of the feudal system relating to conditions of tenure. Equally it established for the first time since the Reformation the importance 66 of monasteries and the scale of their territorial possessions” (ODNB). This superb Regency edi- Adams, London Illustrated, 122 & 125; Lowndes p. 685 & tion “contains everything in the original, and in 66 pp. 689–90 (Saint Paul’s: “beautifully printed in double [the antiquary, John] Stevens’s continuation [of columns”). DUVOISIN, Roger. A small archive of 1722–23], with an English account of each mon- Christmas greetings cards and other cor- astery, and additions from the Chapter House, £21,000 [119684] Westminster, and public libraries” (Lowndes). It respondence. Gladstone, NJ: 1970s also drew on the records in the Tower of London 65 Together 7 colour Christmas cards hand-drawn by Du- and the Cottonian collection. Dugdale’s history of (DULAC, Edmund.) QUILLER-COUCH, voisin; 2 autograph letters signed, one with coloured St Paul’s – originally issued in 1658 – became “the drawings; map drawn in red black and green ink show- lasting memorial of old St Paul’s” (ODNB) after the Arthur. The Sleeping Beauty and Other ing the location of the Duvoisins’ house; and 2 single sheets with maxims on art copied from Chinese authori- great fire of 1666 destroyed the old building. Fairy Tales. London: Hodder & Stoughton, ties written in pencil by Duvoisin. In excellent condition. The original plates by Wenceslaus Hollar were re- [1910] An attractive collection of correspondence from engraved for this edition by the Finden brothers Large quarto (305 × 250 mm). Near-contemporary red the Swiss-born American writer and illustrator but the majority of the fine new plates are by the half morocco, red cloth sides, titles and decoration to Roger Duvoisin (1900–1980) and his wife Louise draughtsman and engraver John Coney. With some spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top (Loulou) Fatio to their friends, Helen and Max. considerable justification, the editors describe Co- edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom red Roger Duvoisin won the 1948 Caldecott Medal for ney in their Preface as “an artist whose execution cloth slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 29 colour plates, White Snow, Bright Snow, written by Alvin Tresselt possesses the freedom and delicacy of Piranesi, tissue guards, all by Dulac. Spine lightly toned, a couple of faint marks to covers. An excellent copy. (D. Lothrop Co., 1947). He and his wife created to- without his occasional obscurity and coarseness”. gether the Happy Lion series (1954–80), which, in The art historian Michael Bryan, a contemporary of signed limited edition, number 327 of 1,000 its German-language edition (Der glückliche Löwe), Coney’s, refers to his plates as being “executed with copies signed by the artist. This collection in- won the inaugural 1956 Deutscher Jugendliteratur- consummate skill . . . His drawings exhibit all the cludes four classic French tales: Sleeping Beauty, preis. minutest details without the appearance of labour, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast. yet with a neatness that is truly surprising” (Bryan’s £2,500 [119714] £1,350 [116252] Dictionary of Painters and Engravers).

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sional light spotting and the odd side-rule in pencil; a very good copy. first edition, “an expansion of a sketchy earlier version that Ferguson had published as Institutes of Moral Philosophy” (Chuo). In 1764 Ferguson took up the chair of ethics and pneumatical philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, having previously, from 1759, held the chair of natural philosophy. A short conspectus of his lectures was published in 1761, and the Institutes in 1769. The present work 67 represents Ferguson’s mature reworking of his

67 topher Ricks, the best first poem in a first volume ELIOT, T. S. Prufrock and other observa- of poems. Gallup A1; Hayward 331. tions. London: The Egoist, 1917 £18,750 [122223] Octavo. Original buff wrappers, title to front cover black. Housed in a custom black solander box. Wrappers lightly toned, minute chip to bottom of spine panel, occasional 68 very faint foxing to margins. A very nice copy of this frag- FERGUSON, Adam. Principles of Moral ile publication, usually found in poor condition. and Political Science. Edinburgh & London: first edition of Eliot’s first book, one of 500 copies printed. The collection opens with one of Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, and W. Eliot’s best known poems, “The Love Song of J. Al- Creech, 1792 fred Prufrock”, written while he was still a student 2 volumes, quarto (260 × 208 mm). Contemporary tree at Harvard in his early 20s, but not published in calf, spines ruled gilt, red morocco labels, sprinkled book form until this volume, which was printed edges. Ownership inscription “Henry Hunter Jun” of the with the silent financial support of Ezra and Doro- Inner Temple to each front free endpaper, Italian book- thy Pound. It has been called, by the critic Chris- seller’s ticket to front pastedowns. Joints and corners skilfully restored, some surface wear to boards; occa- 69

34 December 2017: Peter Harrington 70 lectures, prepared following his retirement. The 70 on thicker paper stock and with the word “shoot” lectures were very popular not only with students at p. 10, l. 31, correctly printed. but with members of the Edinburgh intelligentsia. FLEMING, Ian. Complete set of the original James Bond novels and stories in first A complete set of the original sequence of James It was also one of about a dozen books by Scottish Bond novels and stories by Ian Fleming, com- authors (of a total of 550) that James Madison se- editions. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953–66 prising Casino Royale (1953), Live and Let Die (1954), lected for importation into America in 1782 for the 14 volumes, octavo. Original boards, titles and devices Moonraker (1955), Diamonds are Forever (1956), From library of the U.S. Congress. to some boards, in gilt or colour, titles to spines gilt. Russia, With Love (1957), Dr No (1958), Goldfinger Chuo 93; Goldsmiths’ 15064; Jessop, p. 122. With the dust jackets. Ownership inscriptions to a cou- (1959), For Your Eyes Only (1960), Thunderball (1961), £4,750 [121472] ple of volumes. Some spines slightly rolled, occasional The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), On Her Majesty’s Secret spot of faint foxing to contents. Overall an excellent set Service (1963), You Only Live Twice (1964), The Man in the bright jackets, Casino Royale and From Russia, With With the Golden Gun (1965), and Octopussy and The 69 Love particularly so, others occasionally a little marked or slightly soiled, with a few nicks or small chips, minor Living Daylights (1966). FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gats- creasing or rubbing to extremities. Gilbert A1a (1.1); A2a (1.1); A3a (1.2); A4a (1.1); A5a (1.1); A6a (1.3); A7a (1.1); A8a (1.1); A9a (1.1); A10a (1.1); A11a by. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925 first editions, first issues (except Golden (1.1); A12a (1.1); A13a (1.2); A14a (1.3). Octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettered spine, Gun which is in the second state binding as usual, blind lettered front board, top edge trimmed, others without the gilt gun design on the front board, £75,000 [122284] uncut. Spine slightly faded, a couple of marks to front which proved too expensive and was dropped after cover, a little light foxing to contents. A very good copy. the first 940 copies had been sent abroad), all in first edition, first state text. first state jackets, except Octopussy, which has the Bruccoli A11.I.a. publisher’s overprice sticker. Moonraker is in one of two variant states of the first impression, printed £3,250 [121639]

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71 Marwood’s ownership signature on the front free Harvey A16; A19; A25; Moser, The Life in the Fiction of Ford endpaper. The dedicatee, Arthur Marwood (1868– Madox Ford, 2014; Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual [FORD] HUEFFER, Ford Madox. The 1916), was a highly significant figure in Ford’s life: Life, 2012; Taylor, “Short cuts”, London Review of Books, vol. Fifth Queen; Privy Seal; The Fifth Queen “after Madox Brown, Conrad, and James, he was 34, no. 19, p. 23. Crowned. London: Alston Rivers; Eveleigh to become the most important man in Ford’s life £4,250 [122146] Nash, 1906–8 and in his writing” (Saunders, p. 209). Ford met Marwood in 1905, when the two became neigh- 72 Together 3 works, octavo. Original red cloth, decoration bours – Marwood had moved to Winchelsea, to spines, titles to spines and front covers gilt. Spines [FORD] HUEFFER, Ford Madox. The slightly faded, a couple of hinges cracked but holding, seeking a milder climate for his tuberculosis. In contents lightly foxed. A very good set. late 1908, the same year The Fifth Queen Crowned Heart of the Country: A Survey of a Mod- was published, Ford founded the radical literary first editions. dedication copy of The Fifth ern Land. London: Alston Rivers, Ltd, 1906 periodical, the English Review, with Marwood’s fi- Queen Crowned, inscribed by the author on the date Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered nancial backing. When Marwood died from tuber- of publication on the front free endpaper, “Mr. in gilt with gilt-stamped decoration, top edge gilt, others culosis in 1916, his death impressed Ford “more and Mrs. Arthur Marwood, always aff[ectionate] untrimmed. Title page printed in red and black. Spine profoundly than any since those of his father and ly from Ford M. H. 26th March MCMVIII”. The faded, head of front joint partly split, text block unaf- grandfather” (Saunders vol. II, p. 5). The character fected, slight foxing to contents. A very good copy. first volume of the trilogy, The Fifth Queen, has of Christopher Tietjens, the protagonist of Ford’s war tetralogy (1924–1928), was partly a tribute to Marwood, “from whom he took Tietjens’s grand Yorkshire background, mathematical skills and habit of ‘tabulating from memory the errors in the Encyclopaedia Britannica’” (LRB, vol. 34, no. 19). The set is from the collection of Thomas Moser, professor of English at Stanford University, though unmarked as such; he published a psychological biography of Ford Madox Ford in 1980. 71 72

36 December 2017: Peter Harrington Mrs. Marwood always aff[ectiona]tely from Ford M. H. October 28th MCMVII”. For provenance, see the preceding two items. Harvey A24. £3,500 [122239]

74 [FORD] HUEFFER, Ford Madox. A Call: The Tale of Two Passions. London: Chatto and Windus, 1910 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, blind-stamped decoration to front cover. Title page in red and black, 32 pp. advertisements. Spine darkened, ends and edges slightly worn, front hinge cracked but holding. A very good copy. 74 first edition, presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpa- first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by per: “‘I have evolved what has been the guiding the author on the front free endpaper: “Mr. and Mrs. principle of my life: do what you want & take what you get for it.’ ‘And God in His mercy pardon the Arthur Marwood from Ford Madox Hueffer 9th May 75 1906”. For provenance, see the preceding item. ills we do,’ the priest said. ‘I had forgotten that,’ Harvey A17. Grimshaw said. p. 216. A. P. Marwood from Ford Madox Hueffer 9th Feb MCMX”. The inscription in ticated personalities”. Meanwhile Jessie, Conrad’s £3,500 [122155] this copy may be an apology of sorts for a quarrel wife, noted that “‘F.M.H. had a cottage quite close between the two men the previous year, ostensibly to us in Aldington . . . the intimacy was not now 73 over a claim by Ford’s wife, Elsie, that Marwood so great, and there was, I feel sure, some little jeal- ousy on account of Joseph Conrad’s great affection [FORD] HUEFFER, Ford Madox. The had made overtures to her, but also over building tensions in the friendship triangle between Ford, for that other neighbour, Arthur Marwood’” (Mo- Spirit of the People. An Analysis of the Marwood, and Conrad. Ford’s lover, Violet Hunt, ser, p. 103). English Mind. London: Alston Rivers, Ltd, noted that Marwood “was too clever to look for . . . Harvey A28. 1907 the capacity for petty jealousies implicit in the psy- £4,250 [122241] chology of the great nérvoses . . . [he], in his noble Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered simplicity, was caught between two deeply sophis- in gilt with gilt-stamped decoration, top edge gilt. Spine 75 slightly faded, contents lightly foxed. An excellent copy. FRANCIS, Dick. Dead Cert. London: Mi- first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “Mr. and chael Joseph, 1962 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front free endpaper, pasted over ownership inscription. Light foxing to edges, an excellent copy in the toned and price-clipped dust jacket, faint mark to head of front panel, a little rubbing to extremities. first edition. inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Very best wishes, Dick Francis”. This was the author’s first novel.

73 74 £3,500 [121936]

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76 out electrical experiments together. Within a few Soho Enterprises”, West Midlands History: The West Mid- lands Enlightenment, issue 1, spring 2013. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Complete years they were corresponding on the subject of Boulton’s experiments on developing a steam en- £2,500 [119536] Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Mor- gine, which were underway prior to him meeting als. Now first collected and arranged: James Watt” (McLean, p. 34). Both Franklin and 77 with Memoirs of his Early Life, written by Boulton were working on Leyden jar experiments himself. London: printed for J. Johnson, and in particular, and when the former required more FRAZER, James George. The Golden scientific glassware, Boulton procured it for him. Longman Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806 Bough. A Study in Comparative Religion. Franklin thanked him in a letter, adding: “If any London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890 3 volumes, octavo (215 × 132 mm). Near-contemporary thing new in Magnetism or Electricity or any oth- half russia, buff paper boards, spines lettered in gilt, er Branch of natural Knowledge, has occurr’d to 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, buff end- your fruitful Genius since I last had the Pleasure of in gilt, mistletoe design blocked to front boards in gilt, dark green endpapers, edges uncut. Frontispiece with papers, marbled edges. 2 additional engraved vignette seeing you, you will by communicating it, greatly title pages to vols. I and III, 12 engraved plates as issued, tissue guard (tissue foxed). Ownership inscription to oblige” (22 May 1765). some folding, including an additional plate (VIII*) and half-title of vol. 1. Spine ends and corners bumped, vol. folding table. Sale labels of Matthew Boulton’s library, The Complete Works details Franklin’s ground- 1 with slanted spine and cockled boards, contents occa- Christie’s, December 1986, to front pastedowns. Ex- breaking experiments in electricity as well as his sionally spotted with some nicks to edges, overall a very tremities lightly worn, joints a little creased, otherwise thoughts on a wide variety of subjects including good set. a bright and clean set. astrological phenomena, magnetism, naval navi- first edition of Frazer’s highly influential study. first edition, an excellent association gation techniques, the structure of education, “Frazer’s true subject is nothing less than human- copy, from the library of english engi- the slave trade, economy, and his account of the ity’s long upward struggle towards an understand- neer matthew boulton, franklin’s col- American Revolution. Franklin’s reputation as the ing of itself and the world. In Frazer’s view that laborative experimenter and friend. first great American scientist rests on his work on movement towards the light began in earliest Matthew Boulton is best known as the business electricity; his accounts of experiments using Ley- times with the priest–king employing magic to partner of James Watt and as an active member den jars, lightning rods, and charged clouds are compel the gods to do his bidding, followed by a of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a set of key extensively recorded in his papers, many of which religious stage in which humans admit their pow- figures in the Midlands Enlightenment led by Er- were published in this edition for the first time. erlessness and now beseech rather than command asmus Darwin. During his time in England in the Ford 550. See Leonard W. Labaree (ed.), The Papers of the gods. Thus for Frazer religion is a necessary 1750s Franklin travelled to Birmingham where he Benjamin Franklin, vol. 12, 1765 (New Haven: Yale Univer- stage in mental evolution, but one that is based met Boulton and his circle, and “the two carried sity Press, 1967), p. 140; Rita McLean, “Matthew and the on mistaken premisses; it has now in turn been

38 December 2017: Peter Harrington 79 79 superseded by a world-view based on rationality: by J.A.J. about 1935” (Jerome Allen Johnson, his 79 positive science . . . In truth he was engaged all son). This edition, which constituted Frost’s first the while in a covert campaign against religion in collected edition, brings together poems from his GIBBON, Edward. The History of the general and Christianity in particular and may per- early collections: A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Moun- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A haps be seen, along with H. G. Wells, as the most tain Interval, New Hampshire, and West-Running Brook. New Edition. London: for W. Strahan & T. important exponent of secularism in the twentieth The signed limited edition is not uncommon, but Cadell, 1783 & 1790 century” (ODNB). personally inscribed copies are very scarce. 12 volumes, octavo, (210 × 128 mm). Contemporary tree Printing and the Mind of Man 374. £1,500 [122216] calf, titles gilt to red labels to spines, cap decorations £1,750 [121022] gilt to spines. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved folding maps. With bookplate and shelf number of the surgeon James Blackman to front pastedowns and his 78 ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Slight rub- FROST, Robert. Collected Poems. New bing to extremities, occasional wear to very tips, a couple of small marks to boards, top edges dust toned, short York: Random House, 1930 closed tear to front free endpaper of vol. V; an excellent Octavo. Original buckram, gilt title label to spine, top set. edge gilt. Spine somewhat tanned, label scuffed, ends first octavo edition, issued in two parts, the and corners a little rubbed, but a very good copy, sound first six volumes issued in 1783, the second six vol- and internally fresh. umes issued in 1790. A handsomely bound set of first collected edition, signed limited Gibbon’s most important work, first published in issue, number 925 of 1,000 copies signed by the a quarto edition between 1776 and 1788. “Gibbon author, additionally inscribed by the author “To brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of Jerry Johnson from his old old friend Robert Frost” the available sources which have not been equalled on the front free endpaper. Professor Lewis Jerome to this day; and the result was clothed in an inimi- (“Jay”) Johnson (1876–1952) was a Massachusetts- table prose” (PMM). born civil engineer who had coincided with Frost Norton 35 & 37, p. 101. at Harvard. He later taught at Harvard and MIT, and designed the Harvard Stadium. This copy has £2,750 [120226] items of Frost ephemera laid in, including two photographs of Frost captioned as being “taken 78

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81 80 free from the mediations and compromises that Godwin worked into later editions, and which so GIBBONS, Stella. The Untidy Gnome. 81 vexed Percy Bysshe Shelley, who took this book, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1935 GODWIN, William. An Enquiry concern- in its original form, as his bible. Godwin’s Political Large square octavo. Original beige cloth, spine and ing Political Justice, and its Influence on Justice directly provoked Thomas Malthus to write front cover lettered and with pictorial decoration in his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). General Virtue and Happiness. London: brown. With the dust jacket. Full-page black and white Adams, Radical Literature 40; Goldsmiths’ 15825; Kress illustrations and vignettes in red, green and blue by Wil- Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793 B2529; Printing and the Mind of Man 243; Rothschild 1016. liam Townsend. Spine of jacket missing, panels toned and chipped, spine of binding rolled, touch of foxing to 2 volumes, quarto (295 × 228 mm). Uncut in original £8,750 [121489] edges of book block and prelims; with these noted flaws, boards, rebacked with new paper spines, printed paper still a very good copy. labels. Preserved in a custom slipcase. With errata and directions to the binder leaf bound in first volume. Con- 82 first edition, presentation copy from the temporary ownership inscription to title of volume 1, (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.) NAPO- author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Do- another to front board of volume 1 partly eroded. Sympa- ris from Stella. Christmas 1935. ‘I have only picked thetically rebacked, with new printed paper labels, half- LEON. Napoleon’s Memoirs. Edited and two flowers before, and they both died. I’m sure I titles removed, front free endpapers refitted; occasional translated by Somerset de Chair. London: don’t know why.’ Kob”. Kob is the protagonist in light spotting and the odd stain; a very good copy. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 this, Gibbons’s only book for children. Tipped to first edition, uncut in the original 2 volumes, quarto (312 × 190 mm). Bound for the publish- the dedication page is a charming postcard photo- boards, of one of the most radical and far-reach- ers by Sangoski & Sutcliffe in green and dark red morocco, graph of the author, her husband Allan Webb and ing political tracts of the era, by the father of Brit- bee and cockerel decorations to spine gilt, gilt rules and their only child, Laura, who was born in the year ish philosophical radicalism. Published just weeks bee design to covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, of publication; The Untidy Gnome is dedicated to after the execution of Louis XVI, and written in map endpapers by Somerset de Chair. With the slipcase. “Laura Our Daughter”. The verso of the card is in- response to Burke’s Reflections, Godwin’s tract at- Wood-engraved title page vignettes by John Buckland- scribed “Doris from Stella. December 30 1935” and tacks all restraints on the exercise of individual Wright, collotype portrait frontispieces. Book label of carries the wet stamp of the Belsize Park Studio. judgement, in the belief that human opinions will Micheline and Mervyn Parkhouse to first blanks. Spines slightly sunned, an excellent set, attractively bound. A very appealing presentation copy, clearly in- become progressively more enlightened with the tended for a close family friend; copies in the dust growth of knowledge. Among Godwin’s targets signed limited edition, number 14 of 50 spe- jacket are particularly uncommon. were established religion and marriage, and he cially bound copies signed by the editor. An ambi- believed that government itself would ultimately tious undertaking by the Golden Cockerel press, £1,950 [122195] become unnecessary. The first edition is famously these morocco-bound sets were priced at a steep

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30 guineas each, five times more than the other 450 opp[ortuni]ty of Sir Bartle Frere to send you Part lithographs of W. H. Fitch, who was the outstand- canvas-bound copies. The memoirs were a concoc- I of the Botany of the ‘Speke & Grant Expedition’ ing botanical artist of his day. tion by de Chair, from Napoleon’s dictations on St and hope that future travellers will will [sic] find Howgego IV S54; Nissen BBI 1468. Helena which had been published disjointedly. some advantage from it, yours sincerely, J. A. £2,500 [122070] Cockalorum 167. Grant, 7 Park Sq, 17 Mar. 1872”. Kirk (1832–1922), physician and naturalist, was £1,250 [121782] 84 Livingstone’s chief assistant on the second Zam- besi expedition (1858–63). He collected a consid- GRAVES, Robert. I, Claudius; [and:] — 83 erable number of botanical specimens during the Claudius the God and his wife Messalina. GRANT, J. Augustus, John Oliver, & oth- journey, and these laid the foundations for the vo- London: Arthur Barker, 1934 ers. Botany of the Speke and Grant Expe- luminous, government-sponsored Flora of Tropical 2 works, octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine dition. London: Taylor and Francis, 1872[–5] Africa (1868–1917). In 1866 he was appointed vice- consul, Zanzibar. Sir Bartle Frere was despatched gilt, bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust jackets. 3 parts in 1 volume, quarto (285 × 215 mm). Contempo- to the island in 1872 to help him negotiate a treaty With 3 folding genealogical tables. Ownership inscrip- rary blue-green half morocco, raised bands gilt to spine tion to front free endpaper of I, Claudius. Spines gently for the suppression of the slave trade with Sultan rolled, minor rubbing to spine ends, foxing to edges and forming compartments, gilt title direct to second, recent Barghash bin Said, an agreement which estab- cloth sides, new endpapers and cloth inner hinges, edges endpapers; an excellent set in the jackets with nicks to sprinkled red. Folding map coloured in outline, 136 litho- lished Kirk as the island’s de facto ruler. extremities, more noticeably to I, Claudius, with minor graphic plates by W. H. Fitch. Spine, joints and tips slight Grant himself has gone down as a figure “some- loss to spine ends and head of flaps, short closed tear to rubbed, short chip to head of front joint, text-block toned, what underrated, perhaps because, although a foot of rear flap fold, spine browned. presentation inscription faintly offset to slightly spot- member of the successful Nile expedition of 1860– first editions of Graves’s first two historical ted title page, occasional mild foxing, slightly stronger 63, he did not himself visit the actual source of the novels. I, Claudius was the winner of the Haw- to plate 1, which has a small hole from the erasure of a river. Yet his scientific approach, his remarkable thornden and James Tait Black memorial prizes, pencilled annotation, the image unaffected, plates 125–9 and made into a critically acclaimed BBC televi- slightly creased at upper outer corner. A very good copy. written and visual records of east Africa, and his later career mark him out as a considerable figure” sion miniseries starring Derek Jacobi in 1976. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed (ODNB). His researches on the Nile expedition, Higginson A42; Higginson A43. by Grant to African explorer Sir John Kirk on a conducted under difficult conditions, earned him panel from the original wrappers bound to face £2,500 [119942] the Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal, and the title page: “My dear Kirk, I avail myself of the his specimens are handsomely depicted by the

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85 a Christmas gift for Greene’s friends in Christmas 88 1960, with both Waugh and Cooper receiving cop- GREENE, Graham. The Third Man and ies. The two subsequently corresponded in Janu- HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to The Fallen Idol. London: William Heine- ary 1961 regarding the story, and Waugh wrote to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929 mann Ltd, 1950 Cooper, “You may well ask, what about Graham Octavo. Original half japon, black morocco label, blue- Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, pub- Greene’s Christmas story? Is he Morin?” (21 Jan- green sides and endpapers, top edge trimmed, others lisher’s device to rear board in blind. With the pictorial uary 1961). A Visit to Morin was first published in untrimmed. With the original leaf-patterned slipcase, dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket with an London Magazine in January 1957. with numbered label on front. Title enclosed in pale green rule border with decorations. Without the scarce occasional tiny chip. Miller 39. glassine jacket. Short split at head of slipcase, a little first edition. Greene wrote The Third Man in £1,500 [120666] wear to entry, slight crease at head of spine with only mi- novella form as preparation for the screenplay. In nor discolouration. An excellent copy. 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man 87 first and signed limited edition, number (1949) the greatest British film of all time. 135 of 510 numbered copies on large paper signed Brennan 22; Miller 26c. HEINLEIN, Robert A. Starship Troopers. by the author, published simultaneously with the £800 [120720] New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959 trade edition in September 1929. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and star motifs to Grissom A.8.1.a2; Hanneman A8b. 86 spine and front board in silver. With the dust jacket. £11,000 [121676] Small damp stain fore edge, not affecting text. An excel- GREENE, Graham. A Visit to Morin. Lon- lent copy in the dust jacket, with toned spine, small mark don: Heinemann, 1959 to rear panel, extremities nicked and slightly rubbed. 89 first edition in book form. Starship Troop- Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt, green HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Af- ers was first published as a two-part serial in the silk page marker. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy rica. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935 in the slightly foxed dust jacket, with toning to spine Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in October and panel and edges. November 1959 before being published in book Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine on a form the next month. Winner of the 1960 Hugo black ground, facsimile of Hemingway’s signature in first edition, sole impression, presenta- award for best novel, it was adapted to film in 1997 gilt on front cover, top edge pale tan, others untrimmed. tion copy to lady diana cooper, inscribed With the dust jacket: Grissom’s “Jacket B”, with the green by Paul Verhoeven. by the author on the front free endpaper: “For band on the back panel of the jacket extending through Diana, with love and good wishes for Christmas £2,350 [122067] nine lines of text (he refers to these as “styles” of jacket 1960. From Graham”. The story was produced as and not “states”). Housed in a green cloth chemise and

42 December 2017: Peter Harrington 88, 89, 90 dark green quarter morocco slipcase. Chapter headings Octavo. Original red calico-grain cloth, spine lettered stint at J. Walter Thompson. A. E. Hotchner men- and other decorations by Edward Shenton. Binding in gilt on black panels, front cover with facsimile signa- tions JWT in a letter to Hemingway of 21 February spine and periphery of covers slightly sunned, jacket ture in black. With the dust jacket. Gilt to spine a little 1951, discussing a deal to adapt Hemingway short spine lightly toned, minor creasing and nicks to extremi- rubbed, internally fresh, in the jacket with slightly faded stories for television: “In the past two months I ties, a few light scuffs to slipcase. A very good copy. spine panel, head of spine creased and nicked, a little rubbing to extremities. An excellent copy. have talked to most everybody in the business . . . first edition. inscribed by the author on the So you know the lode has been worked here’s the front free endpaper: “Dr. Hemingstein, I presume first edition, presentation copy, inscribed people I’ve had dealings with . . . Rieber at J. Wal- yrs always Ernest Hemingway”, a playful inscription by Hemingway on the front free endpaper, “To ter Thompson . . . I think we’re on solid ground echoing Stanley’s famous greeting to Livingstone. Cuyler Stevens with all good luck Ernest Hem- and that we will keep the name okay with healthy “Dr. Hemingstein” was a persona regularly assumed ingway”, with Cuyler Stevens’s bookplate to the payments to Dr. Hemingstein” (DeFazio, p. 118). by Hemingway, sometimes as “Dr. Hemingstein front pastedown. Hemingway is known to have In 1954 Cuyler Stevens became vice-president of the Philosopher”, “old Dr. Hemingstein, that mas- inscribed copies of several of his books to Ralph another large agency, Cunningham & Walsh, Inc. terful deducer”, and other variations. Lillian Ross Cuyler Stevens (1903–1965), including Winner Take He remained there until he retired in 1962, the year notes that he “signed a few letters ‘Papa’, but mostly Nothing (the Goodwin-Neville copy), The Torrents of after Hemingway’s death, and moved to Spain. he signed them ‘Ernest’ or ‘Honest Ernie’ or ‘Huck Spring, and a copy of The Sun Also Rises, which we Hanneman A.16a; Grissom A.16.1. Princeton Alumni Week- have handled. von Hemingstein’ or ‘Ernest Buck Hemingstein’ or ly, vol. 66, 19 October 1965; The Princeton University Library ‘Mountain Boy Huck’ or ‘Huckmanship von Hem- Cuyler Stevens entered Princeton in 1922. “At Chronicle, vol. 20; DeFazio (ed.) Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The ingstein’” (Portrait of Hemingway, 1961). Princeton he made a host of friends and was Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner, 2005. Czech, African Big Game 1785 to 1950, p. 74 (“Hemingway’s known for his story telling ability and wonderful £18,750 [121928] classic is based very closely on his safari to East Africa”); sense of humor. Cuyler wrote for the Princeton Ti- Grissom A13.1.a; Hanneman A13. ger, was a member of the Glee Club, Triangle Club, £20,000 [121631] Nassau Herald Board and Campus Club. After graduation he went into the business world. But 90 Cuyler was always interested in advertising, so he left the Prudential Insurance Co. in 1934 to join J. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Fifth Column Walter Thompson Co. as a copy writer”. The exact and the First Forty-Nine Stories. New York: circumstances under which he and Hemingway Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938 became acquainted are not known. But we have traced a possible connection during Stevens’s 90

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 43 such as the saké shop, the stone mason, the barber, the sparrow catcher, the fortune teller, the flute player, the kamikudsuhiroi (or “picker up of paper- scraps”), the mikoshi (or divine palanquin used in Shinto), and a Buddhist baptism (nagare-kanjo). The charming plates were probably drawn by a Japa- nese artist. Purcell (1841–1877) was an Irish doctor who served as surgeon-major in the British diplo- matic service. He was principal medical officer in the Japanese government’s department of public works (see Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits vol. II). He and the distinguished Japanese scholar Wil- liam George Aston collaborated on the first English translation of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (1889). Rogala 937 (“An easy-to-read depiction of life in Tokyo in the 1870s, with appropriate full-page drawings of life scenes”). 91 £1,850 [120277]

91 92 (JAPAN: TOKYO.) PURCELL, Theobald KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung (Meta- Andrew. “Our Neighbourhood” or morphosis). Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915 Sketches in the Suburbs of Yedo. Yoko- 92 hama: 1874 Octavo. Original japon-backed blue laid paper boards, titles to front board and spine in black, top edge blue. do with Ottomar Starke’s Expressionist cover illus- Octavo. Original blue sand-grain cloth neatly rebacked, With the dust jacket and printed portion of the wrapa- tration. After learning that Starke would illustrate round band. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco blind panelling on covers, gilt lettering on front cover. 24 the dust jacket, Kafka wrote to the publisher: “The wood-engraved plates (most with loosely inserted tissue and cloth flat-backed folding case. Minor staining to insect itself must not be illustrated by a drawing. It guard). A few stains and marks to covers, one plate with outer edges of boards, endpapers and terminal leaves a touch of pencilled colour, some light signs of handling. foxed. An unusually bright copy in the tanned and lightly cannot be shown at all, not even from a distance” A very good copy. spotted dust jacket, with small scuff to the front panel. (25 October 1915). first edition of one of the earliest ac- first edition, the uncommon case-bound £22,500 [120820] counts of japanese daily life from a west- issue. The publication of this work – the first of ern perspective to be published in japan; Kafka’s masterpieces – was a confused affair. The 93 inscribed on the title page by the au- publisher planned two issues: one in wrappers, the thor’s father: “T. A. Purcell QC” (c.1818–1894). other in boards. But sales were disappointing and (KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. Rare: among British and Irish institutional librar- many copies remained unsold. After a year or so Moby Dick or The Whale. Chicago: The ies Copac cites only British Library (two copies), the publisher added the official German censor’s Lakeside Press, 1930 OCLC adds Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg and stamp to the title pages of the unsold remainder. Possibly at the same time they reissued the book 3 volumes, large quarto. Original black cloth, bevelled National Diet Library (Japan). At this time, very boards, titles and vignettes to spines in silver, abstract in a cheaper-looking binding, with wove paper little printed material was produced at Yokohama design and volume numbers within simple frame to for Europeans. boards and inferior stamping. But did the original front boards in silver, top edges black, others uncut. boards issue have a dust jacket? One theory has it Later published in Britain as A Suburb of Yedo (Lon- Housed in the original aluminium slipcase. Wood-en- that the publishers reused wrappers from the first don: Chapman and Hall, 1889), this is a fascinating gravings throughout by Rockwell Kent. Very light mark- issue to make jackets at a later date. But our copy ing to covers, spines very slightly faded. Slight offsets series of sketches of a Tokyo suburb. Originally pub- settles the matter. The earliest issue without the from illustrations, as usual. Slight scuffing to slipcase. lished in the Japan Weekly Mail, the sketches are “in rubber stamp and in the better quality binding, as An excellent copy. a measure revised and, indeed, in some instances here, had a dust jacket. This matter is important first rockwell kent edition, presenta- rewritten” (Preface). Each chapter depicts subjects because the fame of this first printing has much to tion copy, with a pencilled inscription by the il-

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first edition of the first of Keynes’s major contributions to economic theory. A Treatise on Money is the first of Keynes’s two major contributions to economic theory and his most comprehensive 93 work on monetary theory. It anticipates many of the ideas of the General Theory, which it immedi- lustrator to the front free endpaper of volume 1: Octavo. Original purple cloth-backed white boards ately preceded and by which it has been, perhaps “To Jerry M. Stepanek by Rockwell Kent”. Limited printed in purple and red, designed by Kerouac, titles to unfairly, overshadowed. spine in silver, orange endpapers. Publisher’s prospectus to 1,000 sets, the Lakeside Press Moby Dick is one Moggridge A7.1. of the great American illustrated books. In 1926, for the book laid in. Spine slightly faded, occasional spot of foxing to boards and edges. An excellent copy. R. R. Donnelley and Sons approached Rockwell £5,500 [121986] Kent (1882–1971), then just beginning to establish first and signed limited edition, number his fame as an artist, to illustrate a new edition 645 of 750 copies only signed by the author. Kerou- of Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast. ac wrote the novel between 1951 and 1952. This ex- Kent demurred, suggesting Moby Dick instead. He cerpt comprised around a third of the text. Visions was given complete freedom to design and illus- of Cody was not published in its entirety until 1972. trate the three-volume set, including its distinctive £2,000 [121951] aluminium slipcase. The resulting work has been hailed as a masterpiece of 20th-century book illus- 95 tration and credited with reviving public interest in a sublime but difficult novel. KEYNES, John Maynard. A Treatise on Hutner & Kelly, Fine Printed Books 1900–1999, 22. Money. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, £10,500 [121809] 1930 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine 94 gilt, double line rules in blind to front boards continued in gilt to spines. With the dust jackets. Dust jackets KEROUAC, Jack. Excerpts from Visions with darkened spines, very slight chipping at head, front of Cody. New York: New Directions, 1960 panel of volume 2 lightly creased; internally with some light spotting, more severe in places; a very good set in unrestored dust jackets, increasingly scarce thus. 95

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96 97 KEYNES, John Maynard. The General KIPLING, Rudyard. ‘Captains Coura- Theory of Employment Interest and geous’ A Story of the Grand Banks. Lon- 98 Money. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, don: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1897 fective” to “splendid”. This copy is decidedly at the 1936 Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decorations latter end of the spectrum. to spine and front cover gilt, black coated endpapers, gilt Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and double- Livingston 137; Martindell 68; Richards A102; Stewart p. edges. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue quarter ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind. Spine 152. rolled and a little faded with small indent near the foot, morocco slipcase and pale blue chemise. Frontispiece ends bumped, overall a very good copy. (with tissue guard) and 21 illustrations by I. W. Taber. £12,000 [122235] Jacket spine and panels only very slightly toned, a few first edition. “The world-wide slump after 1929 neat tape repairs on verso, short vertical hole at fold of prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, spine and back panel, binding spine only slightly rolled. 98 and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of An exemplary copy. LAWRENCE, D. H. Lady Chatterley’s the trade-cycle . . . in his General Theory, he sub- first uk edition, following by a little over a Lover. Florence: Privately Printed, 1928 jected the definitions and theories of the classical month after the US edition published on 16 Sept. school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and 1897 (Richards). The story was first serialized in Square octavo. Original very light reddish brown paper boards, printed spine label, Lawrence’s phoenix device found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” McClure’s Magazine, Nov. 1896 to May 1897, with 25 (PMM). His conclusion, namely that “the regula- blocked in black on front cover, untrimmed and largely illustrations by I. W. Taber, and in Pearson’s Maga- unopened. With the plain dust jacket. A fine copy in tion of the trade-cycle – that is to say the control of zine, Dec. 1896 to Apr. 1897, with 41 illustrations by about fine jacket – lightly toned at the spine, folds and booms and slumps, the level of employment, the I. W. Taber and Fred T. Jane. “Kipling thought he’d periphery of panels, old tape repair on verso at foot of wage-scale and the flow of investment – must be written a great story. He wrote to [the dedicatee Dr front panel, a few minor nicks and chips – a strikingly the responsibility of governments”, permanently James] Conland, after the book had begun to ap- well preserved copy in one of the finest examples of the altered the terms of economic debate and consid- pear serially, ‘I tell you that tale will be a snorter’” fragile dust jacket that we have encountered. erations of the role of government in managing (Gidmark, ed., Encyclopaedia of American Literature of first and signed limited edition, number the economy (or not). the Sea and Great Lakes, 2001, p. 71). 780 of 1,000 copies signed by Lawrence. “The Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. A dazzling copy in the rare dust jacket. Since 1935 publication (for subscribers) of the final version £975 [119572] only ten or so copies with the jacket have appeared of Lady Chatterley’s Lover – written in the astonish- at public auction, in condition ranging from “de- ing time of just five weeks, in one of Lawrence’s last great bursts of creative energy – also sustained

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the Ottoman Empire entered the war at the end 99 of October he expected to leave immediately for Egypt, but was first required by Lord Kitchener to compile a road report on Sinai. Lawrence had in his canon, with no copies in auction records, never visited the peninsula’s southern reaches. He two in British and Irish institutional libraries (Dur- expressed his reservations in a characteristic letter 98 ham and the Ministry of Defence Library), and to archaeologist E. T. Leeds: “I’m writing a report four in libraries world-wide (the Huntington and from the military point of view of a country I don’t three libraries in Australia). The British Library him, as he overcame the difficulties lying in the know, and haven’t visited yet . . . One of the mi- has two copies of the map and another copy of a way of an individual publishing and distributing nor terrors is, that later on I’m to . . . guide myself 1916 reprint. Marked “for official use only”, a num- his own book. With the help of the Florentine over the country with it” (Wilson). The report took ber in the imprint slug suggests that 1,700 copies bookseller Pino Orioli, the handsome volume Lawrence a month to complete. It contains de- were printed. Judging from the rate of survival was printed in and distributed from Florence, and tails of wells, gradients, telephone lines, Turkish it seems that the majority were never issued and made Lawrence more money than he had ever im- outposts, and much other information. Although subsequently pulped. This was because until 1916 agined” (ODNB). Lawrence gleaned only imperfect information on the Egyptian Expeditionary Force was occupied the recently-constructed Ottoman road network, Roberts & Poplawski A42a (not mentioning the existence defending the Suez Canal from irregular Ottoman of the dust jacket). his book was “the major resource for commanders and German raids. It was only with the appoint- and staff officers” in the EEF. Intelligence officer £16,500 [122240] ment of Lieutenant-General Archibald Murray as Walter Gribbon later characterized it as “the most EEF commander-in-chief that “going on the of- comprehensive and up-to-date” British handbook 99 fensive and seizing control of the Sinai Peninsula on Sinai at that time (Goldstone, Aaronsohn’s Maps: from the Ottoman Turks” was thought the best The Untold Story of the Man who might have created Peace [LAWRENCE, T. E.] Military Report on strategy for securing the canal (“Sinai Campaign”, the Sinai Peninsula. London: Harrison & in the Middle East, p. 132). Lawrence finally reached New Zealand History, online). A pencilled number Cairo in December. At the age of 26 he became the Sons, 1914 to the front wrapper of this copy indicates that it youngest member of Gilbert Clayton’s Department was copy number 59. Large sextodecimo (190 × 124 mm). Original buff card of Intelligence, the precursor to the Arab Bureau. wrappers, lettered in black to front. Folding 2–colour From January to February 1914 Lawrence was After the capture of Akaba in 1917 Lawrence, as he map to end-pocket. Spine chipped at extremities, wrap- with Leonard Woolley in the Negev, conducting had predicted, relied on his own report to make pers spotted, “59” inscribed to front wrapper in blue a clandestine military survey under archaeologi- the 160-mile journey back to Suez. pencil, contents clean: an excellent copy of a fragile pub- cal cover, the results of which were published as O’Brien A009; Wilson, T. E. Lawrence [catalogue for 1988– lication. The Wilderness of Zin. After returning to England, 9 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery], 83. first edition of lawrence’s first sole- he joined the Geographical Section of the Gen- £14,750 [120371] authored book, one of the black tulips eral Staff in London as a second lieutenant. When

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100 LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1927 Large octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, pictorial endpapers. Cloth slightly soiled, spine lightly sunned, occasional faint spotting to 101 margins of text block. A very good copy. first u.s. edition. inscribed by noël cow- to front free endpaper. Spine foxed and slightly faded, arrangements I ever had . . . You had the girls at ard to laurence olivier on the half-title: occasional faint spotting to contents, light wear to bot- the shop in a tizzy wondering about my gentle- “For Larry, a gallant spirit, Noël 1930”. Olivier was tom fore corner, jacket a little rubbed and creased at ex- man admirer . . . a gentleman in this day and age is tremities, tiny chips and nicks to spine ends, short closed originally set to play the character of Prince Faisal so rare that it’s a cause of wonderment”. She also tear to foot of front panel, faint tape residue to flaps. An in David Lean’s 1962 film. excellent copy in the jacket with unusually bright spine. explains that she had mailed the book to him and £1,250 [121723] subsequently lost his address, and a mutual ac- first edition. inscribed by the author to quaintance had been unreachable (“I’ve been fret- sheldon reid on the front free endpaper, “To ting for weeks that I’ve been unable to thank you “Don’t worry – it’ll never decrease in Sheldon with my love, Harper Lee”, together with . . . I know you’re unlisted so called Jay for it with three pieces of correspondence from the author to no success.”) value!” him. Reid purchased this copy of the first edition A further piece of correspondence from Lee ac- 101 for Lee to sign for him. The front free endpaper bears the original pencilled bookseller’s price and companies the book, though unrelated to its sign- LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Phil- inscription: “two hundred dollars FIRM (an auto- ing: a typed letter signed, dated 3 November 1992, adelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960 graphed copy sold about two years ago for $600)”. written prior to the exchange of the book. In it, Lee again references their mutual acquaintance Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown boards, title Lee inscribed the copy and returned it with an autograph note, dated 10 November: “Your friends (“Jay told me that . . . you sounded almost chipper! to spine brown. With the supplied dust jacket. Housed in Keep on keeping on . . . life is too precious to live a custom green cloth solander box. [Together with corre- might think you’re crazy, but don’t worry – it’ll it on a shrink’s couch”), and thanks him for send- spondence from the author:] a) Typed letter signed with never decrease in value!” Reid subsequently sent envelope, 3 November 1992; b) Autograph letter signed, her flowers as a thank-you gift. In the closely-writing her a newspaper clipping, and in response 10 November [1992]; c) Christmas card with envelope, 16 ten Christmas card from Lee, dated 16 December deplores that “Selma has reached the lowest of December 1992. Ownership signature of Lillian Shipley 1992, she thanks him for “one of the loveliest floral lows: the most shameful event in the history of

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jor source of its funding. A private and retiring author, Lee was sensitive to the exploitation of Mockingbird and those who sought to profit from it without permission. She later sued the Monro- eville County Museum for similar exploitation of her novel. Lee concludes the letter here on a more prosaic note, lamenting that Monroeville is “100 miles in any direction from a dress shop and a bookstore. So much for fashion and culture. H. L. Mencken would feel right at home here – it is still the Sahara of the Bozart”. Dwyer and Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geogra- phy of Memory, p. 34. £35,000 [121383]

102 LEE, Laurie. Cider with Rosie. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959 Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. 101 With the dust jacket and pink wraparound band. Fron- tispiece drawing and illustrations to text by John Ward. A little foxing to edges and endleaves; an excellent copy in Alabama took place at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Though we cannot know the exact contents of the the jacket, with very slightly faded spine and the scarce Selling pieces of the True Cross would be in better news clipping, we can guess that Lee was object- wraparound band. taste”. Lee also decries the exploitation and “use ing to the sale of memorabilia by the National Vot- first edition. inscribed by the author on of Mockingbird and my name” by the Blue Ribbon ing Rights Museum gift shop. The museum had the title page, “For Diana, with all best wishes. Committee, which was formed to raise funds for opened earlier that same year, near the Edmund Laurie Lee, 1987”. restoration of the Old Monroe County Courthouse Pettus Bridge, infamous as the site of the “Bloody (the inspiration for the courthouse in Mockingbird). Sunday” police riot in 1965. The shop was a ma- £1,250 [121172]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 49 been taken ill with appendicitis (Variety, 7 Febru- ary 1937, p. 4). The play was short-lived, running 5–20 February, and “Vivien’s role was the only dimensional and theatrical one in the play. Need overbalanced judgment, for it is doubtful that she would have accepted the part in view of her lack of belief in the play’s merits if she thought there was another choice” (Edwards, p. 73). By now Leigh had decided that she was perfect for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Selznick’s planned film version of the novel. Just two nights before she inscribed this copy, producer David Selznick noted in a cable to his New York production executive, “I have no enthusiasm for Vivien Leigh” (Spicer, p. 166). Her agent John Gliddon relayed the bad news, but Leigh nevertheless remained utterly convinced that the role would be hers. Caroline Lejeune, film critic of the Observer, vividly recalled a conversation in mid-1937 about the cast- ing of Gone with the Wind, in which it was suggested that Olivier could play Rhett Butler – Leigh drew herself up, and foretold: “Larry won’t play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O’Hara. Wait and 103 see” (Spicer, p. 166). On 10 December 1938 Leigh walked onto the set The woman who would be Scarlett cident. She continued to read it while rehearsing the night the burning of Atlanta scene was filmed, Because We Must, her first lead role in a West End and she finally met David Selznick. On 13 Janu- 103 play (Edwards, p. 73). “Her enthusiasm for Gone ary 1939 – after a two-and-a-half year worldwide search for his Scarlett O’Hara, and less than two (LEIGH, Vivien.) MITCHELL, Margaret. with the Wind grew everyday as she voraciously read through the 1,000 pages” (Capua, p. 36). weeks before shooting with the major actors be- Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan gan – Selznick announced to the press that the role This is one of a handful of copies long rumoured Company, 1937 was hers. to have been inscribed by Leigh to her fellow Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine red. Housed cast members on the opening night of one of It is interesting that her handwriting here is very in a custom black flat-backed cloth box. Spine rolled and her earliest West End appearances. Although neat and controlled. It is a significant contrast to darkened, minor wear to spine ends, covers rubbed, rear successive biographers have referred to them, no her later handwriting, which, though still legible, hinge cracked (not affecting endpapers but gauze visible copy before this has emerged to prove the story became much more scrawling. Fortunately her at gutter of final page of text), internally clean. A very handwriting at this early date can be confirmed by good copy. true. We can trace no other such copy, either in libraries or in commerce. Only a single dead- comparison with her contemporary appointment presentation copy from vivien leigh, in- end reference on the Internet, placing one with diaries, now held in the V&A. scribed on the front pastedown: “Anthony Ireland, a Boston dealer sometime in the distant past, Capua, Vivien Leigh: A Biography, 2003; Edwards, Vivien from Vivien Leigh. (Because we must.) February offered any evidence of them outside of the pages Leigh, 1978; Holden, Olivier, 1988; Spicer, Clark Gable: 5th 1937”, an extraordinarily prophetic presenta- of the biographies. Biography, Filmography, Bibliography; Variety, New York, tion copy, signalling Leigh’s determination to Wednesday 17 February 1937 (“Appendicitis seized An- win the role that would launch her international The recipient of this copy, Anthony Ireland, was thony Bruce on eve of production of Because We Must at stardom. This is the fifth printing, published Janu- hastily cast in the part of Hugh Greatorex, “com- Wyndham’s. Anthony Ireland hastily commandeered ary 1937 (first published September 1936). Leigh mandeered from rehearsals of As You Like It”, the from rehearsals of As You Like It and show opened the following night”). discovered the novel over the Christmas 1936 day before the opening night, as a last-minute re- holiday during her recuperation from a skiing ac- placement for the actor Anthony Bruce, who had £12,500 [115333]

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104 texts comprise the foundational practical treatise celebrated Christina, with a second dedication to on Renaissance art. Pierre Bourdelot, physician to the queen, and with LEONARDO DA VINCI. Trattato della whom Du Fresne had accompanied the queen to pittura. Paris: appresso Giacomo Langlois, The two editions were the first-ever publications of Leonardo’s treatise. The French writer and the- Rome. 1651 orist on art and architecture Fréart de Chambray The key difference is that Fréart based his French Quarto (376 × 249 mm). Contemporary mottled calf pro- initiated the project; the French translation is his translation on a single source, the manuscript fessionally refurbished (joints and corners repaired, new work. The Italian edition was edited by Raphael with the Poussin drawings, whereas Du Fresne’s label to style), decorative gilt spine, marbled edges. Ad- Trichet Du Fresne, a numismatist, bibliophile, and text was the result of a collation of several manu- ditional engraved title by René Lochon (incorporating a curator for the duc d’Orleans. script versions of the original. portrait of Leonardo), portrait of Alberti, 73 plates (19 of which are after Nicolas Poussin) in the text (illustrative The two editions bear many similarities. Both ver- provenance: ownership inscriptions of Heneage or diagrammatic), title vignettes, head- and tailpieces sions were published in the same year by the same Finch on engraved and letterpress titles; almost and initials. Much of gilt rubbed from spine, divisional press. The illustrations for both were the work certainly the diplomat and third earl of Winchilsea title to Alberti’s “della Pittura” misbound before Alberti of the artist Charles Errard, who was a friend of (1627/8–1689), in 1660 the first peer to be appoint- general title, old grease stain to engraved title, pale both editors. Errard aided Fréart with his French ed to the embassy in Constantinople. “In 1657–8 dampstain in gutter of first few gatherings, scattered translation and Du Fresne in his explanation of he travelled extensively on the continent, acquir- marginal stains and signs of handling otherwise a very the graphic parts of the Italian text. Errard based ing a lifelong love of Italy and antiquities” (ODNB). good copy, complete with the medial blank [R4]. his illustrations on drawings that Poussin had in- It is most likely that he purchased this copy on that editio princeps of Leonardo’s treatise on paint- tended as informal descriptive illustrations for the grand tour. With later ownership inscriptions (on ing, also published in a French translation the Leonardo text. Du Fresne parallels Fréart’s dedi- the same pages) of another Finch. same year, although that edition did not include cation of the French translation to Poussin with a Brunet V 1257–58; Fowler 180 (edition of 1733); Millard, the two treatises by Alberti. Brunet gives prec- dedication of the two Alberti treatises to Errard. French Books, 95. edence to this edition in Italian, which is virtually He also provides a more conventional dedication £9,500 [120135] doubled in size by the addition of Alberti’s Trattato of the entire work to the queen of Sweden, the della pittura and Trattato della statua. Together these

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106 LOFTING, Hugh. Doctor Dolittle’s Re- 105 turn. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1933 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front 105 cover in green, decoration to front cover in white, pic- LOCKE, John. Two Treatises of Govern- torial label to front cover, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page and ment . . . The fifth edition. London: A. illustrations to text all by the author. Walt Disney Enter- Bettesworth, J. Pemberton and E. Symon, 1728 tainments 1937 Snow White postage stamp to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled and lightly faded, slight wear Octavo (195 × 118 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, to very tips, edges browned; an excellent copy. spine decorated gilt in compartments, new red morocco label, two-line gilt ruled border on sides, speckled edg- first edition. signed by the author on the es. Gilt monogram to central spine compartment. Bind- half-title, “Sincerely yours, Hugh Lofting, May ing expertly refurbished, joints cracked but firm, spine 1934”. Lofting’s works are uncommon signed, ends and corners a little worn with some surface wear to with no other signed copies of this work traced at boards, spine label renewed; a crisp, clean copy. auction. Fifth edition of one of Locke’s principal works, £1,500 [120118] first published in December 1689 (the title page is dated 1690), and conceived as a vindication of the Revolution of 1688–9, which had “saved the Na- 107 tion when it was on the very brink of Slavery and Ruine” (Locke’s preface). This was the only edi- LOVECRAFT, H. P. The Outsider and tion to appear “during the half-century from the Others. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939 death of Queen Anne (1714) to the end of the Seven Octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the Years’ War (1763) . . . except in editions of the col- dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge of text block and lected works” (ODNB). endpapers, an excellent copy in the bright, price-clipped Yolton 33c. dust jacket with just a little creasing and a couple of nicks to extremities. £1,500 [120971] 106

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108 LOWRY, L. S. The Fever Van. Holt: J. H. Mainstone Print Publications, 1972 109

Colour offset lithograph on wove paper. Image size: 41.5 × of volume 2, and a few marginal annotations to the same, 51.5 cm. Sheet size: 60.5 × 69.8 cm. Laid down onto back- including the date 27 July 1842 to the final page. Boards ing board. Presented in a lime wax frame with acrylic glass. faded and a little marked with a few knocks, front hinge Edition of 700. Signed in pen lower right by Lowry. of volume 2 reinforced, contents tanned with some nicks Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp to lower left. An to fore edges, plates and guards foxed as often, minor ambulance has drawn up outside a house in Sal- worm damage to the rear free endpaper of volume 3, oth- ford to collect a fever patient. This print is after an erwise a very good set. oil painting which is hanging in the Walker Gal- first edition. Mackay’s important early work of lery, Liverpool. social psychology discusses popular delusions of all types and considers the credulous enthusiasm of £4,000 [122257] mankind for phenomena such as alchemy, witch- craft, relics, the Crusades, urban myths, as well as 109 economic events such as the tulip bubble, the Mis- 108 MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraor- sissippi Bubble, and the South Sea Bubble. Still in dinary Popular Delusions. London: Richard print, Mackay’s book has had a profound influence on economics and sociology, with many modern first edition, in the fantastically illustrated dust Bentley, 1841 economists referring to his work when analysing jacket, of the first Arkham House title, and the first 3 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, relined and re- the stock market bubbles of our own age. “Charles omnibus edition of Lovecraft’s fiction. A labour of backed preserving the original spines lettered in gilt and Mackay’s passionate erudition and urbane, unaf- love from Lovecraft’s friends Derleth and Wandrei, ruled in blind, boards elaborately decorated in blind, fected prose style contributed to make him one of The Outsider and Others kick-started Arkham House, yellow endpapers, edges uncut. With an additional leaf the chief figures in the establishment of Victorian being printed in a relatively small run of 1,268 cop- of publisher’s advertisements to the front of volume 2. journalism as a dignified profession” (ODNB). ies and containing the best of Lovecraft’s fiction, Frontispieces with tissue guards to each volume and 2 from “Dagon” to “At the Mountains of Madness”. engraved portrait plates to volume 3. Illustrated book- Dennistoun & Goodman 58; Kress C.5560; Zerden, pp. plates to front pastedowns, removal of library labels 77–8; not in Goldsmiths’ or Mattioli. £5,500 [121620] from spines apparent, reference numbers to title pages £10,000 [121427] in pencil, ownership inscription to front free endpaper

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 53 slipcase. Titles printed in red and black. Spines slightly rolled, tips very faintly rubbed, otherwise a fine set, with the slipcase only a trifle rubbed here and there. first edition, number 433 of 525 copies in the original unexpurgated edition. On publication, the book was hailed as a powerful personal vision of the Great War. In Men at War Hemingway described it as “The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read. I read it once each year to remember how things really were so that I will never lie to myself nor to anyone else about them.” T. E. Lawrence remarked that “No praise could be too sheer for this book . . . it justifies every heat of praise.” An expurgated edition, Her Privates We, appeared the following year, its title taken from the line in Shakespeare’s Hamlet immediately following “the middle parts of fortune”. But Manning never achieved lifetime fame; he died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Hampstead in 1935. It was 110 111 not until the re-issue of the full text in 1977 that the novel received the recognition that it deserved. The first edition is extremely scarce complete with 110 his account of the world. That account covers his its rather ill-made original slipcase. travels to the Middle East and Palestine in the first MANDEVILLE, Sir John. The Voiage and part, before he continues to India, Tibet, China, £1,500 [120858] Travaile . . . Now publish’d entire from an Java, and Sumatra, then returns westward via Ara- Original MS. in the Cotton Library. Lon- bia, Egypt and North Africa. Mandeville “enjoyed 112 widespread popularity in the fifteenth century and don: printed for J. Woodman, D. Lyon and C. MAO (Tse-Tung or Zedung.) Collection Davis, 1725 was respected by scholars and cartographers, Co- lumbus among them, who consulted it as a reli- of Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu (Quotations from Chair- Octavo (229 × 135 mm). Mid 19th-century green moroc- able source on the Far East” (Howgego). man Mao), known as The Little Red Book. co, titles to spine decorated gilt in compartments, decorative gilt frames to covers, marbled endpapers, turn-ins From the library of Irish judge and discerning book Beijing: 1964 collector William O’Brien (1832–1899), which was and edges gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Spine Together 5 works, duodecimo. 3 copies of Mao Zhu Xi Yu faded, boards slightly sprung, occasional faint foxing; an endowed on his death to the Milltown Park Jesuit Lu: (a) [No location, but probably Beijing or Tianjin, May excellent copy. Library, Dublin. This copy bears his post-mortem 1964.] Original red vinyl, title to front cover in blind. First second edition in english. The Voyages de Je- bookplate and the Milltown Park library ticket and edition, first state text; (b) As previous. Original white han de Mandeville chevalier first appeared in manu- bequest label to the front pastedown. wrappers, title to spine and front cover in black and red. script in France c.1357. The first edition in English Howgego V M13. First edition, second state text; (c) [August 1965]. Origi- nal red vinyl covers, title to front cover in blind. Third was printed in 1499. In 1725 this new edition was £1,500 [119861] edition, first printing; (d) Quotations from Chairman Mao. printed by William Boyer in an issue of 350 copies, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, January 1967. Origi- prepared from the Cotton manuscript in the Brit- 111 nal red vinyl covers. First edition in English, later print- ish Museum. It established the standard English ing; (e) SCHILLER, Justin G. Quotations of Chairman Mao text. Now known to have been confected from a MANNING, Frederick. The Middle Parts 1964–2014. A short bibliographical study. New York: The Gro- variety of earlier sources, the Travels purports to be of Fortune. London: The Piazza Press issued lier Club, 2014. First edition, first printing. One of 1,000 copies. Frontispiece portraits of Chairman Mao. Vinyl the personal account of Sir John Mandeville, born to subscribers by Peter Davies, Ltd, 1929 and bred in St Albans, who left England in 1322 copies in bright covers, with a few light marks, contents fresh and clean; copy in wrappers a little creased, faint and travelled the world for many years, serving 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown buckram, titles gilt to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others un- marks to covers, but a well-preserved copy of a fragile the sultan of Cairo and visiting the Great Khan, publication. An excellent set. and finally in 1357 in age and illness setting down cut, red silk page-markers. With the original red cloth

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A remarkable collection of Mao’s Quotations, com- and planned to assassinate Mao. Consequently, however, a change of government meant further prising: the first edition (two copies: corrected “many surviving copies in the Chinese language circulation of the book was discouraged, with mil- and uncorrected); the first complete edition (third have that page legitimately torn away, mutilated lions of copies being collected and destroyed. The overall); together with the first edition in English, or censored” (Schiller, p. 36). The endorsement Little Red Book, however, sometimes referred to as later printing. The first edition, printed for the leaf also contains an error in one word: a superflu- the “Chinese Bible”, “forms a brilliant compilation General Political Department of the People’s Lib- ous brush stroke occurring second character from that is still readable and admired today for its politi- eration Army, was issued in two distinct states and the top in the second vertical line from the right, cal theories and strategies” (ibid., p. 57). bindings. This collection contains both the uncor- “ting” (the equivalent of twice crossing a “t” or Schiller, Quotations of Chairman Mao 1964–2014. A short bib- rected first state text in red vinyl plastic, and the dotting an “i” in English). liographical study, 2014. corrected second state text in printed wrappers. The third and first complete edition consists of 33 £12,500 [122302] The corrected copies, issued in wrappers and in- chapters (the first edition contained 30, and the tended for high-ranking officers, were released second 32), and is the text upon which all subse- first. The uncorrected copies, issued in red vinyl quent editions and translations are based. It was and for use by brigade teams of up to eight men, issued in both vinyl covers and paper wrappers (the were released shortly afterwards, as the sturdier copy in this collection is in vinyl). By the start of the binding took longer to manufacture. The mistake Cultural Revolution in 1966, the red vinyl design in the text occurs at the bottom of p. 82 and the had become symbolic of Mao’s slogan “The East is top of p. 83, consisting of a transposed character, Red”, and the paper wrappers were discontinued. reading “li men wo yong” instead of “li yong wo The year 1966 also “signaled the start of a major men” (Schiller, p. 36). These copies also have the translation and publication project when the Little Lin Biao calligraphic endorsement leaf intact, af- Red Book was issued in over 50 different languag- ter the frontispiece. In 1972 an edict was issued es of countries where Socialism might triumph” that Lin’s name was to be obliterated from history, (Schiller, p. 55). The book was printed in vast quan- following disclosures that he had plotted a coup tities until Mao’s death in 1976. By the late 1970s, 112

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113 trated by Ernest H. Shepard. Spine gently rolled and a little toned, very slight rubbing to extremities, light offsetting MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human to endpapers, an excellent copy in the unusually bright Bondage. A Novel. New York: George H. jacket with browned spine, faint foxing to panels, tiny Doran, 1915 nicks to extremities with very minor chips to spine ends. 115 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Octavo. Original green cloth, variant binding with the the illustrator on the front free endpaper, “To Aunt title panel blocked in black to front cover. Slightly rolled, 115 Fanny, with love from Ernest, Xmas 1924”. Shepard spine very slightly faded, hinges cracked but holding. A MONTAIGNE, Michel de. The Essayes very good copy. was very close to his aunts; his mother had died when he was ten, after which his aunts helped to Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Dis- first u.s. edition, inscribed by the author raise him, taking him and his siblings on many trips. on the front free endpaper: “For John Hobart, W. courses First written by him in French. In his autobiography Drawn from Memory (1957), Shep- Somerset Maugham. San Francisco. 4 Feb 1939”. And now done into English By . . . John ard describes Fanny as “the energetic one” and “chief It is likely that the recipient was John Hobart, the organiser” of the family, recalling fondly a story of Florio. London: Printed by Val[entine] Sims drama critic for the San Francisco Chronicle at the her visit to the Jubilee illuminations, “in spite of Aunt for Edward Blount, 1603 time. Maugham visited the US in the early part of Alicia’s protests and warnings”. This copy has been 1939: the day before this copy was inscribed, he Folio (276 × 188 mm). Late 19th-century brown crushed in the family by descent since the presentation. morocco by Riviere & Son, spine with gilt ornaments and his lover Gerald Haxton, a native of San Fran- between raised bands, gilt-lettered direct, thick rules cisco, had lunch with the American playwright Eu- When We Were Very Young is the first and the scarc- est of the four Pooh books with an initial print run in blind, thin rules in gilt, panelled sides with gilt orna- gene O’Neill at his nearby home, Tao House. ments at corners, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Cus- of 5,175 regular trade copies. It was first published Rothschild Maugham Collection 85; Stott A21b; Kelly, Eugene tom brown morocco-backed folding case, spine lettered O’Neill National Historic Site: General Management Plan, 1979. in London on 6 November 1924 to immense ac- in gilt. Books 2 and 3 with separate dated title pages but claim, and the first printing sold out in one day. continuous register; verses by Daniel and errata (¶1,2: £1,250 [120667] By the end of the year more than 53,000 copies had “these 2 leaves are frequently lacking” – ESTC); complete been printed of what The Times called “the greatest with blank 2Q4 and 2 final errata leaves 3K5,6. Woodcut 114 children’s book since Alice” (Thwaite, p. 286). This vignettes of altars on verso of first title, woodcut headpieces and initials, a few headpieces composed of print- MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. copy is in the second state of the first impression, as usual, with the page number ix present in the er’s ornaments, woodcut tailpiece cartouche at the end London: Methuen & Co., 1924 of the first book; with first states of A1v (running head preliminaries. In copies of the first state the con- reading “The Epistle.”) and B1r (without the printed Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt vi- tents leaf (ix–x) is unnumbered. slip-cancel correcting “towns” at line 25). Contemporary gnettes to covers, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Illus- £7,500 [120593] manuscript marginalia to B2r, D3r, I2r, with associated

56 December 2017: Peter Harrington lead to unacceptable compromises in terms of Jew- ish life and ritual” (Judith W. Page, Jerusalem and Jew- ish Memory: Judith Montefiore’s “Private Journal”, p. 138) and worked publicly against such compromises. This cookbook is part of that project, intended to prove that one could keep kosher while following latest culinary fashions. The manual not only contains traditionally Jewish recipes, such as kugel and pickling gherkins, but also popular English and French meals adapted for a kosher household. The preface reflects her frustration that other cook- books use “prohibited articles and combinations assumed to be necessary ingredients of nearly every dish”. Montefiore lists substitutes for prohibited items, such as olive oil instead of dripping or lard, and almond-cream to replace dairy in puddings. This copy bears the ownership inscription of “Miss 116 Marcoso, Birmingham” to the front free endpaper. At this time the Marcoso family ran jewellery and was reprinted both in his lifetime and over subse- hardware businesses in Birmingham and London. quent centuries” (ODNB). They donated heavily to many Jewish charities. In Luborsky & Ingram 18041; Pforzheimer 378; STC 18041. 1844 one “I. Marcoso” is listed as a one-guinea subscriber towards the Hebrew National School, 115 £15,000 [122289] Birmingham. The school had been founded the previous year, Moses Montefiore laying the foun- 116 underlining in those places, underlining occasionally dation stone and he and his wife were life gov- elsewhere in Book 1. Front joint tender at head, paper ernors. This copy has clear and tantalising signs reinforcement to front free endpaper verso at foot, oc- [MONTEFIORE, Lady Judith.] The Jew- casional minor marking to contents, a couple of small ish Manual: or, Practical Information in of use, including cookery stains, on many pages. spill-burns, H3 with closed marginal tear not affecting Jewish and Modern Cookery. London: T. & Most are around recipes for puddings or “sweet dishes”. A total of 29 recipes are marked in ink, 22 text, a very good copy. W. Boone, 1846 first edition in english of the Essais of Mon- of which are in this section; several corners have taigne, one of the great books of the Elizabethan Octavo. Original purple diapered cloth, title gilt to the been turned down for easy access. front board, blind panels to both boards, pale cream era and the crowning achievement of its transla- The book was designed as a practical guide to be surface-paper endpapers, edges speckled red. Housed in used in the kitchen and handed down the gen- tor John Florio. “His extraordinary skill in the use a burgundy quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea of alliteration, his ability to embroider and amplify Bindery. A little rubbed overall, corners bumped, spine erations, which means remarkably well preserved the French original through the addition of English sunned and worn head and tail with the cloth chipped copies such as this, which nevertheless show signs synonyms, his sense of rhythm, his art of turning away showing a secondary lining layer, pale browning of their use, are uncommon. Seven copies have French proverbs and expressions into idiomatic overall, a few light stains, internal binding profession- been traced at auction and just three copies have English equivalents, and his experimentation with ally restored at gathering K; a very good copy. been traced institutionally in the UK at: the Uni- new-formed English words (such as ‘conscientious’, first edition of the first kosher cook- versity of Cambridge, the Wellcome Library, and ‘endeare’, ‘efface’, ‘facilitate’) made his Montaigne book in the english language, produced University College London. A further eight have one of the great translations of the Elizabethan age. anonymously by Judith Montefiore, the “First Lady been traced in North America at: the University The work was a source of inspiration for such as of Anglo-Jewry”, which proves that one can be of Guelph, Kansas State University, Hebrew Un- Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Ralegh, John Webster, and “genteel without being Gentile”. ion College, the University of Pennsylvania, the Virginia Commonwealth University, the Texas Shakespeare. Despite the fact that, as a translation, The balance between an English and Jewish iden- Woman’s University Library, the New York Public it was occasionally inaccurate, ‘Florio’s Montaigne’ tity was a concern for middle class Jewish families Library, and the Library of Congress. at this time. Both Judith and her husband Moses “were concerned that the Reform movement would £12,500 [119965]

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117 Ziegenfuss II 171; see Copleston, History of Philosophy, strictly in colloquial use for at least another cen- vol.8, Bentham to Russell, ch. 18. MOORE, George Edward. Principia Ethi- tury” (Foley, Biblical Translation in Chinese and Greek, £1,250 [119496] p. 76 & n. 65). (In fact Morrison’s transliterations ca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903 follow Cantonese pronunciation; the written lan- Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, 118 guages are identical.) edges uncut. An unusually fresh copy with some light In 1804 Morrison (1782–1834) joined the London rubbing to extremities, endpapers tanned, overall in ex- MORRISON, Robert. A Grammar of the Missionary Society and sailed for Canton in early cellent condition. Chinese Language. Serampore: printed at the 1807. Facing opposition from the East India Com- first edition. G. E. Moore (1873–1958) was Mission-Press, 1815 pany and the Portuguese authorities in Macau, he critical of the dominant idealist metaphysics of chose to live secretly among American merchants. the time. In this, his most famous book, he pre- Quarto (281 × 230 mm). Uncut in original boards, rebacked at an early date, later printed paper spine label. His grammar was printed on a press owned by the sents a new approach to ethical theory wherein Housed in a custom green cloth solander box. Chinese East India Company, as was his famous diction- “analytical concern with the structure of ethical types throughout. Ownership inscription (Edward Hen- ary, printed in Macau between 1815 and 1823, but concepts is sharply separated from debates about ry Hancock, London, May 2nd 1859) and 20th-century his missionary activities soon came to the notice the substance of morality” (ODNB). Connected bookseller’s ticket (Arthur Probsthain) to front past- of the company’s directors, who petitioned for to the original nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group edown. Sides marked, extremities worn, inner hinges his expulsion, without success. In 1816 he was through his membership of the Apostles, “Moore reinforced, pastedowns and endpapers a little soiled, appointed interpreter to Lord Amherst’s abortive was never himself a member . . . but if he took mild longitudinal crease to front free endpaper, title mission to Peking. His translation of the Bible ap- from them a profound, and perhaps exaggerated, page and preface leaf, light browning, mild spotting, the occasional shallow nick to edges as usual in untrimmed peared in 1823, and the following year he returned sense of the value of friendship and art, they books, a few trivial spots. A very good copy. to Britain, bringing with him a substantial Chi- took from him the thought that lives dedicated nese library which became the core of the collec- first edition of the first chinese gram- to these values were indeed lives well spent. As tion at the School of Oriental and African Studies. mar written in english. Morrison’s work, Keynes later put it, Principia Ethica provided them In 1826 he returned to China at a time of growing although published a year after Joshua Marsh- with their ‘religion’ (Keynes, 436)” (ODNB). tensions over the opium trade, and died shortly man’s Clavis sinica, was already completed by 1811. Writing to Clive Bell in 1908, Virginia Woolf re- after being appointed Lord Napier’s Chinese sec- Morrison believed that Marshman had plagiarised marked, “I am climbing Moore like some indus- retary in 1834. “His work in Canton had secured parts of his text. “It was a revolutionary undertak- trious insect, who is determined to build a nest no more than a dozen converts, but his genius lay ing, not only because it was the first of its kind on top of a cathedral spire.” elsewhere. His reputation stands today first as a in English, but also because Mandarin had never protestant pioneer, both physically and methodo- been used officially in writing and would remain

58 December 2017: Peter Harrington 119 120 logically – he proved that it was possible for Euro- tion to the OUP’s published version noted: “Never peans to publish works in Chinese in China itself; surely can a great tragedy seem more real to us, and second as a scholarly facilitator of cultural ex- 119 or purge our souls more truly of the unreality of change between Europe and China. As the report our thoughts and feelings concerning vital issues, of the East India Company’s select committee in than can The Trojan Women at this moment in the the author’s own copy, a unique illumi- Canton stated in 1827, Robert Morrison was con- history of the world.” nated manuscript of Murray’s verse translation sidered the chief person who opened to his coun- of Euripides’ Troiades, prepared by the Oxford Uni- £2,500 [122187] trymen the road to the knowledge of the language versity Press (US branch) printer James H. W. Alt- of China” (ODNB). house, specially bound, and presented to Murray 120 Cordier Sinica 1661–2; Lust 1023. himself, with his illustrated bookplate on the first NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Jerusalem: £4,500 [122086] blank. Gilbert Murray (1866–1957) was the pre- eminent public authority on Ancient Greek drama printed by Steimatzky’s Agency for the Olympia 119 in the period. His English translations of Aeschy- Press, [1958] lus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes were (MURRAY, Gilbert, trans.) EURIPIDES. 2 volumes in one, octavo. Original blue boards, title to hugely influential in the early 20th century. His spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, faint The Trojan Women. Translated into Eng- version of the Troiades had been published and per- marginal mark to a couple of pages. A very good copy lish Rhyming Verse. Philadelphia: Oxford formed in Britain some ten years previously, but in the slightly foxed jacket, with a few nicks and short University Press, October 1915 this manuscript was produced in tandem with the closed tears to edges. edition issued in 1915 by the US branch of the Ox- first hardback edition of Nabokov’s master- Duodecimo (151 × 129 mm). 112–page manuscript on ford University Press. Significantly for this tragedy piece. Lolita was first published in Paris in 1955; rectos only, black ink in a neat calligraphic hand, ru- of those bereft by war, both were produced during brication in red, capitals in various colours, 20 initials this edition was offset from the sheets of the sec- attractively illuminated in colour and gilt. Bound for the early years of the First World War. In May 1915 ond Paris edition published in 1958. It is estimated presentation in contemporary blue morocco, spine gilt Harley Granville-Barker and his wife Lillah McCa- that around 1,000 numbered copies were printed in compartments with titles direct, gilt ruled border to rthy took performances of Murray’s Trojan Women (ours bears the number 806 to the front flap of the sides, gilt-rolled board edges and turn-ins, marbled end- and Iphigenia in Tauris to various American col- jacket), issued in both wrappers and boards. papers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned, leges. These timely productions helped to shape £1,750 [122229] excellent condition. With two later Christmas cards the interpretation of Euripides’ Troiades as the signed to Murray from Althouse laid in. most powerful piece of anti-war work in ancient literature. Francis H. Stoddard in his introduc-

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121 and he also seemed to appreciate the quality of the book he illustrated . . . [He had] an imaginative (NONESUCH PRESS; BIBLE; ENGLISH.) grasp of the subject matter, and his witty and el- The Holy Bible reprinted according to the egant illustrations are finely engraved and inven- Authorised Version 1611. London: The None- tive in design” (Alan Horne, The Dictionary of 20th such Press; New York: The Dial Press, 1925–7 Century British Book Illustrators, p. 221). 123 Nonesuch 21. 5 volumes, quarto (306 × 185 mm). Original reddish- ORME, Edward (publ.) Historic, Mili- brown niger, gilt ruled spines, three-line gilt border on £4,750 [119660] tary, and Naval Anecdotes. London: Ed- sides with corner rosettes, gilt ruled turn-ins, gilt edges. ward Orme, Publisher to his Majesty, and to his Housed in two custom brick-red cloth, baize-lined, so- 122 lander boxes. Engraved title pages, head- and tailpieces Royal Highness the Prince Regent, 1819 by Stephen Gooden. Spines darkened, vol. I with dark OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward FitzGerald band at head of lower cover, a few minor abrasions, oth- Quarto (345 × 259 mm). 20th-century purple half calf to erwise an excellent set. (trans.) Rubáiyát. Rendered into English style, decorative gilt and blind tooled spine, dark green verse. With drawings by Edmund J. Sul- morocco label, marbled sides. 40 hand-coloured aquatint Number 57 of 75 sets printed on Arnold un- plates by Dubourg, Clark or Fry & Sutherland after Man- bleached rag paper. Attractively printed at the livan. London: Methuen & Co, Ltd, 1913 skirch, Heath, Atkinson and others. General pale offset- Oxford University Press by Frederick Hall, the ty- Quarto (244 × 183 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun- ting from plates to text, pp. 3 and 5 of letterpress soiled at pography by the Nonesuch moving force Francis Riviere, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule fore edge and with old repairs to closed tears, old repair to Meynall, and illustrated by Stephen Gooden, the frame to covers gilt, marbled endpapers, wide turn-ins, closed tear in blank margin of plate opposite p. 32 (“An- handsome Nonesuch Bible is one of the finest edi- gilt edges, original covers bound in at rear. Colour fron- ecdote of the bravery of the Scotch piper”), some signs of handling; the plates themselves fresh and bright. tions of the 20th century. “The page size is a happy tispiece with tissue guard and 75 monochrome line en- compromise between the manageable and the gravings. Bookplate to front pastedown. Faint mark to top first edition, early state, plates watermarked 1812, edge, spine very lightly toned; an excellent, bright copy. majestic” (James A. Dearden in Encyclopaedia of Li- 1815 or 1816, text 1806 or 1812; the plates have printed brary and Information Science, vol. 20, 1977, pp. 97–8). first edition with sullivan’s illustra- issue dates between 1815 and 1818, and were first tions. Hartrick regarded Sullivan as “naturally assembled in book form in 1819. Abbey and Tooley Stephen Gooden’s “architectural” title pages – dif- the most gifted of the younger black-and-white are at variance on the status of differing issues, but ferent in each volume – echo the spirit of the 17th artists of my time, not excepting Beardsley” Abbey concludes: “It would appear reasonable to century. Gooden “was a ‘literary’ artist, being sen- (ODNB). FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát assume that the early state of the book has a dated sitive not only to the form of the book but appre- was first published in 1859. title,” as here. The colour in this copy is excellent. ciating the possibilities of its page for decoration, £1,500 [119625]

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naval, including Wellington and Blücher meeting at until late April when he was home on leave. A case- La Belle Alliance; the deaths of Ponsonby and Pic- bound trade issue of 2,150 copies was also released. ton; the taking of the French eagle at Barrosa; Ux- Fenwick A5a. 123 bridge wounded; Nelson in the cockpit at the Battle £15,000 [120734] of the Nile; and the boarding of the Chesapeake. “The Orme was the son of a Manchester fustian man- book is remarkable for its brilliant colouring” (Mar- ufacturer who came to London around 1794, his tin Hardie, English Coloured Books, p. 138). 125 first engraving being published by his brother Abbey, Life, 376; Bobins Collection 375; Tooley 352. OWEN, Wilfred. Poems. With an Intro- Daniel in that year. “On 21 January 1799 Orme was £2,250 [120634] duction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: appointed printseller in ordinary to George III and on 5 April 1820 editor of prints in ordinary to Chatto & Windus, 1920 George IV. In May 1800 he had a shop in Conduit 124 Quarto. Original red cloth, printed paper label to spine. Street, London (at the corner of George Street), ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan With the dust jacket. Housed in a black cloth slipcase and chemise. Portrait frontispiece. Partial sunning to and in 1801 exhibited a portrait at the Royal Acad- Pier. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 emy. In the same year he established himself at 59 spine, light partial toning to endpapers, light spotting New Bond Street, London, at the corner of Brook Octavo. Original limp orange cloth, titles to spine and and tanning around the frontispiece, but otherwise an excellent copy, sound and for the most part fresh, with Street, and published Rudiments of Landscape, a front panel in black. Housed in a custom orange flat- the dust jacket chipped at the ends and corners, a section volume of uncoloured etchings after his brother back folding case. With 16 photographic plates. Partially erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A of loss from the blank centre of the spine panel and a few William’s drawings” (ODNB). He then embarked little foxing to edges of text block. An exceptional copy. other short splits, some foxing near the fore edge. on the publication of a series of highly popular aq- first edition, with the rare dust jacket, uatint books of which this was to be the last. He first edition, signed by the author on the of perhaps the greatest collection of First World had begun investing in property around 1809, and front free endpaper. It is extremely scarce signed, War poetry. This slim volume, promoted and pub- in 1824 he closed the shop and concentrated on a with no other copies traced at auction. Orwell origi- lished by Sassoon after Owen’s death and backed new career as a property developer. “Edward Orme nally believed The Road to Wigan Pier would not be by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen’s best known was, after Rudolph Ackermann, the most impor- included in Gollancz’s Left Book Club as “it is too poems, including “Dulce et decorum est”, “Insen- tant publisher of illustrated books during the short fragmentary and, on the surface, not very left-wing” sibility”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, “Futility” golden age of the coloured aquatint” (ibid.). (Fenwick). By 29 December 1936, however, the work was set as a choice for the March 1937 list. By the time and “Strange Meeting”. The present work is a highly effective visualization the book was published Orwell was fighting the civil Hayward 337. of the most memorable “anecdotes” from this re- war in Spain and did not see a copy of this edition markable period of British successes, martial and £7,500 [120870]

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126 127 (PHOTOPLAYS.) Photoplay collection. (PICASSO, Pablo.) ARISTOPHANES. Ly- London, New York, etc.: Readers Library, Gros- sistrata. A New Version by Gilbert Seldes. set & Dunlap, and others, [c.1910–50] New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934 116 works, octavos. Original cloth, all but three volumes Quarto. Original pictorial patterned boards, titles to with the illustrated dust jackets. Photographic plates spine and front cover in white. With the original glassine with film stills in many works. Generally very good con- dust jacket. Housed in the original blue paper-covered dition. slipcase and chemise. Illustrated by Picasso with 6 origi- An excellent Photoplay collection from the early nal etchings and 34 lithographed drawings. A fine copy with the glassine jacket slightly nicked, short tears to decades of cinema, with the scarce and sensation- front flap joint. al illustrated dust jackets. The Readers Library series, published in London, were responsible for 64 first and limited edition, number 953 of 1,500 works; 38 are from New York’s Grosset & Dunlap copies signed by Picasso on the limitation page. (these notably illustrated with photographic film £5,500 [122225] stills), and the remainder are from various other publishers. The collection includes a first printing, first state, copy (in second or issue jacket) of the first English edition of Thea von Harbou’s Me- tropolis, published by the Readers Library in 1927 as a tie-in to the German expressionist epic film by her husband Fritz Lang. A full list of the titles is available on request. £7,500 [120921] 127

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128 129 PIGOU, Arthur Cecil. The Economics of POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Little Pig Stationary States. London: Macmillan and Robinson. London: Frederick Warne and Co., Co., Limited, 1935 Ltd, 1930 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the Octavo. Original blue cloth, printed black pictorial label dust jacket. Printed erratum slip opposite page 1. Some to front cover, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. spotting and the odd mark, dust jacket spine darkened. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece, 5 illustrated colour Japanese bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; a very plates, and 22 full-page black and white illustrations good copy in a fine jacket. by the author. An excellent copy in the slightly rubbed first edition. Characteristically not allowing dust jacket, with a little toning to edges and small chip to head of spine. the economic upheavals of his own time to alter his research agenda, Pigou published this theo- first uk edition. Though this was the last of retical book dealing with the workings of a fully the Peter Rabbit books, it is one of Potter’s earliest employed economy under stationary state condi- stories, written in 1883 at Ilfracombe. She revisited tions during the Great Depression. the story after the publication of The Fairy Caravan, in response to her American publishers request- £750 [121995] ing another story. She appeased Warne, who were chagrined at her decision not to allow publication of The Fairy Caravan as a trade edition in the UK, by offering Little Pig Robinson to both publishers; it was likely published simultaneously. Linder 256–7, 430; Quinby 30. £750 [122007] 127

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130 130 lication to a wide audience, “a political tract of im- mediate applicability” (PMM). First published in 130 131 1614, The History of the World was initially suppressed (RACKHAM, Arthur.) WAGNER, Rich- RALEIGH, Sir Walter. The History of the but proved extremely popular and ran through ten editions between 1614 and 1687. “What exists is a ard. The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie; Sieg- World. London: Printed for H. Lownes, G. substantial work, of about a million words, in five fried and the Twilight of the Gods. Lon- Lathum, and R. Young, 1628 books, running from the creation of the world to don: William Heinemann, 1910–11 Folio (327 × 220 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, 146 bc, the time of the second Macedonian war. rebacked to style, red calf label, raised bands, compart- The first two books are principally, though not 2 volumes, quarto (275 × 227 mm). Uniformly bound wholly, concerned with biblical history, the last by Zaehnsdorf in near-contemporary blue crushed half ments ruled and decorated in gilt and black, boards morocco, spine lettered in gilt direct, gilt motifs to com- ruled in blind. Housed in a purple morocco slipcase. three mainly with the story of Greece and Rome . . . partments within raised bands to spine, blue cloth sides, Engraved title page portrait of Raleigh, 8 double-page The History is far more than a chronology. Its open- top edge gilt, others uncut. With 64 tipped-in colour engraved maps and plans, numerous tables to the text. ing chapters described the creation of the world plates with printed tissue guards and 23 black and white Bound without the additional engraved title page dated and its nature, before Raleigh moved to the philo- line drawings. Fading to spine, fading at the head of the 1614. Library stamp to front pastedown, ownership in- sophical problems raised by the concepts of pres- scriptions to front free endpaper and final page, armo- rear cover of volume 2, very slight marking to covers, cience, providence, free will, and fortune” (ODNB). slight foxing. An excellent set. rial bookplate to title page verso, a few marginal marks to pages 469 and 507 of the second book. A few marks “It proved an arsenal of political ammunition to the signed limited editions, numbers 390 and 361 and spill-burns to boards, some small tears to page ex- Englishmen who overthrew the absolutism of the respectively of 1,150 copies signed by the artist, in tremities, occasional minor ink staining, spotting, and Stewarts at home and laid the foundations of New a handsome binding. dampstain to contents, neat marginal reinforcement England beyond the seas . . . He was among the Riall p. 103. to sigs. T2,3 and corresponding map, and to final four first Englishmen to envisage clearly that the Ameri- leaves, overall a very good and clean copy. £2,750 [121894] cas should be the principal goal of English overseas fourth edition (as stated in STC) of Raleigh’s expansion” (PMM). major work written during his years in the Tower, STC 20640. one of only a few of his writings intended for pub- £2,500 [119476]

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133 RAY, Man. Man Ray. London: Hanover Gal- lery, 1969 Small folio (195 × 161 mm), [pp. 34]. Original ring binder format with aluminium covers, titles and illustration to front cover silk screened in red. Yellow border to pages, 17 photographic illustrations by Jacqueline Hyde and Man Ray. Slight scratching to covers; an excellent copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the artist to the half-title, “For Jean-Yves [Mock], gratefully, Man Ray, 1969”. This exhibi- 132 tion catalogue, with an essay by Man Ray written in 1948, was published to coincide with his exhibi- 132 first edition, one of the author’s person- tion at the Hanover Gallery in January 1969. RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Indian- al copies, and one of only a few copies known to Jean-Yves Mock worked at the Hanover Gallery have come from Rand’s library. It is accompanied from 1956 until its closure in 1973. After the gal- apolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943 by a signed letter of provenance, directly from the lery closed he continued to play an influential role Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered executor of Ayn Rand’s estate in 1984. This copy in the art world and was asked by Pontus Hultén, in gilt, top edge red, others untrimmed. With the dust has the points of first issue: the first issue red cloth then director of the Musée National d’Art Contem- jacket. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco and red with top edge dyed red, and the first state dust porain in Paris, to join the curatorial team at the cloth solander box. An excellent copy, faint dampstain jacket, with no author photo on the rear panel. Pompidou Centre. to head of rear board and spine, in the slightly rubbed dust jacket, slightly faded spine, a little associated stain- £49,500 [122529] £2,750 [120880] ing to head of rear panel, front panel with short tear and crease at foot.

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134 front free endpapers. Spines and edges of boards lightly lish deluxe editions of Philosopher’s Stone, Chamber sunned, small bump to head of front board of vol. II. An of Secrets, and Prisoner of Azkaban were published RONALDS, Alfred. The Fly-Fisher’s Ento- excellent set, handsomely bound. on the same date, 2 September 1999; subsequent mology. Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1913 signed limited edition, number 139 of 270 volumes were published shortly after the first pub- 2 volumes, quarto (245 × 190 mm). Finely bound in copies signed by the publisher. First published in lication of the British trade editions. greenish-blue crushed morocco, spines gilt with onlaid 1836, Ronalds’s Fly-Fisher’s Entomology is a classic in Errington A.1(d); 2(e); 7(c); 9(b); 12(c); 13(b); 14(aaa). fish design in brown morocco, gilt rules to covers, mar- angling literature; this edition, with samples of ar- bled endpapers, turn-ins gilt, vol. I top edge gilt, vol. II tificial flies attractively presented, is truly remark- £2,500 [121178] edges gilt. Vol. I: portrait frontispiece and 20 plates with able. With the bookplate of G. Scott Atkinson, tissue guards; Vol. II: with 48 artificial flies in sunken founder of the Greenwell Club and noted angler. 136 mounts mounted on linen stubs. Title pages in red and black. Bookplate to pastedown, gift inscription to £2,500 [121736] RUTHERFORD, Ernest. Radio-Activity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1904 135 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board let- ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the tered in gilt, ruling to boards continued across spine in blind. 1 plate and numerous tables to the text. Bookplate Philosopher’s Stone; Chamber of Se- and stamp from the library of Exeter College Oxford to crets; Prisoner of Azkaban; Goblet of front pastedown and free endpaper, small paper label Fire; Order of the Phoenix; Half-Blood to spine a little chipped. Spine rolled, ends and corners bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, hinges gently Prince; Deathly Hallows. London: Blooms- cracked but firm, overall a very good copy. bury, 1999–2007 first edition of the author’s first book on the 7 volumes, large octavo. Original red, blue, green, pur- subject. Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was a pio- ple, burgundy, blue and grey cloth with pictorial onlays, neer in the study of nuclear physics, the discoverer titles to front covers gilt, spines lettered in gilt, all edges of the structure of the atom, and in 1917 the first gilt. No dust jackets issued. A fine set. scientist to split the atom. This volume was “the first deluxe editions. By 1999 it was clear that first textbook on radioactivity, surveying contem- the Harry Potter series was destined to be one of porary knowledge of the entire field” (Dibner). the great children’s classics, so a deluxe format Dibner 51. was created specifically for the gift market. Err- £750 [119530] 134 ington states that it is thought that the first Eng-

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first and limited edition, presentation copy, initialled and inscribed by the author for Clifford Sharp (1883–1935), the anti-war journalist and, from 1913 to 1928, first editor of New Statesman magazine; one of 99 unnumbered copies. Keynes A23. £1,750 [122175] 137

137 Octavo. Original grey paper boards, printed paper label to spine. With the dust jacket. Slight sunning at head and SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. foot of spine and top edge of the boards, light foxing to Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951 edges of text block; very good in the jacket, spine ends a little chipped, splitting at the joint of the front panel and Octavo. Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine. With the spine, professionally repaired with archival tissue. dust jacket. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco solander box. Tips slightly bumped, a couple of faint marks first edition of one of the author’s key collec- to covers; an excellent copy in the unusually bright jacket tions of war poetry, uncommon in the jacket. with spine panel entirely unfaded, tiny chips to spine Keynes A15a. ends, minor tape residue to flaps, 10 cm. closed tear to rear panel. £1,500 [119569] first edition of one of the great American novels of the 20th century. 139 £8,500 [119586] SASSOON, Siegfried. Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians. Cambridge: 138 Privately printed at the University Press, 1925 SASSOON, Siegfried. The Old Hunts- Octavo, pp. 25. Original brown buckram, titles to spine in gilt, grey endpapers. Bookseller’s ticket (Sotheran) to man and other poems. London: William front pastedown. Slight rubbing to extremities. An ex- Heinemann, 1917 cellent copy. 139

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140 141 Kellie (as the name was then spelled), and carried on by successive members of the family into the SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. (SHEPARD, E. H.) PEPYS, Samuel. Eve- 1930s. The Text of the First Folio with Quarto rybody’s Pepys. The Diary, 1660–1669. £1,000 [121084] Variants and a Selection of Modern Read- Abridged from the complete copyright ings: edited by Herbert Farjeon. London: text and edited by O. F. Morshead. Lon- 142 Nonesuch Press, 1929–33 don: G. Bell and Sons, 1927 SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral 7 volumes, large octavo. Original tan morocco, raised Octavo (190 × 124 mm). Contemporary green crushed bands, gilt titles to compartments, gilt rules to boards morocco, inlaid “Kelliegram” style binding by Riviere, Sentiments . . . To Which is Added, A and turn-ins, top edges gilt. Extremities a touch rubbed, spine decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. spines slightly browned, light offsetting from turn-ins. gilt decorative frames to covers, wide turn-ins, marbled The Sixth Edition. London: for A. Strahan; An excellent set. endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated title page, 60 full page and T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech, and one of 1,600 sets published, this set in- illustrations, and 4 maps of London in the 1660s by A. E. Taylor printed in brown, 2 of which are double page. J. Bell & Co. at Edinburgh, 1790 scribed twice for vivien leigh on the limi- Book label of Robert D. Young to front blank. Rear board 2 volumes, octavo (205 × 123 mm). Contemporary tree tation page by the publisher Sir Francis Meynell slightly bowed, spine a little toned, minor rubbing to calf, flat spines elaborately ruled and decorated gilt, (1891–1975). The initial inscription, in black ink, tips; an excellent copy. reads: “This copy inscribed for Vivien Holman by red morocco labels. Spine ends chipped, corners lightly first edition thus, fourth impression. A beau- Francis Meynell”. Below Meynell has added a more rubbed, a few surface abrasions to boards, one or two tiful “Kelliegram” style binding for Shepard’s corners turned down. Ownership stamp “From Mount extensive, affectionate inscription in pencil: “and richly illustrated edition, first published in 1926. Tavy” to front free endpapers; a very attractive set. now much less formally and much more warmly Everybody’s Pepys was the first in a series of three re-inscribed to Giusta, Henriette, the divine Jenny final lifetime edition of Adam Smith’s first editions of English author’s works illustrated by and ? F.M. June 1937”. These were among some of book, the work that established his reputation as Shepard, followed by Everybody’s Boswell in 1930 and the first characters Leigh played on stage in Lon- a philosopher both in London and on the Conti- Everybody’s Lamb in 1933. don. Leigh played Giusta in The Green Sash at the nent. “One of Adam Smith’s major claims to fame, Q Theatre in February 1935, Henriette in The Mask The “Kelliegram” binding was one of the many in some ways his greatest, is his development of a of Virtue at the Ambassadors Theatre in May 1935, innovations of English commercial binding firm unified concept of an economic system with mu- and Jenny in The Happy Hypocrite at His Majesty’s Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the long- tually interdependent parts. His development of Theatre in April 1936. est connections in the history of the binding trade this came well before the Wealth of Nations; it is in in London, having been founded in 1770 by John the Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 and the Lec- £6,000 [121607]

68 December 2017: Peter Harrington 142 143 144 tures of 1762–3” (D. P. O’Brien, The Classical Econo- blue. With an additional terminal advertisement leaf to 144 mists, 1975, p. 29). The sixth edition of the Theory, volume 3. Armorial bookplates of R. B. More to front which appeared a few months before Smith’s pastedowns. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few minor SMITH, Clark Ashton. The Fugitive Po- death, evinced a number of broad developments marks to boards, endpapers browned from turn-ins with ems. [The Titans in Tartarus; A Song some offsetting from bookplates, contents occasionally in his later thought, as well as his last views on spotted, otherwise a bright, clean set. from Hell; The Potions of Dreams; The many specific points. Smith at least in part made Fanes of Dawns; Seer of the Cycles; The first edinburgh edition of “the first and extensive revisions so that he might bequeath a re- Burden of the Suns.] California: Xiccarph freshment of copyright to his publisher, in which greatest classic of modern economic thought” he was successful. (PMM), based on the text of Comte Germain Edition, 1974–7 Garnier’s landmark French translation (first pub- Alston III, 828; Goldsmiths’ 14580; Jessop, p. 170; Kress 7 volumes, quarto. Original paper wrappers in various lished 1802). Garnier’s edition, which included a B.1988; Tribe 36; Vanderblue, p. 38. colours, printed titles to front in various colours. Housed long introductory essay on Smith and a separate together in original quarter morocco tray case, as issued. £4,750 [122135] volume of notes, was “perhaps the most influen- A fine set. tial edition of Wealth of Nations to appear during the first collective edition, number 18 of 51 de- 143 nineteenth century” (Tribe), considered a “clas- luxe manuscript sets for subscribers only. Regular SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Na- sic” (Carpenter, p. lvi) and “the best in the French editions of the six poems were published simul- language” (Palgrave, p. 184). The first translation ture and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. taneously, in limitations not more than 236 cop- into English was published in Glasgow in 1805 ies. This set is complete with a memo from the With a life of the author. Also, a view of and this Edinburgh edition appeared one year publisher to subscribers explaining the edition the doctrine of Smith compared with that later. “Although the 1805 Glasgow edition was the limitations, along with a title page for the manu- of the French economists; with a meth- first to include Garnier, the format of this edition script edition, further notes from the publisher, od of facilitating the study of his works; [1806] was the one copied through many editions and a signed leaf from the original manuscript up to 1820” (Tribe). Tribe notes that there is some from the French of M. Garnier. Edinburgh: of A Dream of Oblivion, all housed in an additional irregularity in the numbering of the front matter paper portfolio. Upon Smith’s death, bookseller Printed for William Creech [& 2 others in Edin- of this edition, which is true of this set, though Roy A. Squires was appointed his executor on the burgh] and T. Ostell in London, 1806 clearly complete. West Coast and published a number of editions Kress B.5117; Tribe 90; Vanderblue, p. 14. 3 volumes, octavo (207 × 127 mm). Contemporary tree of Smith’s poems. This set was printed for author calf, rebacked to style, black morocco labels, rope-twist £2,750 [122383] Frank M. Halpern, as indicated by the title page. and lozenge rolls gilt and blind to spines forming com- £1,750 [122016] partments with floral motifs between, edges sprinkled

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145 views with the influential investor and business a few much smaller chips and closed tears to bottom magnate, Soros discusses his political and philo- edge, the white rear panels a little tanned and spotted, SOROS, George. Soros on Soros. Staying sophical approaches to business and his philan- the spine panels are a little tanned, and Beyond Euphrates Ahead of the Curve. New York: John Wiley & thropic work with the Open Society Foundations. price-clipped with an overprice sticker. Sons, Inc., 1995 It is possible that the Healeys – he, the former first editions of Stark’s autobiographical quar- tet, the first and third instalments both inscribed Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With British Labour Party Chancellor, and she, the writ- by the author on the half-title to Lady Jane Op- the dust jacket. A fine copy. er and film-maker – met Soros through the elite Bilderberg Group, of which Denis was a founder penheimer, “inscribed for Jittie by Freya Stark, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed and Steering Committee member. It is widely ac- Jan. 1952” and “inscribed for Jittie by Freya Stark, by the author to Denis and Edna Healey on the cepted, though not confirmed, that Soros is a Jan. 1956”. The set derives from the family of Lady front free endpaper, dated 25 August 1995. In this member. Others who have been associated with Jane S. Oppenheimer (née Martin), who in 1931 book, which comprises a series of expanded inter- the Bilderberg Group include Bill Clinton, Angela married the diplomat Sir Francis Oppenheimer Merkel, Rupert Murdoch, and David Rockefeller. (1870–1961). She had previously been married to Sir Ernest Horlick, and had published, under the £2,500 [119499] name Jittie Horlick, a book entitled Jewels in Brass in 1913. The set includes, laid in, a Greek post card 146 addressed to Lady Oppenheimer from an uniden- STARK, Freya. Traveller’s Prelude; Be- tified individual, dated 1961. The first three works yond Euphrates Autobiography 1929– are first impressions, the fourth a second impression in the following year. First editions of Stark’s 1933; The Coast of Incense Autobiogra- autobiographies, which relate her lifetime’s travels phy 1933–1939; Dust in the Lion’s Paw Au- in Italy, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Arabian Gulf, tobiography 1939–1946. London: 1950–62 and India, are scarce in jacket and rare inscribed. 4 works, octavo. Original green cloth, titles gilt, top £1,500 [122201] edges dyed green. With the dust jackets. Photographic plates and maps throughout, Cloth only very slightly 147 rubbed, some spotting to edges and endpapers, a very good set indeed, with the jackets lightly rubbed at the STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. extremities with the exception of Traveller’s Prelude which New York: The Viking Press, 1939 145 has a substantial chip from the head of spine panel and

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Theatre as Sir Henry Irving’s business manager. Inscribed copies of the American first edition, published two years after the original London edition, are decidedly uncommon. Dalby 10(b). £25,000 [121627]

149 THORBURN, A. British Mammals. Lon- don: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920–1 2 volumes bound as 1, quarto (310 × 252 mm). Recent brown morocco for Asprey & Co., spine lettered in gilt, 148 in compartments with gilt raised bands, single rule gilt frame to covers, marbled endpapers. Title pages printed Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and pictorial 148 in red and black. Title page vignettes, colour frontis- design to boards in dark brown, endpapers decorated pieces and 48 colour plates with tissue guards and illus- with the sheet music for Battle Hymn of the Republic, STOKER, Bram. Dracula. New York: Dou- trations in the text. Negligible rubbing to bottom edge, top edge yellow. With the dust jacket. Jacket spine only bleday & McClure Co., 1899 light foxing to prelims and endmatter; an excellent copy. slightly toned, a few nicks and chips, dark mottling to first edition of this richly illustrated work. Ar- top edge of book block. A very good copy with the jacket Octavo. Original tan cloth stamped in blue, gilt, and in superior condition. olive with a design of Dracula’s mountaintop castle on chibald Thorburn (1860–1935) was a Scottish artist the front cover, untrimmed. Housed in a red quarter known for his evocative and anatomically accurate first edition of Steinbeck’s masterpiece and one morocco solander box made by the Chelsea Bindery. wildlife illustrations. He took great care to study of the great American novels of the 20th century. Binding somewhat stained and showing general signs of the animals he illustrated, both live and as speci- The fine jacket design is by Elmer Hader, known handling, inner joints cracked but quite firm, internally mens. Thorburn’s studies in the field allowed him primarily as a children’s book illustrator (joint some soiling, a few leaves dog-eared. to give “more prominence to the landscape than winner with his wife, Berta Hoerner Hader, of the first u.s. edition, presentation copy, in- any previous British wildlife artist”. Caldecott Medal in 1948 for The Big Snow). Appar- scribed by the author on the front free endpaper: Alan Horne, The Dictionary of 2oth Century British Book Il- ently Steinbeck was so taken with their book Billy “Lady Errington from Bram Stoker 31.05.08”. Lady lustrators, p. 412. Butter (1936) that he requested that Elmer design the Errington (d. c.1935) was the wife of Sir George £1,250 [120472] cover for The Grapes of Wrath. The illustrator went on Errington (1839–1920), MP and high sheriff suc- to work on two other Steinbeck books, East of Eden cessively of Tipperary and Wexford. Stoker was (1952) and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). himself Irish, born in Clontarf, Dublin, and visited Goldstone & Payne A12. America repeatedly, especially between 1883 and £4,500 [121682] 1904, when he toured the States with the Lyceum

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150 (1803–6) and distinguished himself in 1803 at the mainly restricted to the margins only, a few other marks, battle of Laswari in which he was also wounded. map foxed, with a short split along central fold. A good THORN, William. Memoir of the War in He was promoted captain in 1807 and was brigade copy. India, Conducted by General Lord Lake, major to the cantonment of Bangalore, Mysore, first edition in english of reputedly Commander-in-Chief, and Major-Gen- until in November 1810 he accompanied the ex- the first individually published russian eral Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wel- pedition against French-held Mauritius, where account of china, originally published in lington. London: for T. Egerton, 1818 he saw action before returning to India in 1811” German as Reise nach Pekin (1825–6). Timkowski (ODNB). Thorn wrote his memoir after he had (1790–1875) was “royal overseer” on the tenth Quarto (263 × 203 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, served at Waterloo and retired to his native Ger- Russian mission to Peking, where the Russian rebacked, floral gilt frame to sides, marbled endpapers. many. Editions in French and German followed. government had maintained a school and church Folding hand-coloured map frontispiece, further uncol- since 1728. His account is notable for its detailed oured map, 7 hand-coloured engraved plates with tissue Bruce 4187; Cockle p. 16. description of his itinerary, in particular for the guards (including general order of battle and 6 battle £1,500 [122113] plans). Contemporary engraved bookplate (John Mor- section of the journey made through the pass of ris) and slightly later bookplate (Philip Francis) to front Kalgan (Zhangjiakou) on the border between pastedown; presentation plate from one H. S. Francis to 151 Mongolia and China. According to the translator’s the Constitutional Club Library to front free endpaper; TIMKOWSKI, George. Travels of the preface, the only earlier Russian travel-account of 20th-century ink-stamp (T. Stunt) to front free endpaper Russian Mission through Mongolia to China to have been published was the journal of verso; ownership inscription (Henry Grant, Jan. 18th Lawrence Lange, who accompanied the mission [18]43) to initial blank. Mild craquelure to sides, extrem- China, and Residence in Peking, in the in 1727, though that work was published as part of ities lightly rubbed, corners worn, folding map and plate Year 1820–1821. London: for Longman, Rees, facing p. 88 offset (the latter lacking a tissue guard), sig. Pallas’s Nordische Beiträge. The translator was Han- I slightly spotted, small marginal ink-spot to pp. 370–1, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827 nibal Evans Lloyd, who worked from the French edition published earlier the same year. Klaproth sig. Ggg2 untrimmed by the binder and folded over. A 2 volumes, octavo (224 × 139 mm). Mid 20th-century very good copy. red half calf, raised bands between gilt rules to spines, (1783–1835) was an accomplished German orien- first edition. Thorn “began his military educa- compartments lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, edges un- talist and a specialist in Caucasian languages. tion in England, purchasing a cornetcy in 1799 in trimmed. Lithographic frontispiece to each volume (that Cordier Sinica IV 247; Henze V, pp. 327–8. the 29th light dragoons . . . and joined the regi- in vol. 2 a folding chart of Peking), folding map. Recent £1,250 [121154] ment in India. Promoted lieutenant in 1801, he saw bookplates of Robert and Eve Gregory, Walterston. Spot- ting to edges, prelims and occasionally to text block, much action in the Second Anglo-Maratha War

72 December 2017: Peter Harrington Suleiman the Magnificent after a six month siege in 1522. After a short sojourn on Sicily, the Order was granted the islands of Malta and Gozo by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1565 the Or- der organized the heroic resistance to the Siege of Malta, the island losing over a third of its population while withstanding a bombardment of nearly 150,000 cannon shots. Even if the Siege did little to alter the balance of power in the Mediterranean, it was the first true defeat of the Ottoman Empire in a century and lifted European morale immeasura- bly. Such was its resonance that two hundred years later Voltaire could remark: “Rien n’est plus connu que le siège de Malte” (“Nothing is better known than the Siege of Malta”). The text also includes Vertot’s “Discourse upon the Alcoran”, originally given before L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- 152 Lettres in 1724, and his “Dissertation on Zizim”, 153 a historiographical study of Cem Sultan’s time on 152 Rhodes. ideas upon the conduct of men and challenged the £1,250 [120349] Marxist thesis that man’s consciousness is deter- VERTOT, René Aubert de, abbé. The mined by his social class . . . Instead of completing History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. his investigation of Protestantism, Weber began a 153 John of Jerusalem. Edinburgh: Printed by R. comparative analysis of urban communities and Fleming, for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, Yair WEBER, Max. The Protestant Ethic and of political organization as well as a study of the and Fleming, and W. Gray, 1757 the Spirit of Capitalism. London: George Al- relation between religion and society. These wide len & Unwin, 1930 ranging studies had the common purpose of de- 5 volumes, duodecimo in sixes (165 × 94 mm). Con- fining and explaining the distinguishing charac- temporary calf, dark tawny-coloured labels. Engraved Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with teristic of Western civilization. The Protestant Ethic armorial bookplates (by the fashionable Pugh Broth- the dust jacket. Ownership inscription “Stewart” to front was destined to serve as an introduction to this ers, Lincoln’s Inn) of Marquess of Headfort, most likely free endpaper in ballpoint. Very slight rubbing to spine major theme of Weber’s lifework, a specification Thomas Taylor, 3rd marquess (1822–1894, succeeded to ends and corners, dust jacket spine darkened, with some of the interrelation of religious ideas and econom- title 1870). Head of spine chipped on vol. I, extremities chipping to spine ends; a clean, bright copy in a very chipped on vol. V, old dark stains on back cover of vol. good jacket, rarely seen. ic behaviour as the focus for further research. We- I, touch of worming at foot of front joint on vol. V (not ber’s particular thesis – that Puritan ideas had in- first edition of the first english trans- affecting contents). An excellent set, clean, crisp and fluenced the development of capitalism – became lation of weber’s great work, which origi- sound. the subject of a voluminous literature” (Bendix, nally appeared in German across two issues of the first small format edition in english, fol- Max Weber, An Intellectual Portrait, pp. 71ff). Archiv für Sozialwissenschaften und Sozialpolitik (No- lowing the two-volume folio of 1728 and originally vember 1904 and June 1905). He managed to sub- IESS (1904–1905). published in French in 1726. Commissioned by the stantially revise the text for its first publication in £2,500 [119534] Order themselves, Vertot’s history remained the book form shortly before his death in 1920. It ap- standard work for two centuries. The Abbé’s “tal- peared under the title Die protestantische Ethik und der ent as an historian was more of a literary than of Geist des Kapitalismus and was intended as the first a critical character” (Catholic Encyclopaedia), which volume in a series collecting Weber’s writings on perhaps was fitting for the telling of a tale of such the sociology of religion, though his death meant legendary scope and scale. The Order was founded the project was never completed. in Jerusalem after the reconquest in 1099. Forced from the Holy Land after the fall of Acre in 1291, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max they settled briefly on Cyprus before being gifted Weber’s most famous as well as most controver- lands on Rhodes. They were expelled from there by sial book. In it he traced the influence of religious

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154 Bombay Marine, was “for a considerable period” local instability forced them to return to Shinas on (vol. 1, p. 252) employed in the survey of the Persian the coast, from where Wellsted sailed back to India WELLSTED, James Raymond. Travels in Gulf initiated after the siege of Ra’s al-Khaymah in and Whitelock travelled overland to Sharjah. Arabia. London: John Murray, 1838 1819. In 1830 he was appointed second lieutenant On publication Wellsted’s book was “the fullest 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue-green fine-diaper cloth, of the Palinurus and undertook an important survey account of the area then published” (Burrell), and gilt titles and interlocking rings and arabesques in blind of the Red Sea and the Gulf of ‘Aqabah, described remains valued: “Wellsted was an acute observer to spines, covers decoratively panel-stamped in blind, in the second volume; in 1833–4 he surveyed the and not blinded by prejudice or ignorance in his yellow surface-paper endpapers, fore edges untrimmed. southern coast of Arabia and visited Socotra, be- description of the local people. His accounts of Lithographic frontispiece to each volume and 5 similar fore, in 1835, being granted permission to travel in the geography of Oman, particularly the irrigation plates, most by Louis Haghe from drawings by the au- Oman “to investigate the manners and customs of thor, 5 maps including a large folding route map, tables systems and the way of life in remote mountain the people of inner Oman, to locate the important to the text. Engraved armorial bookplate of English fi- tracts, continue to be important as a unique de- nancier Frederic Straker (1862–1941) and contemporary towns and oases, and to investigate the topography scription of the country at an early date” (ODNB). of the country” (Marshall, p. 23). Travelling inland and later ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns. Burrell 861; Howgego II W20; Macro 2282; Weber I 289; Spines slightly faded, and skilfully relined, covers very from Muscat he reached Samad, where he met Wilson p. 242; not in Abbey; see further Marshall, “Eu- lightly rubbed, a few trivial marks, superficial wear to Lieutenant Francis Whitelock, another Indian Navy ropean Travellers in Oman and Southeast Arabia 1792– tips, inner hinges strengthened, front free endpapers officer. The pair criss-crossed inland Oman before 1850”, in New Arabian Studies 2. lightly chipped along fore edges, browning along plate margins, short closed tear to folding map stub, some- £5,750 [121663] time partially tape-repaired verso, a few letters lightly abraded on vol. 1 p. 9, the sense unimpaired, discreet 155 pencil corrections to vol. 2 pp. 379 and 385, vol. 2 sig. 2D uncut at lower outer corner, otherwise a few trivial spots. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A Streetcar Remains a very good copy indeed, a well-preserved ex- Named Desire. New York: New Directions, ample of the uncommon original cloth. 1947 first edition of this important Arabian travel account: the entire first volume is dedicated to the Octavo. Original purple paper-backed boards, titles and author’s travels in Oman and the Gulf, and includes pictorial decoration to spine and front board in black and white. With the dust jacket. An excellent, bright copy in vivid eyewitness reports of the tribes making up the the dust jacket, spine panel slightly faded, extremities ruling families of today’s United Arab Emirates. lightly nicked and rubbed, two short closed tears to head Wellsted (1805–1842), a British naval officer in the and foot of rear panel. 154

74 December 2017: Peter Harrington 158 WRIGHT, Joseph (ed.) The English Dia- lect Dictionary. London: Henry Frowde, 1898–1905 6 volumes, quarto (307 × 253 mm). Contemporary brown half morocco, decorative gilt spines, marbled sides with double gilt rules, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Ownership inscription to binder’s blank in one vol., bookseller’s ticket to front pastedowns of vols. I–V. Very slightly faded spines, occasional scuffing to sides, couple of tips bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, light foxing to prelims. An excellent set, attractively bound. first edition of Wright’s seminal reference work. Joseph Wright (1855–1930) was professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, who tutored J. R. R. Tolkien. The six volumes of 156 157 his Dictionary contain about 100,000 words of local dialects from all over England, gathered to- first edition of the winner of the 1947 Pulitzer first and signed limited edition, sole print- gether with the aid of 1,000 helpers in committees Prize, and the basis for the 1951 film of the same ing, number 184 of 500 copies signed by the au- throughout the country, who collected words and name directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Marlon thor in her usual purple ink. The essay was not phrases in their regions (ODNB). Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. published separately in the UK. £3,000 [122165] £2,000 [121803] Kirkpatrick A13. £2,000 [122224] 156 WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. London: The Hogarth Press, 1927 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge yellow. Manuscript annotations in pencil to rear endpapers. Spine toned, tips slightly worn, contents slightly foxed. An excellent copy. first edition. One of 3,000 copies. Kirkpatrick A10. £1,250 [122028]

157 WOOLF, Virginia. Street Haunting. San Francisco: The Westgate Press (printed at The Grabhorn Press), 1930 Octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, title to spine gilt, paper-covered sides patterned in blue and gold. Housed in the green card slipcase, as issued. Spine darkened, faint foxing to edges. An excellent copy.

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159 (YEATS, W. B.) SCHELL, Sherril. Portrait photograph. [Victoria, London: Sherill Shell, c.1903] Platinum print (237 × 193 mm), black thick paper mount. Very slight rubbing to the corners of the print, some very faint superficial scratches, but excellent, the mount a little ruffled at the corners and with some glue related abrasions to verso. This portrait of a pensive Yeats was taken by London-based American photographer Sherril V. Schell (1877–1964), who during the first decades of the 20th century in his Victoria studio executed 160 portraits of several literary figures such as Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and, famously, Rupert Brooke. 160 first edition, inscribed by yeats for lady Schell has signed the mount in pencil, and gregory on the first blank, “I think some of my stamped both the print and mount verso “Photo- YEATS, W. B., & Lionel Johnson. Poetry part in this little work the best prose I have written. graph by Sherril Schell, 116, Victoria Street, S.W., and Ireland: Essays. Dundrum: Cuala Press, WBYeats 1922”, with Lady Gregory’s bookplate. Telephone:- 7144 Victoria”. This print was one of 8 October 1908 This is a major association copy, inscribed by several in different poses from the same sitting re- Octavo. Original blue-grey paper boards with buff linen Yeats to his close friend and literary collaborator tained by Yeats himself, and has since been in the Lady Augusta Gregory (1852–1932), the chatelaine family by descent. Another image from the Schell spine, lettered in black on front cover. Housed in a blue morocco-backed bookform slipcase and chemise. Later of Coole Park, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, sitting was used as the frontispiece for Forrest Re- collector’s bookplate. Minor nicks to tips, faint fading key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, and mother id’s monograph, W. B. Yeats, a Critical Study (1915), around board edges, very few and minor spots within, of Major Robert Gregory, subject of one of Yeats’s which was the first of its kind. an excellent copy. most quoted poems, “An Irish Airman Foresees £2,750 [121643] his Death”. Gregory first met Yeats in 1896, and

76 December 2017: Peter Harrington they were soon engaged in joint folktale-collecting tours in the summer of 1897 and beyond (which would be worked into the enlarged edition of Celtic Twilight, 1902). Foster well describes the nature and significance of Yeats and Gregory’s friendship: “She brought him far more than the background of ‘order and labour’ which he craved, and against which much of his finest work would be written. For Gregory’s part . . . the friendship with the dazzling young poet developed into a literary and theatrical collaboration, and launched her on a career of playwriting and theatrical management which put her at the centre of the developing cultural renaissance in Dublin” (R. F. Foster, writing in ODNB). Only 250 copies were printed, and copies inscribed by Yeats are rare. Given the topic of the work, and the pre-eminent importance of both Yeats and Lady Gregory to the Irish Literary Reviv- al, scarcely a better association can be imagined. £12,500 [120750] 162

Emery Walker after John Singer Sargent and Augustus 162 161 John. Without the scarce glassine jacket. A little wear to corners of slipcase, touch of very pale (almost impercep- ZOLA, Émile. Nana; L’Assommoir; Pot- YEATS, W. B. The Poems. London: Macmil- tible) mottling to covers. A very good set. Bouille; La Terre; Germinal; La Curée. lan & Co. Ltd, 1949 first and signed limited variorum edi- Philadelphia: Printed for subscribers only by 2 volumes, tall octavo. Original bright green cloth over tion, number 171 of 375 copies signed by the George Barrie & Son, [c.1900] bevelled boards, gilt lettered spines, author’s monogram author, published by Macmillan as the Definitive in gilt on front covers, top edges gilt. With the original Edition, beautifully printed in Fournier type on 6 works in 12 volumes, octavo (220 × 145 mm). Uniformly slipcase. Photogravure portrait frontispieces of Yeats by laid paper. The edition was personally overseen bound in contemporary purple crushed morocco, gilt decorated spines, gilt foliate panels to front and rear cov- by Yeats’s widow, George, the publisher Harold ers with pink and white morocco onlaid flowers, red and Macmillan, and the publisher’s reader Thomas purple crushed morocco doublures with concentric gilt Mark. As stated in the prospectus: “For some rules, purple moiré silk free endpapers, top edges gilt, time before his death [in 1939], W. B. Yeats was others untrimmed. 144 etched plates with captioned tis- engaged in revising the text of this edition of his sue guards. Spines sunned to brown, extremities slightly poems, of which he had corrected the proofs, and rubbed. An excellent set, handsomely bound. for which he had signed the special page to ap- deluxe limited edition, number 8 of 1,000 pear at the beginning of Volume I [the limitation copies on Japanese vellum. These unexpurgated sheet]”. Yeats was, of course, a constant reviser of English translations of six of Zola’s more contro- his work, which makes this definitive edition all versial novels were made for the Lutetian Society the more important. of London by Ernest Dowson, Havelock Ellis, Ar- Wade 209 & 210. thur Symons, Victor Plarr, Alexander Teixeira de £4,000 [121681] Mattos, and Percy Pinkerton, and originally published between 1894 and 1895. A preface by Zola himself can be found in L’Assommoir, volume 1. £2,750 [121353]

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