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17–19 November 2017 hong kong Dover Street China in Print Mon 27 Nov – Sat 23 Dec Hong Kong Maritime Museum Mon–Fri: 10am–7pm www.chinainprint.com Sat: 10am–6pm Sun: closed 9–11 February 2018 california Sun 24 Dec – Mon 1 Jan 2018: closed Pasadena Convention Center 300 E. Green St Fulham Road Pasadena, CA 91101 www.cabookfair.com Mon 27 Nov – Sat 23 Dec Mon–Thur: 10am–7pm 8–11 March Fri & Sat: 10am–6pm Sun: closed new york Park Avenue Amory Sun 24 Dec – Tue 26 Dec: closed 643 Park Avenue, New York Wed 27 Dec – Sat 30 Dec: 10am–6pm www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com Sun 31 Dec – Mon 1 Jan 2018: closed

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Large quarto (350 × 278 mm). Recent blue crushed morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), raised bands to spine, compartments richly gilt with floral sprays, second and 1 fourth lettered in gilt, rolled floral border gilt to covers within twin gilt fillets either side, beaded role gilt 1 plate 25, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks. An excel- to board-edges, broad turn-ins gilt with floral and fillet lent copy with generous margins. rolls, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, marbled endpa- ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) The pers. 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates, similar vignette first edition, second issue as usual, plate 26, History of the Colleges of Winchester, to the title page. Light foxing to preface and contents “Charter House from the Playground”, with crick- leaves, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks, faint Eton, and Westminster. With the Char- eters instead of washerwomen, and plates 5 and crease across upper outer corners from half-title to sig. ter-House, the Schools of St. Paul’s, Mer- 23, “Winchester College, from the Meadow” and C2, the images never affected. An excellent copy with chant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and “Westminster School Room”, both in the pre- bright and attractive plates. the Free-School of Christ’s Hospital. Lon- ferred first state. With a copy of the very rare first first edition, possibly one of 100 large-paper issue, second state of the Charter House plate laid don: R. Ackermann, 1816 copies (similar to Abbey’s copy measuring 14 by 11 in, retaining the washerwomen, the title erased. inches) from a total print-run of 850, originally is- Large quarto (340 × 275 mm). Mid 20th-century straight- (Tooley considered the first issue, first state, with sued in 12 monthly parts; all watermarks pre-pub- grain red morocco by Bayntun, flat bands gilt to spine, ti- the washerwomen and the original title, “Charter lication (the plates 1818 and 1820, the text 1818). tle gilt to second compartment, two-line frames and fan House School . . .”, to be “extraordinarily rare”; he Abbey, Scenery 192; Hardie pp. 108–9; Tooley 219; cornerpieces gilt to remaining compartments, concen- had only ever seen one copy.) Prideaux 336. tric fillets gilt to sides enclosing a broad hop and vine-leaf Abbey, Scenery 438; Hardie pp. 106 & 311; Tooley 3. roll and an inner dotted roll gilt, large cornerpieces built £2,250 [115759] up from fan and floral tools, gilt edges, broad foliate roll £3,000 [118891] gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bound brown silk page-markers. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. 44 3 2 aquatints after Gendall, Mackenzie, Pugin, and Westall, ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Il- and 4 line-engravings of costume after Uwin, all hand- ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) A Pic- coloured, watermarked 1812. Joints very lightly rubbed lustrated by John Lawrence. Harmonds- in sections, a few faint, almost imperceptible scores to turesque Tour of the English Lakes . . . il- worth: Penguin Books & Kestrel Books, 1976 front board, small spot to margin of frontispiece, tissue lustrated with forty-eight coloured views Large octavo. Original dark green crushed morocco by guard creased, mild foxing to title page, more heavily to drawn during a two year residence among Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands forming compart- binder’s blanks, occasional, very light offsetting, small ments to spine, titles direct to second and third in gilt, spray of pale mottling to plate 24, tiny fore-edge nick to the Lakes. London: R. Ackermann, 1821

2 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 3 5 fleurons to first and fifth and rabbit motifs to fourth and 2 vols. bound as 1, octavo (183 × 124 mm). Late 19th- 5 sixth in gilt, rabbit vignette to front board in gilt, edges century green half morocco, spine lettered in gilt in and turn-ins gilt, green and yellow endbands, marbled compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Rich- endpapers. In the marbled slipcase as issued. Original gilt. 18th-century ownership inscription partially erased ard F. A Plain and Literal Translation of watercolour by the artist to the first blank, colour fron- from front blank. Pencil shelf-marks and bookplate of tispiece, numerous illustrations in the text in colour and Henry S. Deming, over an ink inscription, to front free the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments . . . black and white, folding colour map tipped-in at rear. endpaper verso. Slight rubbing to extremities, minor Benares [London]: printed by the Kamashastra Spine very slightly faded; an excellent copy. wear to tips, spine lightly faded, occasional faint foxing. Society for Private Subscribers only, 1885–8 A very good copy. first illustrated edition, limited issue, 16 vols., octavo (244 × 150 mm). Near-contemporary green this copy with a fine original watercol- first edition, one of the first two eng- crushed half morocco by Stikeman, green marbled paper our by the illustrator, initialled by him in lish translations of the argonautica. The sides, titles and decorations gilt to spines in compart- the bottom right-hand corner of the first blank, editio princeps was published in Florence in 1496. ments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, red silk page and with his full signature on the frontispiece This translation by E. B. Greene (d. 1788), and a marker laid in. Title pages printed in red and black. Extra- (uncalled for in the limitation). Number 183 of translation by Francis Fawkes were published in illustrated with frontispieces and 90 plates, all with cap- 250 specially bound copies. This extremely popu- the same year, prompting the Gentleman’s Magazine tioned tissue guards. Binder’s stamps to front free endpa- lar animal story was initially turned down by all to note, “It cannot rain but it pours, after a long per versos. Spines uniformly toned; an excellent set. major publishing houses. When finally issued by death of translations of this admired Egyptian, first edition, the authentic benares edi- Rex Collings in 1972, sales exceeded 100,000 in the two now appear at once” (vol. 50, p. 384). tion, issued in a limited subscription of 1,000 cop- first year and Adams was awarded both the Carn- Greene demonstrates “a lively interest in the ies. The book was not in fact published in Benares egie Medal and the Guardian Award for children’s processes of translation, an interest which is re- and the Kamashastra Society was a cover for Burton fiction. flected in the wide range of verse forms he em- and his friend Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot. Bur- ton’s celebrated translation “has become the pre- £3,750 [120651] ploys, adapting his style to suit different authors” (ODNB). This edition, although reasonably well- eminent English translation of the Middle Eastern held institutionally, is uncommon in commerce. classic. It is the keystone of Burton’s literary repu- 4 tation” (ODNB). Though this edition was not illus- Harris, The First Printed Translations into English of the Great APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. The Argo- Foreign Classics, p. 11; Lowndes, vol. II, pt. II, p. 935. trated, this set is extra-illustrated with plates com- nautic Expedition. Translated from the missioned by the publishers of the several reprints £1,250 [120913] that appeared in the succeeding decades. Greek into English verse . . . London: print- Casada 74; Penzer pp. 114–16. ed for Thomas Payne and Son, 1780 £12,500 [120211]

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second edition of Austen’s third novel, first published by Egerton in May 1814. By November 1814 Austen wrote to a friend reporting that all 1,250 copies of the first edition had been sold, and 6 6 that the question of a second edition had therefore been raised. However Austen is believed to 6 1948 and illustrated solely in colour. For the 1962 have been dissatisfied with Egerton as a publisher, edition he added a number of pen-and-ink illustra- both in terms of the print quality of the first edi- ARDIZZONE, Edward. Original illustrations in his trademark black-and-white, reworked tion and in his abilities as a salesman (Gilson, p. tions and layouts for Paul, the Hero of the the colour pictures and transformed some colour 59). She therefore decided to change publisher Fire; together with a copy of both the 1948 work into black-and-white; Ardizzone described it for the second edition, sending a corrected copy in his dedication as “a new version of an old story”. of the work to John Murray in December 1815. The and 1962 editions. London: Constable & second edition contains a number of changes to Company Limited, [1962] This is a typically charming and beguiling work by one of the great British illustrators of the 20th cen- the text, “most noticeably in the technical details Pen and ink vignette title (measuring 290 × 215 mm), 20 tury, showcasing Ardizzone’s “complete mastery – probably on advice from one of the sailor broth- pen and ink illustrations, 13 pen and ink and watercolour of the drawn line” (ODNB). ers” (ibid.). illustrations (3 double-page) by Ardizzone (each illustra- Gilson A7. tion signed “EA”), on 15 sheets (measuring 290 × 430 mm), £22,500 [116637] numbered 1–30; accompanying letterpress cut and either £5,000 [120264] taped or pasted in place. A few small colour splashes and 7 some minor tape marks, general light signs of handling, a 8 few marginal printer’s annotations, one small section of AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. A novel. letterpress lost from p. 3. In excellent condition. In three volumes. By the author of “Pride AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. original mock-up for the 1962 edition, and Prejudice.” Second edition. London: London: Richard Bentley, 1833 [but 1832] inscribed by the author-illustrator and printed for J. Murray, 1816 Octavo. Original purple glazed linen boards, twin black presented to his godson, inscribed on the title spine labels lettered in gilt, green silk page marker. En- page: “To Edward Booth-Clibborn, from Edward 3 vols., duodecimo (173 × 107 mm). Rebound to style in graved vignette title and frontispiece by William Great- Ardizzone, with love”. This is one of Ardizzone’s brown half calf, red morocco labels to spines, ruled and bach after Ferdinand Pickering (tissue guards intact). most delightful books, first published by Porpoise decorated in gilt in compartments, marbled paper sides, Armorial bookplate of J. B. Gibson to front pastedown. (a short-lived imprint of Penguin) in September edges speckled brown. Top edges dust toned, very light With the 8 pp. publisher’s ads, including advert for an foxing to text throughout; an excellent, bright set. edition Shakespeare to appear in January 1883 (not noted

4 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 8 9 10 by Gilson). Spine very slightly faded, a few marks to cov- Bentley bought the copyright of Pride and Prejudice 10 ers, odd faint spot to contents. An excellent copy. from the executors of Thomas Egerton and of the AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. With first bentley edition, in the first issue remaining novels from Henry and Cassandra Aus- binding, the third edition, and the first English ten. Austen’s novels had not been reissued since twenty-four coloured illustrations by edition to be illustrated. 1818 so these printings – published in Bentley’s C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Gilson D1. Standard Novels series – constitute early editions: Dutton & Co., New York, 1907 Sense and Sensibility, third edition (pre-dating the £3,000 [120843] first American by a few months); Pride and Prejudice, Octavo. Original vellum, elaborate decoration and titles in gilt to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, others un- fourth edition; Mansfield Park, third edition; Emma, trimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece with 9 second edition (omitting the dedication to the tissue guard, vignette title page, and 22 colour plates by Prince Regent included in the first edition);North - Brock. Front cover a little bowed, browning to endpa- AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility; anger Abbey & Persuasion, second edition. These are pers, slight nicks to endpaper edges; an excellent copy. Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield also the first English editions to be illustrated. The first colour illustrated brock edition, Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Bentley illustrations, by the obscure Ferdinand deluxe vellum issue. Brock had previously il- London: Richard Bentley, 1833 Pickering, played an integral part in the recep- lustrated Pride and Prejudice without colour for Mac- tion of Austen’s novels; according to one Austen millan’s 1895–7 series, for which Hugh Thomson 5 vols., octavo (167 × 100 mm). Contemporary calf skil- scholar, they “promoted a sense that her novels illustrated the other five titles. A decade later J. M. fully rebacked with original decorative gilt spines laid were best understood as familial, female focused, Dent, realising Brock’s potential as a colourist, down (corners refurbished), dark green twin labels, and sensational. For decades, these illustrations sides with concentric blind and gilt tooled ornamental commissioned him to redo the Pride and Prejudice would have served to steer readers away from the panels, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved vignette suite and to create colour illustrations for the oth- titles and frontispieces by William Greatbach after Ferdi- conclusion that Austen’s fiction ought to be un- er five Austen titles. Brock’s illustrations showed nand Pickering (tissue guards intact). Several vols. with a derstood as social, comic, or didactic” (Davoney a sharp eye for characterisation and the ironic hu- contemporary pencilled presentation inscription dated Looser, The Making of Jane Austen, 2017, p. 20). Com- mour of Jane Austen’s world. His drawings were 1835 (signed with initials only). Some light abrasions and plete sets in such attractive contemporary bind- well-researched; he and his brother collected an- scratches to covers, customary touch of foxing to engravings as these are decidedly uncommon. tique furniture and clothing so that their friends ings, bound without the half-titles, final blanks in vol. I, Gilson D1–5; Sadleir 3735a. and advertisement leaf at end of vol. III (almost certainly and relations could model for the artists in their discarded by the binder). A very good set. £12,500 [120347] Cambridge studio. first collected edition, in a most appeal- Gilson E114. ing contemporary binding. In 1832–3 Richard £1,750 [121405]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 5 12 BAKST, Léon. The Designs for The Sleep- ing Princess. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Music by Tchaikovsky. Preface by André Levinson. London: Benn Brothers Limited, 1923 Folio. Original vellum-backed blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Mounted colour lithographs to title and list of illustrations, 54 similar plates with captioned tissue guards, lithographed portrait of Bakst after Picasso. Bookplate of Pamela and Ray- mond Lister to front pastedown. Head of spine lightly bumped, tips a little bumped and rubbed, front inner hinge sometime reinforced, faint tape-marks to mounts (from manufacture), tissue guard to Picasso plate slightly creased. A very good copy with bright plates. 11 first edition in english, number 64 of 1,000 copies, of which 500 were for distribution in the 11 USA; first published in French by Brunoff, Paris, 1922. Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes production BAGEHOT, Walter. Lombard Street: A of Sleeping Beauty, for which Leon Bakst designed Description of the Money Market. Lon- the costumes and set, was first staged in London don: Henry S. King & Co., 1873 in 1921 at the Alhambra Theatre, as The Sleeping Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and boards lettered Princess. Bakst’s designs were a significant contri- and ruled in gilt and black, dark green endpapers. Con- bution to the modern art movement, as much as 13 temporary ownership inscription of American judge H. L. to theatre or costume design, and the expense of Richmond to half-title, a few annotations to contents realising them nearly bankrupted Diaghilev. The text is by Carl Einstein (1885–1940), author of and rear free endpaper recto. Spine ends and hinges £2,250 [118924] the important Expressionist novel Bebuquin (1912). professionally restored, corners a little worn, rear board creased, pastedown cracked but firm; a very good copy. £2,750 [118927] first edition, scarce in commerce. Described 13 by J. M. Keynes as “an undying classic”, Lombard (BAKST, Léon.) Léon Bakst. 42 Tafeln und 14 Street analyses the operation of the British financial 6 Abbildungen mit einer Einleitung von BALLARD, J. G. Crash. London: Jonathan system, focusing on the economic role of the Bank Carl Einstein. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, [1927] Cape, 1973 of England. Bagehot’s recommendation that the Bank alter gold reserves based on economic cy- Large quarto. Original japon-backed brown paper boards, Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With cles was highly influential, and the book was con- gilt vignette to front, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 6 the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, light foxing to top sidered authoritative into the 20th century. “The tipped-in lithographic illustrations in the text, 19 mount- edge; an excellent copy in the jacket with minor rubbing wonderful clearness of Bagehot’s power of state- ed lithographic colour plates, 23 pochoir plates of which to extremities. 19 coloured, many heightened by hand in gold or silver, first edition, inscribed by the author on ment, his exact knowledge of the subject treated captioned tissue guards. Bookplate of Danish writer and the title page, “To John, J. G. Ballard”, together on, together with his firm grasp of economic the- filmmaker Axel Breidahl (1876–1948). Small mark to ory, have caused this volume to exert an influence backstrip, upper outer corners bumped, a few other small with an original signed watercolour drawing by the which few books on a subject naturally so dry have dents to extremities, faint staining to front board, re- dust jacket illustrator Bill Botten on the front free possessed” (Palgrave I, p. 81). mains an excellent copy, the plates bright and fresh. endpaper. Crash was the first of the six dust jackets See Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 5–7; Masui, first edition, number 201 of 330 copies only. Botten designed for Ballard’s works; the drawing p. 113. The plates include some of Bakst’s most cele- echoes the design of the dust jacket spine panel. £5,500 [118457] brated costumes and stage designs for the Ballets Pringle A114. Russes, and a small number of separate sketches. £2,000 [120110]

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and his pirates, but Barrie added a final chapter to omnibus edition of two works illustrated the book in which Peter returns for Wendy years by w. h. bartlett: Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus later, when she is grown with a child of her own. It (an expanded edition, with an appendix and six ad- was first published in the UK earlier the same year; ditional plates) and Beattie’s Danube. The additional the stage play was not published until 1928. plates in Pardoe’s work depict sites connected with £2,500 [115977] the Crimean War, and the omnibus volume was 14 probably issued by Virtue to capitalise on renewed interest in the region. Both works were originally 16 15 published serially: The Beauties of the Bosphorus in (BARTLETT, William H.) PARDOE, Ju- 1838; The Danube between 1842 and 1844. Bartlett BARRIE, J. M. Peter and Wendy. Illus- lia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illus- spent most of the 1830s travelling across Europe, trated by F. D. Bedford. New York: Charles trated in a series of views of Constantino- the Middle East and North America providing il- Scribner’s Sons, 1911 lustrations for a number of highly popular travel ple and its environs, from original draw- books, most of which were published by Virtue. The Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial deco- ings by W. H. Bartlett; [and:] BEATTIE, Bosphorus was published to capitalise on the great ration to spine and front cover in gilt, fore edge untrimmed, others trimmed. With the dust jacket. Frontis- William. The Danube: Its History, Scen- success of the author’s City of the Sultan (1837) and to piece with tissue guard, pictorial title page, and 11 plates, ery, and Topography. Splendidly illus- provide a text for Bartlett’s engravings, which were all by Bedford. Spine gently rolled, very slight rubbing to trated, from sketches taken on the spot, among the earliest of his Eastern series to appear, extremities, top edge lightly dust toned; a very good copy and demonstrated “his skill in architectural draw- in the jacket with expert restoration to head of spine, by Abresch, and drawn by W. H. Bartlett. ing, and . . . an ability to handle more open land- panels a little soiled, nicks to extremities, minor loss to London: George Virtue, [c.1854] scape work” (Hunnisett, p. 114); five of the plates fold of rear flap and to head of spine and rear panel, short are in fact by John Cousen, including “The Column closed tear to head of front panel. 2 works in 1 vol., large quarto (263 × 202 mm). Near- contemporary red morocco for the Newcastle bookseller of Theodosius”, which “well indicates the variations first u.s. edition, in the uncommon dust George Rutland, titles and decoration to spine gilt in in tone he was able to achieve” (ibid., p. 96). jacket, of the expanded adaptation into novel compartments, ornamental frames to covers gilt, edges Atabey 922; Blackmer 1254; Hunnisett, Steel-Engraved Book form of the story first made popular in the 1904 and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. With portrait Illustration in England. stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. frontispieces and engraved vignette title pages with tis-

It tells the familiar story of the stage version, with sue guards and 168 engraved plates. Binder’s stamp to £1,450 [120001] Peter as an older child flying off with Wendy and front pastedown. Minor rubbing to extremities, foxing the other Darling children to battle Captain Hook to outer leaves; an excellent copy.

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17 Octavo. Original brown-green cloth, titles to front board black on white and pink paper, 10 colour illustrations, nu- and spine stamped in blind, brown patterned endpapers merous halftone photographic reproductions, black and BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adven- resembling elephant skin. With the original photograph- white illustrations to text. Ownership inscription to half- tures of Santa Claus. Indianapolis: The ic dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. title. Library stamp to frontispiece recto and p. 69. Spine Small ink splotches to front and back boards, likely from lightly toned, slight rubbing to extremities, light soiling Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902 the inscription. Five original photographs to the front to boards, light foxing to outer leaves; a very good copy. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover endpapers. An excellent copy in the very mildly rubbed signed limited edition, one of 150 copies jacket, with a small nick to head of spine. green and white, decoration to front cover, green, white signed by the author. and brown, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a red crushed first edition thus, presentation copy, morocco slipcase, green and black crushed morocco on- elaborately inscribed by Beard on the half-title, £3,750 [118364] lays. In a custom green cloth chemise. Colour title page, with original ink drawings and his hand-print, illustrated dedication and contents page, and 19 colour plates. Contemporary Christmas gift inscription to front and ink splatters on the front free endpaper verso: free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, an excellent copy. “Larry warmest Greetings and inestimable Sa- laama, your fan, Peter (Beard) Tues. July 25th ‘89 first edition, signed by the author on the @ Montauk Point ‘This is Teddy Roosevelt Coun- title page. Uncommon signed, with only one other try!’” The recipient was Larry Wilson, a noted fire- copy traced at auction. Baum is best known for his arms author and close friend of Peter Beard, with Oz books, in two of which Santa Claus features as whom he collaborated on six books on firearms. a guest. This edition is revised and updated from the book £8,750 [117789] first published in 1963. £2,500 [118608] 18 BEARD, Peter. The End of the Game. 19 The last word from paradise, a pictorial BEATON, Cecil. Cecil Beaton’s Scrap- documentation of the origins, history & book. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1937 prospects of the big game in Africa. San Octavo. Original japon, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988 white, pink, green and gilt blossom patterned endpapers. Title page printed red and black, text printed in blue and 19

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20 marbled endpapers. With the green silk slipcase. Spine slightly faded; an excellent copy. BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. first edition, limited issue. Copy D of 20 let- Translated from the French by the author. tered copies, specially bound to mark the publica- Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982 tion of the author’s first novel; 130 numbered cop- Octavo. Original blue quarter calf, gilt lettered spine, ies were also produced. It was written in Paris in marbled paper sides, untrimmed. Title page printed in 1932, though not published for 60 years. blue and black, opening sentences printed in blue. An £975 [116618] excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 226 of 299 22 copies signed by the author; originally published as Mal vu mal dit (1981) and in Beckett’s English BECKETT, Samuel, & Georges Duthuit. translation by Grove Press (1981). Proust; [with:] Three Dialogues. London: £1,000 [115939] John Calder, 1965 Octavo. Original white calf-backed green cloth, gilt titles 21 to spine and front cover, facsimile signature gilt to front cover, gilt edges. Housed in the green cloth slipcase. BECKETT, Samuel. Dream of Fair to Mid- Spine lightly toned, minor rubbing to extremities; an dling Women. Edited by Eoin O’Brien excellent copy. and Edith Fournier. Foreword by Eoin first edition, signed limited issue, number O’Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992 10 of 100 copies. Octavo. Original blue watered silk, spine lettered black, £1,250 [120249] publisher’s device to the front board in blind, black 19

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24 BEHAN, Brendan. The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1956 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine rolled, light soiling to rear cover, a very good copy in the jacket with small 23 closed tears to head of spine and rear panel, creasing to edges and spine, light mark to bottom edge of rear panel. copies, and two million by 1868. Despite its au- 23 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed thor’s death four years after publication (at the age by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ea- BEETON, Mrs Isabella. The Book of of only 28, a fact which must snuff out any sense monn, from Brendan, 1st Aibreán [April] 1957”. Household Management . . . London: S. O. of Beeton’s passionate, energetic book as being This is the author’s first book and his key play, Beeton, 1861 the product of middle-aged housewifery), the and is uncommon inscribed. It is also the origin book has been constantly updated and its popu- Octavo (169 × 109 mm). Contemporary diced calf, red of the song “The Auld Triangle”, now a staple of larity has lived on to the present day. Comprising morocco label to spine lettered in gilt, gilt raised bands Irish music. to spine, blind tools to spine, brown endpapers, red edg- over 900 pages of recipes, illustrated with colour es. Colour frontispiece, engraved colour title-page, 12 il- plates (for the first time in this genre of book pro- £1,250 [117804] lustrated colour plates. Black and white illustrations to duction), Beeton’s boldly comprehensive text also text throughout. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. contains guidance on home economics, general 25 Tips skilfully refurbished, small bump to front cover, home life, and even some philosophical passages BERRY, Chuck. The Autobiography. New hinges repaired, odd spot of foxing to contents. An ex- on the ethical role of women in the world of the cellent copy. Victorian male: “For Mrs Beeton, a people’s ‘way York: Harmony Books, 1987 first edition, first issue, of the domestic bi- of taking their meals, as well as their way of treat- Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, title in ble of the Victorian age, in an attractive contempo- ing women’ were marks of civilisation” (ODNB). red foil to the spine, red endpapers. With unclipped dust rary binding. It was the first book to supplant the £3,000 [119998] jacket. Numerous black and white illustrations in the text. household culinary authority, Hannah Glasse’s Boards a little bowed, jacket slightly loose, but overall Art of Cookery (1747). In its first year of publication very good. Provenance: Clarence Richmond; bequeathed Beeton’s Book of Household Management sold 60,000 on his death his wife Loretta; on her death to her brother Gerald Snipes who made the decision to sell it.

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tion of 1534 with the translator’s preface and notes and the variants of the edition of 1525. Edited for the Royal Society of Literature by N. Hardy Wallis, with an introduction by Isaac Foot. Cambridge: printed for the Royal Society of Literature, 1939 25 Large quarto (285 × 227 mm). Contemporary red crushed morocco, titles to spine in gilt in compartments, royal first edition, presentation copy, warmly in- the loan of the guitar on p. 34: “Clarence Rich- coat of arms in gilt to front cover, yellow silk page markers, brown endpapers, top edge gilt. Title page printed in scribed on the title page by Berry to his high school mond, a classmate of mine, became more friendly red and black. Text printed within single rule frame. Fron- friend Clarence Richmond, who loaned him his and loaned me his father’s abandoned four-string tispiece facsimile of original 1534 title-page and 23 plates. first guitar, and was later the best man at his wed- tenor guitar to learn on. It was my first touch of Pasted to the first blank is The Times obituary for Tasker. ding: “The best to you, Clarence, and thanks for the string instrument . . . The first song I practised Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to extremities, slight my first guitar, that one started it all. From school and sang with was to be the backing for many, as soiling and a couple of scratches to covers, faint offsetting mate Charles 1941. Chuck Berry, Dec. 1987. Will it was the chord changes of the blues”. Accompa- to prelims, foxing to edges; a very good, bright copy. be at your next retirement for sure!” Berry relates nied by Richmond’s Honorable Discharge certifi- first edition thus, limited issue, number 58 cate from the US Navy in 1946; his St. Louis Met- of 500 copies. Hardy Wallis’s translation was first ropolitan Police Department lieutenant’s badge published, without illustrations, in 1938. Tipped- and the gold watch presented to him in September in is a presentation letter from the British architect 1987 upon his retirement from the SLMPD. and Conservative politician Sir Robert Tasker (1868– £5,000 [119976] 1859) to the headmaster of his alma mater Ardingly College, 7 February 1959, and a photocopied letter of thanks from the headmaster George Snow. 26 £575 [121217] (BIBLE; NT, English, Tyndale’s version.) The New Testament. Translated by Wil- liam Tyndale, 1534. A reprint of the edi- 25

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cently recalled from Rome to the English College 28 at Rheims (itself newly transferred from Douai), “embarked on an English translation of the Bible. (BLOOMSBURY.) The Hogarth Letters. [Cardinal] Allen announced the project in Sep- London: The Hogarth Press, 1933 27 tember 1578. He, Richard Bristow, and William Octavo. Original orange cloth-backed boards, illustra- Reynolds were involved primarily as revisers: the tion and titles in brown to front cover. Bookplate to front 27 work was Martin’s. Between September 1578 and pastedown. Spine gently rolled and faded, minor foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. (BIBLE; OT; English, Douai version.) July 1580 Martin translated the entire Vulgate. The New Testament of Iesus Christ with Bristow’s notes The Holie Bible faithfully translated into first collected edition, one of 500 copies. was published at Rheims in 1582. For financial rea- Early in the 1930s, Virginia and Leonard Woolf English, out of the authentical Latin. sons (“our poore estate in banishment”) the Old asked 12 writers to compose letters to whomever Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Testament did not appear until the two volumes of they wished, fictional or actual persons. The let- Greeke, and other Editions in divers lan- The Holie Bible were published at Douai in 1609–10. ters included in this edition were first published guages . . . By the English College of Do- The appearance of a Catholic Bible in English un- individually during 1931 and 1932, and include dermined traditional protestant criticism that the pieces by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and Hugh way. Douai: by Laurence Kellam, 1609–10 Roman church kept scripture out of the hands of Walpole, among others. 2 vols., quarto (210 × 160 mm). Contemporary limp vel- the laity. Instead protestant theologians such as Woolmer 321. lum, recased on new tawed leather slips, new leather Thomas Cartwright, William Whitaker, and Wil- ties, new endleaves, old flyleaves preserved. Housed in liam Fulke attacked the credentials of the trans- £375 [120625] a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Early lators and denounced their work as filled with ink signature at the foot of the title “And[rew] Cross error. Despite such criticism, revised versions of 29 his Booke” and heavily deleted inscription in the cen- Martin’s translation remained extremely popular tre “Thomas Parry de [?Roylage] / Ex dono Maria Cross BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Waggoner and [–]”. Titles and last few pages a little dusty, occasional throughout the English-speaking world for nearly other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, small marks, minor worming in the fore-margin of Vol. four hundred years” (ODNB). II in places, a few neat paper repairs to the extremities at Darlow & Moule, The English Bible, 300; STC 2207. Ltd, 1920 front and back, overall a very good copy. £12,500 [118652] Octavo. Original purple cloth, printed paper label to spine, first edition of the old testament in the edges uncut. With the dust jacket. With the spare label english catholic version. In 1578 the Roman tipped-in at the rear. Spine very lightly faded, faint offset- Catholic priest Gregory Martin (1542?–1582), re- ting to endpapers, an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with browned spine and short closed tear to front panel.

12 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington first edition, first issue, one of 250 copies bound in purple cloth for immediate issue from an edition of 500, of which 100 sets of sheets were sent to New York for Knopf ’s American edition, and the remaining 150 bound up in green cloth later in 1920. Blunden’s first trade publication, The Waggoner was issued with the encouragement and assistance of Siegfried Sassoon to whom Blunden had sent some of his work in his capacity as literary editor of the Daily Herald. £1,250 [119791]

30 [BRONTË, Anne.] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. London: T. C. Newby, 1848 3 volumes, octavo (196 × 116 mm). Late 19th-century green straight-grain morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spines gilt-tooled in compartments with titles direct, french fillet border gilt to sides, gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Half-title to vol. 1 only, as called for. Bound without terminal advert leaf. Bookplates of George Evelyn Cower to pastedowns. Some corners bumped, a few minor marks to sides, internally clean, minor paper repairs done at the time of binding to a few small tears to some outer leaves, light mark to first title, but an excellent copy, smartly bound, retaining untrimmed fore and lower edges. first edition, first issue, of Anne Brontë’s last and only separately published novel, which “reverberated throughout Victorian England” (May Sinclair, Brontë biographer) with its realistic and disturbing portrayal of alcoholism and debauchery. Thomas Cautley Newby was a notori- ously shifty publisher who had taken an advance deposit for the earlier publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey but failed to publish until the reviews of Jane Eyre proved favourable, then printed fewer than the agreed number, leaving most errors uncorrected. His behaviour on this occasion was no better: he offered it to Harper Brothers of New York for publication in America implying it was by Currer Bell, and printed reviews of Jane Eyre on the half-title verso with the same intent; and pub- 30 lished only about 250 or 300 copies, instead of the agreed 500, leaving the remainder to be sold, with literature remains unparalleled among private col- Smith (Brontë) 4; no copy in Sadleir but listed in a cancel title and preface, as the second edition. lections, considered it the scarcest of the Brontë comparative scarcities p. 375. Copies of the first issue are accordingly scarce. sisters’ works and never found an adequate copy £27,500 [121127] Michael Sadleir, whose collection of 19th-century for his collection.

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31 [BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne.] 32 32 Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [i.e. 1848] 32 eresque self-portrait thumbnail “little man with bottle”. Applebaum was Bukowski’s attorney and Octavo. Original green blind-stamped cloth, spine let- BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. friend. One of 126 copies hand-bound in boards by tered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Minor rub- Poems 1981–1984. Santa Barbara: Black Earle Gray, this copy not numbered but inscribed bing to extremities, slight wear to spine ends, spine and edges of covers browned, top edge dust toned; a very Sparrow Press, 1984 “Presentation Copy” and signed by Bukowski. good copy. Octavo. Original patterned cloth spine with printed ti- This was the last Black Sparrow book Bukowski for which did original paintings. first edition, second issue, with the cancel title tle label, grey boards with titles and decoration in blue, page and a facsimile errata slip. The slim volume black, grey, orange, red and yellow, orange endpapers. £4,750 [120437] With the original clear plastic dust jacket. Title page was first published by Aylott and Jones in an edi- printed in black, grey, red, orange, and blue; photo- tion of 1,000 copies on 26 May 1846, but was not a graphic portrait of Bukowski at end. Gentle bump to the 33 commercial success. However, after the huge suc- top edge of back cover, the acetate jacket very slightly (BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord, cess of Jane Eyre, published in 1847, the unsold stock creased in places, but an excellent copy. & Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke.) ARM- of Poems, consisting of 961 copies, was bought by first and limited edition, presentation Smith, Elder & Co. in September 1848 and reis- copy, with an original painting and STRONG, John. The Art of Preserving sued the following month with a cancel title page, thumbnail sketch by bukowski, inscribed Health. A New Edition. To which is pre- but retaining the original date. The collection in characteristic marker pen on the blank facing fixed A Critical Essay on the Poem by J. contains 19 poems by Charlotte Brontë (“Currer”), the title page, “For Arthur Applebaum – I always and 21 each by Emily (“Ellis”) and Anne (“Acton”). Aikin. London: printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and feel like a bum around a gentleman like you. If the W. Davies, 1803 Smith I. world had more like you we wouldn’t be in such a £2,500 [120999] bad fix. Sincerely, Charles Bukowski”, and accom- Octavo (154 × 95 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, sen- panied by an original sketch: Bukowski’s Thurb- sitively rebacked to style preserving original morocco

14 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 33 title label, gilt roll to borders of boards and to board edges, marbled endpapers, blue speckled edges. With 4 engraved plates by Stothard. Some rubbing to the extremities, excellent condition. Provenance: a later pencil annotation to the front free endpaper verso verifies Mil- banke and Byron’s inscriptions, and notes that the book was given “by Lady Noel-Byron” to Sophia Coussmaker, 22nd Baroness de Clifford (1791–1874). 34 fascinating association copy: the copy of anne isabella, lady byron (née milbanke), 34 originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press with her autograph ownership inscription to the first in June 1865. On 19 July 1865, Dodgson heard that blank, with a slip pasted over it bearing her married CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in the book’s illustrator John Tenniel was dissatis- name in Byron’s hand. The association is notable in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co, fied with the quality of the printing, so decided to light of Lord Byron’s hypochondria and Milbanke’s 1866 suppress the whole edition of 2,000 copies. He re- concerns for his physical and mental health. It is also called the few pre-publication copies he had sent perhaps indicative of the combative relationship that Octavo. Original pictorial cloth gilt, dark green end- out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, typified their brief marriage, Byron here literally pa- papers, binder’s label on rear pastedown, gilt edges. where most perished. The book was entirely reset pering over her identity with his. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wood-engraved illustrations after John by Richard Clay for this authorized Macmillan edi- The Art of Preserving Health, first published in 1744, is Tenniel. Contemporary ownership signature dated 1866, tion which, although dated 1866, was in fact ready considered one of the best didactic poems in the small shelf label to front pastedown. Worn at extremities by November 1865, in time for the Christmas mar- language. This copy, with the half-title, is a reprint with loss to head and foot of spine, minor splitting to ket. The unused Oxford sheets were sold to Apple- of the new edition of 1795, which was the first to in- front joint, some spotting to contents. ton’s for use in their New York edition, published clude the Stothard plates and critical essay by Aikin. first published edition. The publication the following summer. This Macmillan edition £2,250 [119546] of the first Alice book set a pattern for many of was published in an edition of 4,000 copies. Dodgson’s succeeding publications. The book was £22,500 [115987]

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35 2 vols., octavo. Original dark red cloth blind-stamped arrived two years later. Casati’s account, which is with overall crocodile-skin pattern, titles and authorial extremely critical of Stanley, was originally pub- CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Look- portrait gilt to spines, titles in black and pictorial decora- lished in Italian earlier the same year. tion in black, gilt, and silver to front boards, brown coated ing-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Howgego IV C15. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. endpapers, top edges untrimmed. 60 plates including frontispieces, from sketches, paintings and photographs, £950 [119278] London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 and variously coloured, tinted, or in black and white, 104 black and white illustrations in the text, 4 folding maps in Octavo (173 × 120 mm). Near-contemporary red crushed end-pockets, of which 3 partially coloured. Contemporary 37 morocco by Cross & Beckwith, titles to spine gilt in com- prize label (Kidderminster and District School of Science partments, floral frame to covers gilt, gilt edges, floral CERVANTES, Miguel de. The Life and and Art) to front pastedown of vol. 1. Trivial rubbing to patterned turn-ins gilt, green marbled endpapers. Fron- extremities, light spotting to endpapers, prelims, and one Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman tispiece, 49 illustrations by John Tenniel in text. Slight of the folding maps (“Map of the Return Journey”). A su- wear to tips, an excellent copy, attractively bound. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated perb copy. first edition. As with the first edition of Alice’s from the original Spanish by Charles first edition in english. “Most books on Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass Jarvis. The third edition. London: printed Emin Pasha and Stanley have something to say was published for the Christmas market in De- for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and R. and about Casati, but do little justice to the work cember 1871 but bears the following year’s date in of this important explorer” (Howgego). Casati J. Dodsley, 1756 its imprint. (1838–1902) set out for Sudan in 1879 to join the 2 vols., quarto (297 × 228 mm). Contemporary mottled Williams–Madan–Green–Crutch 84. expedition of Romolo Gessi, who was in need calf, titles gilt to green and black labels to spines, spines £2,250 [117871] of a surveyor. He was an early European visitor richly gilt in compartments, single rule frame gilt to cov- to Azande and Mangbetu lands, and his account ers, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges black, others green, green page marker. Frontispiece to vol. I 36 greatly expanded contemporary European geo- graphic and ethnographic knowledge of equatorial and 68 copper engraved plates by Vandergucht and Vir- CASATI, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria tue, after John Vanderbank. Single leaf of card with ama- Africa. During the Mahdist revolt in 1883 he joined teur pencil drawing of plate laid in. Expert restoration to and the Return with Emin Pasha. Trans- the beleaguered Emin Pasha at Juba. In 1886, fol- inner hinges. Slight rubbing to extremities, occasional lated from the Original Italian Manu- lowing news of Stanley’s relief expedition, he was light foxing; an excellent set. script . . . London and New York: Frederick despatched by Emin on a reconnaissance mission a handsomely bound copy of the third south to Bunyoro, during which he was constantly Warne & Co., 1891 jarvis edition. Charles Jarvis, a friend and one- harassed by the despotic King Kabarega, and was time art tutor of Alexander Pope, was primarily with the Ottoman governor when Stanley finally an artist and an art collector. This translation, his

16 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 37 major literary undertaking, published posthu- 38 christmas card signed by both prince mously and frequently reprinted, is generally con- charles and princess diana, inscribed in sidered to be close in spirit to the original. The il- (CHARLES, Prince of Wales, & Diana, Charles’s hand with Diana adding her name, lustrations were originally commissioned in 1723 Princess of Wales.) Official Christmas “Eugenie [wishing you a very Happy Christmas by J. and R. Tonson to illustrate Don Quixote in the card. [1990] and New Year] and lots of love from Charles and original Spanish; this eventually appeared as a lav- Single folded sheet of white card (153 × 203 mm). Gilt Diana”. Princess Eugenie of York (b. 1990) is the ish four-volume quarto edition in 1738, the plates royal crests to front of card. Text printed in red. Glossy younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, used repeatedly by the publishers. colour photograph of Charles and Diana with Princes and of Sarah, Duchess of York. She is eighth in line £3,750 [119541] Harry and William mounted to inside recto within red of succession to the British throne. frame. In excellent condition with just a couple of tiny £1,500 [120570] faint marks to covers.

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39 first edition of Christie’s first book published tutelage Christie met his wife Katharine, on whom by Collins. It is Christie’s third novel to feature the character of Louise Leidner in Murder in Meso- CHRISTIE, Agatha. Poirot Investigates. Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. potamia is purportedly based. A superb association London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924 £1,800 [121394] copy of Christie’s second book, first published in Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and geometric rul- the US in February 1942 (preceding the UK edition ing to spine and front board in dark blue. Bookseller’s by a month). 41 ticket to front pastedown. Spine slightly faded, a few Wagstaff & Poole p. 186. faint marks to covers, ink spots to top edge, a little fox- CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Body in the Li- £4,750 [117924] ing to contents. A very good copy. brary. London: for the Crime Club by Collins, first edition of the first collection of short sto- 1942 ries featuring Hercule Poirot. 42 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Hollow. London: £2,000 [120389] With the supplied dust jacket. Spine faded, slight fraying to ends, slight wear to outer tips, a very good copy in for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946 40 the bright jacket with a few nicks to spine ends and short Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. closed tear to foot of front flap. CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Spine gently rolled, light fading to spine ends and onto first uk edition, presentation copy, in- rear panel, slight rubbing to extremities, an excellent, Ackroyd. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, scribed by the author to Katharine Woolley on unusually bright copy. 1926 the front free endpaper, “Katharine, from Agatha, first uk edition, presentation copy, in- Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front May 1942”. Katharine Woolley and her husband scribed by the author to Sir Leonard Woolley on board in red, double rule frame to front cover in red. Sir Leonard were good friends of Christie and her the front free endpaper, “Len, with best wishes, Spine gently rolled and lightly faded, rubbing to extremi- second husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mal- from Agatha, Xmas 1946”. (See previous item.) It ties, wear to very tips, a couple of faint marks to edges of lowan, whose archaeological career began as an was first published in the US in the same year. text block, light mottling to rear cover; an uncommonly assistant to Leonard Woolley at the excavations at Wagstaff & Poole p. 197. bright copy. Ur in southern Iraq. Through this friendship and £2,750 [117922]

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43 morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for presenta- 45 tion”. This is the third such copy handled by us, CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Laying of who have never encountered a wrappered copy. CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the Foundation Stone of the New Cham- Cohen D132; Woods D(b)70/2. the English-Speaking Peoples. London: ber of the House of Commons by the Cassell and Company Ltd, 1956–8 £1,250 [121025] Speaker 26th May 1948. London: printed 4 vols., octavo (237 × 152 mm). Finely bound by Zaehns- for H.M. Stationery Office by the Curwen Press 44 dorf in dark blue crushed morocco, titles to spines gilt, Ltd, 1948 gilt rules to covers, turn-ins and gilt edges, marbled CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second endpapers. Illustrated throughout with maps and genea- Foolscap folio. Original green buckram over bevelled World War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948– logical tables. Spines a touch browned; an excellent set, boards, title gilt to spine and front board, quadruple handsomely bound. fillet gilt panel to both boards, Palace of Westminster 54 first editions. Churchill began his history of portcullis centre-tool in gilt on the rear cover. 5 collo- 6 vols., octavo (210 × 137 mm). Recent dark red morocco, the British Empire and the United States during type plates with 2 images per plate, title page printed in titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt, green. Gift inscription to civil servant Catherine Elfrida his period in the political wilderness in the early marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With diagrams and ta- Barson to the front free endpaper. Very slightly rubbed, 1930s, but did not complete it until after his retire- bles throughout the text. Minor spotting to a few leaves, spine perhaps a touch dulled, a very good copy. ment in the late 1950s. The events of the Second an excellent set. World War, the major interruption in the writing first and only edition. The text reprints first editions of churchill’s masterpiece, Churchill’s speech as Leader of the Opposition: process, had reconfirmed his belief in the “spe- the single most important historical account of the cial relationship” between Britain and the United “The House of Commons is a living and death- Second World War. As Max Beloff observed, there less entity; it survived, unflinching, the tests and States. Consequently he gave considerable atten- was no statesman of the 20th century “whose ret- tion to the key events of American history: around hazards of war; it preserved our constitutional rospective accounts of the great events in which liberties under our ancient monarchy in a man- a quarter of the third volume, The Age of Revolution, he has taken part have so dominated subsequent is dedicated to the War of Independence, and a full ner which has given a sense of stability, not only in historical thinking”. this island, but as an example to nations in many third of the final volume, The Great Democracies, con- Cohen A240.4; Woods A123(b). lands”. He features in all but two of the images. tains a detailed study of the American Civil War. Cohen A267.1(I) – (IV); Woods A138(a). Cohen states that “the normal edition of the work, £1,500 [119747] for distribution to the Members of Parliament, £2,500 [119465] was in wrappers. By order of the Speaker, however, 24 copies were printed and bound in full green

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 19 46 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Col- lected Works. Centenary Limited Edi- tion; [together with:] The Collected Es- says. Centenary Limited Edition. London: Library of Imperial History in association with the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, 1973–6 Together, 38 vols., octavo. Original full vellum with 22– carat gold blocking, including titles to spines, armorial device to front boards and ruling to spines and front boards, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, printed on Ar- chive Long-Life Text Paper. Housed in the original green leatherette slipcases stamped with the Churchill arms in gilt. Illustrations throughout, as plates and in the text. Typical natural variation to the tone of the vellum bindings; a couple of the slipcases a little rubbed at extremities. An excellent set. first complete collected edition, number 312 of 1,750 sets published. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Church- ill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. “The specifications were titanic: five million words in 19,000 pages, weighing 19 lbs, taking up 4½ ft of shelf space. To achieve publication, 11 publishing houses in Great Britain, the United States and Canada released their individual copyrights in exchange for the promise that no other complete edition of Churchill works would be published until the expiration of international copyright in 2019” (Richard M. Langworth). The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so “the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets were ever published” (Cohen). This set is accompanied by the four-volume Cen- tenary Limited Edition of Churchill’s collected essays and journalistic writings, again intended to be limited to 3,000 sets, not always present, together with a publisher’s prospectus for both the Collected Works and Collected Essays. Cohen AA1; Langworth ICS AA1; Woods p. 391. £6,750 [117880]

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47 48 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Christa- COLLODI, Carlo. The Story of a Puppet bel; Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Trans- Sleep. London: printed for John Murray, by lated from the Italian by M. A. Murray. Il- William Bulmer and Co., 1816 lustrated by C. Mazzanti. London: T. Fisher Octavo. Original plain wrappers. Housed in a russet Unwin, 1892 cloth folding case and chemise. With the half-title, and Small octavo. Original patterned cloth printed in blue, with publisher’s advertisements to the rear dated April titles to spine and front cover in blue, patterned edges 1816. Morocco ownership label “A-L” to front wrapper, and endpapers. Half-title and title printed in red and some manuscript numbers to front wrapper, spine dis- black, frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrations creetly restored, a few minor marks, some rubbing and throughout by C. Mazzanti. Extremities rubbed, minor creasing to the extremities, internally clean, an excellent wear to tips, cloth a little darkened, text block cracked copy. The chemise has the gilt morocco bookplate of in a couple of places but holding firm; a very good copy. Hannah D. Rabinowitz, and the paper bookplate of Elis West Ames. first edition in english of the “most popular children’s book to come out of Italy”. The story first edition, attractively preserved in was written for a Rome children’s magazine, Gior- the original wrappers, of the publication nale dei bambini, with the first instalment appearing which prints for the first time three of Coleridge’s on 7 July 1881. It was published as a book in 1883 best poems: the gothic “Christabel” (composed under the title Le Avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un 1797–1800 but excluded from the 1800 edition of burattino, and quickly became a best-seller. Lyrical Ballads on Wordsworth’s advice and unpublished until here); the hallucinatory “Kubla £3,000 [119778] Khan”, accompanied by Coleridge’s myth-making account of its composition; and “The Pains of Sleep”, considered a description of opium with- drawal symptoms. £6,000 [120749]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 21 52 DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise . . . translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary . . . the second edition, corrected. With the life of Dante, additional notes, and an index. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1819 3 vols., octavo (215 × 136 mm). Late 19th-century tan pol- ished calf, twin morocco labels to spines lettered in gilt, gilt decorated compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and floral stamp to covers, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, silk page markers. Armorial bookplate of F. Reddaway to pastedowns. A touch of faint mottling to covers, occasional spot of faint foxing to contents. An excellent, fresh set, very attractively bound.

49 50 second and preferred edition of cary’s translation, the most important of the Roman- tic era. Cary initially published the work at his own 49 ing colour maps in volume 2. 20th-century collector’s bookplate of Norman Ritchie to front pastedown of vol. expense (which he could ill afford) in 1814, in such CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale. Ed- 1; Royal Institution of Great Britain blind stamp to title small type that it was almost unreadable. A chance inburgh and London: William Blackwood and page of vol. 2, and their deaccession ink stamp to the acquaintance with Coleridge, and Coleridge’s sub- Sons, 1900 front pastedown. Extremities lightly rubbed, vol. 1 spine sequent praise of Cary’s version, led to the sale of rolled, mild spotting front and back, vol. 2 cloth slightly 1,000 copies in less than three months and the Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine in gilt soiled, front inner hinge split but holding, folding maps publication of this second edition in 1819. and to front board in black. Prize inscription to front free with old tape-repair verso to small perforations at inter- endpaper. An excellent copy in bright cloth, contents sections of folds. A very good copy. £2,250 [119874] slightly foxed. first edition, trade issue, of the official account first edition in book form, with all the points of of “the first major British expedition to explore first issue. The novel was first serialized in Blackwood’s and climb in the Himalayas” (Cox), complete with Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. the supplement containing the scientific reports Wise pp. 5–6. and the two large folding maps. £2,500 [120386] £2,500 [119333]

50 51 CONWAY, William Martin. Climbing DAHL, Roald. The Commemorative and Exploration in the Karakoram-Him- Limited Edition of the Works. London: alayas. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894 Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, 1991 2 vols., octavo. Original reddish brown cloth, spines let- 15 vols., octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spine tered in gilt, front covers lettered in black, vol. I with vi- lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gnettes to spine and front cover in black and white, vol. gilt, buff endpapers. Each copy housed in a matching II with medallion portrait of the author in gilt to front weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole con- cover, rear covers with publisher’s device in black, green tained in a large open fronted blue paper covered box. coated endpapers, folding maps in endpockets of vol. II, Illustrated throughout. A fine set. top edges gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece with tissue- limited edition, one of 500 sets, published on guard, profuse illustrations from sketches and paintings 13 September 1991 to celebrate Dahl’s 75th birthday. to the text, many full-page, folding map, 2 large fold- £2,250 [115620] 51

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DARWIN, Charles. On The Origin of 53, 54, 55 Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the 54 those who saw peacock tails as an expression of struggle for life. Third edition, with ad- divine aesthetics. Darwin also set out a definite DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, ditions and corrections. (Seventh thou- family tree for humans, tracing their affinity with and selection in relation to sex. With il- sand.) London: John Murray, 1861 the Old World monkeys, and laid out his views on lustrations. London: John Murray, 1871 the evolutionary origins of morality and religion. Octavo. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, cov- 2 vols., octavo (185 × 124 mm). Mid 20th-century red Freeman 938. ers blocked in blind, spine lettered and decorated in half calf by Zaehnsdorf, twin labels to spines lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, Freeman’s variant b (no priority). £1,750 [120411] gilt, spines decorated in gilt in compartments, red cloth Folding diagram to p. 123. Ownership inscription to half- sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, bound without title and occasional faint pencil underlining and margi- the publisher’s advertisements. Numerous engravings in 55 nalia. Newspaper clipping discussing colour variations text. Binder’s stamps to front free endpaper versos. From of heifers tipped-in to rear free endpaper recto. Spine DARWIN, Charles. The Different Forms the library of W. A. Foyle (1885–1963), at Beeleigh Abbey, gently rolled, rubbing to extremities, small nick to head with his leather book label on the front pastedowns. of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. of spine, minor wear to very tips, top edge dust toned, Spines lightly faded, very minor rubbing to extremities, text block very slightly shaken; a very good copy. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1877 head of front joint of vol. II just starting; an excellent set. third edition of “the most important biologi- Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decorative bands first edition, second issue (with the list of cal book ever written” (Freeman), issued in April gilt to spine, sides blocked in blind, dark brown coated works on the verso of the title leaf of Vol. II). It 1861, one of 2,000 copies printed. The text was ex- endpapers. With the publisher’s 32–page catalogue, dat- was in this work that the word “evolution” appears tensively altered, and a table is given of differences ed March 1877, to the rear. With 15 woodcuts and 38 ta- for the first time, preceding its appearance in the bles in text. Spine gently rolled, rubbing to extremities, from the second edition, a feature that occurs in sixth edition of the Origin of Species the following a couple of ink marks to covers, top edge dust toned, in- each subsequent Murray edition. The third edition year. Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters ner hinges started but holding, endpaper margins lightly is also notable for the addition of the historical might tackle the thorny question of human evolu- faded, foxing to outer leaves; a very good copy. sketch in which Darwin acknowledges his prede- tion, but was forced to face the logic of his own first edition, published in a single issue of cessors in the general theory of evolution. theory himself. He deviated from his ostensible 1,250 copies. Freeman 381. subject of mankind to describe sexual selection Freeman 1277. £4,750 [120407] in the animal kingdom, enabling him to answer £2,250 [120396]

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56 57 first edition in english of this scarce classic work on Arab equitation, particularly uncommon DARWIN, Charles & Francis. The Power DARWIN, Charles. The Works. Edited by in the original cloth. “One of the earliest exhaus- of Movement in Plants. With illustra- Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman. New tive studies of the Arabian and Barb breeds”, it was tions. London: John Murray, 1880 York: New York University Press, 1986–89 first published in French in 1851. Eugène Daumas Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and 29 vols. bound as 20, octavo (240 × 160 mm). Recent green (1803–1871) was posted to Algeria in 1835, and with gilt decorative border at ends, covers blindstamped, half morocco, green cloth boards, titles and decoration to from 1837 to 1839 was consul at Mascara, during brown coated endpapers. With the publisher’s 32–page spines gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. A fine set. which time he won the respect of Abd El-Kader, the leader of the native resistance to the French in- catalogue, dated May 1878, to the rear; 2-line errata at the first edition of the complete works of dar- foot of p. x. With 196 woodcuts in the text. Bookseller’s vasion, who after his surrender in 1847 was taken win, containing posthumously published material ticket to rear pastedown, compliments slip of bibliophile to France and lived in gilded captivity. Daumas and previously unpublished letters and entries. Arnold Muirhead (1900–1988) laid in. Slight rubbing to was widely recognised as the French Army’s lead- extremities, tiny nick to head of front joint, small glue £5,750 [118417] ing expert on Arab culture, and on his return to residue to front free endpaper; an excellent, largely unopened, copy. France in 1850 was made director of Algerian af- 58 fairs in the Ministry of War. first edition, first issue. The collaborative Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, 202. authorship proclaimed on the title page reflects DAUMAS, Eugène. The Horses of the Sa- Darwin’s concern to introduce his children into hara, and the Manners of the Desert. With £1,250 [120802] the world of science. Francis Darwin had trained commentaries by the Emir Abd-El-Kader. as a doctor but turned from medicine to botany, Translated from the French by James Hut- 59 initially working as secretary and assistant to his father. “The book was an extension of Charles ton. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863 DE CHAIR, Somerset. The First Crusade. Darwin’s work on climbing plants and it showed Octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, gilt lettered The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusa- that the same mechanisms can be observed in spine, large pictorial gilt block on front cover, brown lemites. Gesta francorum et aliorum hier- plants in general . . . Francis Darwin later refined coated endpapers, advertisements printed to paste- osolimitanorum. Translated into English downs, top and fore edges untrimmed. Two contempo- some of the experimental techniques and modi- for the first time. Engravings by Clifford fied their theoretical conclusions” (ODNB). rary ownership inscriptions to front pastedown. Lightly rubbed, a few small pale markings to sides, corners Webb. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 Freeman 1325. bumped, contents toned, foxing to free endpapers and terminal blanks, mild spotting to title. A very good copy. Tall octavo. Original vellum, titles to spine gilt, vignette £2,850 [120403] to covers gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed

24 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 59 in the orange cloth slipcase. Woodcut frontispiece, vignette title page, and 4 full page woodcuts. A fine copy. first edition in english, signed limited issue, number 4 of 100 copies in vellum, additionally inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Gathorne, from a tired Crusader, this account of those who enjoyed on the road to Jerusalem ‘a Happy Martyrdom’, Somerset de Chair, Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospi- tal, 11 November 47”. The recipient, Dr Gathorne Robert Girdlestone, was a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon and the founder of the hospital. 60 Franklin p. 315. £1,750 [120134] Best Wishes, Jack Dempsey, 2-10-36”. Dempsey, ure, the highly visible avuncular proprietor of Jack known as the Manassa Mauler, was one of the gen- Dempsey’s Restaurant, just across from Madison 60 uine icons of the jazz age. His career had begun as Square Garden, and a far cry from the terrifying, a teenager scrapping for change in lumber camps, brawling force of nature who had destroyed Jess DEMPSEY, Jack. Fine inscribed photo- where he announced his arrival with the challenge, Willard in 1919. The recipient, Alice “Bincy” Jones, graphic portrait. New York: 1936 “I can’t sing and I can’t dance, but I can lick any SOB later Taylor, was the 6-year-old daughter of Russell Original photograph (220 × 160 mm) of Dempsey in in the house”, rising to undisputed world champi- Kennedy and Alice Judson Jones, a well-connected fighting pose, window-mounted, framed and glazed. on, drawing the first ever million-dollar gate for his New York couple; later a graduate from Columbia, Very good indeed, image and inscription remain strong. 1921 fight with Georges Carpentier. By 1936 Demp- Alice was characterised in one obituary in 2015 as A wonderful image, warmly inscribed: “To a Charm- sey had retired following his defeat by Tunney in the “an unconventional, creative person”. ing Little Girl, ‘Bincy’ Jones, Her Daddy’s Pal With “long count” rematch. He still boxed exhibitions, £1,500 [113714] but had settled into life as a much-loved public fig-

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61 62 publisher’s ads at end of vol. II. Early bookseller’s ticket of J. Smith & Son, Glasgow. Some marks to cloth, fore corners DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. In three of front cover of vol. I a little worn and darkened at tips, oth- Papers of the Pickwick Club. With forty- volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838 erwise generally clean and fresh, a very good copy. three illustrations by R. Seymour and 3 vols., octavo (203 × 131 mm). Late 19th-century tan half first edition, first issue, with “xvi” paginated in Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 morocco, spines gilt in compartments, black morocco Volume I. Although complimentary of the United labels, raised bands, blue marbled paper sides, marbled States in many ways, Dickens antagonised a large Octavo (208 × 128 mm). Early 20th-century green mo- endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontis- portion of his readership by his criticisms of the rocco by Charles McLeish, titles to spine gilt in compart- piece in each vol., 21 etched plates by George Cruikshank. penal system, the lack of copyright and subse- ments, decorative frames gilt to covers, turn-ins and gilt With the bookplates of Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855), edges. Etched vignette title page, frontispiece, 41 plates quent pirating of English works, and the entire English classical scholar and Dean of Christ Church, Ox- system of slavery. by Robert Seymour, R. W. Buss, and H. K. Browne. Bind- ford, and Charles Tennant (1838–1906) industrialist and er’s initials to rear pastedown. Minor rubbing to extrem- Liberal politician. Very light scuff mark on front cover Eckel pp. 108–9; Smith II, 3. ities, spine lightly toned, occasional foxing to plates; an of vol. 1 and vol. 2, some discolouration to title page and £1,000 [116163] excellent copy. frontispiece, light foxing, slight rubbing to extremities, first edition, early issue with the two Buss and light soiling to edges on all vols. An excellent set. 64 plates and all the plates in early states with page first edition, second issue, with cancel titles numbers as called for, but no titles or imprints, giving Dickens’s name as the author and the final DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. and the vignette title-page with the signboard Church plate in place of the rejected Fireside plate. In prose. Being a Ghost story of Christ- reading “Veller” (corrected to “Weller” in later is- Smith I, 4. mas. With illustrations by John Leech. sues). This copy is handsomely bound by Charles McLeish, with his initials gilt to the rear past- £2,000 [121420] London: Chapman & Hall, 1843 edown. McLeish was one of T. E. Lawrence’s fa- Small octavo (155 × 98 mm). Near-contemporary black vourite binders, of whom he wrote: “McLeish is 63 calf, red morocco label, spine richly decorated gilt in a good workman: which, in the RAF, and by RAF DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for compartments, covers elaborately blocked in gilt and standards, is the highest praise”. blind, orange coated endpapers, edges and turn-ins gilt, General Circulation. In two volumes. brown silk page marker. Title page printed in blue and Smith I.3; TEL, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte London: Chapman and Hall, 1842 red; frontispiece and 3 plates by John Leech, all hand- Shaw, II, p. 99. coloured as issued; woodcut illustrations in the text. £1,750 [119981] 2 vols., octavo. Original dark reddish brown vertically- Contemporary gift inscription to front binder’s blank. ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, sides blocked in blind, Minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of tiny scratches pale yellow coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. 6 pp. to covers, an excellent copy in a very attractive binding.

26 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 65 first edition, second issue, with red and blue title page dated 1843, “Stave One” on the first page of text, and all the first edition textual points. Eckel pp. 110–15; Smith II, 4. £3,750 [119850] 66

65 66 DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With DICKENS, Charles. The Works. With in- illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: troductions, general essay, and notes by Bradbury & Evans, 1855–7 Andrew Lang. New York: Charles Scribner’s 20 numbers bound in 19, as issued. Original printed blue Sons, 1905 wrappers designed by Phiz. Housed in a custom marbled 36 vols., octavo (207 × 139 mm). Finely bound by Whit- paper slipcase in green straight-grain morocco-backed man Bennett in near-contemporary blue half moroc- green cloth and marbled paper chemises. With 40 black co, titles and decoration to spines in compartments and white plates, including 8 dark plates, all by Phiz. Blue separated by raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled leather booklabel of William Bunker to front pastedown endpapers, top edges gilt, Frontispiece and illustrated of chemises. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of throughout the set. A fine set. John Du Boulay, Donhead Hall to head of front covers. With related ephemera: a newspaper clipping from the the gadshill edition, printed from the text New York Times, 18 May 1913 announcing the death, aged with Dickens’s final authorial revisions first pub- 100, of Mary Ann Cooper, “the original Little Dorrit”. lished in 1867–8, here including the pendant two- Small clipping removed from front adverts in Part I, pp. volume Life which is sometimes lacking. A particu- 19–20, small pencil marginalia below. Minor creasing to larly handsome set, the binding is the work of the edges, occasional light foxing; an excellent set. renowned New York fine bindery established in first edition, first issue text in the origi- the 1920s by Whitman Bennett (1883–1968). nal monthly parts. £5,000 [116002] Hatton & Cleaver 307–330. £4,500 [121213] 64

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67 68 Octavo. Original limp vellum, title to spine in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Vellum a little darkened, [DISRAELI, Benjamin.] Vivian Grey. DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo.Lon - internally fresh. An excellent copy. London: Henry Colburn, 1826–7 don: Macmillan Co., 2007 first doves edition, one of 200 copies printed 5 vols., large duodecimo (198 × 120 mm). Contemporary Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine gold, illustra- on paper (a further 12 copies were printed on vel- brown half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled tion pasted to front board, illustrated endpapers. With the lum). The book was printed just two years before paper sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others un- slipcase. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. An excellent copy. Cobden-Sanderson threw the Doves typeface into trimmed. Half-titles to vols. II and V; as issued. Bound first gift edition, signed by the author on the Thames, thus concluding the bitter dispute without adverts. Key to Vivian Grey complete with half- the title page. This modern children’s classic was first between him and his partner Emery Walker, and title and single advert leaf. With the bookplate of Robert bringing the era of the Doves Press to a close. Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chemist and collector, to the published in 1999; the first edition is notably elusive. front endpaper of vol. I. Short closed tear to vol. II, an- £1,250 [121412] £2,000 [120227] other to vol. III, expertly repaired. Slight wear to extremities, light foxing to edges, small abrasion to half-title of 71 vol. II; an excellent set. 69 first edition of disraeli’s first novel, a DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo’s (DOVES PRESS.) SHELLEY, Percy. Po- “sensational roman-à-clef in the then fashionable Child. London: Macmillan Co., 2008 ems. Selected and Arranged by T. J. Cob- silver-fork style” published at the age of 21 (ODNB). den-Sanderson. Hammersmith: The Doves The first section was published anonymously in Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine silver, illustration pasted to front board, red endpapers. With the Press, 1914 two volumes in April 1826 to largely disfavourable slipcase. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. An excellent copy. reviews, despite its public popularity, due to its Octavo. Original limp vellum by Doves Press, title to spine “combination of unmistakable self-exposure and first gift edition, signed by the author gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Printed in red and black. Front cover gently bowed; an excellent bright copy. reckless satire . . . moreover, Murray and Lock- and illustrator, together with an origi- hart, men of great influence in literary circles, nal ink drawing by Scheffler on the title page. first doves edition, one of 200 copies printed on were deeply offended by the sneering treatment of £875 [121411] paper (a further 12 copies were printed on vellum). characters based on them” (ibid.). £1,500 [118500] Bound into volume V is the anonymous Key to Viv- 70 ian Grey (10th ed., William Marsh, 1827), presumed (DOVES PRESS.) KEATS, John. Poems. 72 to be also by Disraeli, complete with original paper wrapper. This guide first appeared in the jour- Selected and Arranged by T. J. Cobden- DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures nal The Star Chamber on 24 May 1826. Sanderson. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, of Sherlock Holmes; [together with:] — Sadlier 734 & 734a; Wolff 1846. 1914 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Lon- £1,250 [121165] don: George Newnes Ltd, 1892 & 1894

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Together 2 works, quarto. Original pale and dark blue signed limited edition, first issue, number 10 vols., octavo (180 × 115 mm). Contemporary green half cloth respectively, titles to spines and front covers gilt, 282 of the first 510 sets signed by the author. The calf, green cloth sides, titles to spines gilt in compart- pale grey patterned endpapers, top edges gilt. Housed Author’s Edition was a joint publication, consisting ments, top edge gilt, marbled green endpapers. Title in a dark blue flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illus- of 12 volumes (omitting The Hound of the Baskervilles) pages printed in green and brown, colour frontispieces, trated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. A few light most with tissue guards, 50 colour plates, and a facsim- marks to cloth of vol. I, gilt bright to spines, hinges of published in the UK by Smith, Elder & Co. and 13 ile of the author’s signatures to vol. 1 of Jane Eyre. Spines vol. I starting but text block sound, a little foxing to con- volumes published in the USA by D. Appleton & Co. toned, light foxing to edges, a couple of faint scratches to tents. An excellent set. (including The Hound of the Baskervilles). Only the UK boards; an excellent set. first editions of the first two great collections of sets were signed by Doyle, and they have two plates first dulac edition. This was Dulac’s first Holmes stories. Adventures is the first issue, with the in each volume, rather than one in the Appleton set. commission after the Anglophile young artist’s misprint “Miss Violent Hunter” on page 317 and the The first 510 sets only were bound by Smith, Elder; arrival in England in 1904 to compete with Arthur blank street sign in the front cover vignette; there the remaining 490 were reissued by John Murray Rackham in the illustrated gift book market. are no comparable issue points for Memoirs. with new title pages in 1917, though still marked 1903. Doyle “considered this edition of his works £1,875 [119480] Green & Gibson A10; A14. to be of great importance: he revised parts, and £9,500 [119858] added notes and a number of special introductions” (Green & Gibson). The set has a 1902 copyright in 73 Doyle’s name, made possible by the introductory material and those works which had appeared after DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Author’s Edi- the new Copyright Act had taken effect, but it was tion. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903 originally published in September 1903. 12 vols., octavo (205 × 138 mm). Near-contemporary red Green & Gibson A60. half morocco by Bayntun, titles and centre tool gilt to £6,500 [121355] spines, raised bands, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Frontispieces and 12 plates, all with captioned tissue 74 guards. Binder’s stamp to front free endpaper verso. 20th-century bookseller’s cataloguing laid in. Spines (DULAC, Edmund.) BRONTË, Char- uniformly faded, tiny abrasion to fore edge of rear cover lotte, Emily, & Anne. The Novels. London: to Brigadier Gerard, minor browning to margins of end- J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., New papers; an excellent set. York, 1905 74

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75 76 three-line border blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers. Expert restoration to joints. Spines gently rolled, (DULAC, Edmund.) Stories from the (DULAC, Edmund.) STEVENSON, Rob- lightly toned, slight wear to extremities, minor soiling Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence ert Louis. Treasure Island. London: Ernest and abrasions to boards, top edges dust toned; a very Housman. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Benn Limited, 1927 good set. 1907 first edition in book form of George Eliot’s Quarto. Original full vellum, black morocco label, top sixth and greatest novel. Sadleir notes that Middle- edge gilt. Housed in a recent tan cloth chemise and Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and decorations to march is difficult to find in fine state, as many of the spine and front board in gilt with blue highlights, dark quarter morocco slipcase. Colour frontispiece, 11 plates, black and white illustrations in the text by Edmund Du- four-volume book issues in cloth went to libraries, green endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, silk Middlemarch being particularly popular (p. 378). ties renewed. Colour frontispiece and 49 other plates lac. Spine and boards slightly darkened, an excellent tipped-in to dark green paper, captioned tissue guards. copy. Parrish pp. 32–33; Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059a. The occasional minor blemish, spine ever so slightly signed limited edition, number 5 of 50 cop- £17,500 [119483] darkened, an excellent copy, particularly bright. ies on handmade paper signed by the artist. In signed limited edition, number 286 of 350 her bibliography Ann Conolly Hughey describes 78 copies signed by the artist. It was this book that Dulac’s illustrations of Treasure Island as his “most first announced Dulac’s status as a popular art- careful and superb”; Dulac himself considered FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. ist, “a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book them his best work. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The market to the work of Arthur Rackham” (ODNB). £5,000 [118879] Great Gatsby and Selected Stories. New £3,250 [120141] York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941 77 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board let- ELIOT, George. Middlemarch: a study of tered in gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue half morocco solander box. An excel- provincial life. Edinburgh & London: Wil- lent copy in the bright jacket, with just a little rubbing liam Blackwood and Sons, 1871–2 and a couple of nicks to extremities. 4 vols., octavo. Original bright blue sand-grain cloth, first edition of the author’s final, unfinished front cover with three-line outer border and decora- novel. tive three-sided frame in black, rustic lettering in gold; Bruccoli A19.1.a. spines lettered in gold, decorative band in gold at top £3,500 [118540] 75 and tail of spine between black rules, rear cover with

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79 81 83 FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jon- FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret London: Jonathan Cape, 1957 athan Cape, 1961 Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and revolv- Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine gilt, Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine in sil- er and rose motif to front board in metallic red and silver. skeletal hand design on front board in blind. With the ver, ski track design to front board in white. With the pic- With the dust jacket. A few faint marks to boards, a lit- pictorial dust jacket. Spine rolled, small mark to bottom torial dust jacket. A little faint foxing to edges; an excel- tle foxing to edges. An excellent copy in the jacket with edge, an excellent copy in the jacket with small nicks to lent, bright copy in the jacket with small spot of abrasion unusually bright spine panel, and a couple of tiny chips spine ends, small tape repair to verso. to head of spine and short closed tear to head of front to spine ends and tips. first edition. panel, light tissue repair to verso. first edition. Gilbert, A9a (1.1). first edition. Gilbert A5a (1.1). £850 [117496] Gilbert A11a (1.1). £3,000 [120142] £875 [120581] 82 80 84 FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Cape, 1958 The Magical Car. Adventures Number Octavo. Original dark grey boards, titles to spine in sil- Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, ver, dagger design to front board in silver and blind, red One, Two, and Three. London: Jonathan silhouette to front board in brown. With the dust jacket. endpapers. With the dust jacket. Double-page spread Cape, 1964–65 Spine gently rolled, an exceptional copy in the jacket illustration pp. 6–7. Ownership inscription to front free with very slight nicks to extremities. endpaper, slightly erased. Minor mottling to boards, 3 vols., octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to covers black, green pictorial endpapers. With the dust jackets. first edition, second state, with the “Honey- negligible rubbing to spine ends, faint foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket with a little creasing to top Illustrations throughout by John Burningham. An excel- chile” silhouette printed on the front board in a edges, very light soiling to rear panel. lent, internally bright set, minor knocks to board edges, dark reddish-brown, to bring it into conformity slight wear to foot of spine of Adventure Number Two, in the with other titles in the series with designs on the first edition. slightly foxed jackets, with minor nicks to edges. front board. Gilbert, A10a (1.1). first editions of the complete set of the Chitty Gilbert A6a (1.3). £975 [120034] Chitty Bang Bang stories. £2,250 [121403] Gilbert A17a (1); (4); (6). £1,250 [116975]

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A little rubbed, corners through, light browning, occa- Octavo. Original brown pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt sional spotting and mild staining, and one or two minor and ruled in gilt and black, bevelled boards, front board edge-splits, overall very good. panelled in gilt and black with gilt centrepiece, rear first edition. Sometimes attributed to Frances board panelled in blind, black endpapers, gilt edges. 2 colour folding maps, engraved head- and tailpieces and Hill, “this book is quite rare” (Une Affaire à gout). initials, 1 full-page engraving (p. 401), numerous tables Maclean notes that “although the majority of the in the text. Head of spine worn, extremities rubbed receipts are vegetarian, some do use meat stock”, and corners a little bumped, a couple of light marks to and in fact some recipes go further down the car- boards, hinges cracked but firm, a very good copy. nivorous route: “To farce Mushrooms” requires second, greatly expanded edition, first a stuffing made with “Veal, Bacon, Beef Marrow, published in 1864 as a 31-page pamphlet. Gabler French Roll soaked in Cream and the Yolks of two terms this edition “a valuable reference . . . Scarce” 85 Eggs”. Guerrini characterises it as one of the “veg- (p. 75). The Spectator judged it to possess “sterling etable (although not necessarily vegetarian) cook- merits, and we can recommend it to any one re- books” that appeared in the mid-18th century fol- 85 ally desirous of learning the full history of the vine lowing the works of Dr Cheyne and Antonio Coc- and its fruit in all quarters of the globe” (23 Janu- (FOOD & DRINK.) Adam’s Luxury, and chi in advocating a “vegetable diet as the secret to ary 1864). health” (“Diet for a Sensitive Soul: Vegetarianism Eve’s Cookery; or, the Kitchen-Garden Gabler G18160; see Bitting, p. 121 for first edition (1864). display’d In Two Parts. I. Shewing the in Eighteenth-Century Britain” in Eighteenth-Centu- ry Life, XXIII, 2, 1999, p. 39). £575 [118177] best and most approved Methods of rais- Axford, p. 4; Bitting, p. 514; Cagle 541; Maclean, p. 3; ing and bringing to greatest Perfection Oxford, p. 74; Pennell, p. 151; Une Affaire à goût 107. 87 all the Products of the Kitchen Garden £2,500 [120812] (FOOD & DRINK.) SPEECHLY, William. . . . II. Containing a large Collection of A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine . . . Receipts for dressing all sorts of Kitchen 86 York: printed for the author, by G. Peacock; and Stuff . . . London: R. Dodsley, 1744 (FOOD & DRINK.) DENMAN, James L. sold by G. Nicol; J. Debrett and J. Stockdale; and Duodecimo (159 × 96 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked The Vine and its Fruit, Made especially E. Jeffery, London, 1790 in sheep with red morocco label, edges sprinkled brown. Half-title present. Strictly contemporary ownership in- in relation to the Production of Wine . . . Quarto (252 × 198 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, ti- scription of E. Combe to the first blank, purchase note Second edition, revised and enlarged. tles gilt to orange label to spine. With 5 engraved plates, “E. 1:6” to the title page – confirming the price at 1s 6d, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875 3 of which are folding. Small cracks to head of front and as per Maclean n.2 – together with the initials “M.G.”

32 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 87 88 89 rear joints, slight rubbing to extremities, a couple of Tall octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and cocktail have enjoyed A Passage to India. Indeed I do wish small marks to boards; an excellent copy. glass illustrations to spine and front cover in red, pub- that I may have expressed something of the east: first edition, ordinary paper issue. William lisher’s device in red to rear cover. With 16 pp. of illus- but one never knows . . . !” trated adverts to rear. Spine lightly faded, a couple of Speechly (c.1740–1821) was gardener to the third small marks to covers, edges lightly browned; a very £1,250 [118404] Duke of Portland at his Welbeck Abbey estate good copy, notably bright. in Nottinghamshire. Encouraged by the duke, first edition, including what may be the first Speechly began publishing his knowledge and ex- appearance in print of a recipe for the sidecar. pertise; in 1776 he had contributed to Alexander Also included are various recipes for medicinal Hunter’s edition of Evelyn’s Silva, which was short- drinks, such as the usual hot toddy for a cold, but ly followed by his own Treatise on the Culture of the also absinthe for a headache and champagne for Pineapple in 1779. In the present work he describes seasickness. The author was the Belgian bartender 50 species of grapes, and thoroughly examines Robert Vermeire (1891–1976), who worked at Lon- hothouse culture, the construction and manage- don’s Royal Automobile Club, The Criterion, Em- ment of vineyards, pruning, irrigation, grafting, bassy Club, bars in France and Belgium, and at his insect and blight control, etc. own Robert’s Bar. With the ownership inscription at the head of the title of one of the original subscribers, John Rich- £1,500 [121318] ard Dashwood, High Sheriff of Norfolk, dated the year of publication. A later owner has added the 89 date 24 April 1840 in pencil. FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. Lon- Gabler, 265; Lowndes, 2471. don: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924 £2,500 [120229] Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. Spine lightly toned, light rubbing and 88 slight bumps to extremities, slight rubbing to joints, (FOOD & DRINK.) [VERMEIRE,] Rob- light soiling to boards; a very good copy. ert. Cocktails. How to Mix Them. London: first edition, with an autograph letter from the author laid in, “Dear Miss Mosely, Herbert Jenkins, 1922 it is very kind of you to write and tell me that you 89

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 33 out in purple ink – is partially visible here). A curt note inside the front wrapper (“Lent and soiled”) is amusingly testy. The frontispiece is also inscribed by Ricketson’s first wife: “Maria Louisa Ricketson, 1845” (1813–1877). The Joel Myerson Collection at the University of South Carolina has a copy of the 1855 edition of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, inscribed by Ricketson to Thoreau’s mother. This is a compelling association copy, having been owned by a figure who links the great names of American Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller. Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was the first American to write a book on women’s equality, and the first woman to be allowed access to the library at Har- vard. She was the first woman journalist at the New York Tribune and the first full-time book reviewer in American journalism. This, her most famous work, is an elaboration and continuation of her earlier essay in the transcendentalist journal, The Dial, for which she served as the first editor. It remains a classic text of feminist thought. 90 The accompanying booklet is for the Proceedings of the Anti-Sabbath Convention, of which Ricketson One of the major documents of feminism, first edition of the first major feminist was joint secretary. It is interesting for including the from the library of Margaret Fuller’s fellow work in the u.s., a remarkable association copy, presence of another early activist for women’s rights, from the library of Fuller’s fellow transcendentalist Lucretia Mott. “Like other reformers at the conven- transcendentalist Daniel Ricketson and correspondent, Daniel Ricketson (1813–1898), tion, Mott believed that customary practices, like the 90 historian and poet: inscribed by him at the head Sabbath, enslaved the mind and heart. . . Mott’s at- of the front wrapper (“Danl. Ricketson”) and with tacks on priestcraft and Sabbath laws laid an impor- FULLER, Margaret. Woman in the Nine- his holograph transposition of the title to the front tant foundation for the women’s rights movement” teenth Century. New York: Greeley & McEl- wrapper, along with a note concerning Fuller’s (Carol Faulkner in Exchanges and Correspondence: The rath, 1843; [together with:] Proceedings death. Also inscribed by him in pencil at the head of Construction of Feminism, 2010, p. 124). of the Anti-Sabbath Convention, held in the inside back wrapper and dated “July 16th 1872”, £6,500 [121432] where he has twice written “The Rights of Woman the Melodeon, March 23 and 24, 1848. by Mary Wollstonecraft” (the address panel – made Boston: published by the Convention, 1848 91 2 works, octavo and small octavo. WITNC: Contemporary GIBBON, Edward. The History of the wrappers constructed by Ricketson from an old postal en- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. closure, skilfully rebacked to style and enclosing facsimi- New Edition. London: Longman, Brown, les of the original blue-grey printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece of the ouroboros encircling the double trian- Green, and Longmans, 1848 gle of Solomon. Old wrappers somewhat creased and a lit- 8 vols., octavo (214 × 136 mm). Contemporary tan calf, tle ragged at edges, scattered light foxing, old stain to final raised bands to spine, red and green morocco labels, leaf, a few short closed-tears at fore-edge of concluding decorations to compartments gilt, marbled edges and few leaves; a clean copy with good margins. POTASC: Self- endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait to Vol. I and wrappers, side-stitched as issued. “Withdrawn” stamp (in 3 engraved folding maps in all. Bookplate of Henry red ink) of the Minnesota Historical Society and nick at Foley to front pastedown of all vols. Extremities slightly foot of front cover otherwise in remarkably good condi- rubbed, boards a touch scuffed, occasional light foxing, tion. The two items housed together in a custom made 90 generally to outer leaves and plates. An excellent set. brown cloth solander box.

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First published between 1776 and 1788, “Gibbon Folio. Original vellum, gilt titles to spine and front cover, first edition. This work was dedicated to Old brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of decoration to front cover in black, green, and gilt, white Tom Morris (1821–1908), “the epitome of the can- the available sources which have not been equalled silk moiré endpapers, gilt edges, yellow silk page marker. ny Scottish golfer” and “golf ’s greatest icon”, on to this day; and the result was clothed in an inimi- Text printed in red and black. Colour frontispiece, 2 col- the event of his 87th birthday (ODNB). our plates, and 2 photogravures with tissue guards, and table prose” (PMM 222). numerous illustrations in the text. Subscriber’s book- £1,000 [120607] £1,750 [119940] plate of Graeme Whitelaw to front blank. Boards slightly bowed and lightly soiled, minor fraying to endpapers, 94 light foxing to outer leaves and plates, short closed tear 92 to head of front blank; an excellent copy. (GRAHAM, Martha.) ARMITAGE, Mer- (GOLF.) HILTON, Harold H., & Garden deluxe limited issue, number 2 of 100 copies le (ed.) Martha Graham . . . Los Angeles: G. Smith. The Royal & Ancient Game of specially bound in vellum and printed for subscrib- Auditorium Building, November 1937 ers (900 copies were also issued in smaller format). Golf. London: published for Golf Illustrated Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front Murdoch 348. Ltd. by The London and Counties Press Asso- board in black, photographically illustrated pastedowns. ciation Ltd, 1912 £9,500 [120648] Designs in the text, and full page photographic illustrations. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown, ink ownership stamp to top edge, 1946 ink gift inscription 93 to front free endpaper. Mild toning to spine panel, very (GOLF.) TULLOCH, W. W. The Life of light rubbing to ends and corners, sound and internally Tom Morris. With glimpses of St Andrews clean, excellent condition. and its golfing celebrities. Twenty-seven first edition, inscribed by the subject on the half-title, “Best wishes, Martha Graham”. This illustrations. London: T. Werner Laurie, [1907] retrospective of the explosive first decade in the Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and illustration career of dancer Martha Graham (1894–1991) was in black to spine, titles in black and colour illustration to designed and edited by Merle Armitage, published front cover, publisher’s device and illustration in black in an edition of 1,000 copies. to rear cover. Title page printed in blue and black. Fron- tispiece with tissue guard, and 25 plates. Spine gently £1,500 [117237] rolled, minor wear to extremities, top edge dust toned, a couple of faint marks to covers, a small bump to bottom 91 edge, occasional light foxing, a very good copy.

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95 bound in at rear. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom green flat-backed folding case. Illustrated through- GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the out by E. H. Shepard. An excellent, unopened copy in the jacket, just faintly toned to spine and edges of panels. Willows. With a frontispiece by Graham 97 Robertson. London: Methuen and Co., 1908 signed limited edition, number 45 of 200 large paper copies signed by both Grahame and Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover let- Colour frontispiece and 11 colour illustrations by Rack- Shepard. Wind in the Willows was first published tered and blocked in gilt (spine showing Toad in his mo- ham mounted on same paper as letterpress. Bookplate toring outfit, front cover showing Mole and Rat bowing (see previous item) with only a frontispiece for to front pastedown. Spine a little toned; an excellent down before Pan), top edges gilt, untrimmed. Housed illustration. In 1931 Shepard, well-known by then copy, internally fresh. in a custom-made, plush-lined green cloth solander box. for his illustrations of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the- deluxe edition, number 258 of 500 copies. This Frontispiece with tissue guard. Neat ownership inscrip- Pooh series, was asked to illustrate a new edition, the 100th edition overall; Rackham’s illustrations tion of “Bouverie” on front pastedown; binding lightly following on from Milne’s popular adaptation of rubbed at extremities, small patch of sensitive and su- had first appeared in the Limited Editions Club re- the book for stage, Toad of Toad Hall. Shepard vis- cension of 1940. Indeed, Rackham had originally perficial restoration to cloth at rear joint, a small few al- ited Grahame at his house in Pangbourne to make most imperceptible marks to front cover, touch of foxing been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but sketches. At their first meeting Grahame said to to preliminary leaves, but an excellent copy. had been unable to accept the commission, a deci- him, “I love these little people, be kind to them”. sion he later regretted. first edition of “one of the central classics of chil- Shepard’s classic illustrations of anthropomor- Riall p. 200. dren’s fiction” (Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature). phized animals render this the most popular ver- Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s sion of the book even today. £2,250 [119856] Literature, 61. £12,500 [120751] £5,750 [119514] 98 97 GRAVES, Robert. Over the Brazier. Lon- 96 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the don: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrations by Arthur Rack- Octavo. Original wrappers, hand-coloured woodcut il- Willows. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. ham. Introduction by A. A. Milne. Lon- lustration by Claude Lovat Fraser to front wrapper, titles London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931 in black, adverts on inner wrappers. Yapp edges a little don: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1951 creased, spine barely tanned, internally fresh. A truly ex- Large octavo. Original green cloth-backed grey boards, Quarto. Original white sheep, titles to spine in gilt, top cellent copy. white paper label to spine printed black, spare label edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original slipcase.

36 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 98 99 101 first edition of graves’s first book, pub- with occasional foxing, overall an excellent copy in the risian press, who smuggled copies into Britain, lished on 1 May 1916 when he was serving as a sub- uncommon dust jacket, soiled with some loss to extrem- those too were seized by the police and the pub- altern in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the First ities, neat tape repairs to verso. lisher was prosecuted at trial. It was subsequently World War, shortly after his first meeting with fel- first edition, distinctly uncommon in the jack- banned in Britain, and not republished until 1949. low poet and Fusilier Siegfried Sassoon. et. This lesbian novel went through only two small £3,250 [120049] Higginson A1a. printings in Britain. It was the focus of criticism from the censorious editor of the Sunday Express,

£1,250 [120717] James Douglas, who vilified Hall’s work as por- 101 nographic “moral poison”. Government officials HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Fal- 99 pressured Jonathan Cape into withdrawing the con. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 GRAVES, Robert. Poems 1914–1927. Lon- novel; when Cape slyly leased the rights to a Pa- Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and falcon de- don: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1927 sign to front board in green and black, publisher’s device in black to rear cover, top edge grey, others untrimmed. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, white paper-covered Vignette title page printed in blue and black. Contempo- sides, title to spine in gilt, top edge gilt. With the dust rary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine jacket. A couple of faint marks to vellum; a lovely copy in gently rolled and lightly browned, browning extending the bright jacket, spine panel just slightly toned. a little onto rear cover, slight rubbing to extremities, an first edition, signed limited issue, number excellent copy. 3 of 115 copies. first edition of one of the greatest detective £1,250 [119554] thrillers of the 20th century. It was adapted as a film noir in 1941, written and directed by John 100 Huston, featuring Humphrey Bogart in the lead role. HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneli- ness. With a commentary by Havelock £2,750 [121485] Ellis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge black, others uncut. With the dust jacket. Extremi- ties lightly rubbed, spine ends bruised, contents tanned 100

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I only, and the illustrations (four to a volume) are derived from Lea’s Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. Purdy, p. 286. £7,500 [115614]

103 (HARRISON, Florence.) ROSSETTI, Christina. Poems. Introduction by Alice Meynell. London: Blackie and Son Ltd, 1910 Quarto (249 × 190 mm). Bound for Asprey in recent light blue crushed morocco, twin red morocco labels to spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt rules to covers and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. With 36 full page colour plates with captioned tissue guards and 34 102 black and white illustrations to text. A fine copy. first trade edition, beautifully illustrated in art 102 80 plates; title pages printed in red and black. Spines nouveau style by Florence Harrison (1877–1955). slightly faded. An excellent set. HARDY, Thomas. The Writings. In prose £1,500 [119894] the autograph edition, limited to 153 sets and verse. With prefaces and notes. New signed by the author on an inserted leaf, this York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1915] set number 3 bound ad personam for the American 104 20 vols., octavo (235 × 155 mm). Contemporary green collector William Beers Crowell. The edition was HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Road half morocco, titles and centre tool to spines gilt, raised based on the first 21 volumes of the Wessex Edition, to Serfdom. London: George Routledge & bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, “the definitive edition and last authority in ques- others untrimmed. Illustrated title page with Alfred tions of text” (Purdy), combining The Well-Beloved Sons Ltd, 1944 Jewel vignette printed in red, blue, black, and gilt on and A Group of Noble Dames in a single volume, and Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With japon, frontispiece and 3 photogravure plates on japon was partly printed from English plates and partly the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free end- with captioned tissue guards in each volume, totalling reset in America. The map of Wessex appears in vol. paper, occasional pencil annotations to the text. Extrem-

38 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington summer; the world record for blue marlin was set there in July by Helen Lerner. Schaffer was primarily involved in tuna fishing, although that summer he appears to have been in Bimini for the marlins, his inscription from S. Kip Farrington Jr. reading: “Here’s hoping that Ned will soon hang a Brown- bill and Blue Marlin that will match his Tuna”. He kept a regular correspondence with Thomas Aitken, another correspondent of Hemingway’s, whose inscription reads, “To Ned Shafer a game guy with big fish, ‘Tommy’ Aitken”. Schaffer com- peted in a number of fishing tournaments, including Maine’s Second Annual Tuna Fishing Tourna- ment, 30 July 1947, at which he was reported missing overnight due to his radio battery expiring. He died aged 49 in 1952. This work was issued as Volume 4 of the Derry Li- 105 106 brary of Sports and is a typically attractive Derry- dale production. A further 56 copies were issued in ities gently rubbed with a few minor knocks, contents 106 deluxe format, and 100 copies bearing the Hutch- lightly foxed, overall a bright copy in the rare original inson imprint were sent to England. dust jacket, with a few tears, a little loss, and one tape HEMINGWAY, Ernest, & others. Ameri- repair to verso. can Big Game Fishing. Illustrated by Grissom B22; Hanneman B18. first edition, a rare survival in the dust jacket. Lynn Bogue Hunt and from Photographs, £12,500 [118419] Hayek’s classic polemic against centralisation Drawings and Maps. New York: The Derry- and collectivism, among the most influential and dale Press, 1935 popular expositions of classical liberalism and lib- ertarianism, was “far and away the most eloquent Large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and and straightforward statement of his political and front cover gilt, decorative maritime frame, top edge economic outlook that [he] ever achieved” (ODNB). gilt, others untrimmed, illustrated blue endpapers. Col- our frontispiece with tissue guard, 118 illustrations, dec- Cody & Ostrem B-6. orative chapter headings and 11 maps. Slight rubbing to £8,500 [120702] extremities, colour loss to cloth at foot of boards, short closed tear to fore edge of half-title; an excellent copy. 105 first edition, one of 850 trade copies. With ten inscriptions done for Ned Schaffer by various HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and contributors to the book, including an inscription the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, and small doodle by Hemingway at the head of his 1952 chapter (“Marlin off Cuba”): “To Ned Shafer [sic] with best regards [three water drops] 6/5 Ernest Octavo. Original light blue calico-grain cloth, spine let- Hemingway”. Ned Schaffer was a New York stock- tered in silver, author’s name to front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. An uncommonly bright broker and well known big game hunter and fish- copy in the fresh jacket with negligible rubbing to spine er, who kept a summer house for fishing in New ends. Jersey. These inscriptions are likely to have been first edition, with all points of first printing, in done at a gathering in Bimini, the island in the Ba- the first issue jacket. hamas used by big game fishers as a base for blue- fin tuna and giant marlin fishing. Hemingway, Grissom A24.1.a; Hanneman A24a. with his three sons, and a number of renowned big £3,250 [118499] game fishers are known to have been visiting that 106

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generally addressed that he has granted £20 a year to Meautis, Wylde, and Medley out of the receipts of their work. 107 John Mewtas, a native of Normandy, had come to England with Henry in 1484. He served as French 107 The king lays charges of fraud and what we would secretary to both Henry VII and Henry VIII be- call creative accounting against “diverse abbeyes tween 1491 and 1522. His grandson Sir Peter HENRY VII. Document signed (initialled priouris collegies parish churches chapelles Gild- Mewtas (d. 1562) was one of the English dignitar- “HR” at head), appointing John Mewtas as es and Chauntries Within our counties of War- ies greeting Anne of Cleves at Calais in 1540; he investigator of ecclesiastical corruption in wik Northampton and Worcester . . . diverse of served as an emissary to Henry VIII, Edward VI, the Midlands. Calais: 16 November 1492 the said landes rentes and Ten[emen]tes bee put and Elizabeth I. in feoffement for the Use and behove of the said £22,500 [116939] Oblong folio, 1pp, vellum leaf, initialled at head “HR”, places and the ministres of the same by colour- greater part of Royal Signet seal, two small holes. Mounted on a red velvet ground, glazed, and framed. able wayes of amortisement Without oure 108 sp[ec]ial auctorite or licence therupon obteigned Writing from Calais and styling himself “king in defraude and abusion of Us . . .” HOOKER, Sir William Jackson, & John of ffraunce and of England and lord of Ireland”, Charles Lyons. A Century of Orchida- Henry shows a characteristically keen concern Because “We ne Wol ner may suffre to bee soo with money. Henry had been in Calais since Oc- Usurpantly touched”, Henry authorises John ceous Plants selected from Curtis’s Bo- tober, besieging Boulogne and on 3 November Meautis [Mewtas], “our Secretary for the frenshe tanical Magazine . . . London: Reeve, Ben- at Étaples obtaining peace with the French king tong”, and John Wylde and Benet Medley, clerks ham, and Reeve, 1849 Charles VIII on reasonable terms – a generous an- of the signet, to investigate the matter and seize Quarto (300 × 233 mm). Contemporary reddish brown nual payment in compensation for his expenses in lands in the king’s name. “For theffectuel execu- cion of the premisses as for the faithful s[er]vices pebble-grain morocco sometime neatly rebacked with the Breton war, a French promise to expel Perkin original richly gilt spine laid down, two-line gilt border doon Unto Us by our s[er]vantes beforenamed Warbeck and his supporters, and French pensions on sides, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt for eight of his councillors. But financial matters in our great Voiage into the parties of fraunce”, edges. 100 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates (with in England still preoccupied him. Henry informs the sheriffs, escheators, bailiffs, tissue guards) by Walter Hood Fitch. Light abrasions to constables, and other officers to whom the letter is front cover. An excellent copy.

40 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington first edition, from the knowsley library of the earl of derby, with his armorial bookplate, and the shelf mark of the Back Library at Knowsley noted on the front free endpaper verso; also annotated at the head of the half-title “from Boone April 15th 1849” (just shaved by the binder) – almost certainly a reference to the London bookseller/publisher T. & W. Boone. The politician and naturalist Edward Smith Stan- ley, 13th earl of Derby (1775–1851), became “one of the figureheads of the science of zoological clas- sification, particularly the taxonomy of birds. He was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, and president of the Zoologi- cal Society of London for 20 years from 1831 until his death. He not only encouraged the reading of accounts of new species by chairing meetings of 109 110 the two societies, but contributed many scientific papers himself to the proceedings of the Zoologi- cal Society and donated many specimens to its 5 vols. in 1, octavo (228 × 140 mm). Contemporary half in Printing, and the Different Methods of collections . . . The Knowsley Museum is esti- calf, red morocco label, compartments ruled in blind and gilt, raised bands elaborately decorated in gilt, mar- Avoiding Them. London: printed for Rodwell mated to have included 20,000 mammals, birds, bled paper boards, brown endpapers, marbled edges. and Martin, 1820 and lower vertebrates; some invertebrates, such Bound without the publisher’s notices to the front and Octavo (215 × 137 mm). Contemporary half calf, smooth as specimens of molluscs, are known to have been the rear advertisements as often. Printed in double col- spine with flat gilt in compartments, combed paste pa- donated to the British Museum before Derby’s umn. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper dat- per sides. 2 folding engraved plates depicting the litho- death” (ODNB). ed 1902, faint ownership signature to title page of Saint graphic process. Light wear to extremities, joints tender, Denis. Extremities a little worn, hinges gently cracked The illustrations here are by Walter Hood Fitch a few marks on endpapers, internally clean, a very good but firm, contents lightly tanned with occasional minor copy. (1817–1892), described by Hooker’s son, Sir Joseph spotting and two nicks to upper edges of leaves 9.7 and Hooker, as an “incomparable botanical artist” (cit- 10.6 of Saint Denis, otherwise a very good copy. first edition in english, a translation of ed in Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, first u.s. edition and first edition in eng- Mémoire sur les expériences lithographiques (1819) by 1950, p. 224). “Fitch remains the most outstanding lish, published within months of the first French Colonel Antoine Raucourt. The printer Charles botanical artist of his day in Europe. He was the edition. The authorised British translation by Las- Hullmandel (1789–1850) was a major figure in first draughtsman to produce really satisfactory celles Wraxall appeared several months later in British lithography, who refined the process drawings from dried herbarium specimens, and October 1862. and “managed to inspire confidence among art- for this alone botanists in England would remain ists in a process that up until then had been forever in his debt. He was always his own lithog- See Olin H. Moore, “Some Translations of Les Misérables”, Modern Language Notes, Vol. 74, No. 3 (March 1959), pp. regarded in Britain as unreliable” (ODNB). rapher, and became a skilled exponent of the art” 240–6. With English manuscript notes in ink and pencil (ibid.). indicating practical use, dated 1833, to the last

Nissen 918 (erroneously dating the first edition to 1846); £2,500 [120046] three quires and rear pastedown, including an not in Plesch or Pritzel. engraved roundel tipped-in to the last page of text £6,500 [118950] 110 suggesting (somewhat puzzlingly) that the book HULLMANDEL, Charles (trans.) A Man- was bought at the time in Paris. 109 ual of Lithography or Memoir on the Lith- £1,200 [121281] HUGO, Victor. Les Misérables. A Novel. ographical Experiments Made in Paris, at Translated from the original French by the Royal School of the Roads and Bridg- Chas E. Wilbour. New York: Carleton (late es. Clearly Explaining the Whole Art, as Rudd & Carleton), 1862 well as all the Accidents that may Happen

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111 the 15th of February, 1815; [together copy in the jacket with browned spine, short closed tears to spine ends, nicks and slight creasing to extremities, HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. Lon- with:] — History of the Second War [sec- and light soiling to panels. don: Chatto & Windus, 1932 ond series]. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, first edition, signed by the author on the Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue 1845–52 title page. Sally Bowles was Isherwood’s fourth ground, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a 4 vols., octavo (224 × 140 mm). Late 19th-century red solo publication, his second Berlin novel, and was custom quarter yellow morocco and marbled paper cov- half morocco by Zaehnsdorf for the Chicago bookseller- subsequently incorporated into Goodbye to Berlin ered solander box. Spine a little darkened, internally publisher A. C. McClurg & Co., spines gilt-ruled on the (1939). bright; an excellent copy. raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled sides and endpa- £2,500 [121305] first edition, signed limited issue, number pers. Vol. II printed in double-columns. One or two gath- 17 of 314 copies specially bound and signed by the erings lightly toned. An excellent set. author. A nice association copy: from the library of first edition of an important history of the War 114 Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher (1881–1963), with of 1812 by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782–1862), “the JANSSON, Tove. Comet in Moominland. his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. bright and knowledgeable Republican who sat in Translated by Elizabeth Portch. London: Between 1928 and 1934 Brett financed the liter- the Thirteenth Congress, [and who] wrote two Ernest Benn Limited, 1951 ary journal Life and Letters, to which Huxley was a valuable treatises [the present works] that further contributor. Brett’s sister, Dorothy Eugénie Brett illuminate the domestic history of the war” (Don- Octavo. Original cream boards, titles to spine in red, (1883–1977), was the model for Jenny, the deaf, ald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, Moomin vignette to foot of front cover. With the dust continually sketching character in Huxley’s first 1995, p. 321). “Complete sets are scarce” (Sabin). jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Jans- son. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Slight book, Crome Yellow (1921). Howes I-37; Sabin 34731. bumps to spine ends, light foxing to edges; an excellent, £5,750 [117329] £3,500 [120027] bright copy in the dust jacket, small nicks to extremities. first edition in english of the second book in 112 113 the Moomin series. It was first published in Swed- INGERSOLL, Charles J. Historical ish in 1946, and introduces many of the main char- ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Sally acters, such as Snufkin and the Snorkmaiden. An Sketch of the Second War between the Bowles. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937 uncommon work. United States of America, and Great Brit- Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. With £1,250 [118773] ain, declared by Act of Congress, the 18th the dust jacket. Spine very gently rolled, minor rubbing of June, 1812, and concluded by peace, to extremities, a little foxing to fore edge; a very good

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115 116 introducing his intimate, romantic playing style and musicien maudit personal style to a wider, very (JAZZ.) ARMSTRONG, Louis. Sugar receptive audience. The Canteen was a short-lived Louis, however, and it is no wonder he felt over- Foot Stomp. Music by Joe Oliver. Words jazz club on Great Queen Street in Covent Garden, looked and underappreciated” (Gergreen, Louis by Walter Melrose. Successfully featured occupying premises that had formerly been Blitz, Armstrong, p. 386). Here the song is tricked out as the New Romantic club. by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. Chica- a King Oliver number with a great group portrait go: Melrose Bros. Music Company, 1926 featuring Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Honoré Dutrey, £750 [90951] Bifolium colour-printed exterior, single sheet loosely Johnny and “Baby” Dodds, Bill Johnson, and the inserted, printed both sides. Front wrap printed in blue King himself. This first issue is uncommon with 117 and orange, with a band portrait by Daguerre of Chicago OCLC recording just three copies. (JAZZ.) CLAXTON, William. Jazz west within an elaborate foliate border. A little rubbed at the extremities, separating at the spine with archival tape re- £1,500 [98911] coast: a portfolio of photographs. Holly- pair, light toning, remains very good. wood, CA: Linear Productions, Inc., 1955 first edition, first issue. A song of contested 116 Quarto. Wire-stiched in the original illustrated card origins, based on “Dippermouth Blues”, a tune for (JAZZ.) BAKER, Chet. Original poster, wrappers. 76 pages, plus adverts, profusely illustrated which Satchmo claimed credit from his days with inscribed. London: The Canteen, 1983 from Claxton’s photographs. Wrappers a little rubbed King Oliver, it was rearranged by Don Redman for and with a few creases and chips, text-block browning at the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, when Arm- Original hand-drawn and collaged poster (584 × 419 the edges, but overall very good. strong had joined them, under the present title. mm). Sight chipping and splitting at the edges, one short split repaired verso, otherwise very good. extremely uncommon collection of clax- “Redman’s arrangement updated the song, which ton’s first publication, his superb evocations an extremely unusual souvenir of baker’s now sounded as though it had shed its threadbare of the West Coast jazz scene, this copy boldly week-long residency at the canteen, in- overalls for a stylish tuxedo. Louis delivers his signed by Claxton on the half-title. Art-directed scribed by him: “I enjoyed my engagement here ‘wah-wah’ solo with offhand dignity rather than by Lee Friedlander and Stuart Fox, edited by Clax- at the ‘Canteen’ so very much. Thanks Chet Baker mocking rasp, suggesting a terribly elegant song. ton himself together with Nesuhi Ertegun, soon London – 83”. It was in 1983 that long-time ad- Smack [Henderson] himself considered this one to be VP at Atlantic, and Richard Bock, founder mirer Elvis Costello invited Baker to solo on the of the best recordings the orchestra ever made, of Pacific Jazz, who had hired Claxton as his art Robert Wyatt song “Shipbuilding” on his album if not THE best, and it became the one most as- director, and for whose enterprises this would ap- Punch the Clock, shifting Baker’s comeback, which sociated with the still-developing sound of New pear to be a promotional item. York jazz. None of the glory or credit devolved on had begun in the late 1970s, into a higher gear, and £1,250 [111368]

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118 vidualism: Their difference in character and their front free endpaper recto, was Olive Skogerson, (JAZZ.) CLAXTON, William. Original musical expression”. a Swedish-American immigrant who worked her £3,500 [117734] way up from stenographer to comptroller with the studio print of Billie Holiday, signed by Fox Motion Picture Studio. In the year of publica- Claxton. New York: William Claxton, 2001 tion the Gershwins scored the romantic comedy 119 Silver gelatin print (image 325 × 480 mm, overall 407 × Delicious for Fox, although little of their work made 508 mm) printed in 2001, with the photographer’s wet (JAZZ: GERSHWIN, George & Ira.) the final cut. stamp and signature verso. Cream card window mount. GOLDBERG, Isaac. George Gershwin; A £3,250 [117011] Very good. Presented in a black frame with conservation Study in American Music. New York: Simon mount & Perspex. and Schuster, 1931 120 A wonderfully off guard image of Lady Day, caught strikingly in an elegant white scarf against a dense Octavo (204 × 137 mm). Contemporary red morocco (JAZZ.) VAN VECHTEN, Carl. Original black background, taken in LA in 1957. In January presentation binding, lettered Gershwin to spine and portrait photograph of George Gersh- to front board within a single fillet panel, single gilt rule of that year she cut some memorable sides with win. New York: 1937 Norman Granz, which were to be her last with the to turn-ins, red endpapers, top edge red, others uncut; original pictorial endpapers retained. Portrait frontis- producer. Original sepia-toned silver gelatin print (226 × 164 mm). piece and 15 plates, caricature to half-title, musical nota- Presented in corner mounts behind double window William Claxton indisputably became one of the tion to title page and text. Light restoration of scuff to mount. One or two tiny surface marks, slight surface greatest photographers of the jazz scene, with front joint, but overall very good. rolling at the corners, but overall very well preserved his sensitive images of artists such as Baker and first edition, this copy signed by the dedica- with deep velvet tone. Bird, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, tee Ira Gershwin in pencil on the front free end- thoughtful portrait study, signed and and many others, appearing in countless maga- paper. This early biography of the great American dated by van vechten on verso in red ink in zines and record covers since the 1950s. When composer is dedicated by the author to George’s his characteristic minuscule handwriting: “photo- asked why he liked to photograph jazz musicians, lyricist brother, Ira, “in many respects the family graph by Carl Van Vechten March 28, 1933 – XII c: 4”. Claxton replied: “First, and most important, I love chronicler”, who offered Goldberg his “untiring Despite the variance in dating, the image appears their music. But I am also fascinated by the diverse assistance” (Preface). The stylish contemporary to be number four of a series listed in the Library of qualities they possess. They have ingenuousness, binding is almost certainly the work of impresa- Congress’s collection as dating from 28 March 1937. a sort of open, innocent attitude. Yet at the same rio-designer Merle Armitage, whose presentation The name “George Gershwin” is also pencilled time they display a strong discipline in their dedi- copy from George was bound almost identically. across the back in signature style in the handwrit- cation to their craft. And I also admire their indi- The first owner, whose small book-label is on the ing of Irene Gallagher. Gallagher was Girl Friday

44 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 120 121 121 to music publisher Max Dreyfus – the president of Chappell & Co., and publisher of Gershwin, Cole Royal Orchestra. It was reviewed by Van Vechten in on sides enclosing gilt French fillet panel with corner Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart – and fleurons, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Title page Vanity Fair in an article entitled “George Gershwin: printed in red and black, 26 copperplates by Basire, knew all the up-and-coming young composers of An American Composer Who Is Writing Notable the day. This photograph is from her estate. Bowles, Toms, Atkins, Parr or Pritchard after Nicholls or Music in the Jazz Idiom”, describing Rhapsody as Jett, woodcut initials and ornaments. The Hoe copy, with Van Vechten met Gershwin in 1919 and was in- “the finest piece of serious music that had ever book label (his library sale, Anderson, 7 Jan. 1912, lot strumental in his rise to fame, bringing the young come out of America”. This was the first and most 1797). Joints and extremities professionally refurbished; composer together with adventurous Canadian- important review that Gershwin was to receive – an excellent copy, tall, clean and crisp. American mezzo Eva Gauthier whose annual con- he had arrived. first edition (with the catchword “As” on the cert at the Aeolian Hall for 1923 was entitled “Re- £2,000 [97471] first page of the introduction). Originally pub- cital of Ancient and Modern Music for Voice”, and lished in 72 weekly numbers, Johnson’s famous featured songs by Byrd, Bellini, Bartok and Berlin, book is actually a compilation of excerpts from Al- 121 Hindemith, Schoenberg, Kern, and of course Ger- exander Smith’s History of the Lives of the Most Noted shwin: “Mr. Gershwin, at the piano, provided ac- JOHNSON, Charles. A General History Highwaymen (1714) and Johnson’s own earlier publi- companiments which were something like works of the Lives and Adventures of the Most cation A General History of the Robberies and Murders of of art in their own genre, and in Mme. Gautheir’s Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street- the most Notorious Pyrates (1724). “Johnson’s evident encore – his own Do it Again – raised a gale of laugh- familiarity with seamen’s language suggests that ter by slyly inserting a phrase from Scheherazade Robbers, &c. To which is added, a Genu- he spent time at sea and he may well have been a at an appropriate moment” (Musical America, 10 ine Account of the Voyages and Plunders sea captain” (ODNB). The illustrations, largely en- November 1923). This was Gershwin’s first appear- of the most Notorious Pyrates . . . London: graved by Isaac Basire after Nicholls, have a robust ance on a New York concert platform. In February J. Janeway, 1734 Hogarthian vigour and a number exemplify the 1924, Rhapsody in Blue was premiered at the same archetypal perception of the highwayman holding venue as part of the concert “An Experiment in Small folio (353 × 223 mm). Late 19th-century red mo- up a stage coach at gunpoint. Modern Music” featuring Paul Whiteman’s Palais rocco by Bedford, richly gilt spine, two-line gilt border £12,500 [120345]

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122 by Eric Gill gilt to front board gilt, raised bands, titles to links to organised crime. Barry Morris Goldwater spine gilt, twin rule to turn ins, marble endpapers, top (1909–1998), who is mentioned on 22 pages in the JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy. book, was five-term United States Senator from English Language . . . In Two Volumes. first uk edition, number 883 of 900 copies on Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) and the Republican The Sixth Edition. London: for J. F. and C. japon, unsigned. The Bodley Head Ulysses es- Party’s nominee for President in the 1964 election. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Payne and Son, W. tablished the text for the succeeding 25 years and He is the politician most often credited for spark- Owen, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley [& 19 printed as appendices the International Letter of Pro- ing the resurgence of the American conservative test against Samuel Roth’s piracy and the famous political movement in the 1960s. His landslide others in London], 1785 legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the defeat to Lyndon B. Johnson opened the door for 2 vols., quarto (270 × 204 mm). Near-contemporary tree ban on the publishing of the book in America. Johnson and a Congress dominated by Democrats calf, gilt banded flat spines, red and green morocco twin Slocum & Cahoon A23. to pass the Great Society programs. Goldwater labels, green edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece by returned to the Senate in 1969, by which time £2,750 [121336] Cook after Reynolds; printed in triple columns. Front the leadership of the conservative movement had joint of vol. II a little tender, portrait a little foxed and moved to Reagan. In 1974 Goldwater was the man offset onto title page, general foxing or toning. An at- 124 tractively bound copy. who successfully urged Richard Nixon (whom he described as “the most dishonest individual I have first authorized quarto edition, and the KENNEDY, Robert F. The Enemy Within. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1960 ever met in my life”) to resign at the height of the sixth edition overall, preceded by a pirate Dublin Watergate scandal. Goldwater retired in 1987, and edition the previous year and issued following Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, un- was succeeded in office by John McCain. Johnson’s death in 1784. trimmed. With the dust jacket. 14 pages of monochrome Courtney & Smith p. 57. illustrations from photographs. Slight fading along £8,500 [120914] board edges, tiny stain to top edge, an excellent copy £2,250 [120346] with the jacket slightly rubbed at the ends and corners. 125 first edition, presentation copy, and a great (KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. 123 cross-party association for Bobby Kennedy’s first Moby Dick or The Whale. Chicago: The JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane book, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Lakeside Press, 1930 The Bodley Head, 1936 my old antagonist Senator Goldwater from his friend Bob Kennedy”. Concerning the McLellan 3 vols., large quarto. Original black cloth, bevelled boards, Crown octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in Committee’s enquiry into union and management titles and vignettes to spines in silver, abstract design and green morocco, block design of the bow first designed corruption, the book focusses on Jimmy Hoffa’s vol. numbers within simple frame to front boards in sil-

46 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 125 126 127 ver, top edges black, others uncut. With the original clear 126 White Soliloquies, was published in the year of Mog’s plastic dust jackets with plain paper flaps. Housed in the publication. original aluminium slipcase. Wood-engravings through- KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York: out by Rockwell Kent. Illustrations faintly offset, mild Viking Press, 1957 £3,750 [120804] adhesive staining to vol. 1 pastedowns from dust jackets; the dust jackets slightly yellowed on spines, and rubbed Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front 128 and cockled overall, with mild chipping to outer corners, cover in white, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Minor a sliver of loss to the bottom edge of vol. 1 rear panel, old rubbing to extremities, slight foxing to endpapers, an ex- KEYNES, John Maynard. The General tape repair to the head of the front flap of vol. 2 (with con- cellent copy in the jacket with unfaded spine panel, a few Theory of Employment Interest and comitant trivial marking to the board), vol. 3 jacket with creases, a couple of minor nicks and chips to extremities, a short split on spine and the front flap secured by tape; short closed tear to foot of front panel and head of rear Money. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, mottling to underside of slipcase. A superb set, extremely panel. 1936 well-preserved owing to the unusual survival of the dust first edition. jackets and the slipcase. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in Charters A2a. gilt, two line border to head and foot of covers in blind. first rockwell kent edition, deluxe is- £3,750 [121491] A few underlinings and marginal marks in pale pink pen- sue, retaining both the clear plastic jackets and cil. Extremities lightly rubbed, top edge a little dusty. A the aluminium slipcase, rare in this condition; one very good copy. of 1,000 sets published. This is one of the finest 127 first edition. “The world-wide slump after 1929 editions of Melville’s masterpiece and one of the KERR, Judith. Mog the forgetful cat. prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, great American illustrated books of the 20th cen- London: William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd, 1970 and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of tury. In 1926, Rockwell Kent (1882–1971), then just the trade-cycle . . . in his General Theory, he sub- beginning to establish his fame as an artist, was Large octavo. Publisher’s pictorial boards. With the dust jected the definitions and theories of the classical approached by R. R. Donnelley and Sons to illus- jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Ends gently school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and bumped, otherwise fine, in the very scarce jacket. trate a new edition of Richard Henry Dana’s Two found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” Years Before the Mast. Kent demurred, suggesting first edition, rare presentation copy, in- (PMM). scribed “To Sheila Macleod in friendship and grat- Moby Dick instead. Kent was given complete free- Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. dom to design and illustrate the three-volume set. itude! Judith Kneale” (Kerr had married screen- The resulting work has been credited with reviving writer Nigel Kneale in 1954). The recipient was £1,250 [115592] public interest in a sublime but difficult novel. fellow author Sheila Macleod (b. 1939), whose first Hutner & Kelly, Fine Printed Books 1900–1999, 22. novel The Moving Accident was, like Kerr’s Orlando, published in 1968. Her second work, the Snow £7,500 [121505]

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129 ers gilt, twin wavy rules to spines extending over front cloth bound in. The Fairy Books, edited by Andrew covers, gilt edges, dark green coated endpapers. Illustra- Lang and written up by his wife Nora, were unprec- KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water-Babies: tions to text by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. edented in the international scope of their sources, A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With two il- Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown of vol. I. Spines and highly influential in giving many tales their first gently rolled and slightly faded, a little rubbing to spine lustrations by J. Noel Paton. London: Mac- ends, faint marks to covers, occasional light foxing to appearance in English. Though sets are sometimes millan and Co., 1863 contents. An excellent, bright set. found in recent leather bindings, this Sangorski- bound collection is rare both in the high quality of first editions of Kipling’s classic tales. Square octavo (192 × 150 mm). Recent green morocco the work and the early date of its execution. by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and decorations to spine Martindell 61 & 63; Stewart 123 & 132. in compartments, gilt vignettes and frames to covers, £15,000 [121351] turn-ins and gilt edges, marbled endpapers. With the £4,250 [116122] original cloth front cover bound in at rear. Frontispiece 132 with tissue guard, plate and woodcut initials. Booksell- 131 er’s stamp to front free endpaper verso. Boards slightly LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. bowed, grease spot to rear cover, small tear and loss to LANG, Andrew (ed.) [Complete set of London: Jonathan Cape, 1927 final leaf, not affecting text; an excellent copy. the Fairy Books.] London: Longmans, Green first edition, first issue, with the “L’Envoi” & Co., 1889–1910 Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, title gilt to leaf: “Kingsley had second thoughts about this spine, tan buckram sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Coloured portrait frontispiece, 10 coloured while the book was being printed, and he had the 12 works, octavo. Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in early 20th-century crushed morocco of colours appro- leaf removed, but not before a few hundred cop- priate to each work, spines gilt-tooled in compartments ies of the book had already gone forth” (Gottlieb, with gilt titles direct, each board decorated with a differ- Early Children’s Books and Their Illustration, 113). King- ent gilt-tooled and colour onlay design, quadruple gilt sley’s book initiated the first golden age of chil- border to sides, elaborate gilt-roll to turn-ins, marbled dren’s books in England. endpapers, gilt edges. Bound retaining the original cloth spine and front panel, and the half-titles. Illustrations by £1,950 [120414] Henry J. Ford, G. P. Jacomb Hood, and others, in colour and black and white, as plates and in the text. Occasional 130 minor scuffs to corners, no spotting within and the spines unsunned, a beautiful bright set in excellent condition. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; first editions, a complete set of Lang’s [together with:] The Second Jungle Book. beautifully produced Fairy Book series, exquisitely London: Macmillan and Co. 1894 & 1895 bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, each work in its 2 works, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines lettered appropriate colour, with differing onlaid and gilt and blocked in gilt, large pictorial blocks to front cov- designs to the covers, and the original decorative

48 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 131 132 133 134 plates, 8 black and white plates, folding map at rear. A 2 vols., large octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bind- at the end of the concluding Translator’s Note; little rubbing to edges; an excellent copy. ery in reddish brown morocco, titles and decoration to Bruce Rogers, “This copy to Sydney Everett With first edition, large paper issue, number 127 spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, rules appreciation of his devotion to the making of this to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, top edges gilt, of 315 copies. The costs for production of the 1926 book, Bruce Rogers 1933”, and Wilfred Merton (Sir others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy. Seven Pillars of Wisdom had ballooned to such an ex- Emery Walker’s business partner), “To Sydney Ev- tent that Lawrence eventually agreed to the publica- new and definitive edition. First published erett, who with loving care distributed this book, tion of an abridgement. The profits from this pub- in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty Wilfred Merton 1933”. The inscription of this copy lication made the fortunes of the Cape publishing and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new presumably took place after the death, on 22 July house. Laid-in is a promotional bookseller’s flyer. generation of readers for this classic of travel. This 1933, of the other collaborator, Sir Emery Walker; “definitive” edition of 1936 was published in a for- O’Brien A101. the book was issued in autumn 1932. mat matching that of the 1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom. £2,000 [119999] Lawrence was signally reluctant to sign this book £2,250 [121339] (his name appears nowhere in print in its pages) and association copies of any description are nota- 133 134 bly rare. One of 530 copies published. (LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles (LAWRENCE, T. E., trans.) HOMER. The O’Brien A141. M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Jon- Odyssey of Homer. London: printed in England £15,000 [120370] athan Cape, 1936 [colophon:] Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932 Quarto. Original black full morocco by W.H. Smith, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt, untrimmed. With the slipcase. 26 woodcut roundels printed in gold and black (with some tissue guards). Light wear to slipcase, minor abrasions to binding, short split at head of front joint, pale offsetting from roundels to letterpress, skilful repair to paper flaw in blank margin of penultimate leaf of Book XXIV. An excellent copy, with the slipcase. first and limited edition of lawrence’s translation, a remarkable association copy, inscribed to sydney everett by three of the four principal collaborators: Law- rence, whose inscription – as “TE Shaw”, the name 131 he used in the Tank Corps – is a simple signature 134

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135 137 LE GUIN, Ursula K. [The Earthsea Quar- tet:] A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Lon- don: Heinemann, 1960 of Atuan; The Farthest Shore; Tehanu. 136 Berkeley, CA, & New York: Parnassus Press / Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. With Atheneum, 1968–71–72–90 the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, spine ends very 136 slightly rubbed, an excellent, bright copy in the jacket 4 works, octavo. Original cloth, with the dust jackets. LEAR, Moya Olsen. Bill and Moya Lear: with slight creasing to extremities. A Wizard of Earthsea with illustrations by Ruth Robbins; an Unforgettable Flight. Nevada: Jack Ba- first uk edition. It was first published in the US Tombs of Atuan and Farthest Shore with illustrations by Gail earlier the same year. Garraty. Generally excellent condition, The Farthest Shore con and Company, 1996 with creasing and closed tears to edges of jacket and £1,250 [121397] Octavo. Original black leather-backed blue marbled some tape repair, also price-clipped, the others not so. paper sides by Mike Roswell, gilt rule to backstrip, gilt first editions of the earthsea quartet, lettering to spine, blue illustrated endpapers. Housed in 138 each copy signed by the author. The latter the original blue cloth slipcase. With 16 leaves of photo- three titles are first printings, the Wizard of Earthsea graphic reproductions. Slight rubbing to extremities; an LEE, Laurie. Cider with Rosie. London: one of 16,200 copies from the Parnassus second or excellent, bright copy. The Hogarth Press, 1959 third printing (without the faint vertical smudge first edition, signed limited issue, one Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. to the title page of all 6,800 first printing copies, of 20 copies marked for presentation and With the dust jacket. Frontispiece drawing and illustra- most of which went to libraries). Atuan is in the signed by the author, this copy additionally tions to text by John Ward. A very good copy in the jacket first state (with the gilt stamped covers and “Rein- signed on the title page by the astronauts Neil with a little rubbing to extremities and slightly toned forced Binding $5.50” jacket without the Newber- Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, spine panel. ry Award stamp) and inscribed “To Chris, Ursula and the 38th President of the United States, Ger- first edition, a superb literary asso- le Guin” on the title page. All first edition copies ald Ford, together with the Chief Engineering Test ciation copy, inscribed by the author to of this fantasy classic are very scarce signed or in- Pilot for Lear Jet Industries, Hank Beaird, and Clay christina foyle, owner of foyle’s book- scribed. There are a few later and earlier iterations Lacy, founder and chief executive officer of Clay shop, and her husband on the front free end- of the Earthsea saga, but these four full-length nov- Lacy Aviation. There were a further 26 lettered paper, “For Ronnie & Christina – who give writers els are often grouped together and were later col- copies signed by the author, from the total edition wings – from the author, with affection”, with lectively published as the Earthsea Quartet. of 5,000 copies. Foyle’s bookseller’s ticket to the front pastedown. £3,000 [117175] £5,000 [120309] Laid-in is an autograph letter from the author

50 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 138 139 140 to Ronnie, dated 23 February 1972 and on Lee’s 7 works, octavo (196 × 134mm). Recent dark red 140 headed paper. The letter acknowledges receipt of morocco, raised bands to spines, titles and extra two “Rosies”, and encloses by return the “Bee- decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards LEWIS, Cecil. Sagittarius Rising. London: leigh copy, duly inscribed” – a reference to Bee- gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in Peter Davies, 1936 leigh Abbey, Christina’s house. Lee writes “I was a matching cloth slipcase. With colour frontis- Octavo. Original grey marl cloth, titles to spine in dark most touched that you took the trouble to send me pieces and black and white illustrations by Pauline blue. With the dust jacket. Faint foxing to spine, top the Burning Piano – and most impressed that you Baynes. The occasional minor blemish, an excel- edge faintly dust toned, light offsetting to endpapers; an found one (they were all impounded in Glouces- lent set. excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with browned spine, nicks to extremities. tershire)”, alluding to the issue point for the first first editions of this complete set of edition: the passage on p. 272, which described the narnia series. “The immediate inspiration first edition in the exceptionally uncom- “a fire at the piano-works almost every year, it for ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was mon dust jacket, of one of the classics of Great seemed to be a good way of balancing the books”. a series of nightmares that Lewis had had about War literature, widely considered the finest flying Lee was sued for libel, and the passage removed Lions. More seriously, he was concerned to do for memoir of the war. “At seventeen, standing 6 feet from subsequent editions. Accompanying the children what he had done for an adult readership 4 inches tall and equipped with a precocious intel- book are two Christmas cards from the author to in his science fiction trilogy . . . The Narnia nov- ligence, Lewis lied about his age to join the Royal the couple, one of which features a printed excerpt els are not allegorical; they are entirely in keep- Flying Corps. He celebrated his 18th birthday in from Cider with Rosie, the other an illustration by ing with the belief, shared by Lewis and his close France, flying patrols over the western front at a John Ward, also from the book. friend and Oxford colleague Tolkien, that stories time when the average life expectancy of a pilot £1,850 [121195] in themselves, especially of the mythical type, can was three weeks. On 1 July 1916 he flew the first give spiritual nourishment without imparting ab- patrol of the Somme offensive and witnessed the mile-high column of earth thrown up by the 139 stract meaning . . . As Naomi Lewis has written, the books are ‘intoxicating’ to all but the most detonation of mines under the German positions. LEWIS, C. S. [The Chronicles of Narnia:] relentlessly unimaginative readers, and must be Later he duelled with the ‘circus’ of Manfred von The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; judged the most sustained achievement in fantasy Richthofen and was the last man to see the aircraft Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn for children by a 20th-century author”. of Albert Ball VC, the allied ace who vanished in a bank of cloud. Lewis also hunted Gotha airships Oxford Companion to Children Literature, p. 370. Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and over London by moonlight, and in 1917 he was His Boy; The Magician’s Nephew; The £6,000 [116483] awarded the Military Cross for continuous brav- Last Battle. London: Geoffrey Bles, [The Bod- ery” (ODNB). ley Head] 1950–6 £3,500 [119794]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 51 first edition, german language issue, of inscription of Daniel Ffillis at head of title, a second in- the catalogue for the Soviet Union’s pavilion at scription reading “Sym. Sommur Appr. Grayes Inn” below the 1928 Cologne “Pressa” exhibition, the first (this copy possibly belonging to an appraiser associated major international exhibition devoted to mod- with the law court), marginal annotations throughout in ink in at least two contemporary hands. Boards rubbed, ern newspaper technology and communications corners exposed, one or two small wormholes to spine technology, staged over six months the event at- and rear board; holes punched in board edges for ties, ties tracted 1,500 exhibitors from 43 countries, and now lacking, front endpapers missing; 2 leaves (154–5) in was said to have drawn around five million visi- first part with large dog-ears folded in, a little light mar- tors. El Lissitzky was responsible for the entire de- ginal staining; still a very attractive copy. sign of Soviet Union’s contribution. This remark- the first magna carta published by rich- able catalogue remains as a persuasive vestige of ard tottel, which includes the first published the overall conception, the centrepiece being the version of the Statutes of the Realm; one of two var- lengthy folding plate – often damaged or missing iants published for 1556, with line 1 of the title page – featuring a superb photomontage representing to the second part reading “SECUNDA” and dated the contents of the pavilion, superimposed with 1556 (some copies are dated 1555). Another edition Lissitzky’s typographical descriptive interventions was published in the same year by Thomas Marshe. in red. Described by Deutsche Bibliographie as “zu Ames 2603; Beale S16 & S24; Clarke’s Bibliotheca Legum p. den bedeutendsten typographischen Gestaltun- 288; ESTC S101068. gen Lissitzkys” (“one of Lissitzky’s most important typographic designs”). £6,500 [121070] 141 DB VI, 681; Küppers, Gesamtentwurf der Ausstellung und künstlerische Leitung ebenfalls von El Lissitzky, 144; Lang, 143 141 Konstruktivismus 59; Wye & Rowell, The Russian Avant Garde “MALLEY, Ern.” [pseud. James McAu- book, p. 240; ley & Harold Stewart.] “The Darken- LISSITZKY, El (Lazar.) Union der Sozia- £9,500 [117204] listischen Sowjet-Republiken. Katalog ing Ecliptic.” In: Angry Penguins, 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internatio- 142 nalen Presse-Ausstellung “Pressa”, Köln Australian Poet Ern Malley. Melbourne & (MAGNA CARTA.) Magna Charta, cum Adelaide: Reed & Harris, 1944 1928. Cologne: M. Dumont Shauberg, 1928 statutis quae Antiqua vocantur . . . Lon- Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original orange card wrap- don: Richard Tottel, 12 June 1556 [but possibly Small quarto-sized magazine, original wrappers with pers, title with Soviet roundel to the front panel in black, text in black and colour Nolan illustration to front wrap- yapp edges. Sepia-toned photogravure leporello, extend- 1560] per. Ownership inscription to front wrapper. Small chip from the wrappers at ends of spine, a few minor marks ing 2350 mm. Light dusting of the wrappers which show 2 parts in 1 vol., small octavo (134 × 93 mm). Contempo- to wrappers, but otherwise a remarkably bright and well- some mild crimping and creasing to the yapp edges, one rary full calf, spine with raised bands, blind stamp rule preserved copy, excellent condition. very short split on one of the folds of the leporello, which border and central shield device to boards. Printed in also has three short strips of adhesion loss to one panel, black letter, with several woodcut initials. Text principally first edition, the original Angry Penguins issue production flaw, but in all respects is a very good copy, in Law French but also in Latin and English. Ownership of the poems that constituted one of the great remarkably well-preserved.

52 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Robert Hughes hailed the poems as successful examples of surrealist poetry. Hughes claimed that Malley’s “crea- tion proved the validity of surrealist procedures: that in letting down their guard, opening themselves to free association and chance, McAuley and Stewart had reached inspiration by the side-door of parody”. Certainly Malley’s poems are today far more widely read than those of his creators. Original copies of this issue of Angry Penguins are rare, no doubt in part due to the impounding of many copies by the police as the result of the ob- scenity trial which the editor, Max Harris, was forced to endure. £1,250 [120830]

144 MEŸER, H. L. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs. London: 143 144 [vols. I–II] G. W. Nickisson; [vols. III–VI] literary hoaxes of the century. Ern Malley’s “The Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; [vol. VII] Willis and first octavo edition, with the Willis and So- Darkening Ecliptic” made its first appearance in Sotheran, 1842–57 theran reissue of volume VII (the Preface to vol- this special commemorative autumn (actually 7 vols., octavo (216 × 130 mm). Contemporary red peb- ume I is dated 1852). The original folio edition of June) 1944 number of Australia’s leading modern- ble-grain morocco, richly gilt spines, gilt two-line bor- 1835–41 is described by Mullens and Swann as “one ist literary magazine. der on sides enclosing gilt roll-tool border, gilt edges, of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithol- The poems were in fact the work of James McAu- gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers. 427 hand- ogy”. Henry Leonard Meÿer involved his whole coloured lithograph plates (105 showing eggs), 7 un- ley (1917–1976) and Harold Stewart (1916–1995), family in the production of his books, his wife as- coloured plates, by Meyer and Mary Anne Meyer. From parodying modernist tropes, and the resulting fu- sisting with drawing and lithography and his chil- the library of Irish judge and discerning book collector dren with the hand-colouring (see Christine Jack- rore saw the magazine forced to close. The Oxford William O’Brien (1832–99), which was endowed on his Companion to Australian Literature observes that “the death to the Milltown Park Jesuit Library, Dublin; this son, Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography). vigorous and legitimate movement for modernism set carries his post-mortem bookplate, Milltown Park Mullens & Swann pp. 403–4. in Australian writing . . . received a severe setback, library tickets, bequest labels and library stamps (mostly £3,500 [120503] and the conservative element was undoubtedly to titles). Scattered minor spotting to covers, occasional strengthened.” The longer term effect, however, foxing. An excellent set. was more subtle and ironic. In time poets such as

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All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 53 first edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his wife, Doro- thy Milne (née de Sélincourt), on the front free endpaper, “My darling’s private copy of her own book. A.A.M. October 1914”, and with Dorothy’s illustrated bookplate to the front pastedown. This was the first of many of his books to be dedicated to his wife, referred to in the printed dedication as his collaborator, “who buys the ink and paper, laughs, and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business, this book is gratefully dedicated in memory of a winter’s morning in Switzerland”. The allusion to “a winter’s morning in Switzer- land” refers to their engagement while skiing in Switzerland in January 1913: “I proposed to her at eleven o’clock one morning in a snowstorm”. This collection of comedic material was originally 145 146, 147 published in Punch, and was his third such. In its review of this title, the Times Literary Supplement 145 casion of their engagement, on the front argued that Milne “had one of the most engaging MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. free endpaper, “To my Dorothy – with the author’s silly senses of humour in the world”. heart. January 23rd, 1913”, and with Dorothy’s il- Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life, 1990, pp. 149, 158 & 163. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1939 lustrated bookplate to the front pastedown. The

Octavo. Original white wrappers, printed in red, titles two first met in January 1913 while buying ski £1,500 [120421] printed in black to spine and front cover. Spine gently boots – coincidentally they were headed for the rolled and lightly browned, faint soiling to rear cover, same slopes in Switzerland and were staying at 148 slight creasing and nicks to extremities; an excellent copy. the same hotel. After a brief courtship, they an- MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. first edition, second issue, with the price to nounced their engagement that same month and the spine and foot of the front flap, with the yellow were married six months later. This is one of two London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, July 1925 errata slip tipped-in as issued. Miller’s first three books that Milne presented to Dorothy on the day Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe limp red morocco, spine let- books, of which this is the third, were banned in he returned to London from that first skiing holi- tered and decorated in gilt, illustration and rules to front the United States and England for obscene con- day, the other being a copy of The Holiday Round. cover in gilt, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. With the tent; Tropic of Capricorn was not published in the US original glassine jacket and the publisher’s card box, This is the third edition, and is the first of Milne’s white paper title labels to lid printed in blue. Illustrated until 1961. This copy with a newspaper clipping four collections of his contributions to Punch. The throughout by E. H. Shepard. With the contemporary laid in of a review from the Sunday Telegraph, 21 July book was well-received, and had reached its third and later ink ownership inscriptions of Margaret Ruth 1991, of Dearborn’s biography of Miller, The Happi- edition just four months after publication, and Payne to the head of the front pastedown and free end- est Man Alive. was in its fourth when his second collection, The £1,500 [121302] Holiday Round, was published the following year. Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life, 1990, pp. 142, 148–9. 146 £750 [120423] MILNE, A. A. The Day’s Play. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1911 147 Octavo. Original red cloth, title and decorations to spine MILNE, A. A. Once a Week. London: and front cover gilt. Spine faded, marks and rubbing to Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1914 front cover. A very good copy. Octavo. Original purple cloth, title and decoration to inscribed by the author to his future spine gilt, title to front board blind. Spine faded to white, wife, dorothy de sélincourt, on the oc- covers faded and a little mottled. A very good copy. 148

54 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 149 150 151 paper. Light offsetting to endpapers, an excellent copy Galanis (1879–1966), this is the final book issued 1. Armorial bookplates of the Earl of Suffolk and Berk- in the glassine jacket with slight creasing and nicks to by the Cresset Press. shire to front pastedowns of each vol., 20th-century extremities, housed in the lightly faded box with a couple bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chem- of faint colour pencil marks to lid. £2,750 [120502] ist and discriminating collector of 18th-century litera- second deluxe edition. When We Were Very ture in contemporary bindings, to front free endpaper of vol. 1, and a few neat ink annotations to contents. Ex- Young was first published on 6 November 1924, and 150 tremities lightly worn, corners gently bumped, very mi- the seventh and tenth impressions were issued in MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With the nor rubbing to the lower board of vol. 2 and a few spots deluxe bindings, this copy being of the tenth im- Wind. New York: Macmillan Company, 1936 to rear board of vol. 3, contents a little foxed, otherwise pression. With two newspaper clippings laid in a bright, clean set. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and decoration to front from the Observer Review, 22 September 1974, inter- first collected edition in english of the board and spine in dark blue, top edge pale brown, oth- viewing Christopher Robin Milne and discussing works of “one of the great political philosophers his relationship with the books. ers untrimmed. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, an ex- of the Enlightenment” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Phi- £1,250 [120874] cellent copy in the lightly soiled jacket with creasing and losophy). Books XI and XII of The Spirit of Laws are nicks to extremities. sparsely but intelligently annotated in a contem- 149 first edition, in the first state dust jack- porary hand, possibly by Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire (1739–1779); MILTON, John. Paradise Lost; [and] Par- et, listing this title second in the right-hand column on the rear panel. for example, Montesquieu’s discussion of Roman adise Regain’d. A Poem in Four Books. government concludes with the reader’s observa- £4,500 [121493] London: printed by Bernard Newdigate at the tion that “the Causes of destroying the Liberty of Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, Rome better explain’d in this chapter than by any 151 other treatise I ever read on the subject”. 1931 MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Se- Cabeen 40; see Hilary Bok, “Baron de Montesquieu, 2 vols., quarto (360 × 258 mm). Original full pigskin Charles-Louis de Secondat”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of by Wood of London, spines lettered in gilt, edges un- condat, Baron de. The Complete Works. Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition). trimmed. Housed in the tan card slipcase. With 16 full Translated from the French. In four vol- £1,500 [120458] page woodcuts with tissue guards and woodcut head- umes. London: printed for T. Evans, and W. and tailpieces. Light foxing to edges; an excellent set in the slipcase with wear to extremities. Davis, 1777 limited edition, number 7 of 195 copies printed 4 vols., octavo (217 × 130 mm). Contemporary mottled on handmade paper. Beautifully illustrated with calf, red and green morocco labels to spines, remaining wood-engravings by the Greek artist Demetrios compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, raised bands. With the separately paginated and registered Index to the Spirit of Laws in vol. 4. Engraved frontispiece to vol.

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152 let gilt panel to the boards within a dog-tooth roll panel, 154 double fillet edge-roll, top edges gilt, palmette roll gilt to MORPURGO, Michael. War Horse. King- the turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red silk page-markers. (NELSON, Horatio.) NICOLAS, Sir Nich- swood: Kaye & Ward, 1982 27 folding plates, including 24 hand-coloured aquatints, olas Harris (ed.) The Dispatches and Let- with the engraved John Cumberland title pages, all dated Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to 1828, vignettes of arms of the Bonaparte family on man- ters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nel- front cover and spine in red and black. No dust jacket is- teaux, half-titles to Vols. I and II, no printed title to the son. London: Henry Colburn, 1844–6 sued. Cover design by Victor Ambrus. A couple of minor last vol. bumps to covers; an excellent, bright copy. 7 vols., octavo (218 × 130 mm). Late 19th-century navy first edition, first issue, with all required blue full morocco by Bedford (with his name in gilt on first edition of the author’s celebrated novel, points. Originally issued in 64 parts, the first 48 be- the turn-in), richly gilt spines, gilt French fillet border on which was adapted into a hugely successful play, ing issued by Fairburn, “the publication was then sides, gilt edges, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. and was the basis of the 2011 Steven Spielberg film taken over by Cumberland, who issued 16 more Portrait frontispiece of Nelson by Freeman after Abbott of the same title. parts” (Tooley). Abbey remarks that the “Fairburn (vol. I), 4 facsimile letters, 3 plans (2 folding). Con- temporary engraved armorial roundel bookplate of Sir £1,500 [118674] venture must have been unsuccessful, for sets car- Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th baronet (1829–1900), of the rying his imprints are very unusual, and examples Edwardes baronetcy of Shrewsbury (whose “choice and 153 of the three printed titles definitely rare”. Credited valuable library” was auctioned at Christie’s, May 1901). to Ireland, the notorious Shakespearean forger, the An excellent set. (NAPOLEON.) IRELAND, William text of this work is in fact the same as that for Count first edition. The essential starting point for Henry, & George Cruikshank. Life of Excelman’s History of Napoleon. A superbly presented any attempt to understand either the mercurial Napoleon Bonaparte . . . Engraved by G. set with the leather book labels of journalist and personality or instinctive tactical genius of Nelson, Cruikshank from the Original Designs bibliophile Barton Currie, and the lyricist Paul Fran- never superseded. “This is the standard work of cis Webster who won Academy Awards for “Secret reference for Nelson’s correspondence and is the of Vernet, Denon, &c. executed, at Paris, Love”, “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing”, and by Duplesis Berteaux. London: printed and principal source from which his biographers have “Shadow of Your Smile”. drawn (and still do draw) their material” (Cowie). Published by John Fairburn, 1823–8 Abbey 359; Cohn 435; Tooley 278. A beautifully bound set, from the atelier of one of 4 vols., octavo (215 × 186 mm). Finely bound in dark blue £3,750 [120044] the premier London binders of the period. full crushed morocco by Root & Son signed in the rear Cowie 144. turn-ins, titles gilt direct to the spine, narrow bands with single dotted roll, Napoleonic devices to the compart- £3,750 [120045] ments within triple panel, the inner dotted, French fil-

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155 a work of great authority; ‘supreme’ in [Edward] achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to Andrade’s words ‘as a record of experiment and many of the illustrations prepared by his contem- NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, a Treatise scientific deduction from experiment’. . . Opticks is poraries such as Rackham, who characteristically of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflec- also distinguished in two other ways: the first edi- utilised the traditional three-colour process. tions and Colours of Light. The Second tion contained Newton’s first mathematical paper £2,750 [117569] Edition, Corrected. London: printed for Wil- in print. . . and in the later editions [as here] it was liam and John Innys, 1718 embellished with a set of Queries long supposed to represent Newton’s opinions on the chief mys- 157 Octavo (195 × 123 mm). Contemporary marbled boards, teries of Nature” (Printing and the Mind of Man). (NONESUCH PRESS.) HOMER. The Ili- rebacked and recornered to style, edges speckled red. Babson 134; Gray p. 36; See Printing and the Mind of Man 172. With 12 engraved folding plates. With single leaf of ad- ad; [and] Odyssey. [London:] The Nonesuch verts at rear. Contemporary ink inscriptions to 23 pages. £7,500 [120263] Press, 1931 Top edge dust toned, minor rubbing to boards, light foxing throughout; an excellent copy. 2 works, tall octavo. Original orange niger, raised bands 156 within blind rules to spines, twin gilt fillets to head and first octavo edition, second overall, second foot, second compartments gilt-lettered direct, 2-line issue (with a new title page dated 1718 – first issue (NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun and gilt frame to sides, single fillet gilt to turn-ins, marbled dated 1717 – and bearing the imprint of John and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Housed William Innys), “the first two pages of the Adver- North. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914] in the original marbled slipcases. Title pages printed in tisement to the first edition have been re-imposed, red and black with engraved hoplite vignettes, vignette Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decora- slight alterations having been made in this re-is- chapter headings printed in red and black throughout. tion to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, Publisher’s advice slip “On first looking into Pope’s sue” (Gray). “Isaac Newton began his study of light black and gilt. Tipped-in colour frontispiece, 24 colour Homer” laid in. Mild spotting and soiling to spines and and optics while an undergraduate at Cambridge, plates with printed tissue guards, with black and white sides, spine of the Odyssey slightly darkened, an excel- and continued it at his Lincolnshire home during illustrations to text. With a handwritten thank you note lent, fresh set of this attractive publication, both works the plague years 1665–6 when (he recalled) ‘I was dated 1926 laid in. Spine lightly rolled, rubbing to tips partly unopened. and spine ends, light wear to bottom tip of front cover, in the prime of my age for invention’. . . All previ- first nonesuch editions, number 610 of 1450 ous philosophers and mathematicians had been faint discolouration to front cover, foxing to edges and occasionally to margins; a very good copy. copies and 89 of 1300 copies respectively. The sure that white light is pure and simple, regarding Greek text is printed in parallel with the English colours as modifications or qualifications of the first nielsen edition. The richness of the translation of Alexander Pope, which was first white. Newton showed experimentally that the Danish artist Nielsen’s colour images for this lav- published in 1725. opposite is true. . . For over a century, it remained ish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was £1,500 [121497]

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158 follower of Michelangelo” (Martin & Mason, The 160 Art of Omar Khayyam: Illustrating FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat, OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyát. Rendered 2007). The drawings and text in this edition are OMAR KHAYYÁM. The Rubáiyát. The into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald. reproduced by Albertype process, now termed col- first and fourth renderings in English With an accompaniment of drawings by lotype, an “exacting but very rewarding process” verse by Edward FitzGerald. With Illus- Elihu Vedder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and suitable only for short runs and no longer com- trations by Willie Pogány. London: George Company, 1884 monly used. G. Harrap & Co., 1930

Square folio. Original brown cloth over bevelled boards, £1,500 [120460] Large octavo. Original bluish green morocco, gilt titles gilt lettered spine and front cover, elaborate Art Nouveau to spine, raised bands, circular gilt floral motif with col- design in gilt to front cover, top edge gilt, decorated 159 oured onlays on front cover, top edge gilt, untrimmed, pastedowns, dark slate green coated endpapers. Fron- lightly marbled endpapers. Housed in the original card tispiece, decorative title page, colophon, dedication, OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyát. Rendered box with paper label printed in black to end. Engraved divisional title, 48 plates illustrating the text, 3 pages into English verse by Edward FitzGerald. frontispiece, original signed etching, 12 tipped-in colour of notes within decorative borders (a total of 56 plates With decorations by Fish. London: John plates, black and white head- and tailpieces. Paper slip complete). Slight rubbing to extremities, small bumps with Spanish translation of verse 99 laid in. Spine a little to spine ends, tiny abrasion to rear cover, faint mark to Lane, The Bodley Head, [1922] sunned, a touch of faint foxing to edges of text block. An fore edge; an excellent, fine, bright copy. Large quarto. Original paper boards patterned in or- excellent copy. first edition, and the first illustrated ange, gilt, black, and white, black cloth backstrip, titles signed limited edition, number 660 of 750 edition of the rubáiyát. The first edition was and decorations in gilt to spine, orange illustrated end- copies signed by the artist for the UK. A further so popular that it sold out in six days, and it made papers, orange page marker, top edge orange. Title page 500 copies were printed for the US. Vedder’s name as a leading American illustra- and text printed in orange and black. Colour and gilt frontispiece and 19 plates, all with tissue guards. Con- £1,000 [121115] tor. Elihu Vedder (1836–1923) was an American temporary gift inscription in pencil to foot of half-title. Symbolist artist who trained in New York, Paris, Slight wear to extremities; a very good, bright copy. and Italy and became friends with authors such 161 first fish edition. This luxury edition of the as Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. “When OMAR KHAYYÁM. The Rubáiyát. Ed- Rubáiyát features illustrations by Anne Fish (1890– Houghton Mifflin commissioned Elihu Vedder 1964), whose style bears comparison to that of ward Fitzgerald’s translation reprinted to illustrate The Rubáiyát, they employed an artist Aubrey Beardsley. FitzGerald’s translation of the from the first edition with his preface with a rich sense of classical interpretation. Ved- Rubáiyát was first published in 1859, anonymously der spent 11 months in Rome fulfilling the com- and notes. Drawings by J. Yunge Bate- and at his own expense. mission, producing monochrome illustrations in man. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1958 Potter 118. a Greco-Roman style, which caused the London Tall quarto (312 × 190 mm). Original red morocco by journal Athenaeum to describe Vedder as the latest £500 [120431] Mansell’s, titles gilt to spine, vignette’s to covers gilt,

58 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 162 163 164 top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Together with 9 loose should light cigarettes for playwrights! I hope I pastedown. A superb copy, with the spine very gently plates, housed in a red cloth chemise, as issued. Housed didn’t. If I did, it wasn’t meant”. O’Neill had Par- rolled, light browning to spine ends and edges of text together in the red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece, vignette kinson’s disease from 1943; consequently, copies block, in the unusually bright jacket with faint browning title page and 5 full page illustrations by John Yunge thus inscribed (at such painstaking, if barely leg- to spine and edges, nicks to top edge. Bateman. Spine lightly toned, an excellent copy. first edition. The first impression consisted first bateman edition, limited issue, one of of 3,000 sets of sheets of which only 2,500 were 75 copies bound thus and issued with a second set bound. Of these 219 were destroyed in a bombing of the mildly erotic illustrations, including two not during the war. Uncommon in the jacket. printed in the work. Fenwick A4a. Franklin p. 333; Chambers & Sandford 208. £18,750 [121391] £1,650 [120139] 164 162 ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty- O’NEILL, Eugene. The Iceman Cometh. 163 Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, A Play. New York: Random House, 1946 1949 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in gilt on a ible, length) are rare. The recipient seems from Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red, top red ground, top edge red. With the dust jacket, supplied. edge red. With the green dust jacket. Housed in a custom Spine very slightly faded; an excellent copy in the jacket, the inscription to have been O’Neill’s amanuensis, making this a touching and close association. green quarter morocco slipcase. Spine very slightly fad- small chip to head of spine, a little rubbing to extremities. ed; an excellent copy in the jacket with unusually bright first edition, presentation copy, inscribed Atkinson A35–I–1.a. spine, a little minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of by the author to Shirlee Weingarten on the front £6,250 [119980] shallow chips and nicks to spine ends and tips, small free endpaper, “To Shirlee Weingarten, with affec- tape repairs to verso. tion and gratitude for all she has done since the 163 first edition. Copies of the first impression first typing job – all the kindness in the many small were issued either in green or dark red dust jack- things that only the sensitive do, as the sensitive ORWELL, George. Keep the Aspidistra ets. To judge from surviving examples, this was appreciate. I have a guilty feeling I have not been Flying. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936 done in proportions of about two green to one red, sufficiently appreciative at times, or have even Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. but there is no priority between them. been downright rude & taking it for granted you With the dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to foot of rear £5,750 [120304]

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165 166 most entire incorporation of Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax, for its synonyms. John Ray termed it “the most full OWEN, Wilfred. Poems. With an Intro- PARKINSON, John. Theatrum Bo- and comprehensive book of that subject extant”, and duction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: tanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, An frequently quoted from it (Raven, 272). Chatto & Windus, 1920 Herball of a Large Extent: Containing Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Norman 1643; Quarto. Original red cloth, printed paper label to spine, therein a more ample and exact History Pritzel 7749; STC 19302. fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Photogravure por- and declaration of the Physicall Herbs £7,500 [120010] trait frontispiece with tissue guard. Fading at the spine, and Plants that are in other Authours . . . light rubbing to ends and corners, superficial split to a small section of the cloth at front joint, internally clean London: printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640 167 and fresh, an excellent copy. Folio (347 × 217 mm). Recent brown calf, titles gilt to PICART, Bernard, & Jean Frederic Ber- first edition of perhaps the greatest collec- purple label to spine, raised bands, buff endpapers, nard. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses tion of First World War poetry. This slim volume, red sprinkled edges. Engraved additional title by Wil- de tous les Peuples du Monde, représentées promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen’s liam Marshall, numerous woodcut illustrations in the death and backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all text. Minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of small par des figures: avec une explication histo- scratches to boards, top edge dust toned, occasional Owen’s best known poems. With the ownership rique, & quelques dissertations curieuses. faint browning to margins, fore edge of text block rip- inscription dated April 1921 of the English literary pled, minor marginal damp-staining to final few pages; Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard, 1723–39 scholar Helen Darbishire, Principal of Somerville an excellent copy. 7 vols., folio (400 × 240 mm). Contemporary calf pro- College, Oxford, from 1931 until her retirement in first edition of the second work of John Parkin- fessionally refurbished, decorative gilt spines (floriate 1945. son (1566/7–1650), apothecary, herbalist, and bo- tools, interlocking drawer-handle motifs, reticulated Hayward 337; Reilly p. 244. tanicus regius primarius to Charles I. The Theatrum de- bands in numbering compartments), tawny-coloured labels, red mottled edges. 223 engraved plates by Picart scribes some 3,800 plants, divided into 17 “tribes”, £2,750 [119065] (31 double-page or folding), engraved title vignettes and based partly on their medicinal qualities and partly headpieces, woodcut decorations; title pages printed on habitat. It describes 28 new species never previ- in red and black. Early ownership inscription of “C. L. ously mentioned before, two of the more famous be- Geller” at foot of front free endpaper in each vol.; neat ing the strawberry tree and the lady’s slipper orchid. early 19th-century book label of C. H. Soltau (the Soltau Parkinson’s is the most complete and authoritative family played an important part in the early days of the English herbal of its era, superior to Johnson’s edi- Plymouth Brethren); ownership inscription of Henry tion of Gerard’s Herbal; of particular value is the al- and Jane Birkbeck (dated April 1820), the Birkbecks were 165 a Norfolk banking family; early note of purchase price

60 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 167 168 168 on front free endpaper of vol. I: “£25 – 7. vols. III 1797”. 168 he remained until 1809. The book prints his final Occasional dust-marking, some gatherings toned. An academic essay presented at the conclusion of his excellent set. (PIUS IX.) FERRETI, Giovanni Maria studies. The printed book is rare, WorldCat locat- Early editions of one of the great books of the 18th Mastai. Le macchine ottiche: esercizio fi- ing two copies only worldwide. century, a work that “marked a major turning point sico-matematica che per Saggio dei suoi Pius IX’s long-term interest in science is reflected in European attitudes toward religious belief ” studj pubblicamente propone sotto la di- by one of his first acts as pope, his revival in 1847 (Hunt, Jacob, & Mijnhardt, The Book that Changed rezione dei CC. RR. delle scuole pie nella of the Academy of Lynxes, recreated by Pius under Europe: Picart & Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the sala del Collegio di S. Michele di Volterra. the name Accademia Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei World, Harvard UP 2010, p. 1). Originally published (“Pontifical Academy of the New Lynxes”). between 1723 and 1737, the monumental work was Florence: presso Pietro Allegrini, 1809 The larger of the two volumes is inscribed on the the result of a collaboration between two Protestant Printed work and 2 manuscripts bound in 2 vols., octavo first blank with a note marking its gift by Mon- refugees driven by the Counter-Reformation from (varying sizes: 223 × 160 mm & 197 × 140 mm). Bound signor George Talbot to James Laird Patterson France to Amsterdam, where, in a fertile milieu of to match in mid 19th-century Italian green roan, smooth (1822–1902), papal chamberlain and later Auxilia- radicals and free-thinkers, they produced one of spines lettered and decorated in gilt, sides with thick gilt ry Bishop of Westminster. The second volume has the world’s greatest religious books. “The original rule outside scroll borders, enclosing the papal arms in an ownership inscription, also noting the book as seven volumes were supplemented by two others gilt at centre, marbled endpapers. 1st vol.: printed work (pp. 24; extended folding diagram) bound before 39 the gift of Monsignor Talbot, dated 22 April 1875. that are very different in character and not included manuscript leaves, apparently incomplete at end, folding Monsignor George Talbot (1816–1886) was a con- here [in the Getty Research Library’s set]” (ibid.). diagram at end. 2nd vol., title page in manuscript “Studi verted Anglican priest who served Pope Pius IX as Volume VII concludes with an extensive index. di matematica fatti da Giovanni Maria Mastai ferretti di one of his chamberlains. In 1868 he was dismissed Sinigaglia nel collego di Volterra” (dated 1808 and 1809) Despite its radical perspective, Religious Ceremonies from the Roman curia and was placed in a men- and 52 unnumbered leaves, written on both sides (two was a publishing phenomenon, the first edition tal institution near Paris. For many years the pope of 1,200 copies selling out quickly; it remained a leaves with excisions). Extremities rubbed, stain to title of 2nd vol., overall very good. kept Talbot’s apartments in the Vatican ready in bestseller for the next century. As a reference book case he should return. it was unprecedented: “no other work before then rare first edition of Le macchine ottiche, the first and only scientific publication of the future See Isis 75 (1984), pp. 425–6: review of “Pio IX e le had ever attempted, in word and image, such a macchine ottiche”. grand sweep of human religions . . . It sowed the Pope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai Fer- radical idea that religions could be compared on retti (1792–1878), who reigned as pope from 16 £4,500 [121160] equal terms, and therefore that all religions were June 1846 to his death, bound together with two of equally worthy of respect” (ibid.). his original academic manuscripts on optics and Sabin 62600. mathematics. Mastai was educated privately up to the age of 11, when he was sent to the College of St £7,500 [120466] Michael, Volterra, under the Piarist Fathers, where

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169 170 171 (POETRY.) BYRON, George Gordon (POLAR.) NANSEN, Fridtjof. In North- (POLAR.) PEARY, Robert E. The North Noel, Lord, et al. Manuscript anthology: ern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Pole. Its discovery in 1909 under the aus- “Specimens of Miscellaneous Poetry with Times. Translated by Arthur G. Chater. pices of the Peary Arctic Club. With an several Original Pieces.” London: 1822 London: William Heinemann, 1911 introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and Octavo (175 x 105 mm). Contemporary pale calf, spine 2 vols., large octavo. Original blue vertical-ribbed cloth, a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. New gilt in compartments between wide low raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, front boards with concentric blind York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910 black morocco label, sides decorated in blind saltire- panels enclosing gilt titles and semi-circular gilt design wise with a dotted roll and repeated quatrefoils within of low sun over sea and mountains with approaching Vi- Large octavo. Original dark blue vertically-ribbed cloth, outer gilt frame of repeated drawer-handle tools be- king longship. With the dust jackets. Tipped-in coloured gilt lettered spine and front cover, pictorial stamp to tween double fillets, moderate olive coated endpapers, frontispieces (with tissue guards), numerous wood- front cover in white, grey, and red, top edges gilt. Col- gilt edges. 92 leaves written on both sides in a fine small engraved illustrations and maps in the text; title pages oured frontispiece and 7 coloured plates from photo- hand. Very slight rubbing, a few trivial spots, an excellent printed in blue & black. Trivial rubbing to extremities, graphs, large folding map, 100 monochrome illustra- manuscript in a most attractive contemporary binding. lower outer corner of vol. 1 rear board slightly bumped, tions from photographs. Front inner hinge cracked but sound, slight glue residue on front pastedown (from manuscript anthology of romantic poet- mild spotting to edges, endleaves and prelims, customary strips of browning to free endpapers, small abrasions removal of bookplate), frontispiece lightly creased, but ry, executed in 1822 and giving a valuable record to rear pastedowns probably from a bookseller’s ticket, a overall a superior copy. of contemporary taste, with numerous poems by few isolated sprays of foxing to the text, these flaws mi- first trade edition, presentation copy, in- Lord Byron (“To Thirza”, “The Destruction of Sen- nor: a superb copy in the remarkably fresh dust jackets, scribed by the Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan nacherib”, “Fare thee Well!”, and “She walks in with just a hint of rubbing to the heads of the spines, on the front free endpaper: “Ak-su-nai! (May you shallow chips to corners, and vol. 1 with a short closed beauty . . .”, to name but few), as well as others be strong), Eskimo greeting, Donald MacMillan”. tear to the head of the front joint. by Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Erasmus Darwin, Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874–1970) ran sum- and Samuel Rogers. These appear alongside many first edition in english, rare in the dust jack- mer schools teaching seamanship and navigation anonymous poems, the vast majority of which ap- ets, in the superior gilt-stamped variant binding to boys, which brought him to Peary’s attention pear to have been drawn from contemporary is- (it was also issued with the front boards lettered “and for several years the two maintained a cor- sues of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine – so many so and panelled solely in black), published the same respondence. As a result, MacMillan . . . accom- that we must surmise the selection was made by a year as the Norwegian original. panied Peary on his final and successful assault subscriber. Arctic Bibliography 11993. on the North Pole. Unfortunately, on the way to £1,250 [120504] £2,000 [119191] the pole, MacMillan, who had suffered frost-bite

62 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 171 172 173 to his heels and had nearly lost his life after fall- the bookplate of Annie Cowdray (d. 1932), wife of 4 vols., quarto. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spines ing though the ice, was forced to return south on the 1st Viscount Cowdray, to the front pastedowns. and front boards, front boards with mounted colour il- 14.3.08” (Howgego, Polar, M11). Macmillan is pic- Spines lightly toned, a couple of faint marks to vol. lustrations within gilt panel, blue silk page-markers. Nu- tured opposite p. 17 and is mentioned admiringly I, foxing to edges; an excellent set. merous illustrations in colour and black and white. An excellent set. a number of times in the text. first edition, second impression, of Scott’s of- first facsimile edition, comprising a facsim- This is the work that forms the basis for Peary’s ficial narrative of his first Antarctic expedition, an ile of the first three volumes originally published claims to have been first to the pole. Copies of this “elaborate and handsome publication” (Taurus) in 1907–14, one of 350 copies thus, together with work are seldom found in such attractive condi- and a classic of the genre. The trip was the begin- the fourth volume never previously published, tion and with such a strong association. ning of the mutual antipathy between Scott and number 153 of 500 copies of the text held by the Shackleton. Among the civilian scientists was Dr Howgego, Polar, P11. Scott Polar Institute, accompanied by an extensive Edward Adrian Wilson, Scott’s close friend and £1,500 [116846] introduction by Ann Savours detailing the produc- confidant on this and his last expedition, where he tion of the South Polar Times, biographies of the ex- too was to die; a talented artist, he also contrib- plorers who contributed to it, and a short section 172 uted watercolours for the attractive frontispieces on “the tradition of polar publishing.” (POLAR.) SCOTT, Robert F. The Voyage and several of the plates, including all those in colour. The South Polar Times was originally produced to re- of the “Discovery”. London: Charles Scrib- lieve the boredom of the cold, dark winter nights Books on Ice 6.6; Rosove 286 A3; Spence 1050; Taurus 41. ner’s Sons; Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905 and raise the spirits of the men on board. As well £875 [121208] as essays on seals, whales and penguins, there 2 vols., large octavo (234 × 160 mm). Contempo- were comic poems, puzzles, stories and cartoons. rary blue half morocco for J. & E. Bumpus Ltd of Scott’s comments in his original preface suggest Oxford Street, spines lettered in gilt in compart- 173 that the journal achieved its goal: “I can see again a ments, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, (POLAR.) [SCOTT, Robert Falcon, et al.] row of heads bent over a fresh monthly number to top edge gilt, others untrimmed, blue silk page South Polar Times 1902–1911. Centenary scan the latest efforts of our artists, and I can hear markers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, title Edition; [together with:] Volume IV. Lon- the hearty laughter at the sallies of our humour- pages printed in red and black, 12 colour plates, ists and the general chaff when some sly allusion 158 half-tone photographic plates, 12 further black don: Orskey–Bonham–Niner; & Cambridge: found its way home.” and white plates, 5 double-page panoramas of Scott Polar Research Institute – Bonham, 2002 which 4 from photographs, 5 maps of which one & 2010 £1,250 [117246] double-page and 2 folding in end-pockets. With

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174 175 ing their survival to Shackleton’s exceptional leadership qualities. In recent years, this factor has led (POLAR.) SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The (POLAR.) SHACKLETON, Ernest H. to the re-interpretation of the book in terms of a Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Ex- leadership and man-management manual. of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907– pedition 1914–1917. London: William Heine- Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus 105. 1909. With an introduction by Hugh mann, 1919 £3,750 [115785] Robert Mill, D.Sc. an account of the first Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines and front cover journey to the south magnetic pole by lettered in silver, front cover with large silver block of En- 176 Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S. durance encased in ice, publisher’s device in blind on back board. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, fold- (POLAR.) WILD, Frank. Shackleton’s London: William Heinemann, 1909 ing map at the rear. Ownership inscription to front free Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest. endpaper. Spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, tips 2 vols., large octavo (241 × 175 mm). Bound for J. & E. From the Official Journal and Private Di- Bumpus in blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt titles a little worn, short tear to map stub. An excellent copy. and decoration to spine in compartments, gilt rules to first edition, with the three-line errata slip ary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin. London: covers, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With 3 maps pasted into the gutter at page 1. Shackleton em- Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923 and a panorama bound in at the rear of vol. 2, 12 coloured barked in 1914 on the Endurance to make the first Large octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and 257 black and white plates, and numerous illustra- traverse of the Antarctic continent. But 1915 was front board with titles in black and pictorial block of the tions and diagrams in the text. Spines faded, tips slightly an unusually icy year in Antarctica; after drifting Quest to the front board in black, white and gilt, all within bumped, a little foxing to edges. An excellent set. trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance concentric frames in black and frame, pictorial endpapers. first edition of Shackleton’s account of the Brit- was crushed on October 27. “Shackleton now Coloured frontispiece, 50 half-tone plates from photo- ish Antarctic Expedition of 1907–9 (Nimrod). “Their showed his supreme qualities of leadership. With graphs, sketch maps in the text. Contemporary ownership sledge journey to the south magnetic pole was one five companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in inscription to half-title. Spine gently rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, pale mottling and a few light marks to cov- of the three foremost achievements of this expedi- a 22–foot boat through some of the stormiest seas tion. The other two achievements were, first, the ers, light spotting to edges, very occasionally encroaching in the world, crossed the unknown lofty interior of on margins. A very good copy with bright plates. ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), South Georgia, and reached a Norwegian whaling first edition. Wild had been with Scott on the the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the station on the north coast. After three attempts. Discovery, was with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was a southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 Shackleton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod ex- miles of the south pole” (ODNB). the rest of the Endurance party and bringing them pedition of 1907–09 and second-in-command on £1,750 [120510] to South America” (DNB). Amazingly, all members the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917–17 . . . Wild of the Endurance party survived the ordeal, attribut-

64 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 177, 178, 179, 180 joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Ant- 178 lent, bright copy in the unusually well-preserved jacket arctic in 1921–23 but the explorer’s death sapped with a little loss to spine ends (price on spine panel in- Wild’s desire to continue” (Howgego). His ac- POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy tact), shallow chips to head of front panel, fold of flaps, count, a “handsome publication . . . [contains] Bunnies. London: Frederick Warne and Co., and foot of rear panel. the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken” 1909 first edition, in the scarce jacket. The first two printings are identical. (Taurus). Wild later emigrated to South Africa, Sextodecimo. Original red moiré cloth, titles and deco- and drifted into bankruptcy and alcoholism, dying rations to spine and front board gilt, pictorial label to Linder, p. 429; this binding not in Quinby 18. destitute in Johannesburg in 1939. front cover, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece £2,500 [119848] Howgego III S25; Taurus 112. and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Erased gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, £1,250 [121386] slight rubbing to extremities, light offsetting to pp. 8–9; 180 an excellent copy. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny 177 first edition, deluxe issue. The deluxe is- Town-Mouse. London: Frederick Warne and POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin sues, incorporating Potter’s design work, were Co., 1918 Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904 priced at 1/6 rather than 1/- for the paper-covered books. Sextodecimo. Original pale green boards, titles to front Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered boards, titles Linder p. 428; not in Quinby. cover and spine in dark green, pictorial label to front cov- to spine and front cover in dark green, pictorial label to er. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. front board, illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 £3,500 [118304] Spine gently rolled and browned, a little fading to board colour illustrations by the author. Bookseller’s stamp in edges, internally bright. An excellent copy. blind to the front free endpaper, gift inscription to half- 179 first edition, with the dropped “N” from Lon- title. Spine gently rolled, p. 15 partly loose but holding. don on the imprint. An excellent copy. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tit- Linder p. 430; Quinby 25. first edition, with “muffatees” (“muffetees” tlemouse. London: Frederick Warne and Co., in the second impression onward) and “we” in 1910 £2,000 [115969] Roman type (italics in the second impression onward) on page 15. It was issued in grey or tan paper Sextodecimo. Original buff paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front board in green, pictorial label to front boards, with no priority between them. board, pictorial endpapers. With the printed glassine Linder, p. 424; Quinby 6. jacket. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the £1,500 [120665] author. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. An excel-

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181 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) CARROLL, Lew- 181 182 is. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. German by A. W. Wheen. London: G. P. reproductions. Binder’s stamp gilt to front pastedown. With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: Putnam’s Sons, March 1929 Pale white marks to covers from a previous attempt at William Heinemann, [1907] polishing; an excellent copy. Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, titles to front board and first edition, signed limited issue, num- Quarto. Contemporary blue half crushed morocco by spine in green, green top edge. With the dust jacket. Top Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece ber 27 of 50 copies bound thus and signed by the edge rather faded, but an excellent copy in the dust jacket author, additionally with the signatures of six key and 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black with a single short tear to top of front panel (postage- and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine stamp repair to verso), small chips to the corners, and Rolls-Royce employees together with their short faded to green, small flecked marks, a little light offset- other very light rubbing to the extremities. biographies. This work places the Wraith model in ting and a few spots to plates. its design context, detailing the period of change first edition in english of one of the essential deluxe limited edition, number 96 of 1,130 after Sir Henry Royce’s death in 1933 and the com- novels of the Great War, very scarce in such smart numbered copies, of which 1,100 were for sale, pany’s efforts to modernise the chassis design. condition. It was originally published in Germany with the last 30 reserved for presentation. Pub- in January 1929. £1,875 [120127] lished when the book came out of copyright in 1907, this deluxe edition was issued unsigned, as £2,750 [120854] 184 Rackham was out of the country at the time. For the first time, Rackham’s plates were distributed 183 (ROLLS-ROYCE.) FASAL, John M. The at the appropriate places throughout the text, (ROLLS-ROYCE.) CLARKE, Tom C. The Rolls-Royce Twenty. Oxfordshire: John M. rather than gathered together at the end as they Fasal, 1979 had been in Rip Van Winkle (1905) and Peter Pan in Rolls-Royce “Wraith”. Oxfordshire: John M. Kensington Gardens (1906). Fasal, 1986 Large octavo (244 × 180 mm). Bound for the publishers in red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles and Rolls- £2,250 [116112] Large octavo (243 × 178 mm). Original green morocco Royce logo to spine gilt in compartments, gilt raised by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles to spine gilt in compart- bands, Royce family crest and motto to front cover gilt, 182 ments, gilt raised bands, frames to covers gilt, marbled gilt frames to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, red endpapers, gilt edges, green silk and card page marker. silk and card page marker. With the trade issue endpa- REMARQUE, Erich Maria. All Quiet on With the trade issue endpapers and dust jacket bound in. pers and dust jacket bound in at rear. Housed in the red Housed in the green cloth slipcase. Frontispiece with tis- cloth slipcase. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, 13 the Western Front. Translated from the sue guard and numerous black and white photographic

66 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 183 184 185 colour photographic reproductions and numerous black 186 first edition, trade issue. Although the manu- and white photographic reproductions in the text. Bind- script was composed in Saint-Exupéry’s native er’s stamp gilt to front pastedown. Spine very lightly fad- ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the French language, it was written and first published ed, pale white marks to covers from a previous attempt at Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000 in New York, in both English and French versions polishing; an excellent copy. Octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and in April 1943. first edition, signed limited issue, num- front board in blue and black. With the dust jacket. £2,250 [117766] ber 19 of 50 copies bound thus and signed by the Spine gently rolled, tiny bumps to spine ends; an excel- author, additionally with the signatures of 12 key lent copy in the jacket with minor creases to extremities. Rolls-Royce employees together with their short first edition, first impression, signed by biographies. This is the definitive work on the 20 the author on the dedication page, with the hp model Rolls-Royce, which formed the basis of Golden Ticket from the signing session at The all models up to 1959, providing extensive detail Bookshop Dulwich Village laid in. about the company, its methods, and employees. Errington A9(a). £1,875 [120126] £2,000 [121424] 185 187 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Lit- Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, tle Prince. Translated from the French 1998 by Katherine Woods. New York: Reynal & Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the pictorial dust Hitchcock, 1943 jacket. An excellent copy with just a little creasing to head of front panel of jacket. Quarto. Original pale brown cloth, titles and device to first edition, first impression, inscribed spine and front cover in dark red. With the pictorial dust jacket. Colour and monochrome illustrations in the text by the author on the dedication page, “To Rob- after originals by the author. A sharp clean copy in the ert, have a good holiday & happy reading with best jacket, lightly rubbed at the spine panel, minor paper wishes, J. K. Rowling”. loss to top of the folds and a couple of minor nicks to Errington A2(a). the top of the spine and one to the bottom front panel. A very good copy. £5,750 [120383] 187

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188 to top edge, in the slipcase with minor wear to extremi- 191 ties, slight crack to joints at top and bottom edges. SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of first illustrated edition, signed limited London: William Heinemann, 1919 issue, number 130 of 320 copies signed by both Islam; a poem, in twelve cantos. London: Small octavo. Original red cloth, paper title labels to the author and the artist, the slipcase numbered for C. and J. Ollier; by B. McMillan, 1818 both spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Con- on the top edge in pencil. The illustrated edition Octavo (225 × 137 mm). Uncut in original boards, title temporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, was published in three formats – signed, hand- label to spine (priced 10s 6d). Housed in a blue cloth half-title, and final page. Spine a touch sunned through coloured, and a regular trade issue – the year after folding case. No half-title called for; with fly-title quot- the jacket, some mild scattered foxing, but a very good the first edition was published. ing Chapman, and errata leaf. Bookplates of two nota- copy in a rubbed and dust-soiled jacket with small loss to Keynes A33e. ble bibliophiles, Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919 – the the head, small chips to the corners and a chipped tear to pre-Raphaelite painter), and Willis Vickery (1857–1932, an the top of front panel. £2,750 [121415] American judge). Very discreet repair to joints, extremi- first edition, in the scarce jacket. This collec- ties rubbed, some light marks and spots, hinges superfi- tion presents Sassoon’s “savagely realistic and 190 cially cracked but holding fine, title page a little toned oth- compassionate war poems” (Rupert Hart-Davis in ODNB), gathering 64 pieces, of which 12 appear SHAKESPEARE, William. Venus and in print for the first time here, the others having Adonis; Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; been published in two previous collections: The Sonnets; Pericles. Oxford: at the Clarendon Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Press, 1905 Keynes A20; Reilly p. 286. 5 works bound in 1, quarto (255 × 200 mm). Contempo- £1,500 [120860] rary reversed calf, titles gilt to red label to spine, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, leather ties. A fine copy. 189 first editions thus. This compendium volume of SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of an In- Shakespeare’s poems, together with Pericles, formed a supplement to the facsimile of the First Folio issued fantry Officer. With illustrations by Barnett by Oxford University Press in 1902. Venus and Adonis Freedman. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1931 is a signed limited issue, number 594 of 1,000 copies Octavo. Original illustrated parchment, pictorial endpa- signed by Sidney Lee. The facsimiles are taken from pers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the pictorial copies held at the Bodleian Library and the Christie dust jacket. In the original slipcase. Colour frontispiece, Miller Library at Britwell, and the works each have an 14 plates and numerous line drawings in the text by Freed- introduction and bibliography by Lee. man. An excellent copy in the jacket with minor creasing £1,000 [120241] 191

68 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 192 erwise remarkably fresh within, front free endpaper with were issued with the title misdated 1817; this is the Rifle Brigade Price Consort’s Own; “Infantry of the tiny section of loss to top fore-corner and small closed second issue as usual, with the correct date. Line”; Seaforth Highlanders (lower cover). tear repaired at outer margin. An excellent copy. Ashley V, pp. 67–8; Granniss, 44; Tinker, 1895; Wise, p. 50. AMOT Index to British Military Costume Prints 1500–1914, 845. first edition thus, in lovely condition uncut in the boards. The Revolt of Islam is the expurgated re- £2,250 [119676] £1,250 [120891] issue of Laon and Cythna (1817) with a new title and 26 cancelled leaves. In 1817 the Olliers agreed to 192 publish Shelley’s long poem. Shelley’s new father- SIMKIN, Richard. Our Soldiers. London: in-law, William Godwin, recommended a master Frederick Warne & Co., lithographed in Holland printer for the job, Buchanan Millan, who made minor alterations to the text without consulting by Enrik & Binger, 1891 the poet. Shelley wrote to the Olliers complain- Concertina-fold board book, 10 linen-hinged heavy card ing about these liberties, whereupon the Olliers panels (187 × 132 mm; opens 1075 mm). Chromolitho- read the work for the first time and realised what graphic front and rear “cover” and 10 similar plates, de- they had agreed to publish. In the original version scriptive text verso. A little rubbed on the “covers”, small the titular lovers were brother and sister. London patch of adhesion damage to the first “plate”, text somewhat browned, but remains very good. was alive with gossip about Shelley living with both Mary Godwin and her half-sister Claire Clair- first and only edition. Uncommon, just two mont, and in contemporary usage, such a ménage locations on Copac – Oxford and Cambridge – no was termed incest (St. Clair, The Godwins and the further copies added by OCLC. Attractive juvenile Shelleys, p. 432.) Shelley was forced to make altera- by the highly popular military artist. The regi- tions, removing any hint of incest, and gave it the ments illustrated are: 2nd Life Guards (front cov- new title The Revolt of Islam. The book is made up er); 15th King’s Hussars; 6th Dragoon Guards; 5th from original sheets of Laon and Cythna, with 26 Royal Irish Lancers; 3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon cancelled leaves and a new title leaf. A few copies Guards; Royal Horse Artillery; Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery (Field Battery); Coldstream Guards; 192

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193 Essay. Cambridge: printed by J. Bentham; sold SLOCUM, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around by W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, C. Bathurst the World. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty amd R. Dodsley in London, and J. Hildyard at 194 and George Varian. New York: The Century York [& other booksellers in later titles], 1750–6 the praises of his Maker, won the first five years Co., 1900 5 works in one vol., quarto (270 × 212 mm). Contempo- running; the poems were printed sequentially at rary half calf, skilfully rebacked, spine in compartments Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to with raised bands and gilt title direct, marbled sides, the expense of Seaton’s bequest. spine and front board in silver and green, top edge gilt, blue morocco label to front board with blazing hearth “In the 18th century Smart was admired . . . above others uncut. Half-tone frontispiece and 64 illustrations. emblem in gilt. Final advert leaves where called for. Early all for his mastery of the religious sublime in the A little wear to spine ends and tips, a couple of marks to library label to top fore-corner of the pastedown; mod- rear cover, front hinge partly cracked at foot but holding, Seatonian poems . . . The rhetoric of 18th-century ern discreet collector’s book label. Ends chipped, front text block tight. A very good copy. didactic poems on theological and philosophi- joint starting at both ends, corners worn and the covers cal subjects now appears somewhat jaded, but first edition, inscribed by the author in otherwise generally a little rubbed, some spotting within Smart’s boldness of thought and expression raises the year of publication on the front free endpaper: but never severe, still a very good copy. his contributions to the genre above the usual “The Spray, New Bedford. July 30th, 1900. Joshua rare complete set of Smart’s Seatonian Prize- standard” (ODNB). Slocum”. This superb narrative of the first single- winning poems on the Supreme Being, all first handed circumnavigation of the globe aboard the editions except for Omniscience which is a second The poems were composed in Miltonic blank verse Spray “has been compared favourably to Thoreau’s (1756). The poems are attractively presented in a and proved popular. Each instalment was printed Walden. Slocum perceived his world in a poetic contemporary half binding with the leather library in at least two and some in three editions, and it manner and described his vision of reality with label on the front board of Montacute House, is unusual to find so many first editions together grace” (Toy). Somerset, the home of the Phelips family, and the in contemporary state, rather than latterly assem- Morris & Howland, p. 126 *; Toy 462. contemporary ownership inscription to the front bled. This copy appeared at auction in 1932 and free endpaper of Edward Phelips (1725–1797). again in 1998; no better copy has been seen before £5,500 [117354] or since. These poems were printed as the result of an an- £2,500 [120509] 194 nual award endowed by the clergyman Thomas Seaton to be awarded to the best poem on “one SMART, Christopher. On the Eternity or other of the Perfections of Attributes of the Su- [Immensity; Power; Omniscience; Good- preme Being”. Smart (1722–1771), then a student at ness] of the Supreme Being. A Poetical Cambridge and ever ready to find new ways to sing

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195 Smith wrote to Strahan ahead of the publication of this edition to ask him to “call me simply Adam SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Smith without any addition either before or be- Sentiments. To which is added A Disser- hind” (letter 100, Mossner & Ross, p. 122). While tation on the Origin of Languages. The his academic title was removed, he was still cred- Third Edition. London: printed for A. Millar, ited as “LL.D.”, and this remained on the title page of the subsequent editions, thus cementing his A. Kincaid and J. Bell; and sold by T. Cadell, 196 reputation as “Dr Smith”. The “Dissertation” had 1767 been previously published in The Philological Mis- and some faint spotting to vol. 3 in particular, otherwise Octavo (204 × 125 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red cellany (1761) as “Considerations Concerning the a very good copy. morocco label with triple rule border in gilt, compart- First Formation of Languages”. ments double ruled in gilt, raised bands, boards double Goldsmiths’ 10384; Higgs 3967; Kress 6496; Jessop, p. first octavo edition, the third overall, of ruled in gilt. With the final blank leaf, bound without 170; Tribe 4. See Mossner & Ross, The Correspondence of Adam the “first and greatest classic of modern economic the front free endpaper. Occasional pencil annotations Smith (1987). thought” (PMM). This edition contains several ad- in the text. Extremities a little worn, corners bumped, ditions including a new chapter titled “The Con- joints split but firm, a few marks to boards, endpapers £3,750 [120418] clusion of the Mercantile System”. Adam Smith’s and title page browned from turn-ins, bound without the masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the founda- front free endpaper. Contents browned and foxed with a 196 small nick to leaf D1, otherwise a very good copy. tion of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and third edition of smith’s first book, the SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Na- the principles behind, modern capitalism. “The first edition to include the “dissertation ture and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth on the origin of languages”, one of 750 cop- The third edition, with additions, in when published and is still one of the few works in ies, and the work that established his reputation three volumes. London: for W. Strahan; and its field to have achieved classic status, meaning as a philosopher both in London and on the con- simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated tinent. It contains “some minor revisions, espe- T. Cadell, 1784 reading, critical and adulatory, long after the cir- cially to passages involving comment on religion” 3 vols., octavo (215 × 130 mm). Recent full brown calf, cumstances which prompted it have become the (Tribe), which Smith made upon his return from red morocco labels to spine, raised bands, compart- object of historical enquiry” (ODNB). France in 1766. After being described as “Professor ments ruled in gilt with vol. numbers lettered in gilt, of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow” boards double-ruled in blind with small floriate corner Goldsmiths’ 12554; Kress B.789; Tribe 27; Vanderblue, pieces. Occasional pencil annotations to the text. A few p. [3]. on the title pages of the first and second editions, marks to edges of text block, contents lightly browned £5,500 [120377]

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197 ing up in rural Switzerland. But huge success came 198 with the publication of Heidi, written in just four SPYRI, Johanna. Heidi’s Lehr- und Wan- weeks, which became the most important Swiss STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Af- der-Jahre. Eine Geschichte für Kinder contribution to children’s literature after theSwiss rica or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat und auch für Solche, welche die Kinder Family Robinson of J. R. Wyss. As usual with Christ- of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London: lieb haben. Von der Verfasserin von “Ein mas books, the first book was published in Decem- London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Blatt auf Vrony’s Grab”; [together with:] ber 1879 but dated the following year. It was pub- Rivington Limited, 1890 lished without the author’s name on the title page. Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat. Perhaps because of the fragile paper used, the first 2 vols., octavo. Original dark red pictorial cloth, decora- Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1880–81 editions of the two parts of Heidi are scarce. tion in grey, black and gilt, map endpapers in white and green. Frontispiece and coloured folding map to each, 2 vols., octavo. Original red cloth decorated in black It quickly became an international best-seller folding map and coloured profile sketch to Vol. II, 36 and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, white glossy endpa- and has been translated into 50 languages (the other plates in all, numerous illustrations to text. pers, vol. II with decorative endpapers, marbled edges. first edition in English was published in 1885 by first edition, presentation copy, inscribed Housed in a custom red quarter morocco slipcase and Charles Tritten, who later published the continu- red cloth chemise. Vol I: spine faded, recased, possibly by the author “To Mr W. Symons, with the special with new endpapers, a couple of spots to contents; vol. ations Heidi Grows Up and Heidi’s Children), it sold compliments of the author Henry M. Stanley, Jun II: contemporary ownership inscription in ink on title- 50 million copies, and inspired a whole series of 28th 1890, London” on the front free endpaper. page. A little colour restoration to head of spine, hinges films. This is Stanley’s famous account of his 1886–9 partly cracked but holding. An excellent set. Doderer III, 447; Hürlimann 310; Seebass II, 1930 expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, the governor of first editions of both parts in the origi- (“rare”, vol. 2 only); Wegehaupt III, 3633 (vol. 2 only); Equatoria who was supposedly besieged by Mah- nal german. Throughout the 1870s Johanna Weilenmann 3216 & 3233. dist forces. Stanley’s dealings with Pasha (who Spyri (1827–1901) published stories for adults and £6,500 [120814] proved resistant to being “rescued”), his abandon- children based around her reminiscences of grow- ment of his own rear column and his wider mo-

72 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 199 200 201 tives for his mission have all come under suspicion known primarily as a children’s book illustrator 201 then and since, but the book remains a classic of (joint winner with his wife, Berta Hoerner Hader, African exploration. It contains some of his most of the Caldecott Medal in 1948 for The Big Snow): STEINBECK, John. Travels with Charley: celebrated writing, especially his account of the apparently Steinbeck was so taken with their book In Search of America. New York: The Viking tortuous 450–mile passage through the dense Itu- Billy Butter (1936) that he requested that Elmer Ha- Press, 1962 ri rain forest. In the course of the journey Stanley der design the cover for The Grapes of Wrath; the il- Octavo. Original cream speckled cloth, spine lettered in met Roger Casement, then in service on the Con- lustrator going on to work on two other Steinbeck red and black, vignette to the front board in red, top edge go, discovered the great snow-capped range of Ru- books, East of Eden (1952 and The Winter of Our Dis- orange, others untrimmed, map endpapers. With the wenzori, the Mountains of the Moon, a new lake content (1961). dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter morocco and which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza and Goldstone & Payne A12. marbled paper-covered solander box. An excellent copy, a large south-western extension of Lake Victoria. clean and fresh, in the jacket with a couple of small splits £6,750 [116733] Translations of In Darkest Africa appeared quickly and a small mark to front flap. in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch first edition, presentation copy, inscribed while sales of the English trade editions reached 200 by the author on the half-title, “Dear Norman: 150,000 copies. STEINBECK, John. Sweet Thursday. New with many thanks, Sincerely John Steinbeck, May Howgego IV S60. York: The Viking Press, 1954 ’63”. The recipient could perhaps be Norman Carl- son, to whom Steinbeck presented an inscribed £5,000 [119336] Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles and bird decorations edition of The Grapes of Wrath in 1941. This work is to spine and front cover in red and blue, top edge red. based on Steinbeck’s road trip around the States in 199 With the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine ends, small 1960 accompanied by his poodle, Charley. mark to front free endpaper; an excellent, bright copy in STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. the price-clipped jacket with slight creasing and nicks to £6,000 [117484] New York: The Viking Press, 1939 extremities, short closed tear to foot of rear panel. Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and pictorial first edition, hardback issue. It was pub- design to boards dark brown, yellow and brown decorated lished simultaneously in wrappers. endpapers. With the dust jacket. Dust jacket front and rear Goldstone & Payne A33b. flaps clipped with very light edge toning. A fine copy. £575 [120036] first edition of Steinbeck’s masterpiece and one of the great American novels of the 20th century. The fine jacket design is by Elmer Hader, 201

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202 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Van- ity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. With Il- lustrations on Steel and Wood by the Au- thor. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 203 Octavo (206 × 128 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun- Riviere, gilt titles and decoration to spine in compart- only of much amusement but also of important . . . the biting, rollicking satire of the early works” ments, frame gilt to covers, wide turn-ins, marbled end- clues to the meaning of the story” (Ray). through to the “shrewder, more subtle, and more papers, gilt edges, with the engraved advertisement for Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, philosophical” later works (ODNB). The Great Hoggarty Diamond bound in before the fron- 121; Wolff 6699. £3,000 [120108] tispiece as issued. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette title page, 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes £1,250 [120419] and similar initials after Thackeray. Minor rubbing to 204 extremities; an excellent copy. 203 TRUMAN, Harry S. Memoirs. Garden City, first edition in book form, with the three THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955–6 points traditionally taken to denote first issue (drop- head title in rustic lettering to page 1, the “Marquis Works. Kensington edition. New York: 2 vols., octavo. Original blue buckram, black label to of Steyne” vignette on page 336, later suppressed, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903 spines with gilt titles, gilt facsimile signature to front boards, grey endpapers, top edges gilt. With the original and “Mr. Pitt” for “Sir Pitt” on page 453, line 31), 32 vols., octavo (220 × 142 mm). Finely bound by Mac- acetate wrapper to vol. 2. Both vols. housed in the pub- although, as the novel was originally published in donalds in contemporary green half sheep for Charles lisher’s card slipcase. Very slight rubbing to ends and tips, Scribner’s Sons, green cloth sides, titles and decoration 20 parts between January 1847 and July 1848, such small tears to inner margin of vol. 1 half-title, an excellent to spines gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed green points conceivably would have been amended be- set with loss to the acetate wrapper in vol. 2, and the slip- coated endpapers. Engraved frontispieces with cap- fore serialization was completed. “Modern editions cases generally somewhat rubbed but both firmly intact. of this classic novel almost invariably omit Thack- tioned tissue guards, numerous plates and illustrations to text. Spines uniformly a little faded, minor rubbing to first edition, scarce deluxe issue re- eray’s vignettes and often give only a selection from tips; an excellent set. served for the president, presentation his etchings. The reader is deprived thereby not limited edition, number 15 of 250 sets printed set with both copies twice inscribed (once on Enfield paper. This collection demonstrates to half-titles, and again to slipcases) to his former Thackeray’s “skill in speech, his vivid characters Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder: volume

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1 half-title, “To my friend and long-time comrade (stamped in gilt on the front turn-ins), richly gilt spines raphy. Queen Victoria selected the documents John W. Snyder, the greatest Secretary of the Treas- with five raised bands, covers with concentric gilt panels for use and intervened widely in the manuscript. ury the country ever had, with affectionate regards enclosing an interlocking Greek key panel, cruciform Martin “became one of the queen’s confidential, from Harry Truman, Independence Dec. 17, 1955”, and floriate motifs at corners, gilt edges, gilt Greek key if unofficial, servants” (ODNB). These volumes are and twin dotted-rule roll tool border to turn-ins, mar- and slipcase, “To John W. Snyder From HST”, vol- bled endpapers. Frontispieces, 8 other plates with tissue mixed editions, as often: vols. I and IV are fourth ume 2 half-title, “To Honorable John W. Snyder guards; one a folding facsimile of a draft memorandum editions; vols. II and V are third editions and vol. from his good friend Harry Truman, 5/5/56”, and by Prince Albert to Lord Lyons in 1861. Spines very slight- III is a fifth edition; the work was first published slipcase, “Honorable John W. Snyder”. Snyder was ly faded, occasional spot of faint foxing to contents; an annually between 1875 and 1880. appointed US Secretary of the Treasury in 1946 by excellent set, handsomely bound. Raymond Lamont Brown, John Brown: Queen Victoria’s his close personal friend Truman, with whom he a remarkable presentation set, inscribed Highland Servant, p. 103. had served in the First World War. He developed by queen victoria in each volume to her £3,750 [118663] programmes to promote greater efficiency within equerry sir john carstairs mcneill. The the Treasury Department, including a streamlin- inscriptions are variously dated according to the ing of the Internal Revenue Service, which assured publication dates of the individual volumes. Mc- a more impartial administration of tax laws, and Neill (1831–1904) had a long and distinguished a reform of the federal accounting system. Snyder military career, winning the Victoria Cross for an resigned at the end of Truman’s second term. He is act of gallantry in New Zealand, 30 March 1864. He mentioned on 32 pages of Truman’s Memoirs, and was appointed as the deputy lieutenant for Argyll has annotated these copies in several places. in 1874, and had a “long association with the royal £8,500 [120915] household, where his love of sport made him a fa- vourite” (ODNB). 205 This extensive biography of Prince Albert (1819– 1861) was begun in 1866 and was originally in- (VICTORIA, Queen.) MARTIN, Theo- tended to be a continuation of the unpublished dore. The Life of His Royal Highness the work The Early Years of the Prince Consort by Queen Prince Consort. London: Smith, Elder, & Victoria’s private secretary Charles Grey. The Co., 1875–80 queen interviewed Martin on 14 November 1866 and, finding him “very pleasing, clever, quiet, 5 vols., octavo (212 × 134 mm). Contemporary reddish- and sympathique”, engaged him to write the biog- brown morocco by John MacLaren & Son of Edinburgh 205

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 75 which 2 folding, one these a panoramic view of Selborne as frontispiece. Complete with the terminal errata leaf. With the usual misprints: p. 292 misnumbered 262, sig. 3P2 missigned 2P2, and pp. 441–2 omitted from pagina- tion sequence but text continuous. Light craquelure to spine, a few minor indentations and marks to boards, in- 206 cluding a slightly larger though still superficial score to the front, short (15 mm) closed tear to frontispiece stub 206 edition, which was also issued in a blue morocco just touching the image, sometime repaired with tape binding, with no priority between the two colours. and adhesive verso, resulting small portion of adhesive- WELLS, H. G. The Works. Atlantic Edi- marking to the title gutter, plates and vignettes variably tion. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924–7 £17,500 [120380] offset, a few other trivial spots or marks, but a very good copy indeed, notably crisp and fresh. 28 vols., octavo (225 × 152 mm). Original red half mo- 207 rocco by Stikeman & Co., gilt titles and decoration to first edition of one the great English books of spines, gilt raised bands, red cloth sides, marbled end- [WHITE, Gilbert.] The Natural History the 18th century, “the first book which raised natu- papers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispieces and Antiquities of Selborne, in the Coun- ral history into the region of literature” (Ency. Brit.), with tissue guards, title pages printed in red and black. here well-preserved in an attractive contemporary Minor rubbing to extremities, spines uniformly a little ty of Southampton: with Engravings, and binding. White’s Selborne “is open to everyone, for toned; an excellent set. an Appendix. London: by T. Bensley; for B. everyone has observed much of what it describes. signed limited edition, deluxe issue, num- White and Son, 1789 Writer and reader each share the inheritance of ber 689 of 1,050 sets signed by the author on the the natural world, and delight in what is given, so Quarto (250 × 190 mm). Contemporary tree calf, re- limitation leaf of Volume I and released for dis- that Selborne becomes an expression of universal backed with the original smooth spine laid down, tribution in America, of which 50 were reserved decorated in gilt with rope-twist and Greek-key rolls en- thanksgiving, treasured by all” (ODNB). This copy for presentation. A further 620 sets were released closing central floral devices, red morocco label, rolled also has the contemporary ownership inscription by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, in Great Britain and Ire- ellipse-and-flower border gilt to boards, edges sprinkled of one G. Smithson to the initial blank, and exten- land, 20 of which were reserved for presentation. blue, marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette title to each sive well-informed annotations in the same hand Wells contributed new prefaces especially for this section (Natural History & Antiquities), 7 engraved plates of to pages 136 and 147, respectively discussing the

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attempt at collecting his poetical and prose works 209 207 (after the 1876 Centennial Edition with Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets), was “handled” and put together WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and migration of passenger pigeons and the behaviour by Whitman himself in 1888–9, and is made up of Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane of swallows on the Italian islands of Lipari and three works: Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days & Collect, and Jacomb Hood. London: David Nutt, Stromboli, together with a list of page references and November Boughs (copyright 1881, 1882 and 1888 1888 to the rear free endpaper: an appealing illustration respectively). It is also illustrated with portraits indi- of the burgeoning amateur interest in natural his- vidually selected by Whitman. A single “Note at End” Small quarto. Original cream-coloured paper-covered boards, titles to spine black, title and publisher’s device tory which White’s book did much to encourage. leaf provides Whitman’s printed envoi to the reader, to front cover red with vignette black. Frontispiece with Freeman, British Natural History Books, 3976; Grolier, dated Nov 13 1888, and ending, “I have put my name tissue guard and 2 plates by Walter Crane, 12 head- and English, 62. with pen-and-ink with my own hand in the present tailpieces by Jacomb Hood. Occasional marks on boards, £2,250 [120253] volume. And from engraved or photo’d portraits tak- slight foxing and discolouration to text block, light soil- en from life, I have selected some, of different stages, ing on edges. A very good copy. which please me best, (or at any rate displease me 208 first edition of Wilde’s only collection of chil- least,) and bequeath them at a venture to you, reader, dren’s stories, including “The Selfish Giant”, “The WHITMAN, Walt. The Complete Poems with my love”. For Whitman, this edition, put togeth- Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Devoted Friend”, and Prose 1855–1888. Philadelphia: Ferguson er as his conclusive testament four years before his and “The Remarkable Rocket”. Wilde’s “reputa- Bros & Co., Printers, [1888] death, was a thoroughly personal project, with the tion as an author dated from the publication of the signature and illustrations providing “all the guaran- Happy Prince and Other Tales in London in May 1888. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top tees of my personality” (Horace Traubel’s diary 8 Jan The Athenaeum compared him to Hans Christian edge gilt. Portrait title page and 4 plates with tissue guards. 1889) going “straight from my hands into the hands Andersen, and Pater wrote to say that ‘The Selfish Spine slightly darkened, a little rubbing to covers, front of the reader; from my heart to your heart” (ibid. 20 hinge partly cracked but holding, text block unaffected, a Giant’ was ‘perfect in its kind,’ and the whole book Jan 1889). The “C” binding on this copy, as Myerson little foxing to endpapers and edges. An excellent copy. written in ‘pure English’ – a wonderful compli- notes, is the one found on the English issue copies ment” (Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, p. 282). first edition thus, signed limited edition, which were sent to England in unbound sheets in Mason 313 (“1,000 copies were printed”). number 245 of 600 copies only, signed by the author late 1889, and then bound on order. on the half-title (the limitation added in manuscript £3,500 [121418] Myerson A2.7.m, note five. by Horace Traubel to the verso of the “Note at Be- ginning” leaf ). This edition, Whitman’s second £4,500 [121139]

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210 series”, and has Woolf ’s signature both in her 420 of 500 copies signed by Woolf, in her usual customary purple ink to the half-title and in black purple ink. This copy is bound in the scarcer vari- WILDE, Oscar. The Poems. Illustrated by ink to the front free endpaper. This edition was ant binding of green morocco and green boards, Jean de Bosschère. New York: Boni & Liv- published on 21 October 1929 in the US and in the as noted by David Magee in Kirkpatrick: “the ma- eright, 1927 UK on 24 October 1929, simultaneously with the jority of the edition was bound in blue . . . It has Octavo (235 × 154 mm). Contemporary purple crushed first trade edition. A Room of One’s Own is Woolf ’s been my experience that . . . the ratio is 10–1 in half morocco by Whitman Bennett (New York), spine feminist literary manifesto, in which she assesses favour of blue”. The essay was not published sepa- lettered and decorated in gilt with gilt raised bands, gilt the history of women as writers and the challenges rately in the UK. floral patterned sides, boards ruled in gilt, gilt floral pat- they have faced, notes the effects of patriarchal lit- Kirkpatrick A13. terned endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 8 erary culture on female characters, and makes the £2,250 [120531] colour plates and 8 black and white plates. Ownership case that women must carve out both physical and inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Extremities psychological space for themselves in order to be- slightly worn; otherwise an excellent copy. come part of the literary establishment. The work 213 first bosschère edition, in a very attractive is based on two papers read to the Arts Society at WORSLEY, Sir Richard. The History of binding. Newnham and the Odtaa literary society at Girton the Isle of Wight. London: A. Hamilton, 1781 £1,000 [120344] in October 1928. Kirkpatrick A12a; Woolmer 215A. Quarto (294 × 232 mm). Contemporary straight-grain red morocco, smooth spine richly gilt in compartments 211 £5,000 [120481] with floral sprays, twin green morocco labels, single-fil- WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. let frame gilt to sides, gilt edges, turn-ins hatched in gilt, 212 marbled endpapers. Engraved title vignette, 7 similar New York & London: The Fountain Press; The tailpieces, folding map by John Hayward coloured in out- Hogarth Press, 1929 WOOLF, Virginia. Street Haunting. San line, 10 double-page engraved views by Thomas Vivaries Francisco: The Westgate Press (printed at The after Antony Devis, or by Richard Godfrey, one folding Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spine, edges view by Godfrey after J. Brotherton, double-page plan untrimmed. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to ex- Grabhorn Press), 1930 of Carisbrooke Castle, further plan of Sandown Fort, 18 tremities, a couple of faint marks to covers; an excellent, Octavo. Original green quarter morocco, title to spine plates including views and seals, folding genealogical ta- largely unopened copy. gilt, green paper-covered sides patterned in blue and ble. With the terminal errata leaf. Handwritten collation signed limited edition, unusually double gold. Housed in the green card slipcase, as issued. Spine and newspaper clipping laid in. Joints and extremities signed. One of 492 copies signed by the author, faded to brown; an excellent copy. slightly rubbed, sides lightly marked, old tape-repair and this copy is unnumbered and marked as “out of commensurate staining to folding map stub, occasion- first and signed limited edition, number ally light spotting or browning, stronger in sig. Cc and

78 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 213 213 the view between pp. 258–9, plates variably offset, sig. 214 Robinson in 1812), together with the first edition in X2 a little soiled in lower margin, otherwise a few other English of the second part, Wyss’s continuation minor spots or marks. A very good copy in a splendid WYSS, Johann David. [Swiss Family Rob- which was first published in German in 1813. The contemporary binding. inson.] The Family Robinson Crusoe: or, Swiss Family Robinson was first published in English first edition. Worsley’s political career as Journal of a father shipwrecked, with his in 1814 by Godwin in two volumes. Later that year Member of Parliament for two Isle of Wight con- wife and children, on an uninhabited is- it was reissued from standing type as a single- stituencies was troubled, but “antiquarian studies land. Translated from the German of M. volume work, with a cancel title page, changes of were always an important refuge. His father and page numbers and signatures to make them con- grandfather had begun work on The History of the Wiss. London: printed for M. J. Godwin and tinuous, and other minor rearrangements of set- Isle of Wight and Worsley brought it to comple- Co, and Hailes, Piccadilly, 1814–6 ting. The continuation was translated into English tion, albeit with unacknowledged contributions 2 works, duodecimo (168 × 102 mm). Uniformly bound in in 1816 and published as the second volume of a from the Newport attorney Richard Clarke. It was contemporary tree calf, 7 horizontal gilt rules to spines, two-volume edition, with the first volume consist- published in 1781 after four years’ labour and was vol. 2 with gilt vol. number on spine. Housed in a cus- ing of a reissue of the unsold sheets of the 1814 well received, Worsley having been elected both tom blue morocco folding case. Engraved frontispieces, one-volume edition. FSA and FRS in 1778 on its strength. He found including folding map in vol. II, 5 engraved plates by £3,750 [120797] it satisfying work, gathering materials patiently Springsguth or J. Dadley after H. Courbold, printed note and searching the sources with some expertise. promising the continuation at end of vol. I. This set has the ownership inscription of “Johanna van den Broeck” Modern opinion considers it ‘well researched, or- on first blank of vol. 1 and front free endpaper of vol. II. ganized, and written, and handsomely produced’ From the library, though not marked as such of Ameri- (Hicks, 166)” (ODNB). can entrepreneur Pierre S. duPont III (sale of his library, From the library of Major J. R. Abbey (1894–1969), Christie’s New York, 8 October 1991). Pencil marks to who built the standard collection of travel books rear endpapers of vol. I. Tape repair to first blank and illustrated in aquatint and lithography, with his first plate of vol. I, rear blank of vol. II, with small restoration to text on margin of C7 in vol. 2. Short closed tear bookplate to the front free endpaper, and a note to margin of pp. xv–xvi in vol. I. Minor rubbing to ex- to the rear free endpaper recording his purchase tremities, small split to foot of front hinge of vol. I, slight at the posthumous 1942 sale of Sir Charles Chad- browning and offsetting to text; a very good set. wyck-Healey, 1st Baronet (1845–1919), with the lat- first edition, second issue, of the first part in ter’s bookplate to the front pastedown. English of Swiss Family Robinson (originally pub- £1,250 [120254] lished in German under the title Der Schweizerische 214

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215 216 217 YEATS, W. B. Poems. London: T. Fisher Un- YEATS, W. B. The Winding Stair and The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarter- win, 1895 other poems. London: Macmillan and Co., ly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [then:] Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles and elaborate designs Limited, 1933 John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894–7 by H. Granville Fell gilt to spine and boards, edges un- Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and geometric pat- 13 vols., octavo. Original yellow cloth, spines and covers trimmed. Illustrated title page with tissue guard. Contem- tern to spine gilt, pictorial design by T. Sturge Moore to lettered and illustrated in black, top edges untrimmed, porary ink ownership inscription. Some small dents to front board in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. with the advertisements to the rear. Illustrations the edges of rear panel, a spray of ink marking, internally With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscrip- throughout with tissue guards. Bookseller’s blind stamp sound and fresh, a bright copy in excellent condition. tion to front pastedown, ticks in pencil to contents page. to front free endpaper of vols. IV. Bookseller’s receipt first edition, very scarce first state of Top edge dust toned, slight rubbing to extremities, a lit- dated 1908 laid into vol. III. Spines lightly toned and the u.s. issue, one of 750 copies printed, with tle foxing to endpapers; a very good copy in the jacket gently rolled, with small bumps to ends, small nick to both the US and UK publisher’s slug to spine, with minor loss to head of spine and nicks to extremities. foot of front cover to vol. VIII, faint soiling to covers; an but retaining the UK title page and with the top first edition of Yeats’s follow-up collection to excellent, unusually bright set, with vols. VI, VII, and X– XIII unopened. edge ungilt. Copies of the US issue typically had The Tower, containing some of his best, and most a cancel title page with the Boston imprint and a difficult, poems, such as “Blood and the Moon”, first editions of all volumes except volumes VI gilt top edge. O’Hegarty “notes that he has seen “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”, “Vacillation”, and and IX, which are second editions, and volumes II two copies, identical, of the American book, the “Byzantium”, and thus full of “those images that and VII, which are third editions. An exceptionally only difference from the English edition being the yet / fresh images beget; / that dolphin-torn, and nice set of this epochal and notorious periodical, addition of Copeland & Day on the spine only, not gong tormented sea”. A smaller collection, nota- which includes work by all the great figures of on the title.” Though prepared for the US market, bly lacking “Byzantium” among others, under a the 1890s including Beerbohm, Beardsley, Henry this unusual copy may well have been ultimately similar title (without “and other poems”) had been James, Yeats, Gissing, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest issued in the UK nonetheless, as it bears a near- printed in New York in 1929. Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Baron Corvo, H. G. contemporary Huddersfield bookseller’s ticket (E. Wade 169. Wells, and many others. W. Coates; 1863–1940) at the rear. £1,375 [119643] £1,500 [120563] Wade 16. £2,250 [119668]

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218 219 at head of spine and small tears to foot with tape repairs to verso, minor spotting to front panel, flaps and verso. (APPLE COMPUTER, INC.) Commercial bro- ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. To- chure introducing the first Mackintosh computer. ronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1985 first edition, inscribed by the author on [USA:] Apple Computer, Inc., 1984 Octavo. Original red and white boards, titles in white to the front free endpaper, “To Leslie Mars with best Folio, 12 pp, including 2 folding leaves. Original picto- spine, red coated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Minor wishes from Cecil Beaton 1973”. rial card wrappers, wire-stitched. Colour illustrated with rubbing to spine ends; an excellent, bright copy in the £450 [115922] photographs and diagrams throughout. Spine rubbed and jacket with slight nicks to extremities and a short closed corners very lightly bumped, overall an excellent copy. tear to head of front panel. 221 an evocative piece of ephemera from one first edition, inscribed by the author on BROOKE, Rupert. Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jack- of apple’s earliest marketing campaigns. the half-title, “For Linda – best wishes – Margaret son, Limited, 1911 Pitched as an affordable and entry-level purchase, Atwood”. The Handmaid’s Tale won the Arthur C. the original Mackintosh 128K debuted in a now- Clarke award in 1985 and has been adapted into Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to printed paper label to spine. Without dust jacket, as issued. Top edge lightly famous television commercial directed by Ridley a film (1990), and opera (2000) and in 2017 into a dust toned, spine label browned, minor rubbing to ends highly popular television series. Scott which aired during the Super Bowl on 22 of spine; an excellent copy. January 1984; heavily referencing Orwell’s dystopi- £850 [121276] first edition, one of 500 copies issued. This an world of 1984, it positioned Apple as the brave was Brooke’s first collection; his previous poetry competitor against the dangerously dominant 220 having been written for school competitions and “Big Brother” figure of IBM. It went on sale two printed solely for private distribution. Brooke’s days later, and approximately 50,000 were sold in BEATON, Cecil. Far East. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, second book, 1914 and Other Poems, was published the first three months. The Mackintosh 128K also 1945 posthumously. introduced the original software programmes Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in yellow, top MacWrite, MacPaint, MacTerminal, MacProject, edge red. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece after £875 [119975] a painting by the author, 44 black and white photographs and MacDraw. on plate paper, 14 illustrations in the text. Pages nice £225 [118837] and clean, spine faded and frayed to joints, boards still bright. A very good copy in the supplied jacket, chipped

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 81 222 BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress. From this world to that which is to come. Delivered under the similitude of a dream; wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out; his dangerous journey; and safe arrival at the desired countrey [sic]. With fourteen etchings by William Strang. London: John C. Nimmo, Ltd, 1903 Octavo (224 × 165 mm). Near-contemporary brown half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind in compartments, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title page printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title page, and 12 etchings, all with captioned tissue guards. Spine and inner margins of covers lightly faded, rubbing to extremities, a couple of faint marks to cloth; an excellent copy. A handsomely bound copy, with etchings by Scot- tish engraver William Strang (1859–1921). £300 [121499]

223 BURGESS, Anthony. The World of William Shake- speare. London: The Arcadia Press, 1971 with tissue guard and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. with several new modes of attack and defence; to Quarto. Bound for the publishers by Zaehnsdorf in red Spine just a little sunned, otherwise in excellent condition. which are added, twenty-five new chess problems morocco, black morocco label to spine, spine lettered in An attractively bound copy. on diagrams. London: A. H. Baily and Co., 1844 gilt, purple, green, yellow and black morocco pictorial 2 vols., octavo (212 × 133 mm). Contemporary purple half £850 [118525] onlay to front cover, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. In calf, titles lettered in gilt to black labels to spines, spines the grey cloth solander box. Frontispiece and 109 pho- richly decorated in gilt, marbled paper sides, marbled tographic reproductions, 36 of which are full page, 6 of 225 endpapers and edges. Black and white illustrations in which are double page. Tiny abrasion to front cover, loss the text. With the bookplate of the successful industri- to spine labels of solander box; an excellent, bright copy. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Complete Works. Ed- ited from numerous manuscripts by Walter W. alist Frank Reddaway to the front pastedowns. Spines signed limited edition, number 48 of 265 cop- Skeat. London: at the Clarendon Press, 1906 lightly faded, minor rubbing to extremities and boards; ies signed by the author and specially bound, with an excellent set. Octavo (186 × 124 mm). Contemporary maroon crushed an original onlay motif of a Shakespearean theatre half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red cloth first edition. William Lewis (1787–1870), who designed by Zaehnsdorf. sides ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. ran a well-known chess school in Soho, wrote this £750 [121114] Frontispiece, running heads in Gothic letter. Morocco work to expand upon and develop two of his earlier lightly marked, a few leaves roughly opened, a few trivial works. One of the best players of his age, Lewis had spots. A very good copy. 224 succeeded in 1819 to “the position of inhabitant of Skeat’s edition of Chaucer’s works, first published William de Kempelen’s celebrated chess-playing CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in in seven volumes from 1894 to 1894, remained the automaton the ‘Terrible Turk’, in which capacity he Wonderland. Eighty-Third Thousand. London: standard for almost half a century after publication. lost only six games out of 300 at odds of pawn and Macmillan and Co., 1871 move” and “took part in the correspondence chess £250 [115755] Quarto (178 × 120 mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and match between Edinburgh chess club and London Sutcliffe in blue half morocco, titles and Alice centre tool chess club during 1824–8” (ODNB). to spine gilt in compartments, raised bands, blue cloth 226 Hooper & Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, p. 224–5. boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece (CHESS.) LEWIS, W. A Treatise on the Game of £575 [120661] Chess; Containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games,

82 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington er contributors include Chesterton, Belloc, Philip Guedalla, and H. A. L. Fisher. Cohen B43.1.b; Woods B18. £750 [121330]

229 (CONRAD, Joseph.) JEAN-AUBRY, Georges. Jo- seph Conrad: Life and Letters. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927 2 vols., octavo (233 × 150 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, richly gilt spines (with gilt anchor motifs), sides with elaborate gilt ornamental panels (front covers with central gilt motif of a sailing ship), top edges gilt, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispieces, 16 plates from photographs or of facsimiles; title pages printed in red & black. An excellent set. first edition of one of the first biographies following Conrad’s death in 1924, preserving material “that might otherwise have been lost” (The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, 2015, p. 190). Georges Jean-Aubry was a French music critic who numbered not just Conrad but also Debussy and Ravel among his friends. 227 228 £450 [115931] CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Church- (CHURCHILL, Winston S., contrib.) SQUIRE, J. C. ill. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906 (ed.) If It Had Happened Otherwise. Lapses into Im- 230 2 vols., octavo. Original red cloth, titles and gilt rules to agined History. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931 CRICK, W. F., & J. E. Wadsworth. A Hundred Years spines, title and Marlborough crest gilt and blind rules Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to the spine. With of Joint Stock Banking. With a Foreword by Regi- to front boards. Photogravure portrait frontispieces, 13 the dust jacket. Slight dusty boards at head and tail, light nald McKenna. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936 plates and 3 facsimiles, one folding, one double-page. scatter of foxing to fore edge with minimal encroach- Octavo. Bound by Leighton-Straker in contemporary Faint ownership signature to front free endpapers. Spines ment into margin, pale differential browning to endpa- blue levant morocco, red morocco label, spine and slightly faded, edges of covers a little faded, surface slight- pers, else a genuinely excellent copy in unclipped jacket, boards panelled in gilt, red morocco roundel to front ly abraded, tips bumped, internally clean. A very good set. a touch sunned on the spine, pinhole to the lower edge of board with the Midland Bank coat of arms tooled in gilt, the spine panel which has three short splits at the head, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Portrait first edition. Churchill’s biography of his fa- supported internally with a strip of Japanese tissue, with frontispiece, folding diagram to rear, and numerous ther was published on 2 January 1906 to “almost associated minor surface colour loss: scarce in any con- full-page illustrations in the text. Bookseller’s stamp to universal acclaim in the Press” (Churchill, Winston dition, this is an exceptional copy. S. Churchill II). W. F. Monypenny, author of the Life front blank. A bright, clean copy with spine sunned and first edition, variant binding as noted by Co- boards a little marked. of Disraeli, remarked that, “alike in style and ar- hen, though he does not describe the jacket of chitecture and for its spirit, grasp and insight the first edition, presentation issue, one of either version, and the jacket on this uncommon 350 specially bound copies, with an inserted cal- book seems to me truly admirable”. variant is entirely different to that usually encoun- Cohen A17.1; Woods A8(a). ligraphic sheet inscribed to D. R. Mack by “the tered. In The Command of History David Reynolds Chairman, Managing Director and Directors of £650 [115976] draws attention to Churchill’s attraction to the the Midland Bank Limited, 1836–1936”. This his- counterfactual, and here Churchill is given free tory of the transformation of banking discusses rein to play with the “what ifs” of history and con- the establishment and expansion of the Midland tributes an elegant Möbius strip of an essay titled Bank, among others. The recipient is unknown. “If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg”. Oth- £350 [121159]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 83 first uk edition. It was originally published in the US by Knopf in 1961. £750 [120746]

233 DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Illustrated book label with name removed to half-title. Minor rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with creasing to edges and light soiling to flaps. first edition, signed by the author on a book label (supplied by The Good Book Guide) to the front free endpaper. £750 [121328]

234 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 Octavo. Original light grey boards, titles to spine in gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustra- 231 on the same floor as Crisp at Beaufort Street and tions to text by Blake. An excellent copy in the jacket with CRISP, Quentin. How to Have a Life-Style. Illustra- “her insatiable sexual appetite would often wake small mark to foot of spine panel. her neighbours during the night . . . sometime tions by William Vaughan. London: Cecil Woolf, 1975 first edition. Dahl’s fantastical tale was ex- later Miss Beeson got religion and would lecture Small octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. panded from a short story in his 1975 book Danny, Quentin on his sinful life”. With the dust jacket. Illustrations by William Vaughan. the Champion of the World. A film adaptation, direct- Ownership annotation to dust jacket rear flap verso. The newspaper clipping provides an early inter- ed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 2016. Spine gently rolled, light offsetting to endpapers; an view with Crisp, discussing his job as a male mod- £400 [120385] excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with toned el, “I like being a model best, it’s working without spine, and nicks and creasing to extremities, tape repair having to do any work at all. It’s scandalous with- to verso. out being dangerous”. 235 first edition, inscribed by the author on Nigel Kelly, Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being. A Biography, DAHL, Roald. The Witches. London: Jonathan Cape, the front free endpaper, “To Kenith, from Quen- p. 58. tin Crisp”. This copy additionally with a signed 1983 £425 [119671] newspaper clipping from John Bull dated 20 No- Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With vember 1948 tipped-in to the front pastedown, the dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. An excellent copy in the spine faded dust jacket. and a signed typescript letter dated 2 January 1976 232 tipped-in to the rear pastedown. DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. A Chil- first edition. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children’s Novel in 1983, the book was adapted The letter is a response to a Mr Goodfellow, whom dren’s Story. Illustrated by Michel Simeon. London: into a stage play and a two-part radio dramatization Crisp appears to have known in earlier years, re- George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967 for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg plying to a letter congratulating Crisp on the 1975 Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards, titles to which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkin- television film production of The Naked Civil Serv- spine and front cover in black. No dust jacket issued. son, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. ant, Crisp’s 1968 autobiography, starring John Black and white illustrations throughout by Michel Simeon. Top edge lightly tanned, very faint spotting to £300 [116697] Hurt. In the letter Crisp discusses “Miss Beeson” endpapers. An excellent copy. and the “turbulence” she carried with her, noting that, “she really was a horror”. Miss Beeson lived

84 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington 236 DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 Octavo. Original red boards, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Numerous illustrations in text by Blake. Spine gently rolled, bottom edge of boards lightly dis- coloured, text block very slightly cockled; a very good copy in the bright jacket with crease to front panel, short closed tear to head of front flap join, tape repair to verso. first edition. Matilda won the Children’s Book Award in the year of its publication, and formed the basis for both the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the successful stage musical, which premiered at the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre in Strat- ford-upon-Avon in November 2010. £500 [121393]

237 DE BERNIERES, Louis. Captain Corelli’s Mando- lin. London: Secker and Warburg, 1994 Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine in purple, purple endpapers. With the dust jacket. Extremities slightly rubbed. An excellent copy. first edition. The novel won the 1995 Common- 239 240 wealth Writers Prize for Best Book and was listed at DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books. London: number 19 on the BBC’s 2003 survey The Big Read. Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. Lon- Chapman and Hall, 1852 £350 [121123] don: Chapman and Hall, 1839 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration gilt to Octavo (212 × 135 mm). Near-contemporary dark red spine, sides panelled in blind, pale yellow coated endpapers. With frontispiece. Bookseller’s ticket to front free 238 straight-grain half morocco, marbled sides and edges, titles to spine fully gilt in compartments, brown endpa- endpaper. Spine sunned, trivial rubbing to the ends and DICKENS, Charles. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative pers. Engraved frontispiece by Finden after D. Maclise; tips, but an extremely smart copy, internally sound and of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With 39 plates by Phiz. Slight rubbing to extremities and cov- fresh and generally in excellent condition. forty illustrations by George Cruikshank. A new ers, light foxing to plates, an excellent copy. first collected edition of Dickens’s Christ- edition, complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 first edition, first issue in book form, mas books, here published together for the first Octavo (210 × 130 mm). Contemporary red crushed bound without the half-title and the list of plates. time with a new preface by Dickens, dated Sep- morocco, titles to spine gilt in compartments, raised It was originally issued in monthly parts, and, tember 1852. gilt bands, gilt rules to covers, decorative gilt turn-ins, once the serialization was complete, issued as £750 [116519] top edge gilt, red silk page marker, marbled endpapers. a book in cloth. “All the humour of the recently Frontispiece with tissue guard, half-title vignette and 38 completed Pickwick is reaffirmed in Nicholas Nick- plates. Light browning to margins of endpapers, occasional foxing not affecting text; an excellent copy. leby which has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote; it is perhaps the funni- first complete one-volume edition, bound est novel in the English language” (Peter Ackroyd, from parts. Sketches by Boz was originally published Dickens, pp. 262–262). in two series: the first in two volumes in 1836, and the second in one volume in 1837. This edition Eckel pp. 64–5; Smith 5. combines all three parts for the first time. £950 [117939] £750 [116579]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 85 241 DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853 Octavo (211 × 136 mm). Late 19th-century red half morocco, titles gilt to spine in compartments, marbled paper sides, brown coated endpapers, edges speckled red. Frontispiece, engraved title page, and 38 plates. Con- temporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Light fading to spine, wear to extremities, slight rubbing to sides, foxing to plates; a very good copy. first edition bound from parts, with the first-issue textual points as listed by Smith. Smith I.10. £950 [121511]

242 DICKENS, Charles. Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854 Octavo (190 × 123 mm). Contemporary green calf, titles to spine on later red morocco labels, spine fully gilt, gilt vignette to front cover with gilt frame, turn-ins stamped in blind, marbled endpapers. Binder’s stamp to head of front free endpaper verso. Spine rolled and faded, light knocks to tips, slight scratches to boards, light foxing to 244 worn, small nick to fore edge of vol. 2 front board, mild outer leaves; an excellent copy. spotting to edges, prelims and endleaves, these flaws mi- DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. With nor: a very good copy. first edition in book form, first issue, with twenty-one illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe and all Smith’s internal flaws uncorrected. The novel an introduction by Frederick Page. London: Oxford first edition, an interesting association was originally serialized in Household Words, April– University Press, [c.1975] copy, with the engraved bookplate of Pandeli Ralli November 1854. (1845–1928), Liberal MP (for Bridport, 1875–80, Octavo (186 × 127 mm). Contemporary red calf by George Sadleir 689; Smith I 11; Wolff 1800. Bayntun of Bath, raised bands decorated in gilt, calf la- then Wallingford until 1885), member of the fa- £975 [117481] bels, gilt border to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edg- mous Greek merchant family, and long-time con- es. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, and 20 plates. Very fidant of Lord Kitchener, to the front pastedowns. slight rubbing to boards and spine, very fresh inside. This essay on imperial defence predicted the threat 243 A handsomely-bound new edition of Dickens’s to an increasingly overstretched British Empire DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With an classic novel, first published between 1860 and posed by the growing military strength of the Eu- Introduction by Sir John Shuckburgh and sixteen 1861. As Great Expectations was not illustrated in its ropean powers. illustrations by ‘Phiz’. London: Oxford University first edition, the plates here are from the House- £375 [115748] Press, [c.1973] hold Edition. Octavo (185 × 129 mm). Contemporary red calf by George 246 Bayntun of Bath, raised bands decorated in gilt, calf labels, £275 [121316] double gilt border to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edg- DRINKWATER, John. A History of the late Siege es. Frontispiece, with tissue guards, and 15 plates after the 245 of Gibraltar. With a description and account of originals. Slight rubbing to edges, slight wear to boards. DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth. Problems of that garrison, from the earliest periods. London: A handsomely-bound new edition of Dickens’s Greater Britain. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890 printed by T. Spilsbury; and sold by J. Johnson; T. and J. Egerton; and J. Edwards, 1785 classic novel, first published in 1859, reproducing 2 vols., octavo (215 × 138 mm). Contemporary green the original plates. crushed half morocco by Birdsall, flat bands to spines, Quarto (280 × 215 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, £275 [121317] compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, green cloth smooth spine gilt-ruled in compartments, brown sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 5 folding col- morocco label to second, date to foot gilt, edges un- our maps. Spine-ends lightly rubbed, tips bumped and trimmed. Folding engraved chart as frontispiece, 9

86 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington free endpaper. Boards gently bowed, a very good copy in the jacket with browned spine, short closed tear to head of front panel, faint soiling to panels, and a couple of tiny nicks to extremities. first uk collected edition. The four poems that make up Four Quartets, “Burnt Norton”, “East Coker”, “The Dry Salvages” and “Little Gidding”, were published separately between 1940 and 1941; the first collected edition was published in the US in 1943. Gallup A43b. £275 [121012]

249 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front board in blind and to spine gilt, fore edge untrimmed. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Very light rubbing to tips and spine ends; an excellent, bright, copy. first edition of Fitzgerald’s second novel. Bruccoli A8.I.a. £500 [117508] engraved folding charts, plans, views. With the errata 247 leaf. Armorial bookplate of Richard Harington, either ECO, Umberto. The Name of the Rose; [together the 11th (1835–1911) or 12th baronet (1861–1931), to front 250 pastedown. Extremities and joints rubbed, short crack with:] Postscript to The Name of the Rose. Trans- lated from the Italian by William Weaver. San Die- FITZPATRICK, Sir Percy. Jock of the Bushveld. Il- to head of each joint, light stripping to front board, all lustrated by E. Caldwell. London: Longmans, Green, plates linen-backed, a few with repaired closed tears at go: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983 & 1984 and Co, 1931 the stub or fore edge, pale marginal damping to a few 2 works, large octavo and duodecimo. The Name of the plates and adjacent leaves, only slightly encroaching on Rose: original cream linen-backed light brown boards, Octavo (205 × 148 mm). Near-contemporary red half mo- the images in plates facing pp. 300 and 346, occasional decoration to front cover and titles to spine in bronze, rocco by Bayntun, titles and decoration in gilt to spine in mild spotting or soiling. A very good copy. map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Postscript: original compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, light brown endpapers. edge gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 22 mon- first edition of “the fullest contemporary ac- ochrome plates, and fully illustrated margins. Binder’s count” of one of key engagements of the American With the dust jacket. Postscript with 11 black and white illustrations. Light foxing to edges; an excellent set in stamp to front free endpaper verso. Spine lightly faded, War of Independence (Bruce). “The garrison was the jackets with minor nicks to extremities. an excellent, bright copy. besieged in June 1779 by a Franco–Spanish force. An attractively bound copy of this later printing. Jock Throughout the siege, which lasted until February first us editions, signed by the author in of the Bushveld was first published in 1907. Reviewing 1783, Drinkwater kept a careful record of events. each work on the title page. The Name of the Rose was the book in the TLS on first publication in 1907, John Thereafter the 72nd, in which he had become a originally published in Italian in 1980; the Postscript Buchan wrote: “to those who have some experience captain, was ordered home and disbanded. From originally published in Italian in 1983. of the land and the life about which Fitzpatrick his memoranda Drinkwater compiled [the present £975 [119641] writes, Jock of the Bushveld will be a cherished posses- work], dedicated by permission to the king. It sion”, while Mendelssohn describes it as “perhaps went through four editions in four years” (ODNB). 248 one of the best dog stories ever written”. Illustra- Bruce 3316. ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, tions for the book were done by Edmund Caldwell, £750 [120594] 1944 a brother of Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert Bear. Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With the Mendelssohn I, p. 550. dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contempo- £500 [121496] rary Christmas gift inscription, partially erased, to front

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 87 254 (FOOD & DRINK.) SIMON, André L. The Noble Grapes and the Great Wines of France. With 24 colour photographs by Percy Hennell and eight maps and decorations by Asgeir Scott. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1957] Small quarto (262 × 184 mm). Contemporary red full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, titles to spine gilt in compartments, gilt raised bands, single-line gilt border on covers, gilt motif of a grape vine on front cover, edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Colour frontispiece of the author, title page printed in red and black, chapter decorations in black, 23 colour plates from photographs, and 8 three-colour maps. Spine lightly faded; an excellent, bright copy. first edition, second printing. An attractively bound copy of this detailed work by a man “regarded as the leading authority in the world on wine and gastronomy” (ODNB). £375 [120131]

255 GORDON, Charles George. Events in the Taeping 251 first edition, second state binding as usual, with- Rebellion. Being Reprints of MSS. copies by Gen- eral Gordon in his own Handwriting. With Mono- FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: out the gun design blocked in gilt on the front board, graph, Introduction, and Notes by A. Egmont Jonathan Cape, 1964 which proved too expensive and was dropped after the first 940 copies had been sent abroad. Hake. London: W. H. Allen and Co. Ltd, 1891 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, Japanese characters to front board in gilt, wood grain Gilbert A13a (1.2). Octavo (212 × 134 mm). Contemporary prize-binding of red calf by Relfe Brothers, raised bands gilt to spine, endpapers. With the dust jacket. Small ink ownership £375 [120587] inscription to head of front free endpaper. Spine gently black morocco morocco label to second compartment, rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, tiny bump to head the rest gilt-tooled with arabesque cornerpieces and cen- of spine; an excellent copy in the lightly soiled jacket 253 tral floral lozenges, rolled foliate border gilt to boards, crest of Bancroft’s School, Woodford, to front, marbled with faint mark to rear panel. FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Day- edges and endpapers, gilt roll incorporating alternate lights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966 first edition. palmette, fleur-de-lys and flower motifs to turn-ins. Pho- Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to front board and Gilbert A12a (1.1). togravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, fold- spine in silver, marble-patterned endpapers. With the ing sketch-map hand-coloured in outline to rear. Prize £375 [121503] dust jacket. Foxing to top edge, an excellent, bright copy plate dated 1902 to the front pastedown. Faint soiling to in the fresh jacket. boards, tips bumped and slightly worn, short closed tear 252 first edition, second issue jacket with the pub- to map fold. A very good copy. FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. lisher’s over-price sticker on the front flap. This is first and only edition. Gordon’s ingenious London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 the final James Bond book by Fleming. defeat of the Taiping rebellion earned him the nick- Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in bronze, Gilbert A14a (1.3). name Chinese Gordon and made him a totem of green and white endpapers, Gilbert’s binding A (no £250 [117538] the cult of the Christian military hero which had priority). With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the emerged after the Indian Mutiny. “Like T. E. Law- bright jacket with spot of rubbing to rear panel. rence he had a genius for guerrilla warfare and for leading destitute, ill-trained forces” (ODNB). The editor, Hake (1849–1916), was a relation of Gordon’s and also wrote a popular biography, The Story of Chi-

88 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington nese Gordon (1884) and other works, which contributed to his lifetime apotheosis and remain important. Bruce 4540. £375 [121126]

256 GRAY, Thomas. Poems and Letters. London: printed at the Chiswick Press, 1879 Quarto (253 × 240 mm). Late 19th-century blue morocco richly gilt spine, gilt ornamental and ruled panels on sides, top edges gilt, richly gilt turn-ins, French blue endpapers. Wood-engraved head-, tailpieces, and initial letters throughout. Attractive engraved bookplate of Doris L. Benz. A few slight abrasions to covers. An excellent copy. large paper copy of this fine edition, with letterpress by the Chiswick Press. £500 [115921]

257 HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. With an Etch- ing by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 Octavo. Original vertical-ribbed green cloth, titles to 258 259 spine gilt, gilt roundel of Hardy’s monogram within a floral wreath on front cover, top edge gilt, others un- HERODOTUS. The History. Translated from the HOMER. The Iliad. Rendered into English blank trimmed. Etched frontispiece with captioned tissue Greek. With Notes. By William Beloe. London: for verse by Edward Earl of Derby. Third Thousand. guard by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map at the rear. Spine Leigh and Sotheby, 1791 London: John Murray, 1864 gently rolled, slight wear to extremities, a couple of faint 4 vols., octavo (216 × 132 mm). Contemporary tree calf, 2 vols., octavo (218 × 135 mm). Contemporary vellum, flat marks to boards, inner hinges cracked but holding, light smooth spines gilt in compartments, twin green mo- spines lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative frames foxing to outer leaves; a very good copy. rocco labels, yellow edges. Labels of the Broughton Bap- and central vignettes in gilt to covers, gilt roll to turn- first edition in book form of Hardy’s last tist Library to front pastedowns, bookplate of Robert J. ins, gilt edges. Boards slightly sprung and lightly soiled, novel, in which he “deliberately [attacked] the ex- Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chemist and discriminating small splits to gilt stamp of front cover of vol. I, foxing to isting educational system and marriage laws. The collector of 18th-century literature in contemporary outer leaves; a very good, handsome set. bindings, to front pastedown of vol. 1. Spines slightly An early printing of Derby’s translation, which novel’s sexual directness fuelled the hostility of its dry, small chip to vol. 3 label costing half a letter, short “appeared in 1864 to much critical praise” and reception in some quarters” (ODNB). It originally crack to head of vol. 1 front joint, a few superficial scuffs appeared as a bowdlerized serial in Harper’s Maga- to sides. An excellent set. reached its sixth edition by 1867 (ODNB). Edward Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby, three times prime zine from December 1894 to November 1895; the first edition of Beloe’s celebrated and much- minister in 1852, 1858, and 1866–8, fully translat- European and American editions were published reprinted translation, “elegant, but very para- ed the Iliad during a prolonged period of solitary simultaneously in London and New York, and phrastical” (Lowndes). post-dated 1896. Purdy notes two distinct states confinement due to a severe attack of gout, hav- Lowndes p. 1053. of signatures A–H, with or without page numbers ing previously published a part translation in his on partially blank pages; as usual, this copy has £850 [118086] Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern, privately mixed states of these signatures. printed in 1862 (p. 80). Purdy pp. 86–91. Angus Hawkins, The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II, p. 80. £375 [119705] £600 [121272]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 89 260 HUGHES, Ted. Crow. From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber, 1970 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Minor rubbing to spine ends, foxing to edges, an excellent copy in the jacket with nicks to extremities, minor loss to head of spine, a couple of faint marks to panels. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Stephanie and Jimmy after the black-out, under the blazing-down, from Ted, 15 July 1977”. The recipients, Stephanie Bennett and James Mervis, hosted Ted Hughes during the New York blackout in July of that year, which resulted in widespread looting. Stephanie Bennett is a film producer who works primarily on music documentaries. Sagar & Tabor A25. £875 [119983]

261 HUGHES, Ted. Birthday Letters. London: Faber and Faber, 1998 263 Octavo (220 × 132 mm). Early 20th-century dark blue calf Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue boards, titles by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, richly gilt spine, dark red twin KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. A to spine in gilt on black, yellow endpapers. A fine copy. labels, sides with gilt single-line and roll tool panels, gilt Story of the Grand Banks. London: Macmillan & Co., signed limited edition, number 232 of 310 central floriate motif, gilt edges, gilt roll tool turn-ins, Limited, 1897 copies signed by the author. marble endpapers, with the original red cloth covers Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decorations bound in at the end. Housed in a custom made fleece- £750 [116941] to spine and front cover gilt, black coated endpapers, lined marbled slipcase. Engraved portrait frontispiece of gilt edges. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 22 illustra- Mrs Fitzherbert. Burgundy morocco book label of Doris 262 tions by I. W. Taber. Ownership inscription in pencil to L. Benz. An excellent copy. JANE, Fred. T. All the World’s Fighting Ships. half-title. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremi- first edition, a choicely bound copy, ties, tiny bump to foot of front cover, small mark to rear Cosmopolitan Naval Annual. Target Book and extra-illustrated with the addition of cover; an excellent copy. Signal Manual. Part I. — The Navies of World. 54 portraits and views (some hand-col- Part II. — Articles on Naval Questions of the Day. first uk edition in book form, preceded by oured) ranging in date from the late 18th to the London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1901 the US edition, released the previous month. The late 19th century, skilfully inlaid to size. “For many work was originally serialized in Pearson’s Magazine Landscape quarto. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering years after her death Mrs Fitzherbert’s marriage to to front board and spine. Profusely illustrated with between 1896 and 1897. Written while the newly- the prince of Wales continued to provoke contro- photographs, plans and silhouettes. A little rubbed, wed Kipling was living in Vermont, Captains Coura- versy, and it was not until 1856, with the publica- corners bumped, front hinge very slightly loose, front geous is Kipling’s only novel set entirely in America. tion of Charles Langdale’s Memoirs of Mrs Fitzherbert free endpaper and half-title creased, some spotting, but £550 [120627] (which contains his brother Lord Stourton’s nar- overall a very good copy. rative), that a more or less accurate account of that first edition of the fourth year of Jane’s most 264 event was published” (ODNB). famous and longest-running work, the first edition LANGDALE, Charles. Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzher- £450 [115927] to be illustrated from photographs. Extremely bert. With an account of her marriage with H.R.H. uncommon, this a very well-preserved copy. The Prince of Wales, afterwards King George the £675 [119231] Fourth. London: Richard Bentley, 1856

90 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington then senior editor. They met again when Haley interviewed the activist for Playboy, and the present book was based on a series of over 50 interviews between 1963 and Malcolm X’s assassination in February 1965. £900 [120088]

267 MALORY, Thomas. The Noble & Joyous Boke En- tytled Le Morte Darthur. Oxford: printed at the Shake- speare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell, 1933 2 vols., quarto (258 × 178 mm). Original red half morocco, white cloth sides, titles gilt to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Text printed in red and black, in two columns. Woodcut headpieces, with tissue guards. Slight rubbing to extremities, a little wear to very tips, boards lightly soiled; a very good set. first edition thus, limited issue, number 220 of 370 copies, of which 350 were released for sale. This work is printed in late Middle English from the 1498 edition of Le Morte Darthur published by Wynkyn de Worde, from the copy in the John 265 historian, Polybius. Ellis published another work Rylands Library in Manchester. LAW, William John. The Alps of Hannibal. London: in response the following year, entitled An Enquiry £875 [120201] Macmillan and Co., 1866 into the Ancient Routes between Italy and Gaul. Neither theory is now believed to be correct. The book ap- 2 vols. in 1, octavo (216 × 135 mm). Late 19th-century tan 268 calf prize-binding (the prize plate dated 1871–2), raised pears to have been a popular choice for Scottish school and university prizes: we have handled one MANDELBROT, Benoit B. Fractals. Form, bands hatched in gilt to spine, brown morocco label to Chance, and Dimension. San Francisco: W. H. second, remaining compartments gilt tooled with floral other copy, in a prize binding for the University of devices, twin fillet borders gilt so covers, laurel wreaths Glasgow. Freeman and Company, 1977 Quarto. Original blue cloth, spine and boards lettered enclosing text in Latin (front) and Greek (back) to £750 [121044] boards, marbled edges and endpapers. 2 folding maps. and blocked in silver, blue and white patterned Edinburgh Academy prize plate to the front pastedown. endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated frontispiece Light spotting to prelims and maps, very occasionally 266 and numerous illustrations to the text. Spine ends lightly elsewhere. A very good copy. MALCOLM X. The Autobiography. With the As- bruised, overall a fine copy in the slightly rubbed and first edition. This book was the product of a sistance of Alex Haley. Introduction by M. S. Han- nicked dust jacket. lengthy and ill-tempered dispute between Law, dler. Epilogue by Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, first edition in english of Mandelbrot’s a distinguished judge and bankruptcy commis- Inc., 1965 groundbreaking volume on fractal geometry, sioner, and Robert Ellis, a classical scholar. El- Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the originally published in Paris in 1975. lis surveyed the Alpine passes in 1852 and 1853, dust jacket. With 16 plates of photographic reproduc- £750 [119549] concluding that Little Mount Censis was Hanni- tions. With the ownership inscription of Kennett Love bal’s route, a theory which Law sharply attacked (1924–2013), a photojournalist and foreign correspond- in three pamphlets (1855–6) before issuing this ent. Minor rubbing to extremities, unusually bright spine; an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with minor two-volume riposte, which argued that Hannibal creasing to top edge and small mark to foot of rear panel. was most likely to have crossed Little St Bernard, which was originally proposed by General Robert first edition. Haley met Malcolm X in 1960 Melville (1723–1809) on the basis of the Roman when he interviewed him for a piece on the Nation of Islam in the Reader’s Digest, of which Haley was

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 91 second london edition. The American author and diplomat Motley’s Rise of the Dutch Republic was first published in New York by Harper & Bros. in 1856 and in Britain by Gibbings in 1889. £250 [116653]

272 (MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus.) KOLB, Annette. Mozart. Translated by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt. With an introduction by Jean Giradoux. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates. Very light rubbing to ends and corners, minor spotting to edges and endpapers, an excellent copy in a bright jacket with crease down spine, small chips to one corner of the head, and very minor rubbing to ends and corners, also some mild dust soiling to rear panel only. first edition in english, scarce, especially in such nice condition. Kolb’s biography was first published in Germany in 1937. £250 [117399]

269 Square octavo (219 × 175 mm). Contemporary half vel- 273 lum, pebble-grain cloth stamped to resemble pebble- MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With decorations grain morocco, gilt titles to spine on red morocco label, NICHOLSON, William. An Almanac of Twelve by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen Children’s Books, top edge red. Spine a little soiled, a few blemishes to cov- Sports. Words by Rudyard Kipling. London: William 1977 ers, minor dampstains to pastedowns. A very good copy. Heinemann, 1898 [1897] Octavo. Original red morocco, spine lettered and deco- The English Reprint series, published between Quarto. Original quarter cloth, brown boards, front rated in gilt, frames and vignettes to covers gilt, gilt 1868 and 1871, sought to bring accurate texts of cover lettered in black, front board illustrated in colour, edges, pictorial endpapers. With the slipcase, as issued. classic works of English literature, formerly only publisher’s stamp to rear cover in colour. With the pub- Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. An excellent, bright, copy. lisher’s advertisements to rear. Title page and 12 litho- accessible in expensive editions, to a general pub- graphs in colour from the original woodcuts. Wear and fiftieth anniversary edition, number 109 lic readership, priced more accessibly at sixpence of 300 copies signed by Christopher Robin Milne. rubbing to extremities, cloth backstrip a little frayed and each. When business relations with his original loose, toning to front and rear endpapers, offsetting With the errata slip correcting the stated issue run publisher, Murray, became strained, Arber took throughout, a very good copy. from 490 to 300 laid in, signed by the chairman over the publication of the series and produced first edition, the Library Edition issue, post- and managing director of Methuen Children’s these editions from his house in Bloomsbury. Books and the chairman of Richard Clay. dated 1898. There was also a smaller edition of £300 [120832] hand-coloured prints signed by the artist, and a £750 [119471] popular edition bound in cloth. In this edition, 271 which was published for Christmas 1897, the 12 270 MOTLEY, John Lothrop. The Rise of the Dutch lithographs in colour are printed from the original woodcut blocks by Nicholson on Japanese vellum. MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Translated into Republic. A History. London: W. W. Gibbings, 1892 English by Ralph Robinson, sometime Fellow of The twelve sports represented are: hunting, cours- 3 vols., octavo (215 × 140 mm). Contemporary tree calf, ing, racing, boating, fishing, cricket, archery, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His second and floral gilt rule, gilt armorial crest front boards, spine ful- coaching, shooting, golf, boxing, and skating. revised edition, 1556: preceded by the title and ly gilt in compartments, morocco labels, comb-marbled edges and endpapers. Title in red and black. Prize label Each is prefaced by a Kipling poem on the sub- epistle of his first edition, 1551. Carefully edited by completed in manuscript to front pastedown of volume Edward Arber. London: Edward Arber, 1869 1. A fine set in a handsome prize binding.

92 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington ject. The Almanac is often broken for its individual prints, so complete copies are relatively scarce. £800 [116870]

274 (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Princi- ples. Prepared by William Little, H. W. Fowler [and] J. Coulson. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962 Large quarto (268 × 190 mm). Finely bound by Zaehn- sdorf in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule gilt to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Spine a touch faded. An excellent copy. Third edition revised with addenda, in a handsome binding. It was first published in 1933. £375 [118068]

275 PLOMER, William. Paper Houses. London: The Ho- garth Press, 1929 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket designed by Roger Fry. Very faint fading 277 278 to cloth around the extremities, but an excellent copy, sound and fresh, with the dust jacket only a little tanned (POETRY.) HENLEY, William Ernest (ed.) Lyra REMARQUE, Erich Maria. The Road Back. Trans- and stained to spine and slightly chipped at the ends and Heroica. A Book of Verse for Boys. London: published lated from the German by A. W. Wheen. London: G. corners, entirely unrestored. by David Nutt, 1892 [but 1891] P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931 first edition, one of 1,262 copies published, Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe red crushed morocco, spine Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, titles to front board and complete with the Roger Fry dust jacket in ex- gilt-tooled in compartments with titles direct, gilt rules, spine in green, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Top ceptional condition. Paper Houses is an early short rolls and tooling to boards, gilt rolls to turn-ins, mar- edge slightly faded but an excellent copy in an exception- story collection by the poet and novelist William bled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated front wrapper ally smart jacket, spine panel a little tanned, a few tiny bound in. With the original red cloth dust jacket, title closed tears to the top edge, and a sliver of loss at the head. Plomer (1903–1973) based on his experiences liv- gilt to spine panel. Very light rubbing to extremities, tiny first edition in english of the sequel to Re- ing in Japan with a male companion. chip to headcap, internally fine, an excellent copy. marque’s landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Woolmer 205. first uk edition, number 88 of 100 large pa- £475 [120855] £825 [121147] per copies on Dutch handmade paper signed by the publisher, in the very handsome deluxe bind- 276 ing and original cloth jacket. This popular Late POE, Edgar Allan. The Works. New York: W. J. Wid- Victorian poetry anthology was printed in 1891 dleton, 1876 and published in the UK and America – the New York edition has the date 1891 on the title page, 4 vols., octavo (187 × 125 mm). Contemporary dark blue half calf, marbled sides, raised bands, titles and decora- whereas the London edition is dated 1892, though tions to compartments gilt, marbled edges and endpa- both were issued in late 1891 for the Christmas pers. Engraved frontispiece and 4 similar plates. market. Attractively bound set of Poe’s works. £475 [117889] £650 [116779]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 93 279 RIMMEL, Eugène. The Book of Perfumes. With above 250 illustrations by Bourdelin, Thomas, etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865 Quarto. Original green pebble grain cloth over bevelled boards, gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles, Rimmel’s armorial crest and panelling to covers, white silk moiré endpapers, decoratively gilt-gauffered edges. Text printed within floral frame on scented pink paper. Frontis- piece and 12 wood-engraved plates, 1 in colour, and numerous illustrations in the text. Slight wear to extremities, occasional light foxing; an excellent copy. first edition of this historical survey of perfumes and cosmetics by the perfumer Eugène Rimmel, printed on scented rose-tinted paper, “elegantly bound and deliciously perfumed” (The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, 1865, p. 250). Rimmel was known for his innovation in the field, creating the first “factory-made, non-toxic mascara. A work that “not only furnishes food for the mind, but gratifies the eyes and olfactory senses by its beauty and fragrance. Seldom have sense and scents been so happily blended” (The Sporting Review, 1865, p. 471). 281 283 £850 [120567] SEUSS, Dr. Hop on Pop. New York: Beginner Books, SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. Edited with 280 Random House, Inc., 1963 scrupulous revision of the text by Charles and Octavo. Original glossy pictorial boards. With the dust Mary Cowden Clarke. The Leicester Square edi- ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, earl of. The Poetical jacket. Illustrations throughout by the author. Some tion. With portrait and twenty-one illustrations Works, edited by Quilter Johns. [Halifax:] The Ha- wear to extremities, light foxing on free endpapers. An from the Boydell Gallery in permanent photogra- worth Press, 1933 excellent copy. phy. London: Bickers and Son, 1875 Octavo. Original reddish-brown niger by Sangorski & first edition, with correct adverts on the jacket Large octavo (238 × 168 mm). Contemporary red mo- Sutcliffe, blind tooled hinge motif around raised bands, rear panel and flap and 195/195 price. rocco by Bickers, titles to tan label to spine, spine richly top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original Younger & Hirsch 30. decorated gilt in compartments, covers with elaborate fleece-lined patterned paper slipcase. Portrait frontis- thistle design frames and armorial crests gilt, turn-ins piece of Rochester with tissue guard, wood-engraved £600 [121498] and gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Title page in red and dragon motif to colophon. An excellent copy. black with photographic vignette, portrait frontispiece first edition thus, number 32 of 50 copies 282 and 20 plates; printed in double columns within single printed on handmade paper and bound in niger. A rule frame. Minor rubbing to extremities, spine lightly SEUSS, Dr. I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sol- toned, offsetting to title page; an excellent copy. very attractive edition; according to master printer lew. New York: Random House, 1965 Vivian Ridler, the Haworth Press was founded by A handsomely bound copy of the works of Shake- Quarto. Original pictorial paper covered boards, picto- G. K. Pratt; type for some of the books was set up rial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated through- speare, illustrated with a number of photographic by hand, although most of the printing was done out by the author. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, reproductions of paintings from the ill-fated by Sherratt & Hughes of Manchester, as is the case light bumping to tips, dust jacket slightly faded, occa- Boydell Shakespeare Gallery; the first prints of here. One of the finest modern editions of the sional ink marks throughout. A very good copy. which were published in 1792 great Restoration poet. first edition, with correct adverts on the jacket £500 [119859] £750 [121375] rear panel and flap and 295/295 price. Younger & Hirsch 41. £500 [121506]

94 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington philosopher both in London and on the continent, a reprint of the 1790 edition. “One of Adam Smith’s major claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of an economic system with mutually interdependent parts. His development of this came well before the Wealth of Nations; it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 and the Lectures of 1762-3” (D. P. O’Brien, The Classical Economists, 1975, p. 29). Kress B.2619; Tribe 48. £650 [120429]

287 SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In three volumes. The tenth edition. London: Printed by A. Strahan; for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802 3 volumes, octavo (210 × 127 mm). Contemporary tree calf, green morocco labels to spines, spines ruled and decorated in gilt. Half-titles to volumes 1 and 2. Contemporary gift inscription, “Chas. Hain gift to W. Hunter 1809 Ship Resolution”, to front free endpaper of volume 1. Spine ends and corners chipped and worn, 284 in compartments, elaborate frames gilt to covers, top recently varnished, extremities rubbed, boards ink and edge and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Portrait fron- burn marked, joints splitting, hinges cracked but firm, (SHAKESPEARE, William.) LAMB, Charles & tispiece and 2 facsimile manuscript plates. Duplicate leaf some spotting and ink marks to edges of text blocks and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. Introductory pref- of pp. 202–3 laid in. Spine lightly toned, slight rubbing to a little wear to upper fore edge of volume 3 text block, 2 ace by Andrew Lang. Illustrations by Robert An- tips, light offsetting to endpapers; an excellent copy. small punctures to front free endpaper and first blank of ning Bell. London: S. T. Freemantle, 1899 volume 1, otherwise an internally clean, very good set. first edition thus of Shelley’s poetry in a beau- Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe vellum, titles and illustration tiful fine binding. Tenth edition of “the first and greatest classic of gilt to spine and front, top edge gilt. Illustrated frontis- modern economic thought” (PMM), reprinting £675 [120191] piece, title page, and 14 plates by Robert Anning Bell. A the introductions to the third and fourth editions. few minor spots to vellum, front board only very slightly From the gift inscription, it would appear that bowed, spotting to edges and some light spotting within, 286 this copy of Smith’s work went to sea, which may but a sound and attractive copy in very good condition. SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments explain the wear to the binding. first edition thus, deluxe issue, with the … A new edition. Basel: Printed and sold by J. J. illustrations of prominent arts and crafts figure Goldsmiths’ 18411; Kress B.4602; Tribe 77. See Printing Tourneisen, 1793 and the Mind of Man 221. Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933). Lamb’s Tales from 2 volumes, octavo (214 × 128 mm). Near-contemporary £750 [120368] Shakespeare was first published in 1807. mottled half calf, green morocco labels, spines tooled £750 [116484] with rope-twist roll and floral motifs in gilt, volume numbers within gilt roundels to third compartments, 288 285 marbled paper boards. Bound without the final blank, STEIG, William. Shrek! New York: Michael Di Capua volume leaf Y4. Contemporary ownership inscriptions Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Poetical (one dated 1800) to front free endpapers crossed out. Works. Including materials never before printed Some worming to spines and hinges, extremities rubbed Quarto. Original illustrated glossed boards, green end- in any edition of the poems. Edited with textual and corners bumped, paper boards a little chipped at papers. Illustration to front free endpaper, 24 illustrations in the text. A fine copy. notes by Thomas Hutchinson. Oxford: The Clarendon edges, hinges gently cracked but firm, contents foxed, Press, 1904 otherwise a very good set. first edition of the source book for one of the Octavo (220 × 140 mm). Near-contemporary green moroc- first basel edition of Smith’s first book and most popular films of recent decades. co, titles gilt to spine, elaborate decoration gilt to spine the work that established his reputation as a £250 [115966]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 95 291 THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. Lon- don: Harper Collins, 1995 Octavo. Original black boards, titles gilt to spine, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 20 leaves of photographic reproductions. A fine copy. first edition, signed by the author on the fly leaf. Thatcher was the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. £400 [120994]

292 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, design to front board in gilt, silver and green, black and red title page, silver and green marbled endpapers, green speckled edges. With the publisher’s black card slipcase. 2 folding colour maps. Slight rubbing on slipcase, ownership mark on verso front endpaper “J. Dangerfield, 1970”. An excellent copy. first india-paper edition of the three books originally published separately between 1954 and 289 290 1955, and here issued complete in one volume. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Poems; In Memoriam; (TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.) SELWYN, William. Hammond & Anderson A5h. Idylls of the King; The Princess. London: Edward Enoch Arden, poema Tennysonianum, Latine £500 [121409] Moxon, 1853–68 Redditum. London: Edward Moxon, 1867 Four works, octavo (170 × 110 mm). Finely bound to Quarto. Original green pebble-grain cloth over bevelled 293 match in contemporary purple morocco, spines gilt- edges by Hanbury & Simpson, titles to front cover gilt, tooled in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles anchor vignette to front cover gilt, decorative frame gilt UPDIKE, John. The Witches of Eastwick. New direct, sides panelled in gilt with elaborate tooling, gilt- to front cover, blocked in blind to rear cover, gilt edges, York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 rolled turn-ins, pale yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. brown coated endpapers. Text in Latin. Aquatint plate Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and front Contemporary ink gift inscription and blind stamp to with tissue guard. Binder’s ticket to foot of rear past- board in silver and gilt, top edge dyed black. With the front free endpaper of Idylls of the King. One of the spines edown. Pasted paper textual correction to the prefatory dust jacket. Slight fading to cloth along edges of boards, sunned, otherwise all in excellent condition. poem. Slight rubbing to extremities; an excellent copy. an excellent copy, with the jacket very slightly rubbed at A lavishly bound collection of Tennyson’s works, first edition in latin, presentation copy, the ends and corners, and with a small closed tear to the mixed editions. Loosely inserted is the order of ser- inscribed by the translator on the half-title, top edge of the rear panel. vice for his memorial service held at Westminster “Gulielmus Hepworth Thompson, pro cancellario first edition, signed by the author on Abbey on Sunday, 16 October 1892, also a newspa- [for chancellor], Gulielmus Selwyn”. The recipient the title page. This novel was memorably filmed per clipping printing previously unpublished lines was William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), in 1987 starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle by Tennyson, opening “O who is he the simple fool / classical scholar, Master of Trinity College, Cam- Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon. Who says that wars are over?” There is also a purple bridge, and vice-chancellor of the university, with £225 [117440] flower laid in at “The Lotos Eaters”. his bookplate to the front pastedown. Thompson £750 [116104] was also Selwyn’s brother-in-law, having married 294 Frances Elizabeth Selwyn in 1866. Enoch Arden was first published by Moxon in 1864. VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. The Polar Express. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 £350 [118827] Oblong quarto pp. [32]. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine silver, bell design to front cover silver, brown

96 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington endpapers. With the dust jacket and Mylar sleeve. Colour illustrations throughout by the author. Very light foxing to top edge, an excellent bright copy, in the jacket with short closed tear to head of front panel, slight creasing to extremities. first edition. £500 [117997]

295 WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chap- man & Hall Ltd, 1934 Octavo. Original red and black marbled cloth, titles to spine gilt. With a black and white frontispiece. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, foxing to edges; an excellent copy. first edition of what is “now widely regarded as Waugh’s masterpiece, a satire on the collapse of civilized values” (ODNB). £975 [119828]

296 WAUGH, Evelyn. Helena. London: Chapman & Hall, 1950 298 300 Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, with original dust jacket and wraparound bank advertising “Daily WODEHOUSE, P. G. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. WOLF, Joseph. The Life and Habits of Wild Ani- Mail, Book of the Month, A Book Society Recommenda- London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940 mals. Engraved by J. W. & Edward Whymper. With tion”. Slight soiling on top edge, very light foxing, light Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. Descriptive Letter-Press by Daniel Giraud Elliot. rubbing to head and tail, a few marks on the spine of the With the dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, slight London: Alexander Macmillan & Co., 1874 dust jacket, an excellent copy. fading at foot of spine, some small closed tears and shal- Folio (468 × 346 mm). Original crushed red morocco over first edition of Waugh’s only historical novel. low chips to dust jacket. A very good copy. bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, decorative frames £625 [121438] first edition (preceding the US edition by three to covers blocked in blind and gilt, turn-ins and gilt edg- weeks and with different contents) in the first is- es, marbled endpapers, blue silk page marker. With 20 sue jacket, priced 7/6 on the spine panel. engraved plates. Faint pencil gift inscription to head of 297 title page. Slight wear to extremities, spine lightly toned, McIlvaine A62a. WODEHOUSE, P. G. Quick Service. London: Her- a couple of abrasions and small marks to covers, shallow bert Jenkins, 1940 £1,000 [120477] indentation to rear cover, light foxing to outer leaves; a very good, bright copy. Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, gilt a little 299 first edition, large paper issue. Wolf ’s “pic- faded, dust jacket spine ends slightly chipped with some WODEHOUSE, P. G. Spring Fever. London: Herbert tures are often noted for the astonishing realism loss of text at foot, short closed tear to foot of jacket Jenkins, [1948] of feet, fur, and feather texture, and for their back- spine with tape repair to verso; a very good copy. grounds, which often include small but perfectly Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front first edition. board in black. With the dust jacket. Spine ends gently painted subsidiary creatures bickering or other- McIlvaine A63a. bumped, tiny closed tear to dust jacket joint. An excel- wise associating in a lively fashion. In the opinion of Sir Edwin Landseer he was ‘without exception, £850 [120475] lent copy. the best all-round animal painter that ever lived’ first uk edition. It was first published in the US (Schulze-Hagen, 1)” (ODNB). the same month. McIlvaine A67b. £750 [120461] £250 [120467]

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