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Front cover image from Mick Rock’s The Rise of David Bowie 1972–1973, item 10. VAT no. gb 701 5578 50

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1 edition often come with original drawings, this is the 3 ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Har- first copy we have handled with a fore-edge painting. AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: Lawrence’s original watercolour is also notable for mondsworth: The Paradine Press, 1976 running across two pages, normally limited to one. George Allen, 1894 Large octavo. Original dark green crushed morocco by San- Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green mo- gorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands forming compartments to £6,000 [134691] rocco, centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, inner dentelles spine, titles direct to second and third in gilt, fleurons to gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With numerous black first and fifth and rabbit motifs to fourth and sixth in gilt, 2 and white illustrations throughout. The occasional minor rabbit vignette to front cover in gilt, edges and turn-ins gilt, blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding. AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels: Sense and Sen- green and yellow endbands, marbled endpapers. In the mar- first fully illustrated edition. This was the bled slipcase as issued. Original watercolour to the front free sibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; endpaper verso and first blank, and colour fore-edge paint- first edition to feature illustrations accompanying the ing. Colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations to the text Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; A text, as Bentley’s 1833 edition and subsequent print- in colour and black and white, folding colour map tipped-in Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew J. E. ings had featured only a frontispiece. Thomson’s at rear. Spine faintly sunned, very minor central crease to Austen Leigh, sixth edition to which is added “light touch and feeling for period manners provide first 12 leaves. A near-fine copy. Lady Susan and fragments of two other un- a charming and accessible gloss to the author’s work” (ODNB). first illustrated edition, signed limited finished tales by Miss Austen. London: Richard issue, number 244 of 250 specially bound copies £2,250 [134194] signed by both the author and the illustrator, John Bentley & Son, 1886–92 Lawrence. This copy has an original watercolour de- 6 volumes, octavo (184 × 120 mm). Near-contemporary blue 4 picting four rabbits, drawn and initialled by the il- half morocco by Roger de Coverly, blue marbled paper sides, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-tooled raised lustrator, to the front free endpaper verso and first spines, blue marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved AWDRY, Wilbert Vere. Tank Engine Thomas blank; it also has a contemporary fore-edge painting frontispieces with scenes from the novels by Greatbatch Again. Leicester: Edmund Ward, [1949] depicting two rabbits executed by the pre-eminent after Pickering, engraved portrait frontispiece of Jane Aus- Oblong duodecimo. Original blue cloth, titles and illustra- fore-edge artist Don Noble. Although copies of the ten in the Memoir. Spines evenly, lightly faded, a touch of tion to front cover in gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrations shelfwear, faint offsetting from frontispieces, occasional throughout by C. Reginald Dalby. A near-fine copy in the light foxing to endmatter. A very good, clean and fresh set. jacket, price-clipped, but otherwise in very nice condition, A very handsomely bound set of Austen’s novels, ap- with some light rubbing at extremities and to front panel, parently a reprint of the 6-volume Steventon edition of but without the chipping and soiling normally seen. 1882, the last complete edition of Austen’s works to be first edition. This is the fourth book in the Rail- published by Bentley. Both Keynes and Gilson note the way Series, and the second featuring Thomas the existence of this reprint but report having not seen it. Tank Engine, who has become synonymous with the Gilson D13; Keynes 32. series.

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2 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington van Langeren. Based on pictures by Maerten de Vos, these were the most-widely available biblical illustrations in England during the 1640s and 1650s, issued with dedicatory verses to Charles I by William Slatyer, treasurer of St David’s. The practice of binding pictures with the English text of the Bible was theologi- cally suspect in the eyes of many, attacked as Popish and idolatrous at the trial of Archbishop Laud, and, again, by the bookseller Michael Sparke in the 1650s. It is fitting therefore that they should be bound here with the Bible printed in the Restoration year by Henry Hills, who many scorned as a turncoat, one who “ever made it his business to be of the rising side”. Hills thrived during the interregnum through a close personal relationship with Cromwell. In March 1656, with John Field, Hills secured a monopoly in 4 5 printing English Bibles and psalms, privileges that formerly belonged to the king’s printers and the Sta- 5 (Acts 5) with marginal paper loss not encroaching beyond tioners’ Company respectively. The two men walked plate mark, overall a pleasing copy. in Cromwell’s funeral cortège, and continued to prof- BANKSY. Wall and Piece. London: Century, A very attractive octavo Bible handsomely bound in it as printers to the government until the Restoration. 2005 the Regency era with silver furniture. This copy is ex- ESTC R16969; Darlow & Moule 669; Wing B2256. Quarto. Original illustrated boards, titles to spine and front tra-illustrated with the engravings of Jacob Florensz cover in black. With the dust jacket. Photographs and illus- £3,000 [134535] trations throughout. A near-fine copy in the dust jacket. first edition, in the rare dust jacket (most copies were issued without one). The book collects together photographs of Banksy’s street art, with his own commentary. £1,500 [133883]

6 (BIBLE; English, Authorized.) The Holy Bi- ble, Containing the Old Testament and the New. London: printed by Henry Hills and John Field, 1660 Octavo (161 × 113 mm). Signatures: A–2Z8 3A4. Attractively bound in late 18th-century black straight-grain morocco, spine with four low, wide raised bands with gilt decorative roll, spine gilt-lettered direct in two compartments, others with gilt-tooled devices, sides panelled in gilt and in blind, wide gilt turn-ins, pink moiré silk doublures and endpapers, gilt edges, black-and-white silk triple headbands; silver-gilt metal furniture, corners, engraved centre plates, clasps and catches. Letterpress title page within border of typographic ornaments; New Testament has separate dated title page on leaf 2N3r. Ruled in red throughout. Extra-illustrated with 148 (of 149) engraved plates by van Langeren, lacking plate 9 of Genesis. Bernard Quaritch pencilled collation notes at end. Spine ends and joints rubbed, cut rather close affecting last line on a few leaves (O1, Oo1, Ss2, Ss7–8), A3 and Bb6–8 torn, plate The Hypocrisie of Ananias & Sapphira 6 6

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3 Given that Blake was also a health food pioneer, and appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies early in his career, this is a very fitting association copy. Af- ter a childhood spent in Santa Monica, Clark Irvine (1892–1975) became a Hollywood screenwriter, re- porter, and publicist—he was Charlie Chaplin’s first publicity director—before launching California Health News in 1933, one of the first California natural food industry periodicals. Irvine has annotated the title page in red pencil, “11–21–35 With John Roy—C. I. Ackerman also to Mt. Hollywood”; similarly annotated, the front pastedown reads “p. 27 paragraph 2 for picture. 40—why I live here” (said paragraph is correspondingly marked). Hawaiian Surfboard also appears bound in tapa cloth, in two issues (one with the block illustration of surfers, one without); no priority has been established, either between the boards and tapa cloth or between 7 those with and without surfers. See Patrick J. Moser (ed.), Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf 7 Writings (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard.Honolulu: £9,750 [132341] Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935 7 Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards, front board let- The fundamental account of the Bounty saga tered in dark blue, block illustration of surfers stamped in health guru Clark Irvine, “Aloha nui to Clark Irvine— 8 dark blue to same. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue may you again find peace and rest beneath the sunny BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea, cloth folding case, red morocco spine labels. 32 photo- skies of Waikiki, Tom Blake 1935”. Hawaiian Surfboard graphic plates, head- and tailpieces. Ownership label of the undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for library of Clarke Irvine, Hollywood, California to front free is extremely uncommon inscribed: we can trace just endpaper; later black and white printed card reproducing a one further presentation copy of this title at auction, the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree photograph of Blake, c.1935, from an original in the Bishop the surfer and collector Mark Blackburn’s copy (tapa to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship The Museum. Spine ends and extremities a touch bruised, evi- cloth issue, inscribed by Blake to Dan Close and his Bounty . . . including an Account of the Mu- dence of jacket’s flaps sometime adhered to pastedowns, family, sold at Bonhams 2009). tiny on Board the said ship, and the Subse- now detached, else a crisp and bright copy; jacket spine Alongside the legendary Duke Kahanamoku, Tom dulled, extremities chipped with two small holes to spine, Blake (1902–1994) is considered one of the world’s quent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s closed tears at head and foot of joints, pencilled annotation most influential surfers, and the sport’s greatest in- Boat . . . London: for George Nicol, 1792 to rear flap. novator. His contributions to board design—includ- Quarto (299 × 234 mm). Skilfully rebound to style in half first edition, the blue boards issue, of the de- ing the invention of the hollow surfboard, patented calf, smooth spine divided by simple gilt bands, gilt roundel finitive book on surfing, scarce in the dust jacket; an in 1931, and the first stabilising fin, introduced in decoration in each compartment, red and green morocco twin labels, marbled paper sides. Housed in a custom red exceptional presentation copy, inscribed by the au- 1935—were revolutionary, and he transformed wave- thor on the title page to the Californian publicist and morocco-backed solander box. Stipple-engraved oval por- riding from a specialist activity into an iconic, acces- trait frontispiece of Bligh by Condé after John Russell, fold- sible lifestyle. Intrinsic to the development of early ing plan of the Bounty, folding plan of the Bounty’s launch, California subculture, as well as to surf photography plate of a breadfruit, and 4 plans and charts (3 folding). Old and journalism, Blake acted as a “transitional figure library stamp at foot of title, “I.V.D.B”. Offsetting from fron- between Hawaiian and haole surf cultures” (Moser, tispiece to title, pale foxing to same, old splash mark at foot p. 155): it is on him that nearly all popular representa- of pp. 34–35, paper flaws in blank margin at S2 and S3. A very tions of surfers are based. Hawaiian Surfboard remains good copy. Blake’s most famous publication, being the “first first edition of Bligh’s fullest account of the voy- book to offer a comprehensive treatment of surfrid- age that led to the most famous mutiny in the his- ing, including chapters on Hawaiian legends and an tory of the sea, “an extremely important book” (Hill). early history of the sport” (ibid.). The introduction is Set adrift by the mutineers in the ship’s 23 foot long 7 provided by Kahanamoku. launch, with a crew of 18 men and only minimal navi-

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and includes a specially created record pressing, issued here for the first time as 7-inch vinyl, Parts 1 and 2 of David Bowie’s 1980 recording, “It’s no game”, 8 originally released on the 1980 album Scary Monsters. gational tools, Bligh managed the incredible feat of Richly illustrated throughout with numerous photographic £3,500 [134172] reaching Kupang in Timor two months later with the reproductions. A fine copy. loss of only one man, after a harrowing 3,500 mile signed limited edition, number 1,167 of 2,000 10 voyage. Nevertheless, he was forced to defend his copies signed by Bowie and Sukita on the limitation (BOWIE, David.) ROCK, Mick. The Rise of own conduct and had already published a shorter bookplate, as issued. This extended photo essay de- David Bowie 1972–1973. Cologne: Taschen, 2015 Narrative of the Mutiny in 1790. “This full account of tails a 40-year partnership between Bowie and Sukita, the voyage, then, includes a slightly altered version of Folio. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in white, hologram combining several pictures of David Bowie to front board. Bligh’s own account of the mutiny, which had been Housed in a blue cloth solander box. With the original num- published two years earlier. This extended and re- bered pink cardboard packing box. Photographs and illus- vised text makes this the fundamental published ac- trations throughout, three of which are folding. A fine copy. count of the Bounty saga …” (Parks Collection). first edition, signed limited issue, number The Parks Collection of Captain William Bligh, 12; Ferguson 125; 1,590 of 1,972 copies signed by both Bowie and Rock. Hill 135; Howgego I, B107; NMM, Voyages & Travel, 624; Sabin 5910; Spence 104. This unique collection features many iconic images from Bowie’s official photographer between 1972 and £8,500 [133014] 1973, taken during the launch of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. 9 £3,000 [135244] BOWIE, David, & Masayoshi Sukita. Speed of Life. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2012 Folio. Original pink calf-backed blue cloth, titles to spine in silver, acrylic mirrored plate to front cover with protective film, black endpapers with pink and blue metallic design, with 7-inch vinyl single inset to the rear pastedown, blue and pink silk pagemarkers, silver edges. Housed in the publisher’s black cloth slipcase and black dust bag. With the original cardboard box, as issued. Text in Japanese and English. 9 10

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11 BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: 12 Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953 of Edward Collings in a careful calligraphic hand. A superb, Octavo. Original white Johns-Manville Quinterra boards, ti- uncut copy, crisp and fresh in a totally unrestored binding. tles to spine and front cover in red. No jacket issued. Housed in a red cloth folding box, black morocco label. Illustrations first and only edition of Bransby’s guide to the by Joe Mugnaini. Very light soiling to binding and sunning to world, with maps engraved by Samuel John Neele of spine. A very good copy. the Strand, a superb copy in totally unrestored condi- first edition, signed limited issue, number 77 tion. John Bransby (c. 1762–1837), was a surveyor, as- of 200 copies signed by the author. This issue is spe- tronomer, and map maker, who also sold globes. He cially bound in Johns-Manville Quinterra, a chrysolite briefly edited the Ipswich Magazine, a monthly journal asbestos material that is theoretically fire resistant, that ran from February 1799 to February 1800, with in honour of the eponymous temperature at which biographies, accounts of travel, selected poetry, and paper spontaneously combusts. miscellaneous information on various subjects. His only other publication was The Use of Globes (1791; £9,750 [132339] ESTC locates four copies). Samuel J. Neele (1758–1824) worked for a number of 12 publishers in London, including John Stockdale. His BRANSBY, John. Geography: or a Descrip- most famous piece is probably the map he engraved tion of the several Parts of the World, and for Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, commissioned by Jefferson from Paris in September 1786. their Productions; With the Religions, Cus- OCLC locates only one copy, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. toms, &c. of the Inhabitants: and a Summary See Tooley, Dictionary of Mapmakers, revised ed. (1999), I, p. 184 of Ancient Geography. Ipswich: printed and sold and III, pp. 311–312. by J. Bransby: sold also in London by Longman, £7,500 [135166] Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and Crosby and Co., 1807 Duodecimo in 6s (174 × 92 mm). Original paper-backed blue 13 boards, spine lettered black, with a contemporary protective plain paper jacket. Folding frontispiece engraved world [BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne.] Po- map and 4 folding engraved maps of Europe, Asia, Africa ems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London: and America. Contemporary ownership to front pastedown Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [i.e. 1848] 13

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Octavo (169 × 106 mm). Early 20th-century green morocco by sunned with small chip, minor soiling and cockling to cov- 16 Riviere & Son, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt French ers, hinges split but holding. A very good copy. BURTON, Richard Francis. The Memorial fillet to covers, richly gilt turn-ins, red endpapers, top edge first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by gilt. Errata slip and terminal advertisement leaf present. Re- the author on the half-title, “Mrs Grant Duff from Edition of the Works. London: Tylston and Ed- paired short closed tear at head of pp. 1/2, otherwise in fresh wards, 1893–4 condition internally; the binding without wear or marking. Robert Browning, May 30, ‘64”. The recipient was A fine copy. an acquaintance of Browning’s; copies of a few let- 4 volumes in 7, octavo. Original black cloth, titles in gilt on spines, gilt pictorial decorations to all boards repeating various first edition, second issue, with the cancel title ters from him to her are laid in, dating from around the time of the inscription. Browning’s first book fol- details of a plate in each volume, top edges red, black coated page. The volume was first published by Aylott and endpapers. With 7 frontispieces, of which a photographic por- lowing the death of his wife Elizabeth Barrett in 1861 Jones in an edition of 1,000 copies on 26 May 1846, trait of Isabel Burton, and three in colour; 3 folding plans, and 3 but was not a commercial success. After the huge marked the end of a nine-year publishing hiatus. maps including a colour folding one; 30 plates, of which 8 tinted success of Jane Eyre, published in October 1847, the £3,000 [134883] lithographs and 6 in colour; and numerous in-text illustrations. unsold stock of Poems, consisting of 961 copies, was Bookseller’s ticket of A. Brown & Son, Hull, to front free endpaper; armorial bookplate of Edward Chaddock Lowndes, of Cas- bought by Smith, Elder & Co. in September 1848 and 15 tle Combe, sheriff of Wiltshire in 1874, to front pastedown of reissued the following month with a cancel title page, BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps. Edin- Vikram and the Vampire. Cocked, spine ends softened, slight wear but retaining the original date. to extremities, a little rubbed, a couple of tender hinges, very With the 1921–22 bookplate of the Conservative burgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1915 occasional faint foxing; a very good set indeed. politician and friend of Winston Churchill, F. E. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in memorial edition, all first printings thus. These Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), to the front dark blue. Spine faintly sunned, a little wear to extremities, titles were all that were issued in the Memorial Edi- pastedown. light offsetting to endpapers, margins and edges toned; a very good copy indeed. tion, for which Isabel Burton wrote new prefaces. Smith I; Wise 2. “Although she lived in Burton’s literary shadow, re- first edition of Buchan’s classic man-on-the-run £2,750 [134389] ferring to herself as ‘the mere bellows player to the adventure story, published in book form on 19 October organist’, Isabel Burton was a good writer” whose ac- 1915, and described in its introductory note as “that el- 14 counts of their travels “compare favourably with her ementary type of tale which Americans call the ‘dime husband’s” (ODNB). novel,’ and which we know as the ‘shocker’”. The story BROWNING, Robert. Dramatis Personae. Penzer, pp. 54–55, 64–65, 73–74, 82–83. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864 was serialized in the All Story Weekly from 5 June to 31 July 1915, and in Blackwood’s Magazine from July to Sep- £1,875 [135160] Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers pan- tember 1915 under the pseudonym H. de V. elled in blind, brown endpapers. Housed in a custom red cloth chemise within red half morocco box, spine lettered in Hillier A32. gilt, red cloth sides. Some pencilled lines in margins. Spine £1,500 [132559]

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17 of proto-psychology. Furthermore, Burton’s Anatomy cynical and world-weary, and actively misanthropic, [BURTON, Robert.] The Anatomy of Melan- may be considered more particularly as a situated en- projecting his own despair onto the state of Cali- cyclopaedia of the 17th-century mind, since, through fornia, and onto modern life itself ” (ODNB). It was choly. London: printed & are to be sould by Hen: his encyclopaedic reading for sources and examples adapted into a film of the same name in 1947. Crips & Lodo: Lloyd at their shop, 1652 (which he conducted throughout his continual re- Bruccoli A4.2.a. Small folio (275 × 177 mm). Nineteenth-century diced russia, visions of the work, swelling the text from 353,369 titles, ruling, and decorative floral motifs in gilt on spine, words in the first edition to 516,384 in the present £2,750 [132156] decorative gilt roll border with floral motifs on boards, turn- edition), Burton “was able to rival the great encyclo- ins ruled in single gilt fillet, marbled endpapers. Engraved paedist scholars of Europe, and there were not many 19 title with eleven illustrative vignettes including a portrait for Englishmen of his time who could do that” (ODNB). the author and several moods or personalities Burton judged CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. related to melancholy, xylographic headers, cul-de-lampes, Pforzheimer notes that “As the author continued to London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949 and decorative opening initials. Armorial bookplates of Rev- make augmentations and a few corrections to each Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With the erend John Lamb (1789–1850), Anglican priest and academ- edition published in his lifetime . . . all early editions pictorial dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, a little loss of col- ic, master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from 1822 are of interest textually”. our to spine ends and foot of front board, touch of shelf to 1837, and dean of Bristol from 1837 until his death; and Pforzheimer 119 (first edition);Printing and the Mind of Man 120; wear, faint foxing to edges and endpapers; a very good copy of Sir Rainald Knightley (1819–1895), 3rd Baronet of Fawsley, ESTC R27822. indeed in the lightly soiled jacket with creasing to extremi- British Conservative Party politician. Early ownership ink in- ties, dampstain to verso of foot of spine, a little subsequent scriptions of Charles Knightley and Johannes Lamb to blank £2,750 [135172] colour offsetting. preliminary leaf. Spine sometime expertly refurbished, light first edition, preceding the first US edition, which wear and rubbing at extremities, corners a little bumped, 18 a faint damp stain to bottom margin and gutter running was released later in the same year. It is “particularly throughout and sometimes heavier, very occasional toning CHANDLER, Raymond. The Lady in the remarkable for Marlowe’s cleverly phrased and bru- and foxing; still a fresh copy, very good. Lake. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944 tally honest self-evaluations” (ODNB). sixth edition, first published in 1621. Burton’sAnat - Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red. With the £1,250 [132155] omy of Melancholy was “one of the most popular books dust jacket. Faint publisher’s stamp to rear free endpaper of the seventeenth century . . . Dr Johnson deeply ad- verso. Spine minimally rolled, hint of shelfwear to bottom mired it, and Charles Lamb’s often and strongly ex- edge of boards, contents faintly toned; else a near-fine copy 20 pressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a in the faintly soiled jacket with lightly faded spine and slight (CHURCHILL, Winston S.) Autograph rippling to bottom of spine. brief period of oblivion” (PMM 120). Burton’s work is album, including signatures of a young first uk edition, originally published in America a landmark text rising out of “the new curiosity in the Churchill, Roger Casement, high ranking Renaissance about the workings of the human mind” in 1943. This was the fourth of Chandler’s novels fea- (ODNB), and as such constitutes an important work turing Philip Marlowe, in which he “becomes more British diplomats, and their staff. 1899–1928

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nel-in-chief Natal and Zululand; Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn VC, captain Gordon Highlanders; Field Marshal Lord Roberts and his staff, including Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain, at this time colonel 20 11th Foot, serving as first ADC and private secretary; Kitchener and his staff, including William Riddell Small quarto (223 × 184 mm), 70 leaves (approximately 400 War; H. A. Gwynne, Times correspondent, later edi- Birdwood, later field marshal Baron Birdwood, com- autographs on first 50, the remainder blank). Album of mod- tor of the Morning Post; Margaret of Teck, sixth child manded the ANZAC Corps at Dardanelles, “one of erate reddish-brown straight-grained polished leather, pad- of the Duke of Westminster, married to Prince Adol- the very few British commanders to leave Gallipoli ded on bevelled boards (ticket of the fashionable stationer phus of Teck who served with the 1st Life Guards; Sir with an increased reputation”; Evelyn Baring, first Henry Rodrigues of Piccadilly), single fillet panel in blind to Henry Hamilton Settle KCB, later lieutenant-general, Earl of Cromer, British Consul-general in Egypt, his the covers, all edges gilt, gilt foliate roll tool to edges and son Rowland Baring (similarly dated), second Earl of turn-ins, green and gilt endpapers with repeated clover de- who played a significant part in the war; E. S. Heard, sign. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco solander box major, Northumberland Fusiliers, mentioned in des- Cromer, and members of his staff. by the Chelsea Bindery. Lightly rubbed, spine and front patches; F. H. Wedgwood, captain, King’s Own Staf- There is also a small ink sketch of “Paulus Kru- board a touch sunned, some light abrasions and shallow in- ford Rifles; Cicely Cavendish-Bentinck, married to ger addressing the First Volks Raad” by Basil Temple dentations, a few scratch marks to back cover, inner hinge Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, who was posted Blackwood, illustrator of Belloc’s The Bad Child’s Book cracked at second opening otherwise very good. to South Africa with the 9th Lancers; Violet Romilly; of Beasts (1896) and Cautionary Tales (1907). Black- remarkable album of autographs, including and Lady Violet Cecil. Directly above that of Churchill wood accompanied Milner to South Africa in 1897, the signatures of winston churchill, roger is the signature of Roger Casement, the diplomat and forming part of that group of talented young assis- casement, and paul kruger, evidently compiled Irish nationalist, later to be executed for high trea- tants popularly known as “Milner’s Kindergarten”. by an individual with access to high diplomatic cir- son. At the outbreak of war in 1899, Casement was Also present are the autographs in written Chinese cles. Churchill’s signature (“Winston S. Churchill”) serving as consul in Portuguese West Africa (Angola), of Zaifeng and Liang Cheng (Chinese ambassador faces a fine original portrait photograph (151 × 106 and was stridently pro-British. to the United States from 1902) superscribed over mm) of the fresh-faced Churchill, taken around 1900, The opening pages feature many of the principal their names in English “Prince Chen of China” and at the time he was the newly elected MP for Oldham. figures involved in the Second Boer War (1899–1902): “Chentung Liang Cheng”. At the time of his signature Churchill was in South Paul Kruger; Jan Smuts; Prince Christian Victor of £8,500 [128940] Africa as correspondent for the Morning Post. His Schleswig-Holstein; Alfred Milner, first Viscount signature appears alongside that of 14 others, in- Milner, governor of the Cape Colony and High Com- cluding Edouard Girouard, railway engineer and missioner for Southern Africa, and members of his colonial governor; Gilbert Russell, who served with staff. Other signatories include Walter Hely Hutch- the Grenadier Guards in the Sudan and Second Boer inson, colonial administrator, governor and colo-

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21 22 initially serialized in the Strand Magazine prior to pub- CHURCHILL, Winston S. Savrola. London: CHURCHILL, Winston S. My African Jour- lication in book form. Churchill’s contract was highly lucrative, reflecting the celebrity status of the author, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900 ney. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908 a rising star in British politics. The account is highly Octavo (183 × 122 mm). Bound by Morrell for Henry Sother- Octavo (184 × 123 mm). Bound by Morrell for Henry Sother- readable, and “bubbles with Churchill’s irrepressible an in mid-20th-century red half morocco, spine lettered in an in mid-20th-century red half morocco, spine lettered in interest in everything new” (Woods, Artillery of Words, gilt, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some gilt, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Pho- 1992, p. 81). light scuffing around extremities, else a near-fine copy. tographic frontispiece, 46 photographic plates, and 3 maps. Cohen A27.1; Czech, African Big Game Hunting, p. 37; Woods A12. first edition, signed by the author. Church- Sporadic faint foxing. A near-fine copy. ill has signed on the first binder’s blank, apparently first edition, signed by the author in the £4,500 [132378] after binding, and presumably at the behest of Henry same manner as the previous item. Sotheran, the London booksellers who commis- My African Journey, based on his travels around British 23 East Africa in the autumn of 1907, was the first book to sioned the binding from Morrell. CHURCHILL, Winston S. [The War Speech- Savrola was Churchill’s only novel, his third pub- derive purely from Churchill’s journalism, as distinct lished book, but the first he undertook to write, and from his work as a war correspondent. The work was es:] Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; the second he completed. Churchill’s melodramatic The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Vic- tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediter- tory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret ranean state was originally serialized in Macmillan’s Session Speeches. London: Cassell and Company Magazine between May and December 1899. Ltd, 1941–46 This copy is of the British issue, first state with the 7 individually issued works, octavo. Attractively bound in re- publisher’s imprint on the title page; the publica- cent full burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spines tion of the American issue slightly preceded the UK. gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispieces in first Signed copies of Churchill’s early titles are far scarcer five works along with other photographs. Some occasional than his later books. mild spotting otherwise a very good set. Cohen A3.1.a; Langworth pp. 38–41; Woods A3(a). first editions. £5,000 [132386] Woods A66(a), A89, A94, A101, A107, A112, A114. £2,250 [132870] 22

10 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 24 25 (CHURCHILL, Winston S.) STEAD, William [COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, trans.] GOE- T. (ed.) Coming Men on Coming Questions. THE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from [including Churchill’s “Why I am a Free Trad- the German. London: Boosey and Sons, and Rod- er”]. London: [Review of Reviews,] 1905 well & Martin, 1821 Octavo (235 × 143 mm). Contemporary mid-brown morocco, Quarto (269 × 210 mm). Contemporary polished calf by title gilt direct to the spine, low flat bands with gilt scrolled Charles Murton of Soho, with his pink ticket, spine richly roll, double panel with fleuron corners in blind to both gilt in compartments between low wide bands, red morocco boards, edges sprinkled brown, marbled endpapers. Eight- label, sides with a gilt border of one thick rule with two thin een halftone portraits from the front panels of the pamphlet rules either side, each cover with a large central device of wrappers clipped and mounted on thicker paper, most with Faustus in his study blocked in gilt, flower-head tools at cor- letterpress captions, similarly clipped, beneath. Lightly ners, curl marbled endpapers, gilt edges, green silk place- rubbed at the extremities and on the cords, pale toning of marker. With 27 plates including frontispiece, engraved by the text-block, overall very good. Henry Moses from original copper etchings made by Moritz first editions, pamphlet issues, of this series in- Retzsch for the German edition, with plain tissue guards. Bound without half-title. Contemporary armorial bookplate tended as “a handy encyclopaedia of facts and fig- with the coronet of a French comte (motto “Spes fides et pa- ures—political, social, and biographical—covering tientia”). Rubbed, a touch of very minor restoration to ex- most of the important questions to be dealt with in tremities, some light offsetting, a very good copy. the new parliament” (Prefatory Notice). Churchill’s first edition in english of Goethe’s Faust, trans- contribution represents the first published state- lated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is most ment of his stance on the free trade question after he often met with in the publishers’ reddish-brown pa- crossed the floor in 1904. per boards, the flimsy backstrip almost always hav- Other contributors include Keir Hardie on “The ing perished. This copy, however, has an attractive Citizenship of Women”, Balfour on “The Defence of contemporary polished calf binding by the London the Empire”, Ramsay Macdonald “The Labour Party”, binder Charles Murton, who Ramsden notes spe- 25 Rider Haggard “Back the Land!”, and “Lord Esher on cialised in blind stamping. The covers are stamped the Army”. These essays were published later in the in gilt with a large block, presumably made or com- year in book form (see Cohen B3; Woods B2). missioned by Murton, showing Faust in his study, in “whether it became my moral character to render into A handsomely bound volume, accompanied by the roughly similar style but by no means identical to the English—and so far, certainly, lend my countenance to silver City and Guilds Technological Examination 1st same scene in the book illustrations. As such a block language—much of which I thought vulgar, licentious, Prize “Bookbinding (Forwarding)” medal in its origi- would have been expensive to make, Murton may well and blasphemous”, although he confessed that poeti- nal plush-lined box, presented in 1907 to Samuel Wil- have produced a number of these bindings, although cally it was “very pure and fine” (cited in Burwick, pp. liam Butcher of London Borough Polytechnic, along we have not traced any other example. 75–6). The translation is now generally accepted as his, with a £2 cash prize from the Skinner’s Company, for When Faust, Part I first appeared in a finished form with letters from Goethe extant which state Coleridge his work on this book. (1808) Coleridge expressed concern for the apparent as the translator. Coleridge never attempted to translate Cohen A15; Woods A7/1. immorality and later denied that he ever “put pen to Faust, Part II, published in 1832 following Goethe’s death. £3,500 [134724] paper as translator of Faust”, saying his reservation was See Frederick Burwick, “Coleridge’s Critique of Goethe’s Faust”, in Lorna Fitzsimmons, Goethe’s Faust and Cultural Memory, 2012. £6,750 [134583]

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[COLERIDGE, Sara.] Phantasmion. London: 27 William Pickering, 1837 Small octavo (163 × 100 mm). Contemporary burgundy mo- 27 28 rocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt with curled roll to spine ends, flower-and-leaf device to compartments, raised COOK, Captain James. The Voyages Round (COOK, James.) BANKES, Thomas. A New, bands striped and edged with triangular roll, thick gilt bor- the World. London: Richard Phillips, 1809 Royal and Authentic System of Geography, der of matching flower-and-leaf motifs to boards, scroll- and-leaf roll to board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpa- 7 volumes, octavo in sixes (156 × 92 mm). Recent speckled Antient and Modern; including all the late pers, edges gilt. Engraved publisher’s device to title page. calf, spines in compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, important discoveries made by the English raised bands ruled in gilt, titles in gilt to red and green A handsomely bound copy, spine slightly faded, joints and . . . London: C. Cooke, [c.1790] corners rubbed, the contents crisp and mostly clean, first morocco labels to spines, marbled edges and endpapers. 3 and last gatherings lightly foxed, the occasional smudge or pp. publisher’s advert to end of vol. VII. With 34 plates, mis- 2 volumes, folio (381 × 248 mm). Contemporary reverse calf, mark to margins, one tiny perforation to fore edge margin bound, 32 folding, of which 2 are atlas maps, another a table rebacked to style, raised bands to spines, titles in gilt to red of leaf Bb6. of vocabulary. Boards very slightly bowed and a little toned and green morocco labels to spines, frames ruled in blind to to edges, dust toning to book block edges, foxing and oc- covers, edges speckled red. Engraved frontispieces, 21 maps first edition, one of 250 copies published, of “one casional dampstains and marks to contents, small tears to and 88 engraved plates. A couple of paper repairs to plates. of the earliest novel-length fantasies separate from plate I in vol. I and plate I in vol. II, small loss to fore edge of the Gothic tradition” (Sanders), which has been de- pp. 303–4 in vol. III; a very good, handsome, set. scribed not only as an important precursor to The Lord An attractive collected edition of Cook’s three voy- of the Rings, but also by science-fiction aficionados as ages, printed from the text of the original editions of an early and influential example of that genre. The 1773 to 1784. Described by Forbes as “a bibliographi- work is a prose epic set in a fantastical Lake District, cal riddle”, the work appears to have been issued as where Sara Coleridge had grown up in the household part of a larger series, with the first volume reading of her uncle Robert Southey, and modelled on Spens- “end of the second volume” on the final leaf, as listed er’s Faerie Queene. It is a strong candidate for the first in Forbes. The folding plates are predominantly line modern fantasy novel, preceding George MacDon- drawings based on illustrations from the original edi- ald’s Phantastes (1858) by two decades. tions, often with subtle alterations to the images. See Peter Hunt & Dennis Butts, Children’s Literature: An Illustrated Beddie 73; Forbes 400. History, 1995, p. 92; Elizabeth M. Sanders, Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith, 2017, p. 57; John £2,250 [133046] Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, 1990, p. 183. £2,000 [134940] 27

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Ink mark to p. 1 in vol. I, loss to fore edge not affecting image gen ausgeschickten und durch den Capitain Cook’s own and made frequent, unacknowledged use of plate at pp. 104–5, closed tear to pp. 987–8. Wear to tips, a of his journals, in addition to Johann’s notes and his couple of scuffs and marks to covers, a little creasing to end- Cook geführten Schiffe der Resolution unter- nommen. Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1778–80 own recollections, provoking a pamphlet war with papers and plates, faint foxing and a couple of dampstains to William Wales, the astronomer on the expedition, contents, occasional nicks to plate edges; a very good copy. 2 volumes, quarto (260 × 210 mm). Contemporary half sheep and Lord Sandwich, commissioner of the Admiralty. renewed, spine of vol. I laid down, daubed paste paper first edition of this extensive and richly illustrated The present work is “an important and a necessary work which collects geographical updates from vari- boards, red and green labels, floral tools to compartments, tooling deeply impressed in blind, edges stained red. Folded supplement to the official account” (Davidson, p. 61). ous voyages, including Cook’s final voyage. Issued map, 11 copper engravings. Late-19th-century Russian li- Sabin notes that “it was to this same George Forster, in 90 parts (“designed to be bound in one or in two brary stamps on titles verso. Previous repairs to spine ends and to this same work, that Humboldt, in his ‘Cos- volumes”), the work opens with a discussion of the of vol. I, original panels laid down. Professional repair to mos’, acknowledges his indebtedness more than Pacific islands, refocussing a predominantly Euro- folding map and front free endpaper of vol. II, map stub re- to all other sources, for his early love of nature and centric view of world geography, before moving on inforced. Board edges a little rubbed, light fading to colour tropical beauty”. of book block edges, some spotting and browning as usual, to Asia, Africa, America, and closing with Europe With the ownership inscriptions of Dr Friedrich a very good set. (Forbes; Scott, p. 28). Philipp Usener (1773–1867) to the front free endpapers Ferguson 59; Forbes 185. Julien Domercq, The Death of Captain Cook, first edition in german, following the first Eng- and his note of completion to the rear free endpaper of Mythmaking in Print, Cambridge University Library Exhibition; lish edition of 1777, which famously pre-empted the vol. I and the title page of vol. II. Usener was a lawyer, Jonathan Scott, When the Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and official account. The present edition is augmented Political Identities, 1500–1800, Cambridge University Press (2011). politician, and local historian, and made numerous with additions from Cook’s own account. contributions to the historical records of Frankfurt. £3,750 [133179] A distinguished naturalist, Forster was employed Beddie 1250; Cox I, 61; Sabin 25131 (only vol. 1). as chief naturalist for the Resolution on Cook’s second 29 voyage, accompanied by his son Georg as an assis- £5,000 [134108] tant: “the elder Forster proved to be a highly capable (COOK, Captain.) FORSTER, George. Re- scientist and a keen observer—his works proved him ise um die Welt während den Jahren 1772 a veritable genius in many disciplines—but he had bis 1775, in dem von Seiner itztregierenden a disagreeable personality and alienated the expedi- Großbrittannischen Majestät auf Entdeckun- tion’s staff ” (Rosove). His son published an unofficial alternate account of Cook’s voyage six weeks before

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31 DAHL, Roald. The Commemorative Limited Edition of the Works. London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, 1991 15 volumes, octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spines lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, buff endpapers. Each copy housed in a matching weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole contained in a large open fronted blue paper covered box. Illustrated throughout. Fine. limited edition, number 307 of 500 sets only, published to celebrated Dahl’s 75th birthday. £2,500 [132022] 30 32 32 30 DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and . . I am asked whether I would choose to be descended DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous Medi- Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Mur- from the poor animal . . . or from a man, endowed with ray, 1871 great ability and a splendid position, who should use cine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 these gifts . . . to discredit and crush humble seekers 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered in Octavo. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With gilt, panels blocked to covers in blind, original green endpa- after truth, I hesitate what answer to make’” (The Life and the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. A pers in vol. II; vol. I recased with new black endpapers. With Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, 1901). Harcourt invented a fine copy a fine jacket, with spine panel notably unfaded. black and white illustrations in text. Cloth in nice, bright device to administer chloroform as an anaesthetic, and condition with only a few patches of light rubbing, vol. II was part of the committee which founded Somerville with slight lean to spine, minor nicking at spine ends, and Hall (later Somerville College) in Oxford. split to front hinge; contents with some foxing to initial and Freeman 937. final leaves yet otherwise clean. A very good copy. first edition, first issue of both volumes (vol. I £8,500 [135471] with “transmitted” on p. 297; vol. II with errata on the verso of the title leaf ). Here the word “evolution” 33 appears for the first time in any of Darwin’s works, DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of the David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, Origin the following year. 1850 provenance: from the library of Augustus George Ver- non Harcourt (1834–1919), chemist, with his book label Octavo (211 × 131 mm). Late 19th-century calf by J. Rimmell, twin orange and green morocco labels, spine gilt to compart- to the front pastedowns (transposed to the new endpa- ments, double gilt fillet to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled end- pers for vol. I). Harcourt was present at the famous Ox- papers, gilt edges. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title page ford evolution debate of 1860 that included T. H. Huxley and 38 plates. With the bookplate of the Cornish collector (“Darwin’s bulldog”), and Bishop Wilberforce, later Leonard Daneham Cunliffe (1860–1937). Bound without the giving an account to Huxley’s son Leonard of how “the half title. Plates toned, some light foxing. A very good copy. Bishop had rallied your father as to the descent from first edition. In his preface to the 1867 edition, a monkey, asking as a sort of joke how recent this had Dickens called the novel his “favourite child”, a senti- been, whether it was his grandfather or further back. ment shared by many readers. It first appeared in 19 Your father . . . explained that the suggestion was of descent through thousands of generations from a com- 31 mon ancestor, and then went on to this effect—’But if .

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34 35 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. Lon- DICKENS, Charles. The Works. London: Chap- don: J. M. Dent; & E. P. Dutton, New York, 1905 man and Hall, [c.1890] Octavo. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine and 30 volumes, octavo (190 × 122 mm). Contemporary dark boards gilt, plain cream endpapers, top edge gilt. With 8 red half morocco, raised bands, titles and decorations to colour illustrations and 10 black and white illustrations by C. compartments gilt, marbled sides, edges, and endpapers. E. Brock. Neat gift inscription to binder’s front blank, some Illustrated throughout by amongst others Robert Seymour, mild tanning to pages, boards ever so slightly bowed and a George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), George couple of trivial spots to front board. Overall a bright and Cattermole, John Leech. Spines slightly sunned, boards a clean copy in very good condition. touch rubbed, light wear to extremities, light spotting to first brock edition of Dickens’s first and most prelims and endmatters. An excellent set. enduring Christmas gift book, originally published A handsomely bound set of the Library Edition of in 1843. Dickens’s collected works. £1,250 [134510] £3,750 [107311]

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36 DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo.London: Macmillan Children’s Books, 2007 Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine in gilt, illustration to front cover in gilt surrounding 38 mounted colour illustration, illustrated vignette to rear cover, illustrated endpapers. Housed in the original pictorial slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Axel Scheffler. A fine copy in the slip- first gift edition, signed by both the author Hatchards bookshop confirming that only 500 copies case with the publisher’s stickers to front and rear panels. and illustrator on the title page, with an original of this edition were signed. small ink drawing of the mouse by Scheffler alongside £1,000 [134007] his signature. The Gruffalo was first published in 1999 and won the Smarties Book Prize in the same year. 38 £1,500 [134006] DONNE, John. Poems, By J. D. With elegies 37 on the authors death. London: printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting, 1654 DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo’s Child. Small octavo (83 × 139 mm). Handsomely bound to style London: Macmillan Children’s Books, 2008 without initial blank A1 in red morocco panelled in gilt, spine Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustra- fully gilt, dark green morocco label, gilt edges, marbled end- tion to front cover in silver surrounding mounted colour il- papers by Bernard Middleton. Engraved frontispiece por- lustration, illustrated vignette to rear cover in silver, red end- trait engraved by William Marshall, carefully trimmed and papers. Housed in the original pictorial slipcase. Illustrated mounted. Faint even toning, a few minor paper restorations by Axel Scheffler. A fine copy. at lower outer corner not affecting text, a very good copy. first gift edition, signed by both author fourth edition overall, though a reissue, with and illustrator on the title page, with an original cancel title page, of the 1650 third edition. small ink drawing of the Gruffalo’s Child by Scheffler ESTC R5320; Keynes 83; Wing D1870. alongside his signature. The Gruffalo’s Child was first £5,000 [134530] 37 published in September 2004. With a certificate from

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39 day anniversary. Thank you very much for thinking of ies). The earliest copies issued were in a binding with (DULAC, Edmund.) FITZGERALD, Edward. me Dwight D Eisenhower”. Crusade in Europe is Eisen- paper-covered boards, with this binding of cloth-cov- hower’s memoir of his wartime experiences, in his role ered boards following. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: Hodder as Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. This was Eliot’s third book of poetry. The title of and Stoughton, [1909] £5,000 [135736] the book was in fact an error: Eliot said “It only hap- Quarto. Original vellum, titles and decoration to spine and pened to be Vus on the title page because I don’t know front cover in gilt, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt, oth- Provençal, and I was quoting from an Italian edition ers uncut, later silk ties. With 20 tipped in colour plates and 41 of Dante the editor of which apparently did not know printed paper guards. Advertisement for a Dulac exhibi- Italian either” (see Gallup). The mistake was noticed tion loosely inserted. Light soiling to vellum, covers a little ELIOT, T. S. Ara Vus Prec. London: The Ovid in time for the correct title of Ara Vos Prec to be printed bowed, else a very good copy. Press, 1919 on the spine-label. signed limited edition, number 488 of 750 cop- Quarto. Original yellow quarter cloth with black cloth sides, Gallup A4a. ies signed by Dulac. white paper label to spine printed in black. Initials by Ed- ward Wadsworth. Spine lightly darkened with small mark at £2,500 [135422] £1,750 [134398] head, slight bumping at extremities. A very good copy. first edition, number 118 of 220 copies from a 42 40 total edition of 264 (the remainder of the edition ELIOT, T. S. [Four Quartets:] East Coker; The EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. comprising signed, japon-printed, and review cop- Dry Salvages; Burnt Norton; Little Gidding. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948 London: Faber and Faber, 1940–41 Octavo. Original light brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground, facsimile signature to front cover in black, top 4 volumes, octavo. Original coloured wrappers, titles printed edge gilt, others uncut. In the original card slipcase. With 16 in black on front covers. Ink ownership inscription to front black and white plates, 4 double-page maps, and 38 full-page free endpaper of Little Gidding. Occasional slight sunning and maps to the text. A fine copy, in the slipcase which is a little wear to extremities, light foxing to Burnt Norton, else a very worn but still holding. good set indeed. first edition, signed limited issue, number 633 first edition of each of the separately-published Four of 1,426 copies signed by Eisenhower on the leaf that Quartets, except East Coker, which is the third (first Faber) prints his D-Day message to the troops. Loosely in- edition as usual, following two rare offprint issues. serted is a Western Union telegram from Eisenhower, Gallup A36c, A37, A39, A42. 19 October 1959, to Stanley O’Styles, the Comptroller £1,000 [133955] of Customs for New York, reading “I am more than grateful for your message of good wishes on my birth- 40

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43 ture dated 1947 to front free endpaper. Very light rubbing to piece portrait of Ian Fleming with tissue guard. Spine gently cloth, yet still a near-fine, tight copy. cocked, vellum bright, slight fading to edge of front cover, a (FERRARI.) Ferrari 1947–1997. London: Hay- first edition. little foxing to contents. A very good copy. nes Publishing, 1998 Bruccoli A15.I.a. first edition, signed limited issue. Number Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in crimson mo- 204 of 250 copies signed by the author; a further 35 rocco, titles to spine gilt, two raised bands, onlay of Ferrari £1,250 [134393] unnumbered copies marked “Presentation” were also symbol to front board, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green issued. This was Fleming’s only signed limited edi- endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. 46 tion; it was published simultaneously with the first first uk trade edition. FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, trade edition on 1 April 1963. £1,950 [132078] 1958 Gilbert A11a. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, “Honey- £12,500 [134617] 44 chile” silhouette on the front cover in brown. With the dust jacket. Edges and initial and final few leaves lightly foxed. A FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. very good copy in the slightly foxed dust jacket, single small New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925 chip at foot of front fold. Octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettered spine, blind first edition, second state binding, with the lettered front board, top edge trimmed, others uncut. In- “Honeychile” silhouette on the front cover, no prior- ternally nice and fresh, some rubbing to spine tips, minor ity of issue. Dr No is the sixth novel in the James Bond bump to top of spine panel. A very good copy. series, and was the first to be turned into a film, star- first edition, first state of the text, with all the ring Sean Connery, in 1962. points. Gilbert A6a (1.3). Bruccoli A11.I.a. £1,875 [134391] £3,950 [133668] 47 45 FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Ser- FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. vice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 A Romance. Decorations by Edward Shen- Octavo. Original quarter vellum with black cloth sides, titles ton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934 to spine in gilt, ski track decoration to front board in white, Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Illustra- top edge gilt. Housed in a custom black leather solander box tions in the text by Edward Shenton. Inked ownership signa- with diamanté ski track decoration to front. Colour frontis- 47

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48 (FLEMING, Ian.) BURNINGHAM, John. Three Chitty Chitty Bang Bang lithographs. [London: Queen Anne Press, 2014] Three lithograph prints on art paper (297 × 420 mm). A fine set. Three lithographs signed and numbered by John Burn- ingham, each number 6 of 15. The prints are from a limited run of lithographs produced alongside the Queen Anne Press’s 2014 deluxe edition of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The deluxe edition, for which Burningham reworked his original illustrations, was released to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first Chitty Chitty Bang Bang adventure. Included in the deluxe edition were two lithographs printed in a smaller format. The prints depict the car crashing, flying, and sailing, and are referred to by the Press under the titles “Gang- sters”, “Flying Car”, and “Ship” respectively. For Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, see also item 226. £5,000 [134264]

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Louis) were well known engravers and publishers of Octavo. Original black and pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, ephemera in deluxe and gift bindings, particularly pink endpapers. With the printed acetate dust jacket and women’s almanacs; Louis moved to rue St Jacques publisher’s yellow card slipcase. A fine copy. 59—the location of the imprint—in 1819. The BL first edition in english, signed limited is- 49 hold two examples in a similar casing style to ours sue, number 180 of 350 copies signed by the author (shelfmark c108bb8), both from the Petit souvenir des and specially bound. The novel was originally pub- 49 dames series [c. 1821], and the Bodleian holds another, lished in Colombia in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos Le berceau de lys (shelfmark Broxb. 1.33). Of the Blanche del cólera. The US edition preceded the UK by a few (FRENCH BINDING.) Chansonnier dédié Marguerite verse collection specifically, OCLC traces months. aux Demoiselles. Blanche Marguerite. Paris: just one copy, at the Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow £2,750 [135379] Louis Janet, [c.1828–30] Library in New York, part of the Corning Museum of Glass, the world’s most comprehensive collection of Sextodecimo (101 × 62 mm). Contemporary gilt metal cas- 51 ing, raised leaf decoration to spine and raised dot decora- materials on the art and history of glass and glass- tion to board borders, thin glass sides over grey and white making. The Rakow copy has the same contents and GOGOL, Nikolai. Dead Souls, or Tchit- marbled paper boards, hand-coloured engraved illustration collation but differs in having a folded calendar for chikoff ’s Journeys. Translated from the Rus- beneath front panel depicting a winged woman posing in 1829 glued in at the rear and a variant illustration to sian by Isabel F. Hapgood. London: John and front of a looking glass, her attendant in the background, the front. Library Hub adds a copy of Blanche Margue- title above lettered in black, blue moire endpapers, all edges rite at the National Trust (Sissinghurst Castle), noting Robert Maxwell, [1887] gilt. Housed in a contemporary yellow plain card slipcase. 2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Engraved title page with pastoral vignette, 4 engraved plates that it has a 12-page calendar at the rear dated 1828. covers blocked in gilt and blind. Monogram booklabels— with tissue guards, 1 double-sided folding plate to rear with Commercially, a copy is recorded as having sold at ”E.H.C.F”—to front pastedowns; faint pencil signature of the calendar for 1830 (Janvier with the misprint 1850, Juillet Thierry de Maigret on 6 April 2012 (lot 93). Dennis Smith to front free endpapers. Spines a little sunned dated 1830) glued in at rear, decorated with a seasonal head- See Charles Ramsden, French bookbinders, 1789–1848, L. Hum and soiled with a small chip to vol. II, light wear to extremi- piece of 4 engraved landscapes. Gilt casing notably bright phries, 1950, p. 109 (Janet, Pierre-Étienne). ties, hinges just beginning to split, light abrasion to front and untarnished, the gilt flaked along rear joint but joint free endpaper of volume I. A very good copy. itself firm, a little minor flaking and cockling to marbling £1,875 [133875] of front board, tiny closed tear to pp. 27–8, contents occa- first complete edition in english, and the first sionally tanned and spotted, calendar partly split along fold. 50 under this title, UK issue from the US sheets with a can- Overall in very good condition. cel title page (the US sheets published by T. Y. Crowell, a beautifully preserved, finely bound GARCIA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. Love in the New York, 1886). The novel first appeared in English french songbook from the janet workshop. Time of Cholera. Translated from the Span- in 1854 under the title Home Life in Russia, but that was The British Library’s Database of Bookbindings notes ish by Edith Grossman. New York: Alfred A. an adaptation of part 1 only, with an altered ending. that the Janets (both father, Pierre-Étienne, and son, Knopf, 1988 The translations from the Russian of Isabel Florence

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Hapgood (1851–1928) “were numerous and in their day influential . . . She was one of the early translators of Gogol and Tolstoy, and it is a sign of the popularity of things Russian that her versions of Gogol’s Dead Souls and Taras Bulba were immediately reissued without 53 acknowledgement by the enterprising publisher Vize- telly, who contented himself with having them slightly spine and front board, brown coated endpapers, top edge 53 revised” (Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in custom black half mo- vol. IV, p. 315). The pirated edition of Vizetelly was pub- rocco box with titles in gilt to spine. Frontispiece and 6 (GOLF.) DARWIN, Bernard. Hints on Golf. lished a month after this UK issue of the first edition, plates, with tissue guards, Plan of the Golfing Course over With supplement on Golfing Kit. London: and the two should not be confused. St Andrew’s Links coloured in outline, title page printed in Burberrys, [1912] Dead Souls was first published in Moscow in 1852 un- red and black within ornamental gilt borders, numerous in-text illustrations. Ink presentation inscription “To E. H. Octavo. Original tan cloth-backed buff paper boards, titles der the censor-imposed title The Adventures of Chichik- ?Widwell in memory of his friend, May 1909”, and pencilled to front boards in black. 13 full-page illustrations, three sil- ov, and told the story of a middling gentleman intent ownership inscription of Patrick Welsh, both to first blank. A houettes in the text, illustration of the “pivot sleeve” in text on raising his social standing by buying the names little rubbed, occasional foxing, a very good copy. at p. 46. Imposing bookplate of Arvid Eriksson (1898–1976), Swedish army officer and director of the Gymnastiska Cen- of deceased serfs from landowners in order to com- first trade edition of this history of the game, mit fraud. Gogol’s original intention was to publish tralinstitutet in 1926. Only slight wear to extremities of “among the earliest on golf ” (Sommers, p. 33), com- spine. A particularly nice copy. a further two parts mimicking the structure of the piled by Scottish book publisher and golfer, Robert first and sole edition of Darwin’s scarcest book, Divine Comedy. In the second part Chichikov would Clark, at a time when golf was gaining popularity. It produced for marketing purposes by the London experience a moral transformation corresponding to includes extracts of the minutes of the first hundred outfitters Burberrys. Darwin’sHints are as pertinent purgatory, but Gogol burned the manuscript shortly years of the five oldest Scottish golf clubs, an histori- as ever, although in this publication they naturally before his death. cal account of golf, and a large collection of golf re- include a special emphasis on the need for appropri- Bibliography of Russian Literature in English Translation, p. 19. lated articles from contemporary magazines. ate golfing attire. The full-page illustrations are most Uncommon: OCLC lists eight copies held institu- £2,250 [132518] appealing and show dress for both men and women. tionally in the UK (most in Scotland) and a further Highly uncommon, Copac cites only the British Li- ten in the US. 52 brary copy among British and Irish institutional li- Donovan & Murdoch 900; Robin Sommers, Golf Anecdotes: From braries; OCLC adds Scotland and Minnesota. (GOLF.) CLARK, Robert (ed.) Golf: A Royal the Links of Scotland to Tiger Woods, OUP (1995). Donovan & Murdoch 14110. and Ancient Game. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1875 £1,250 [135552] Quarto. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, Burn & Co’s £1,750 [133837] binders ticket to rear pastedown, titles in gilt and black to

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54 GRASLIN, Jean. Essai analytique sur la ri- chesse et sur l’impôt. London: [but Paris?: no publisher,] 1767 Octavo (192 × 120 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled and decorated gilt, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges, silk ribbon marker. Printer’s device on ti- 55 tle, decorative vignette chapter headings at the beginning of each part. Printed slip pasted opposite the title (“On trouve des Exemplaires à Paris, chez Guillyn, Libraire; Quai des Au- ticipant in the republic of letters”. “He monitored his front board with skull-and-crossbones ornament in red, rear gustins. Et à Nantes, chez la Veuve Vatar, & Fils, Libraires- library carefully, watching out for new volumes to be board stamped with black rectangular Borzoi Books device, Imprimeurs du Roi”). A few wormholes to the front joint, added, keeping his catalogue up to date, and making top edge purple, fore edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket il- repairs to head of spine, corners, and a couple of patches to sure that borrowed items were returned” (Medlin, p. lustrated by F. H. Horvath, with a plot summary of this title on rear panel and blurbs of Red Harvest on the front panel, priced rear board, pale dampstain to lower margin of a few leaves, 574). The subsequent auction in 1819 raised a total of and the odd spot; a very good copy. $2.00. Housed in a custom flat-back blue cloth box. Title page 22,169 francs; this copy was lot number 1370. printed in brown and black, with skull-and-crossbones vi- rare first edition of one of the most important Einaudi 2683; Goldsmiths’ 10266; Higgs 4142; INED 2126; Kress gnette in brown. A near-fine copy, with a very slight lean and works written against the physiocrats, this copy from 6442. See Dorothy Medlin, “André Morellet’s Library”, Libraries & fade to spine and faint traces of soiling to extremities, in an the library of Abbé André Morellet, with his engraved Culture, Vol. 31, No. 3/4, pp. 574–602. about near-fine jacket, the spine sunned, extremities worn bookplate to the front pastedown. £3,750 [135091] with some chipping and a few short closed tears, the front One of the few enlightenment writers to live into panel remaining notably bright. and beyond the years of the Revolution and Napoleon, first edition of Hammett’s second book and the 55 André Morellet (1727–1819) wrote numerous treatises final Continental Op novel, one of the two hardest in favour of economic liberalisation and contributed HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Dain Curse. New to find in the dust jacket and thus genuinely uncom- articles to Diderot’s Encyclopédie. Morellet’s library York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929 mon in such a well-preserved, unrestored state. It is a was vast—eventually numbering 4,718 items—and Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine decoratively stamped and sensational example of golden age book production. reflected “seven decades of reading by a diligent par- lettered in black and red, black single-line border stamped to

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trunk and limbs of the novel together, as originally written’” (Purdy). Printed in the week of 29 November 1891 in an edition of 1,000 copies, Tess proved an immediate success and a second issue of 500 copies was published in February the following year. As the triple-decker format was chiefly adopted for sale to lending-libraries, copies retaining the original cloth in collectable condition are scarce. provenance: fine engraved bookplate of Charles C. Auchincloss (1881–1961), noted bibliophile and member of the Grolier Club; bookplate (front free 56 endpaper) of the distinguished lepidopterist Richard Bayer Dominick (1919–1976). The Dain Curse was originally serialized in four parts Housed in custom blue cloth chemises within blue half mo- Purdy pp. 67–78; Sadleir 1114; Webb pp. 24–26; Wolff 2993. in Black Mask from November 1928 to February 1929 rocco box, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides. Contem- but, at the suggestion of Knopf, Hammett revised it porary library stamp of W. H. Smith to front free endpaper £12,500 [133531] for publication as a novel. As a first printing this copy of vol. I. Front joint of vol. I expertly repaired, light finger- soiling to cloth. A very attractive copy. has the issue point of “dopped in” for “dropped in” at 57 first edition in book form, first issue with the line 19, page 260. HARDY, Thomas. Wessex Poems. London: Layman A2.1.a. requisite points. Tess of the d’Urbervilles was originally published as a serial in the Graphic from July to De- Harper & Brothers, 1898 £47,500 [132576] cember 1891, with two episodes—the seduction of Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine in gilt, gilt device Tess by Alec d’Urberville and the baptism and death to front cover, some leaves unopened, top edge gilt, others 56 of Tess’s baby—removed by the editor. “This tem- uncut. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 13 illustrated plates, illustrations in text throughout by the author. Gentle bumps porary dismemberment of the novel necessitated HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. to fore-corners of front board, otherwise a fine bright copy. changes in plot, such as the introduction of a mock A Pure Woman. London: James R. Osgood, McIl- marriage and the omission of the encounter with the first edition, one of 500 copies. An exceptional vaine and Co., 1891 painter of texts, and there were numerous scattered copy of Hardy’s first volume of verse, rare thus. 3 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, spines lettered bowdlerizations and omissions. When the novel £3,000 [134116] in gilt, two-stem honeysuckle design by Charles Ricketts was published in book form the original text was, to front covers blocked in gilt, bottom edges untrimmed. of course, restored, and Hardy was able to ‘piece the

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58 HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Law, Legisla- tion and Liberty. A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973–9 3 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt on blue grounds. With the dust jackets. Vol. II an ex-library copy (Rochester Institute of Technology library) and showing the signs, with their stamp to each edge, the shadow of an old li- 60

brary label to the sunned spine panel, the front pastedown with 59 extensive residue from their plate, their shelfmark and pocket to front free endpaper, tape residue to rear pastedown. The oth- HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the er volumes are in better shape, with some light toning and sun- Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952 ning, some soiling to rear panel of vol. III. Overall a good set. Octavo. Original light blue calico-grain cloth, spine lettered first u.s. editions of each volume of Hayek’s last in silver, author’s name to front board in blind. With the pic- major work of social philosophy, published over a torial dust jacket. Spine and board edges a little browned, seven-year period. In many ways the culmination of wear to head of spine, rubbing to extremities, a couple of his philosophical career, Law, Legislation and Liberty was marks to cloth, top edge dust toned; a very good copy in the bright, slightly cockled jacket with very neat tape repair to Hayek’s most extensive philosophical analysis of the verso at ends of rear flap fold. structure of society, the nature of justice, and the un- derlying principles of economics. The work joins The first edition, in the first issue jacket, with the Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty in the tri- flaps printed in brown and no mention of Heming- umvirate of Hayek’s three philosophical masterworks. way’s Pulitzer or Nobel Prize to the rear panel. Previ- The UK and US editions, both printed in Britain, were ously, much has been made of the colour tint on the published the same years, apparently simultaneously. rear panel portrait by Lee Samuels. Grissom, however, refutes Hanneman’s earlier assertion that the blue Cody & Ostrem B–15, B–16, B–18. tinted photograph on the rear panel predates the ol- £1,750 [135360] ive tint, noting, “the identification of a first-printing 59

24 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington jacket does not require identifying ambiguous rear- 61 As in other presentation copies of this work Hughes jacket colours: It is the brown printing on the flaps HUGHES, Ted. Remains of Elmet. London: has completed in holograph the poem “Grouse-Butts” and rear panel that identify the first-printing Scrib- (p. 60), his bibliographers noting that these closing ner’s jacket”. Hemingway’s final work of fiction and Faber & Faber, 1979 10 lines (beginning “I see a hill beyond a hill beyond among his best-known works, The Old Man and the Sea Quarto. Original grey cloth-backed boards, black paper to a hill | cries the hen-bird, with imperious eyes”) were was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and sides, spine lettered in black. With the photographic dust inadvertently omitted here “owing to a printer’s er- was cited by the Nobel Committee in their awarding jacket. Black and white photographs by Fay Godwin in the ror”. The poem was originally published in full in the text. Very slight rubbing to bottom edge of boards; a near- of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. fine copy in the jacket with a little creasing to edges. New Statesman on 17 February 1978. Hughes has also Grissom A24.1.a; Hanneman 24a. provided in manuscript a small textual correction to first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the page 89, changing the word “the” to “their”. £2,750 [134756] author three weeks after publication, “For Janos with This work was issued in wrappers simultaneously. lots of love from Ted June 16th 1979”, on the half-title. 60 The recipient was Janos Csokits (1928–2011), a Hungar- £1,000 [135038] ian poet and close friend of Hughes, who worked with HOUSMAN, A. E. A Shropshire Lad. London: him on the translation of fellow Hungarian poet, János Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd, 1896 Pilinszky. Csokits was introduced to Hughes through Octavo. Original japon-backed paper boards, paper spine his sister Olwyn, whom Csokits met while living in Paris label printed in red, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom between 1950 and 1963. Ted Hughes and Csokits then dark green morocco backed book-form slipcase and che- engaged in a regular correspondence in preparation for mise. Title page printed in red and black. Contemporary a Hungarian issue of Hughes’s poetry journal Modern ink gift inscription and pencil ownership inscription to half- title, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Slight toning Poetry in Translation. While that volume never came to at fore-edge of the boards, and slight rubbing to the tips, but fruition, in the late 1960s Hughes embarked on a new otherwise a fine copy. project translating the poems of Pilinszky, a Catholic ex- first edition, first issue (state A, with the word istentialist poet. Csokits moved to London in 1974 with “Shropshire” on the paper spine label measuring the specific aim of finalizing the Pilinszky project with 33 mm wide, one of 250 copies thus), of Housman’s Hughes, which Carcanet New Press brought out as Se- lected Poems in 1976. influential poetry collection. This is the fine Bradley 61 Martin copy, with his bookplate to the chemise. The entire first printing, made at Housman’s expense after Macmillan rejected the book, consisted of 500 sets of sheets, of which 250 were bound for this first issue, 150 were exported to the US for sale with an 1897 title page, and 100 bound up slightly later in a second state binding, also for the UK. “Though not an instant success, the little volume gradually won a large audience through the uni- versality of its dominant themes (nature, love, war, and death) and the directness of its language and rhythms. In a period of war, uneasy peace, and rapid social change, Housman was one of the most familiar and most highly regarded of the poets of his time. His celebration of landscapes and a rural life distinctively and traditionally English contributed to his poetry’s appeal” (ODNB). Carter–Sparrow–White 2; Hayward 305. £8,500 [134741]

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63 HUXLEY, Aldous. Crome Yellow. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, paper title label to spine printed in green, new label overlaid—original spare label laid in at the end—top edge green, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. The book fine, with the jacket lightly chipped at ends and corners, small split just starting at top end of front joint fold and tail end of rear joint fold, front fore-edge fold somewhat creased and a small trivial perforation to middle of rear fore-edge fold, still a very nice copy. 62 63 first edition of the author’s breakthrough novel, a satire of Ottoline Morrell’s celebrity gatherings at 62 or the third edition of 1756. ESTC calls for a terminal Garsington Manor. The dust jacket is very scarce; we can only trace five copies in almost half a century of HUME, David. [Essays and Treatises on Sev- errata leaf, here not present; Vol. III: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. auction records. eral Subjects.] London: A. Millar (vols. I–III); Ed- Second edition of 1753. Matches Todd, following the Connolly 100. inburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson (vols. I and issues of the 1751 edition with new title pages. With £6,500 [134527] IV), & R. Fleming (vol. IV), 1750–1753 the terminal advertisement leaf present; Vol. IV: Political Discourses. Second edition of 1752. 4 volumes, duodecimo (159 × 99m). Contemporary calf, 64 spines numbered in gilt. Light chipping at spine ends and Matches Todd issue b. Initial advertisement leaf minor wear to tips. A very nice, unrestored set. present. ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Sally Bowles. An attractive set of Hume’s Essays and Treatises. Pro- provenance: fine contemporary armorial book- London: The Hogarth Press, 1937 duced by reissuing and reprinting earlier separate plates of W. Wynne, with motto in Welsh “ni bydd Octavo. Disbound, with later brown paper wrappers and editions in a new collected format, Essays and Treatises doeth na ddarilenno” (He will not be wise who will fresh endpapers added by the Spenders. Housed in a red is a bibliographical nightmare at the best of times, not read), possibly William Wynne DD (d. 1776) of morocco-backed slipcase with patterned cloth sides and produced by the “resetting of all separate volumes Tower, near Mold, Flintshire; the arms (on a bend ar- chemise. With the bookplate of Stephen & Natasha Spender, and later bookplate of Barry Humphries, to front endpaper. previously issued, the reissue of the earlier volumes gent a lion passant) are correct for this branch of the A clean copy. with cancel titles and, where the cancels were not Wynne family; he appears as a subscriber to a number prepared in sufficient numbers, the further reissue of of books in the 1750s and Pennant quotes his epitaph certain volumes with original titles still intact” (Todd in A Tour in Wales (1778). Wynne, or another early own- p. 195). The present set would appear to be an unre- er, has written a page of commentary on Hume on the corded issue (the binding has similarities to trade front free endpaper of the first volume: “Tho’ this au- bindings of the period), or the result of a contempo- thor a good deal offsets the air of candour and inge- rary owner compiling it himself, volumes 2 and 4 be- nuity, it is like a grimace; and upon the whole he rath- ing without the general title pages of the published er perplexes then clears up truths. I believe, prides collected edition. himself in the character of a refined & accomplished This set is comprised of the following volumes: Deist. It shews more than ordinary affectation in set- Vol. I: Essays Moral and Political. Fourth edition of 1753. ting forth familiar things with the pomp & pedantry Matches Todd issue a; of novelty & learning, & is in my opinion a most self Vol. II: Philosophical Essays. Second edition, first issue sufficient, important coxcomb—Ld. Bolingbroke. of 1750. Does not conform to Todd, who calls for later He, and some other late writers sadly mistake their issues of the edition with a new title page dated 1753, talents, when they quit political subjects to treat of 64

26 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 65 66 first edition, presentation copy inscribed rarest and most popular of the author’s stories. When to stephen spender on the half-title, “For Ste- first issue copies do emerge, they are more usually in 67 phen with Christopher’s love”. Sally Bowles was the wrappers—examples in cloth appear to be even rarer, key second work in the series of Berlin novels which with the last other to appear at auction being in 1940 at 67 would be gathered into Goodbye Berlin (1939). Spender, Parke Bernet, from the library of Paul Lemperley. JAMES, P. D. Cover Her Face. London: Faber Auden, and Isherwood spent their formative post- Edel & Laurence A8a. university years living together in Weimar Berlin in and Faber, 1962 the late 1920s, making this a canonical association £10,000 [134731] Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust copy. It has only just emerged from the collection of jacket. A very good copy in the dust jacket, very lightly toned Barry Humphries, who married Stephen’s daughter 66 and soiled, large stain to the verso but not visible on recto. Lizzie. Though now disbound, it is possible that this JAMES, Henry. The Two Magics. The Turn first edition of the author’s first book, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper copy was a proof presented in advance of bound cop- of the Screw, Covering End. London: William ies being ready. “To Geir Moe Sorensen with every good wish from Heinemann, 1898 the author P. D. James” and additionally inscribed on £5,000 [134524] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in the title page “To Moe P. D. James”. Uncommon in gilt, four irises to front cover in blind. Ownership signature the dust jacket, and especially so inscribed. 65 of John Borland dated 1898 to front free endpaper and his stamp to half-title. Very light sunning to top half of spine £8,000 [135464] JAMES, Henry. Daisy Miller. New York: Harper and exceedingly minor marking to cloth, light foxing to ini- & Brothers, Publishers, 1879 [1878] tial and final few leaves, yet overall a near-fine, bright copy. 32mo. Original dark green cloth, titles and imprint to spine first edition, first issue, in the iris-blocked and sides in red and black, pale grey endpapers. Housed in binding. The Two Magics includes the first appearance a custom blue cloth-backed folding case with marbled sides. in book form of The Turn of the Screw, widely acknowl- Contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front endpa- edged as one of the greatest ghost stories in the lan- pers. Spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to ends and corners guage, following its serialized appearance in Collier’s with a minor dent at fore-edge of front board, a little toned within, but on the whole an excellent copy. Weekly magazine (27 January–16 April 1898). Edel and Laurence A52a. first edition, rare first issue with only 79 titles in the Harper Half-Hour Series adverts at the front of £3,250 [135407] the book, this example in cloth (copies were also issued in wrappers). Daisy Miller, which first appeared in the Cornhill Magazine (June–July 1878), is both one of the 67

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 27 68 JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, 1794 Octavo (206 × 121 mm). Contemporary American tree sheep, smooth spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label. Large folding map, and a folding table describing the American tribes of Virginia. Front free endpaper with early ownership inscription to recto pasted down, with the 20th-century stamp of G. W. Mumford on verso, repeated to title page and p. 41. Other than a few minor patches of light rubbing to sheep, a short closed tear to the folding map, and very minor foxing, an exceptional copy. first american edition with the large folding map of virginia (second overall), in unrestored contemporary american sheep in remarkably fine condition. This edition fol- lows the very rare Parisian first edition of 1785, the London edition of 1787, and the first US edition of 1788. This was the first American edition to haveNotes on the State of Virginia was the only full-length book published by Jefferson during his lifetime, “probably the most important scientific and political book written by an American before 1785,” the document upon which “much of Jefferson’s contemporary fame as a philosopher was based”, and “the best single statement of Jefferson’s principles” (Peden, Introduction to Notes on the State of Virginia, pp. v–xi). Jefferson’s book was written as responses to a wide-ranging question- naire, an Enlightened project of François Barbé-Mar-

bois, secretary of the French legation to the United Virginia or North American birds, Jefferson discusses States, which was circulated among members of the in detail most of his major intellectual, social, politi- Continental Congress. His queries encompassed the cal, scientific, and ethical beliefs” (ibid, p. v). topography, natural history, climate, population, the ESTC W28694; Evans 27162; Goldsmiths’ 15923. laws and constitution, religious practices, commerce and finances of the State. Jefferson was perhaps the £9,500 [134433] only man in America capable of answering such an encyclopaedic interrogation with precision, a firm 69 grasp of the complexities of the context, and, at the JONES, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and same time, elegance, creating “an engrossing com- Verse. Oxford: printed; and delivered by Mr. Dod- mentary on various aspects of American life . . . along with accounts of such factual matters as iron mines in sley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Clements in Oxford, and Mr. 68 Frederick in Bath, 1750

28 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington friends a host of literary figures including Charlotte Lennox, publisher and critic Ralph Griffiths, and Thomas Warton. She later worked as postmistress for Oxford and, at the time of her death, owned five houses in the city. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, her most famous work, was published by subscription in 1750. The distinguished list of 1,680 subscribers was “a major form of recognition, since an average subscription list in the 18th century would have about two hundred names, and anything with over one thousand subscribers was considered a noteworthy accomplishment . . . It had one of the largest and most illustrious lists of subscribers on record, with nearly two hundred members of the nobility and an array of highly ranked members of the government, the army, the navy, and the clergy” (Kennedy, pp. 170–1). Headed by the Princess Royal, to whom the work was dedicated, the list includes the poets Sarah Dixon, the Countess of Hertford, and Elizabeth Carter, plus Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, David Garrick, and Horace Walpole. Demonstrating an impressive range of literary reference—from Bunyan and Milton to Mary Barber and Sarah Fielding—the letters are “full of the business of poetry and authorship, including now well-known passages about how men value cooking more than writing in women” (ibid.). The collection also com- prises several essays, the first being a fantasy in which a woman studies in the Bodleian Library and is con- ferred an honorary degree with the title “Mistress of Arts” from Oxford University (“Abstract of an Order of 69 Convocation in relation to Melissa’s taking off Medals, &c. in Paper”, pp. 159–164). The collection received pencil mark next to Sir Edward Popper’s name in the list warm praise in the Monthly Review. Roger Lonsdale has of subscribers. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine somewhat argued her to be “one of the most intelligent and amus- dulled, front joint a little tender at foot with a few tiny worming women writers of her period” (p. 156). holes to it and rear joint, boards faintly scuffed in places with one instance of stripping to rear, short tear to foot of provenance: the English politician Sir Edward Pop- 68 front free endpaper at gutter but holding very firm, pencilled ham (1711?–1772) served successively as MP for Great initials to title page verso; a crisp, clean copy with the very Bedwyn and Wiltshire. Large octavo (231 × 137 mm). Contemporary red morocco, occasional faint smudge to margins and splendidly bound. Foxon, p. 391 (lists a “fine paper” copy). See Kennedy, Deborah, twin black morocco spine labels, the first lettered “MISCEL- first edition of the author’s only book, a Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, Bucknell Univer- LANIES”, the second decoratively tooled in gilt, remaining beautifully bound subscriber’s copy, one of sity Press, 2013; Lonsdale, Roger, ed., Eighteenth-Century Women compartments (including the fourth in dark yellow mo- Poets: An Oxford Anthology, Oxford University Press, 1989; Notes rocco) and raised bands similarly elaborately tooled in gilt, 332 copies printed on royal paper, this from the and Queries, 6 September 1879, p. 198, quoted in Kennedy; Mary boards bordered with single gilt fillet and triangular roll, library of Sir Edward Popham of Littlecote. Jones’s entry in Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the large gilt cornerpieces fanning outwards comprised of leaf, Born in Oxford, where she lived all her life, Mary Beginning to the Present, Cambridge University Press, accessed on- fleuron, and scroll motifs, each encompassing three roun- Jones (1707–1778) was a well-connected poet and line 14 August 2019. dels encircling a two-headed griffin, gilt roll to board edges letter-writer whose work was greatly influenced £6,750 [134908] and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, green silk book by Alexander Pope. Samuel Johnson called her the marker. Engraved head- and tailpieces. Later engraved ar- “Chantress”—a play on her occupation, her brother’s morial bookplate of the Littlecote estate to front pastedown, later small printed label of E. W. Leyborne Popham neatly position as ‘chanter’ at Christ Church cathedral, and clipped and pasted to front free endpaper verso, marginal a Miltonic reference—and she counted among her

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70 been large since Huebsch had sold out by March 1917 signed by Joyce; 150 large paper copies were printed JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a and called for a second printing by April. on heavier vergé d’Arches, and the remaining 750 copies Slocum & Cahoon A11. formed this slightly smaller format trade issue. Ul- Young Man. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916 ysses was published on 2 February 1922. Sylvia Beach’s Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, blind lettered £8,500 [132768] notebook records that this copy was sent to the front cover. Housed in a blue morocco backed slipcase and American book wholesalers, Stevens and Brown, on chemise. Very slight rubbing to ends and corners, two very 71 18 February. Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of minor white marks to front board, otherwise all sound and bright and generally in excellent condition. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and the Egoist Press and Joyce’s agent for Ulysses, pressed Company, 1922 Sylvia Beach to grant a larger discount to wholesal- first edition, a lovely copy from the li- ers and export agents for the work, citing Stevens and brary of alfred a. knopf (1892–1984), a titan of Small quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to cover in white. Brown as an example. Weaver noted that they were American publishing, with his bookplate to the front Housed in a custom brown cloth flat-back box. Minor loss to spine ends, edges rubbed with some typical separation unlikely “to buy copies to hold up and sell at an ad- pastedown, and the later bookplate of collector John vanced price . . . Would you agree to 15%? . . . it was Stuart Groves. Due at least in part to the hostile re- at spine, couple of marks to wrappers and slightly sunned, colour still strong, slight crease to foot of front wrapper and scarcely worth their while to take any trouble over the action to its serialization in The Egoist, no English head of rear wrapper with concomitant short closed tear. A book at a discount of 10% because their customers, printer would print the book for fear of prosecution fresh copy, entirely unrestored, and with a few leaves un- being booksellers, they will themselves have to allow under the obscenity laws. It was Huebsch who unopened. some discount” (Rainey, p. 59). dertook the true first publication in book form, on 29 first edition, number 475 of 750 copies from a Slocum & Cahoon A17; Rainey, Lawrence S., Institutions of December 1916. He reserved from his print run about total edition of 1,000 copies. Ulysses was published Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (1998). 750 sets of sheets for issue in the UK the following in imitation of the traditional three-tiered French £37,500 [132928] February. Although the number of copies originally format aimed at both connoisseurs and readers: 100 issued in America is unknown, it is unlikely to have copies were printed on Dutch handmade paper and

30 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington is “generally considered to be the most accurate and authoritative text” (Slocum & Cahoon, p. 30). Stuart Gilbert, who contributed the introduction to this edition, revised the text for the Odyssey Press edition at Joyce’s request. Slocum & Cahoon A22. £15,000 [134276]

73 JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928 Duodecimo. Original brown cloth, titles and decoration to spine in gilt, triangle device to front cover in gilt, triple rule and triangle patterned frame blocked in blind to covers, top edge gilt, fore edge untrimmed. Inscribed bookplate of Albert Lee Singer to front pastedown. Minor rubbing to extremities, short closed tear to foot of title page, not affecting text; else a near-fine copy. first edition, signed limited issue, number 625 of 800 copies signed by the author. Anna Livia Plura- belle is an early published chapter from Joyce’s famous “work in progress” that would eventually become Finnegans Wake. £3,750 [134462]

72 JOYCE, James, & Henri Matisse. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935 Quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to front board gilt from a design by Le Roy Anderson, top edge spotted in brown, others untrimmed. Housed in the publisher’s card slipcase. With 6 soft-ground 73 etchings by Matisse and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings on yellow and blue paper. Bookplate of George Wellington, M.D. to first blank. Spine gilt a little rubbed, foxing to fore edge and endmatter, crease to last two blanks, a very nice, bright copy in the original slipcase, with a couple of old faint stains. first illustrated edition, number 811 of 250 copies signed by both Joyce and Matisse, from an edition of 1,500 specially bound copies. The illustrations include etchings depicting the Calypso, Aeo- lus, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe, and Ithaca episodes. The text of this edition is based on the second impression of the Odyssey Press edition (1933), which 72, 73

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74 verso of the half-title “Printed by T. Miller, Noble alogue to the rear, the latest date being June 1820. Early pencil ownership inscrption (P. Jones) and three later collectors’ KEATS, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. Street, Cheapside” and the one-line erratum leaf, as well as the tipped-in 5-line errata slip (Hayward notes bookplates to front endpapers (Charles B. Foote, John Grib- London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1818 that the five-line errata, though present in later issue bel, and William H. Painter). Some minor loss at spine ends and general wear to extremities, some light creasing and one Octavo. Original boards, printed paper title label to spine. copies, was printed prior to publication, and copies slight crack down spine with the label a little worn affecting Housed in a red morocco pull-off case and chemise. With in original boards are known to contain both). some letters of “Isabella”, joints very discreetly repaired, some the half title, five-line errata slip and one-line errata page, Ashley III:13; Hayward 232; MacGillivray A2; Tinker 1419. marking and stains to boards, some light spotting within but and 4 pp. publisher’s advertisements dated May 1818 at the generally clean, overall a very good copy. rear. Bookplates of R. B. Adam (with offset tanning) and £12,500 [134729] William H. Painter. Spine label eroded away but for a few first edition of keats’s third and final letters, board surface split down front joint and half way up book, a very scarce example in the original boards 75 rear joint, tanning to spine and some marking to boards, with spine and title label intact. This was the last some wear to fore-corners, internally however very fresh and KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. book published in Keats’s lifetime, about which he clean, and generally a very good survival in the boards. Agnes, and other poems. London: printed for had “low hopes, though not spirits . . . this shall be first edition, very scarce first issue, unre- Taylor and Hessey, 1820 my last trial; not succeeding, I shall try what I can do stored in original boards. Endymion was the in the apothecary line”. Though Keats did not live Duodecimo. Original boards with brown spine and blue second of only three lifetime publications by Keats, to see his fame confirmed, this last collection is his comprising his longest single sustained poem, fa- sides, printed title label to spine. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. With the half-title and greatest single volume, containing the magnificent mous for its opening line: “A thing of beauty is a joy publisher’s advertisement leaf, and the 6-page publisher’s cat- series of odes on which his reputation now rests, as for ever”. This copy has the first issue imprint to the

32 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 76 well as his longer narrative poems—two medieval ro- Francis Dodd (signed by the artist) with tissue guard, title tions and explanatory subheadings”. Rare with all is- mances: the chilling “Isabella or the Pot of Basil” and pages and divisional titles printed in red and black. Faint sued material and in collector’s condition. discoloration to bottom edge of rear board in vol. III, all with the gothic romance “The Eve of St Agnes”; and two Richards A386; Stewart 574. mythological fantasies: the weird “Lamia” and the slight foxing to edges. Essentially a fine set in the rare publisher’s box. ambitious, Miltonic fragment “Hyperion”. £4,500 [135738] Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3; Sterling 523; Tinker 1420. first and signed limited edition, number 356 of 525 numbered copies signed by the author. A beauti- £15,000 [134735] fully produced set, printed in Baskerville type by the Chiswick Press on handmade paper, and very much in 76 the manner of the superb Sussex Edition of Kipling’s KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems. 1886–1929. Lon- works— “planned by Macmillan as a monument to the author who had been a pillar of the firm’s prosper- don: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1929 ity” (ODNB). Some previously unpublished material 3 volumes, quarto. Original red full crushed morocco, titles was included by Kipling (six additional poems in the in gilt on spines, decorative gilt turn-ins, top edges gilt, un- series “The Muse Among the Motors”, together with trimmed and partly unopened, marbled endpapers, with the a new Act (III) and additional notes for “The Marréd grey dust jackets printed in dark red and the glassine wrappers. Housed in publishe’s red morocco-pattern paper-cov- Drives of Windsor”). Richards notes that, according to ered card box, titles printed in red on paper label with manu- the Kipling Journal for January 1930, the text was revised script limitation. Etched portrait frontispiece of Kipling by throughout by the author “with numerous emenda- 76

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first edition in french, the third overall, inscribed by the illustrator “to Elegant, Beautiful, Brilliant Elizabeth Welch from Hilary Knight and 77 ELOISE, April 27th 1972” and with an original drawing of Eloise listening to records and eating sand- 77 sistant to Dorothea Lange (1961–2), before going on wiches, captioned “Eloise says The Supreme pleasure KLEIN, William. New York; Rome; Moscow; to work on two films with Robert Frank (1967–8). In is Elizabeth Welch’s sliced cucumber sandwiches 1969 he moved to New York and formed the Lustrum and Tokyo. London or New York: Album Petite and recordings—eaten and played on a Sunday after- Press, first publishing The Somnambulist in 1970 and noon at about 4:30”. Eloise in Paris, the second title in Planète / The Viking Press / Crown Publishers, Inc., from then on producing his own and others’ pho- Thompson’s Eloise series, was first published in the 1956, 1959, 1964, 1964 tobooks, including Larry Clark’s Tulsa in 1971. His US in 1957 and in the UK the following year. 4 works, quarto. Original black or white (in Moscow) cloth, photographs are included in over 150 museum col- In all likelihood, the recipient was Elisabeth Welch photographic or coloured endpapers. With the illustrated lections around the world and have appeared in hun- (1904–2003), the American-born singer, actress, dust jackets. Housed together in a grey cloth slipcase and che- dreds of exhibitions. and entertainer, whose career spanned seven dec- mise. Photographic illustrations throughout the set. New York This is a stupendous set of Klein’s four early city ades. She sang in Broadway, London, and Paris, and without the brochure bookmark. Mild discolouration to up- photobooks, rare found thus together and all in- rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names of per portion of Moscow cloth, some minor chips or creasing to scribed to the same individual, let alone such a major edges of jackets (though Tokyo near-fine), generally very good the time, such as Cole Porter and Cab Calloway in indeed. Moscow jacket swapped from from another copy. figure of the photography world. the early 1930s. “After the [Second World] war Welch reigned supreme in London’s West End in three so- first editions, each inscribed by klein to £22,500 [133201] phisticated revues: Tuppence Coloured (1947), in which the photographer ralph gibson (b. 1939), re- she introduced Edith Piaf ’s ‘La vie en rose’ to the spectively, “To Ralph Gibson, Happy New York, Bill 78 British public, Oranges and Lemons (1949), and Penny Klein” on the first blank ofNew York; “To Ralph, Rome (KNIGHT, Hilary.) THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise Plain (1951)” (ODNB). Perhaps the two met through Sweet Rome, Bill Klein” on the contents page of Rome Knight’s work of illustration for posters for Broadway and Gibson’s ex-libris ink stamp to front free endpa- A Paris. Dessins d’Hilary Knight. Paris: Pont musicals, as per the one accompanying this copy. per verso; “To Ralph Gibson, Da, Bill Klein” on half- Royal (Del Duca–Laffont), 1962 title of Moscow; and “To Ralph G. [Japanese charac- Tall quarto. Original colour pictorial boards, titles in red and £3,000 [134525] ters], or lots of luck, Bill Klein” on half-title of Tokyo, black on spine and front board, illustrated red endpapers, with Klein also writing “(see inside)” and “(cheap)” Broadway postcard designed by Hilary Knight loosely insert- above the inscription. ed. Illustrated throughout in red, pink, and blue by Hilary Knight, title page in black, red, blue, and pink. Slight wear Gibson started his career in the late 1950s as a pho- to extremities and bottom edge, somewhat darkened, lightly tographer’s mate in the US Navy, and became an as- rubbed; a very good copy.

34 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 79 LA PÉROUSE, Jean François Galaup de. A Voyage round the World, performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 by the Bous- sole and Astrolabe. Published by Order of the National Assembly, under the Superintend- ence of L. A. Milet-Mureau . . . London: A. Hamilton for G. G. and J. Robinson, J. Edwards and T. Payne, 1799 3 volumes; 2 quarto text volumes (308 × 255 mm) in recent full calf to style, richly gilt spines, green and red morocco twin labels, sides with paired gilt fillet border enclosing foliate roll-tool border, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, marbled endpapers; folio atlas volume (426 × 278 mm) in recent half calf to style, richly gilt spine to match text volumes, marbled sides, vellum corner tips, marbled endpapers. Vol. I with engraved portrait of La Pérouse by Heath, atlas with engraved allegorical title page dated 1798 and 69 plates, maps, charts and views, 32 of the maps folding, including the large folding route map dated 1798, coloured in outline; plates of views, costume, natural history, coastal profiles, and native craft; errata leaf at end of volume II. Short closed tear and small hole to foot of final leaf of vol. I, short closed tear to 79 head of plate 38, tiny closed tear to fore edge of plate 69, endpapers to all volumes renewed. Front board of vol. II very slightly bowed, minor shelf wear to extremities, contents a work” (Hill). The expedition was “one of the most im- was massacred by the local inhabitants. The Astrolabe little rippled, faintly foxed, with light offsetting; plates in at- portant scientific expeditions ever undertaken to the was unloaded, taken apart, and a two-masted craft las volume foxed, repair and subsequent browning to stub of Pacific and west coast of North America”. The atlas built from its wreckage, which left westward some folding map; a very good copy. volume contains magnificent maps of Russian Asia, Ja- nine months later, its fate unknown. Two men, one a first unabridged translation into english pan, the Pacific north-west coast, San Francisco, Mon- “chief ” and the other his servant, stayed behind, sur- (preceded by two editions of 1798, both of them terey, and also Necker Island. The most significant re- viving until 1823. The work was originally published in “abridged in some particular or other”), accompa- sults of La Pérouse’s voyage are the charts of the then French in 1797. nied by an atlas with the full complement of maps and imperfectly known Asiatic side of the Pacific and the Ferguson, 288; Forbes, 311; Hill, 975; Howes L93; Sabin 38962; plates. This edition is therefore “usually considered to details of “the peculiarities he observed in the natives Wickersham 6612a. be the best one in English . . . now an extremely rare of the northwest coast of North America, [which] are £15,000 [132959] especially valuable” (Sabin). En route to Kamchatka, La Pérouse was the first to navigate safely and chart the Japan Sea and the strait between the island of Sakhalin and the northernmost island of Japan, which bears his name. At Kamchatka he received instructions to proceed to Australia to assess the extent of British plans in New South Wales. Travelling via Samoa, where he discovered the islands of Savaii, Manono, and Apolima in December 1787, and through the Tongan group, he arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788, just hours after Captain Phillip had arrived with the First Fleet. La Pé- rouse’s habit of forwarding despatches whenever the opportunity offered ensured their survival; the final despatches were sent from Botany Bay, after which the expedition was never seen again. Evidence slowly came to light that both ships were wrecked on the reefs 79 around the islands north-west of Australia. One crew 79

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80 LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 Quarto (245 × 184 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in burgundy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments and covers ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt 81 edges. With a portrait frontispiece, 53 plates and 4 folding maps. A fine copy. first trade edition, number 695 of 750 copies Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and 83 originally issued in a quarter pigskin binding, this won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. LENNON, John. In His Own Write. London: copy handsomely rebound for the luxury purveyors £15,000 [133798] Jonathan Cape, 1964 Asprey. The trade edition was preceded only by the Octavo. Original blue laminated boards, spine and front cover unprocurable Oxford Times edition of 1922 (of which 82 lettered in light blue. Illustrations by Lennon. Slight wear to there were just eight copies printed), and the sump- spine ends, loss to laminate at joints, boards lightly rubbed tuous 1926 Cranwell edition (limited to 211 copies). LEE, Harper. Go Set a Watchman. London: and scuffed, pp. 29-32 loose; a very good copy. O’Brien A041. William Heinemann, 2015 first edition, second impression. Inscribed “To £2,500 [134810] Octavo. Original pale brown leather, titles blocked in blind Jane from John Lennon” and additionally signed by to spine, mockingbird design in black to front cover, brown endpapers printed with mockingbird pattern, edges gilt, 81 brown silk book marker. Housed in the publisher’s green cloth solander box. A fine copy, retaining the publisher’s LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadel- numbered tissue wrap and cardboard box. phia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960 first edition, signed limited issue, number 41 Octavo. Original green cloth-backed brown boards, spine of 100 copies signed by the author and bound thus. lettered in brown. With the dust jacket. Housed in a green Go Set a Watchman was Lee’s highly anticipated second quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. A little faint foxing to edges and endpapers; a near-fine copy in work, publicized as a sequel to Lee’s seminal novel the bright jacket, couple of nicks to extremities and some To Kill a Mockingbird (see previous item). The text of slight rubbing and creasing. Go Set a Watchman was written before that of To Kill a first edition, first issue jacket, with the Tru- Mockingbird, and since its release it has been generally man Capote blurb printed in green to the front flap accepted as a first draft of the famous novel. and the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap. To £3,500 [135040] 83

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84 Brian Epstein on the front free endpaper. Lennon’s first book, this was the first solo project by a member of the Beatles. tions to plates and in the text by Lewis, Wadsworth, Rob- This was Lewis’s second publication and his first lit- erts, Gaudier-Brzeska, Epstein, Nevinson, Shakespear, and erary text, preceded only by a portfolio of drawings £5,000 [133652] others. Spines somewhat tanned as always, some chipping for Timon of Athens; around 200 copies were printed in to spine ends and other light rubbing to extremities with a November 1917 for free distribution by Lewis and the 84 small chip to fore-edge of vol. 2, some occasional mild dust soiling in margins, generally a very good set indeed. publishers, although Pound & Glover speculate that no more than 50 of the folders were produced. (LEWIS, Wyndham, ed.) Blast. London: John first editions, all published, of this landmark Morrow & Lafourcade A2; Pound & Glover A1. Lane, Bodley Head, 1914 & 1915 modernist magazine, scarce in such condition, with 2 volumes, quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, vol. 2 with the second “War Number” volume blind-stamped £5,000 [134885] woodcut illustration by Lewis to front. Numerous illustra- “Review Copy With John Lane’s Compliments” on the title page. Blast was the literary and artistic manifesto of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Other contributors included Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, and T. S. Eliot. £5,750 [134701]

85 LEWIS, Wyndham. The Ideal Giant. London: Privately Printed for the London Office of the Little Review, [1917] Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed white folder containing a single quire of 11 leaves folded and sewn into the cover. Folder illustrated with a design by Lewis. Illustrated frontispiece plate replicating Lewis’s cover design. Spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed, boards toned as usual. A particularly nice copy. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed at the head of the pamphlet front cover, “With the au- 83 thor’s kind regards P. Wyndham Lewis Dec. 1917”. 85

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86 LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. New York: Pantheon, 1955 87 Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, titles to spine in white, illustrated paper sides with blue titles to front, shell colour photographs. A fine copy in the original cardboard to date. Macquoid’s four “ages” are still terms used designs in brown to covers. With the dust jacket. Shell de- packaging. today, and the books remain an essential reference signs as chapter headers in the text. Spine gently rolled, a first edition, number 18 of 200 artists proofs guide for dealers and collectors of antique furniture. little shelfwear to edges, light foxing to top edge, faint offsetting to endpapers; a very good copy indeed in the jacket signed by Paul McCartney, with an additional plate £2,750 [135301] with browned spine, short closed tears to spine ends, slight entitled Horse, also signed by McCartney. The work nicks and chips to extremities. was released in a signed limited edition of 1,000, 250 first edition, presentation copy inscribed in of which were released with an additional signed and the year of publication on the front free endpaper, numbered plate. This work was produced in close “For Marguerite—who understands the search. From collaboration with Paul McCartney and gathers some Anne—March 1955”, and additionally signed by the of the finest pictures from Linda McCartney’s archive author in full on the title page. In Gift from the SeaLind - of over 200,000 images. bergh “wrote about balancing personal needs, social £5,000 [135251] expectations, and obligations to family and community . . . [The work] spent eighty weeks on the New 88 York Times bestseller list, [and] is considered a classic of prefeminism” (ANB). MACQUOID, Percy. A History of English Fur- £2,000 [132561] niture. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1904–8 4 volumes, folio (363 × 264 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in red half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, 87 marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 60 colour plates with cap- McCARTNEY, Linda. Life in Photographs. tioned tissue guards. Very minor patches of darkening to morocco, light sunning to spines, some light foxing and Cologne: Taschen, 2011 toning to plates and tissue guards as often. A near-fine set. Folio. Original beige cloth, titles to spine in dark red, with first editions, handsomely bound for the large photographic print of Paul McCartney to front board. luxury purveyors asprey, of this richly illustrated Print housed in a beige cloth chemise. Both housed in a survey of English furniture, the most comprehensive beige cloth solander box. Richly illustrated throughout with 88

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that in the intervening period he had become aware Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, map of that much more had been published on the subject. South Africa endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 46 black He nevertheless believed that even more remained to and white photographic illustrations. Very light creasing at 89 be done, especially in describing the means by which jacket extremities, else a near-fine copy. populations are checked and in drawing out the prac- first edition, signed and dated by nelson 89 tical implications of the principle of population. mandela on the title page, together with a signed MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the In the second edition, he made clear what was only letter from Diane May at Polaroid South Africa, en- implicit in the first, that prudential restraint should, closing the signed book and noting that there were Principle of Population. London: printed for J. if humanly possible, be ‘moral restraint’—that is, only around 300 copies signed and that they are cor- Johnson, by T. Bensley, 1803 delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre- respondingly rare. The letter is dated 19 December Quarto (263 × 207 mm). Uncut in the original boards, ex- marital behaviour, although he admitted that moral 1994, five days after Mandela signed the book on pertly rebacked to style. Housed in a custom blue cloth box, restraint would not be easy and that there would be oc- 14 December. The book was acquired by Peter Har- spine lettered in gilt on blue morocco label. Contemporary casional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had rington from the original recipient. ownership signature of Michael Kearney to title page. Oc- casional light foxing, small stain to page 1, a few minor mar- said that all the checks to population would involve ei- £5,000 [135371] ginal paper flaws, expert paper repair to clean tears on pp. ther misery or vice, in the second edition he attempted to lighten this ‘melancholy hue’ (Essay on the Principle of 233/234 and 377/8 without loss; a very good and large copy. 91 Population, 1st edn, 1798, iv) and ‘to soften some of the the great quarto edition, notionally the second harshest conclusions of the first essay’ (2nd edn, 1803, edition of the Essay on Population published in 1798, (MAPPLETHORPE, Robert.) RIMBAUD, vii) by arguing that moral restraint, if supported by an but so substantially enlarged, rewritten, and re-titled Arthur. A Season in Hell. Translated by Paul education emphasizing the immorality of bringing as to be a new book. Schmidt. [New York:] The Limited Editions Club, children into the world without the means of support- “In 1803 Malthus published a greatly expanded sec- 1986 ing them, would tend to increase rather than diminish ond edition of the Essay, incorporating details of the individual happiness” (ODNB). Quarto. Original red morocco, black lettered spine and front population checks that had been in operation in many cover, black cloth slipcase. With 8 plates by Robert Map- different countries and periods. Although nominally Einaudi 3668; Goldsmiths’ 18640; Kress B.4701. plethorpe; parallel texts in French and English. Slipcase a a second edition, it was regarded by Malthus as a sub- £6,500 [134324] little rubbed. An excellent copy. stantially new work. He did not claim originality for first mapplethorpe edition and first edi- the idea that population tends to outrun the food sup- 90 tion of this translation by paul schmidt, ply. In the preface to the second edition he stated that signed by both schmidt and mapplethorpe; in writing the first edition he had deduced the princi- MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. one of 1,000 copies. ple of population from the writings of David Hume, The Autobiography. Randburg: Macdonald Pur- £1,250 [132119] Robert Wallace, Adam Smith, and Richard Price, but nell, 1994

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 39 92 MARX, Karl. Le Capital. Traduction de M. J. Roy, entièrement revisée par l’auteur. Paris: Éditeurs, Maurice Lachatre et Cie, [1872–5] Folio (281 × 192 mm). Contemporary black quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt, black cloth sides, green endpapers. Housed in a custom blue card slipcase, red morocco label to spine. 2 vignette title pages, 1 engraved portrait frontispiece with facsimile autograph, facsimile autograph letter from Marx to the publisher, dated 18 March 1872, with Lachâtre’s printed reply to verso, engraved head- and tailpieces. Expert- ly refurbished with discreet repair to foot of spine, joints, and tips. Short closed tear at fore edge of first vignette title page and gutter of title page, toning and foxing to contents as often, running light dampstain at foot throughout first 175 pages and at head from pp. 281 to 288, short closed tear to pp. 319/320 very slightly impinging on text, some creasing at fore edge of pages, chipping and creasing at edges of final few leaves without loss to text. A good copy. first edition in french of the first volume of das kapital, the definitive text as authorized by karl marx, this being the first issue with Lachâ- tre’s imprint. The book was published in parts from August 1872 to November 1875, here bound on completion. The first volume of Das Kapital was originally published in German in 1867. This French edition was the second translation, preceded only by the Russian 92 92 translation of 1872, but Marx felt that this translation was more important than the Russian, and his exten- Issued in parts and consuming much of Marx’s time, From certain indications found in the correspond- sive work on the project means “Le Capital was not a it took 39 months to complete the project, but Marx’s ence of Marx, it seems likely that the French govern- mere translation, but rather an original work, relevant close attention and extensive revisions to the text and ment, who must have frowned upon the appearance from a textual point of view” (Books That Made Europe, galley proofs as the project progressed resulted in a of Das Kapital in French, tried to prevent its publica- p. 248). The second and third volumes of Das Kapital revised text that he felt was more definitive than the tion, which for a certain time was interrupted by were published after Marx’s death by Engels in 1885 German and Russian predecessors (including the the authorities. When the publication was finally and 1894, and were first published in French in 1900 second German edition of 1872). In his notice to the completed, rumours abounded that its sale was to and 1902. reader dated 28 April 1875, Marx wrote: “Quelles que be forbidden and the publisher Lachâtre hesitated to In December 1871, while revising the text for the soient les imperfections littéraires de cette édition sell copies. Unsold sheets were later reissued with the second German edition, Marx agreed to this French française, elle possède une valeur scientifique in- imprint of Librairie du Progrès, with new preliminary edition with the publisher Maurice Lachâtre, an an- dépendante de l’original et doit être consultée même pages removing Lachâtre’s name, between 1878 and ticlerical radical and friend of Proudhon, who had par les lecteurs familiers avec la langue allemande” 1880; this first issue is therefore distinguished by the been exiled to Spain after the Paris Commune. Marx (p. 348: “Whatever the literary imperfections of this presence of his imprint. initially approved the translation to be undertaken by French edition, it has a scientific value independent Joseph Roy, who had already translated the works of Books That Made Europe, p. 248; Einaudi 3770; Mattioli 2283; of the original and must be consulted even by readers Printing and the Mind of Man 359 (first German edition); Rubel 634; the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, but “in familiar with the German language”). The format of Sraffa 3859. See Draper, The Marx-Engel Chronicle, vol. I. spite of the expectations, however, Roy did not render the book was also changed, divided into eight parts the text vivid enough and the translation proved to be £5,750 [135070] and 33 chapters rather than the seven parts and 25 too literal and unsatisfactory. At the beginning of chapters of the second German edition. Marx recom- Spring 1872, Marx started to re-write full passages to mended this French text, with its revisions and new make them more appealing to the French public and theoretical reflections, for future translations and continued to do so for almost two years, eating up a editions, and it was used for the first English transla- lot of the time intended for the drafting of his second tion of 1887 and thereafter. volume of the work” (Books That Made Europe, p. 248).

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93 dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edges gilt. Some of tyranny is expanded to include the domination mild tanning to leaves; overall an excellent set. MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bond- of minorities by a democratically elected majority the standard edition, limited to 750 sets of (PMM 345). The Subjection of Women was the only one age. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe. New which this is number 398. The Standard Edition was of Mill’s works “on which he made a financial loss, York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936 published episodically, and includes, among other even though pirated popular editions soon began Large octavo (239 × 169 mm). Later 20th-century brown pieces, the first edition of the novella Billy Budd, to circulate widely in Europe and America. Among morocco for the Lakeside Press, spine lettered in gilt, which was discovered in manuscript among Mel- campaigners for women’s suffrage, however, it rap- Maugham’s Moorish symbol in gilt to front cover, covers and ville’s papers that year. idly became a sacred text and gave him a position of turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in the original heroic, almost apostolic, authority within the nascent card slipcase. Frontispiece and 23 collotype plates. A fine £15,000 [134672] women’s movement” (ODNB). copy; slipcase worn and split. See Printing and the Mind of Man 345 & 398. first illustrated edition, signed limited is- 95 sue, number 706 of 751 copies signed by the author £2,500 [103455] and illustrator, handsomely bound in a fine leather MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Wom- binding by the Lakeside Press, retaining the original en. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, slipcase, rather than in the usual brown cloth. Of Hu- 1869 man Bondage was first published in 1915 and Maugham Octavo (197 × 121mm). Original dark yellow cloth, titles to contributed a new foreword for this illustrated edition. spines gilt, boards blocked in blind, brown coated endpa- Randolph Schwabe (1885–1948) “was a draughtsmen, pers. Ownership inscription on front free endpapers, spine painter and etcher who was the Slade Professor of Fine toned and a little rolled, a couple of small ink splashes to Art at University College London from 1930 until his spine, binding lightly soiled, old stain on front cover, yet a good clean, tight copy in the original cloth. death. He served as a war artist in both World Wars, created designs for theatrical productions and illus- first edition, “the last of [Mill’s] great political trated a number of books” (Tate online). tracts” and his “most unpopular and bitterly con- Rothschild Collection V 86; Stott A21d. tested” work (ODNB). Mill had long been a women’s rights advocate, having been influenced by the think- £1,750 [134394] ing of his father, the Utilitarian philosopher James Mill, and by his long friendship with, and then mar- 94 riage to, the philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill (1807– MELVILLE, Herman. The Works. London: 1858), a passionate advocate for equality. Indeed, the freedom of women can be seen as a microcosm Bombay, Sydney, Constable and Company Ltd, 1922 of Mill’s general philosophy of freedom, in which 16 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in “the ‘greatest good’ of the community is inseparable dark blue morocco, titles to spines gilt, ship centre tool to from the liberty of the individual” and the definition spines gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner 95

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96 first edition. After the huge success ofWhen We 98 MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh was an immediate MISHIMA, Yukio. After the Banquet. Trans- success and garnered even more enthusiastic re- Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926 views than its predecessor, with one critic writing lated from the Japanese by Donald Keene. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt vi- that “when the real Christopher Robin is a little old London: Secker & Warburg, 1963 gnette in gilt singlet fillet frame to front cover, top edge gilt, man, children will find him waiting for them. It is the Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine in silver. With yellow map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by child’s book of the season that seems certain to stay” the dust jacket. Very slight rubbing at ends and corners, but Ernest H. Shepard. Extremities gently bumped and with mian excellent copy. nor wear, light toning to gutter of front and rear free end- (Thwaite, p. 317). papers. A near-fine copy in the near-fine dust jacket, a trifle £4,000 [135671] first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed darkened, a little wear to extremities. “To Angus with the author’s best wishes, Yukio, 1965 March” The recipient was novelist Sir Angus Wilson 97 (1913–1991), one of England’s first openly gay authors. MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Mishima stayed at Wilson’s Suffolk Cottage while in London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928 England, and Wilson, for his part, praised Mishi- ma’s Confessions of a Mask, a novel reflecting his own Octavo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, vignette in gilt to front cover within single gilt rule border, illustrated struggle with a homosexual identity, in The Observer: endpapers, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece “Mishima stands alone. This Japanese writer is to me and illustrations in the text by Ernest H. Shepard, of which one of the most important contemporary novelists.” 7 are full-page. A very good copy in the dust jacket, spine Originally published in Japan in 1960, After the Ban- slightly darkened, some chipping at extremities, short split quet was inspired by the Tokyo mayoral campaign of at foot of rear fold, short closed tear at head of front panel. Hachiro Arita, who found the contents so true-to-life first edition. Published on 11 October 1928, The that he sued Mishima for invasion of privacy. Keene’s House at Pooh Corner was received by critics with a de- translation was the novel’s first into English, original- light tinged by sadness. “The Times Literary Supplement ly issued earlier in the same year by Knopf in the USA. congratulated Milne on avoiding ‘the temptation to £1,750 [134777] repeat his successful formula mechanically’, though it was ‘sad to see the stories end’” (Thwaite, p. 336). 99 £1,875 [133609] NERUDA, Pablo. The Heights of Macchu Pic- chu. Translated by Nathaniel Tarn. Preface by 96 Robert Pring-Mill. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966

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Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Spine cocked, otherwise fine. first edition in english of neruda’s masterpiece, a superb presentation copy from the poet to the publisher, inscribed “Un abrazo a Tom de su amigo Pablo 1970” on the front free endpaper, with Tom Maschler’s bookplate to front pastedown. Maschler was the head of Jonathan Cape, and a hugely influential figure in 20th-century literature: he had a particular genius for bringing world-class writers from abroad (such as Neruda, García Marquez, and Derek Walcott) to publish in the UK, and 15 of his authors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. £5,000 [132725]

100 NEWTON, Helmut. Sumo. London: Taschen, 1999 Folio. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Together with original metal stand designed by Philippe Starck and shipping packaging. 450 photographs in colour and black-and-white. first edition, signed and numbered by the photographer; one of 10,000 copies. The book is so large that it comes with its own metal folding stand, engraved with the author’s name. This is Taschen’s definitive work on the iconoclastic photographer, which puts the “elephant” back into “elephant folio.” A beautiful production. £4,500 [134495] 100

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al calculus, which are the grounds for his claim for priority over Leibniz. Newton had arrived at most of his unconventional ideas on colour by about 1668; but when he first expressed them (tersely and partially) in public in 1672 and 1675, they had provoked hostile criticism, especially on the continent. The publication of Opticks, largely written by 1692, was held over by Newton until his most vociferous critics—especially Robert 101 Hooke—were dead and, unusually for him, was first published in English, perhaps a further defensive measure. Nevertheless, Opticks established itself, from 101 trimmed at head without affecting text or border), signature about 1715, as a model of the interweaving of theory on rear pastedown excised. Two early notations to front free with quantitative experimentation. The great achieve- [NEWTON, Isaac.] Opticks: or, A Treatise of endpaper verso and title page, some early corrections to the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions, and the text. Extremities discreetly repaired, light abrasions to ment of the work was to show that colour was a math- ematically definable property. Newton showed that Colours of Light. London: Printed for Sam Smith, covers, one front endpaper excised, some staining around peripheries, last 30 leaves with substantial dampstaining, white light was a mixture of infinitely varied coloured and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, 1704 some soiling and creasing to contents. A very good copy.. rays (manifest in the rainbow and the spectrum), each Quarto (245 × 191 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, re- first edition, first issue, without Newton’s ray definable by the angle through which it is refracted backed preserving remnants of original spine with new label name on the title. Newton’s Opticks expounds his cor- on entering or leaving a given transparent medium. to style. With 19 folding plates, title printed in red and black puscular or emission theory of light, and first con- “Newton’s Opticks did for light what his Principia had with double ruled border. Engraved bookplate of William done for gravitation, namely place it on a scientific ba- Hillary (1697-1763), English physician and author on tropi- tains his important optical discoveries in collected cal diseases, his name excised from his bookplate by a later form. It also prints two important mathematical trea- sis” (D. W. Brown, cited in Babson). owner, John Gawne, who has added his own name to the tises (published here for the first time but omitted in Babson 132 (1); ESTC T82019; Gray 174; Horblit 79b; Norman 1588 bookplate, and to the front free endpaper in elaborate calli- later editions) describing his invention of the fluxion- PMM 172. graphic style incorporating the book’s title, to the title page, £50,000 [131023] and sporadically thereafter, most dated 1842. Title page just

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102 versity of California Press in 1934. No entirely new anonymous late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- NEWTON, Isaac. The Mathematical Princi- translation was made until 1999. century sailors” (ODNB). Nicol (1755–1825) was ap- Gray 24; Wallis 24; Babson 21. prenticed as a cooper before undertaking a naval ples of Natural Philosophy. London: for H. D. career which spanned 1776 to 1801 and included sev- Symonds, 1803 £7,500 [134355] eral Pacific navigations and two circumnavigations 3 volumes, octavo (214 × 132 mm). Late 19th-century half of the globe. calf, twin morocco labels to spines, marbled sides, endpa- 103 Nicol “first came to the Pacific as steward with pers and edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 54 folding (NICOL, John.) [HOWELL, John, ed.] The Captain Portlock in 1785–1788. During that voyage engraved plates, 2 folding letterpress tables, diagrams and he made several brief stays in Hawaii, and his short letterpress tables in the text. Old bookseller’s catalogue de- Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner. observations include a description of manufactur- scription of the first edition of thePrincipia tipped-in at front Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1822 of vol. I. Very minor rubbing at extremities, sporadic faint ing knives from hoop iron for the king of Hawaii” Octavo (166 × 97 mm). Contemporary half calf rebacked foxing but generally clean internally. An excellent copy. (Forbes). He also gives “an intriguing account of his and regilded to style, original spine laid down, ruled in gilt, visit to the Hawaiian islands in which mentions that first complete edition in english of the compartments stamped in blind, titles to morocco label in the chief who killed Captain Cook stayed on their principia, the second overall. Motte’s English trans- gilt, marbled sides, endpapers and edges, yellow silk page- ship for three weeks” (Hill). This account is also im- lation, published in 1729, was the first, and for nearly marker. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. With a portant for its inclusion of his narrative of the “Sec- three centuries, the only English translation. This portrait frontispiece. Contemporary bookplate of nobleman ond Fleet” voyage of 1788 in which his ship, the Lady second edition was revised and completed by the and Whig politician Paul Beilby Thompson (1784–1852) to front pastedown. Receipt for the purchase of this work by Juliana, transported 245 female convicts to Australia. London mathematician and publisher William Davis American attorney and arts patron Gilbert M. Denman Jr., (1771/2–1807). Motte’s edition only covers the first Ferguson 875; Forbes 556; Hill 1225; Lada-Morarski 85; Sabin dated 1962, loosely inserted, with subsequent offsetting to 55241. two-thirds of Newton’s text; this is the first transla- rear leaves. Ownership inscription of an apparently unre- tion of the entire text into English. Apart from the lated John Howell to front free endpaper verso. Spine toned, £4,500 [133167] reissue of this edition in 1819, no further edition was slight wear to extremities, browning to sides, inner joints published until the “modernized” version by the Uni- reinforced, occasional foxing to contents, most notably to frontispiece and title page; a very good copy. first edition of this “remarkable account and important example of the lives of so many otherwise

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104 pastedown. Slight lean to spine, faint ring-stain to front cover, The collection was promoted and published by Sas- very minor wear to top corner of front cover. A very good copy (NONESUCH PRESS.) DANTE ALIGHIERI. soon after Owen’s death with the backing of Edith Sit- in the jacket, ring-stain to front panel and faint soiling to rear well. The work, which is often described as the great- La Divina Commedia. Or, The Divine Vision. panel, some chipping and creasing around extremities with est collection of First World War poetry, contains all In Italian and English. London: The Nonesuch light loss to lettering on front panel. The spine panel—very prone to fading—is here entirely unsunned. of Owen’s best known poems, including “Dulce et Press, 1928 decorum est”, “Insensibility”, “Anthem for Doomed first edition, in the preferred red dust Folio. Original orange vellum, spine lettered in gilt, roundels Youth”, “Futility”, and “Strange Meeting”. jacket. Copies of the first impression were issued and rules to covers in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. £5,750 [134273] With 34 double- and 8 single-page plates after Botticelli. either in green or dark red dust jackets. To judge from Vellum very lightly soiled and minor bowing to covers, yet a surviving examples, this was done in proportions of near-fine copy with the spine unfaded, unusual thus. about two green to one red and consequently the red 107 is scarcer, but there is no priority between them. first nonesuch edition, number 66 from a lim- PAZ, Octavio. Blanco. Mexico City: Joaquín Burgess p. 46; Connolly 99; Fenwick A12a. ited edition of 1,475 copies on Dutch paper. A beau- Mortiz, 1967 tifully presented and bound edition of Dante’s Divine £9,750 [134702] Square octavo. Original leporello binding, white cloth spine Comedy, with Dante’s Italian printed parallel to Rev. lettered in black, covers with yellow hollow square motif su- Henry F. Cary’s English translation (1814, a transla- 106 perimposed on a black background (front) and white back- tion much loved by Coleridge), and with reproduc- ground (back). With the original slipcase. Letterpress print- tions of Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations, engravings OWEN. Wilfred. Poems. With an introduced in red and black on a single sheet folded concertina-style, of which were used in the first Florentine edition of tion by Siegfried Sassoon. New York: B. W. unfolding to 5 metres. Small private stamp (“VHL”) to slip- the Divine Comedy (1481). case, title and half-title. Peripheral toning to slipcase, which Huebsch, [1920] has short splits to head, spine of leporello lightly toned, Ransom, p. 367. Quarto. Original grey boards, titles to spine in gilt, pub- same to back cover, light abrading to front cover. A very good £1,250 [134396] lisher’s device in blind to front cover, top edge blue, others copy with the original “aviso al lector” loosely inserted. untrimmed. With the dust wrapper. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Negligible creasing and first and limited edition, number 405 of 579 105 touch of wear to spine ends and tips, offsetting to endpa- copies, of one of Paz’s major works, experimental in both form and content; decidedly uncommon in ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. A pers; else a near-fine, notably fresh copy in the uncommonly well-preserved jacket, with light soiling and scuffs to panels, commerce. “‘Blanco’ is an intricately designed poem Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949 slight creasing and nicks to extremities, and small chips to that embodies many postmodern traits, with its ty- Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge spine ends and tips. pography emphasizing the poem’s visual aspects. red. With the red dust jacket. Housed in a red flat-back cloth first edition, u.s. issue, in the uncommon The poem begins with the words spread out in three box by the Chelsea Bindery. Pencilled ownership signature to dust jacket, bound from the original UK sheets columns across the page. The text then forms a col- front free endpaper; W. H. Smith bookseller’s ticket to rear with the US cancel title page in the subsequent year. umn that proceeds down the page, with the occasion-

46 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington are noted as coming from various parts of the Pacific, though there are none identified as having been collected from Hawaii. Twenty-three specimens are from New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land, 10 from New Zealand, 15 from the “South Seas”, two from the Pacific Ocean, and one from “Otaheite” [Tahiti]. Specimens are also identified as coming from the collections of Mrs. Bligh, Mr. Latham, and the museums of Mr. Bullock and Sir Ashton Lever” (Forbes). Almost nothing is known about George Perry. Petit surmises that he “must have lived in, or close to, Lon- don” and that he may be the same George Perry listed as a member of the Palaeontographical Society in 1848, with an address just off Northampton Square, which was originally laid out in 1832. He is described elsewhere as either an architect or stonemason, born around 1771. His only other work, Arcana, or the Museum of Natural History, was published in monthly 107 parts between January 1810 and September 1811 and dedicated to the Quaker physician and philanthropist al staggering of lines. The single column then splits leaf, bearing Bulmer’s imprint (as noted by Petit; lat- John Coakley Lettsom. into a bold font on the left accompanied by an itali- er issues have that of either M’Creery or Howlett and Forbes 425; Nissen 3134; Richard E. Petit, Richard, “George cized font on the right. As the poem progresses, this Brimmer) and with the block of text under “Remarks” Perry’s mulluscan taxa and notes on the editions of his Conchology pattern repeats four times, with the bold and itali- to plate I consisting of 15 lines (second and third edi- of 1811”, Zootaxa 377 (2003). cized verses gradually drifting toward, and ultimately tions having 16 lines). “An important work on bi- £4,500 [132700] pressing against, one another” (Waring, p. 27). valves and univalves. A great many of the specimens Waring, Taylor D., Broken Mirror: A Look into Octavio Paz’s “Blanco”, Oshkosh Scholar (2013). £2,000 [132640]

108 PERRY, George. Conchology, or the Natural History of Shells. London: printed for William Miller, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1811 Small folio (422 × 270 mm). Recent red straight-grain morocco period style, richly gilt spine, sides with concentric blind and gilt panels, central lozenge, blind roll tool to turn-ins, gold vein marbled endpapers. 61 hand-coloured aquatint plates by John Clarke after Perry; accompanying letterpress printed on rectos only. Bound without the half-title and 2 pp. of publisher’s advertisements found in some copies but with the list of plates. Spine cocked, title and a few leaves of letterpress with repaired closed tears, some marginal soiling, scattered foxing, light offsetting of plates to letterpress. A handsomely bound copy. first edition of the first book on shells to be illustrated with aquatint plates, one of the finest conchological works of the 19th century, this copy with exquisite original hand-colouring; letterpress watermarked “W. Turner & Son”, plates with no discernible watermarks; early issue of the index 108 108

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One of the most significant 18th-century work on Australia as a European colony. This is the was at once obliterated; and Governor Phillip had the books on Australia official account of the voyage of the First Fleet to Bot- satisfaction to find one of the finest harbours in the any Bay and the settlement of Australia, based on the world, in which a thousand sail of the line might ride 109 governor’s journals and despatches. The appended in perfect security” (Phillip, p. 47). Phillip’s discovery PHILLIP, Arthur. The Voyage of Governor “List of Convicts”, which gives the names, location of Sydney Harbour was of paramount importance, Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the and date of convictions, and length of sentence, is the providing as it did a secure place for settlement. Phil- Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson basic source for all First Fleet genealogy. lip’s journal and that of Hunter, which both contain Arthur Phillip (1738–1814) not only commanded the first charts of the Harbour based on Hunter’s sur- & Norfolk Island. London: John Stockdale, 1789 the voyage but was holding a commission appointing veys, therefore represent “the foundation stones of Quarto (276 × 222 mm). Late 19th-century brown half calf, ti- him representative of the Crown for the eastern half any collection of books devoted to coastal discovery” tles to red morocco label to spine, raised bands to spine, mo- of Australia and the adjoining Pacific islands. “Phillip (Wantrup). The account of the voyage is based mainly tifs to spine in gilt in compartments, marbled paper sides. was given the task of founding a convict settlement on Phillip’s earliest report to the Government on the With portrait frontispiece after Wheatly, vignette title page, 7 engraved folding maps and 46 copper engraved plates. in Australia, and became the first governor of New Colony, and the reports of other members of the First Complete with impressive 8-page subscribers list including South Wales. Reaching Botany Bay in 1788, via Tener- Fleet. The actual compiler is not known, but he must the names of Joseph Banks, George Anson, Nathaniel Port- ife, Rio de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope, Phillip have had access to the official documents, as it is a lock and Alexander Dalrymple; errata leaf bound in before decided that the site was unsatisfactory and sailed to very accurate account. The present work is the basic the Advertisement, with the advertisement leaf at the rear. Port Jackson, where he founded the city named Syd- source book, the first in order of importance for the A couple of instances of professional paper restoration. Par- ney, after Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney, sec- history of Australia, and no collection can be com- tially trimmed ownership inscription to frontispiece recto. retary of state” (Hill 1346). As large parts of the coast- plete without a copy. Touch of wear to spine ends and tips, slight rubbing to sides, light toning to book block edges, occasional foxing to con- line were still unexplored, Phillip soon embarked on This copy is from the library of noted rare book col- tents, faint offsetting from plates; a very good copy. a voyage of coastal discovery. With three boats he lector and specialist in the age of exploration, Frank set out to investigate Port Jackson, which Cook had S. Streeter (1918–2006). first edition, early issue (with the caption on named but had not charted. When Phillip discovered the kangaroo plate uncorrected as “kangooroo” and Casey Wood, p. 518; Cox I, p. 314; Ferguson, 47; Hill 1346; the extent of the Harbour he was overjoyed: “Here Lowndes, p. 1852; Nissen ZBI 3518; Spence p. 57; Wantrup, 5. the mispagination of page 122 as 221, but with “wul- all regret arising from the former disappointments pine” corrected to “vulpine”), of this foundation £6,000 [132419]

48 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 110 (PLATH, Sylvia.) THOMAS, Trevor. Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters. Bedford: privately published, 1989 Octavo, pp. 36. Original spiral-bound red wrappers, title illustration to front cover in black. Text printed on rectos only. A near-fine copy. first and sole edition of this suppressed work, annotated twice by elizabeth sig- mund, the dedicatee of The Bell Jar, and Plath’s close friend. £1,250 [134499]

The most famous American poem of the 19th century 111 POE, Edgar Allan. The Raven and Other Po- ems. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845 Octavo (177 × 123 mm). 20th-century black morocco-grained skiver by Bennett of New York, titles in gilt on red morocco spine label, raised bands, double gilt fillets on spine and boards, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpa- 111 112 pers. Bound with the half-title, but without the 2 leaves of advertisements (pp. [93–96]) and the publisher’s eight-page catalogue. Ownership inscription of A. L. Winslow pencilled bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. A trifle rubbed at 4 volumes, octavo (170 × 106 mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf on half-title, and 20th-century Christian Heuer pictorial corners, occasional light staining and finger-soiling; a re- for McClurg in red polished full calf, spines gilt in compart- markably well-preserved copy. ments with dark red morocco title labels gilt, sides bordered first edition in book form of Poe’s break- with double gilt rule, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. En- graved frontispiece and vignette half-title to each volume, and through poem, one of around 750 copies. The title an engraved portrait plate in vol. I. Minor nicks to extremities, poem was first printed in January of the same year in but an excellent set, smart, sound, and clean within. the American Review under the pseudonym “Quarles”, first edition thus, with Croly’s memoir and and under Poe’s own name in the New York Evening notes, of Pope’s works. This attractive set is from the Mirror. The poem “made Poe’s name known both in library of the philosopher and writer Alan W. Watts America and England, and brought him an immortal- (1915–1973), each volume with his self-designed eso- ity that by no other means could have been attained terically illustrated bookplate, including the biblical . . . [and it] gave him fame as a poet such as no other motto “pulsate et aperietur vobis” (“knock, and it American has received” (Robertson). shall be opened to you”). Watts was a highly signifi- BAL 16147; Robertson, vol. 2, pp. 224–225. cant early popularizer of Zen Buddhism in the West- £12,500 [135281] ern world. £1,250 [134475] From the library of Alan Watts 112 POPE, Alexander. The Works. With a memoir of the author, notes, and critical notices on each poem, by the Rev. G. Croly. London: A. J. Valpy, 1835 110 112

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113 first edition, with the title page dated 1903 and ated from the Conversation of Mr. T. E. Hulme”, as well POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. without the words “Author of the Tale of Peter Rab- as work by W. B Yeats, Harold Monroe, Carl Sandburg, bit”. The first edition was published in August 1903. William Carlos Williams, and John Rodker. London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1902] The story originated in 1897 with a picture letter to This copy has a pleasing Bloomsbury association Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered boards, titles to Noel Moore, and was rewritten in 1901 for Norah with the ownership inscription of Logan Pearsall spine and front board in white, grey leaf-patterned endpa- Moore. It is the first book to feature the introduction Smith in pencil on the front free endpaper. Pearsall pers. Frontispiece and 30 colour illustrations by the author. of pictorial endpapers, against Potter’s initial incli- Smith (1865–1946) was an American born essayist, Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Small tear and a little wear to head of spine, tiny split to head of front joint, nation, though she conceded that it might work: “I critic, and notable Bloomsbury figure. His sister, but sound, covers and tips a little rubbed, a couple of small always think that an endpaper ought to be something Alys, was the first wife of Bertrand Russell, and he marks to p. 44, otherwise internally bright. An excellent to rest the eye between the cover and the contents of was in part the basis for the character of Sir Nicholas copy, in unusually nice condition. the book; like a plain mount for a framed drawing. At Greene in Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando. He was a frequent first trade edition, with the leaf-pattern endpa- that same time (having let off my objections)—I dare contributor in the 1920s to The Dial, for which Ezra pers and the text “wept big tears” on p. 51 (the text say it will come out all right” (Taylor, p. 103). Pound was a commissioning editor (debuting The reads “cried big tears” in the privately printed edition; Linder, p. 423; Quinby 5; Taylor, Judy, Beatrix Potter, 1866–1943: the Waste Land in the US). In Robert Gathorne Hardy’s “wept big tears” in the first three impressions of the Artist and her World, F. Warne (1987). Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith: The Story of a Friend- trade edition; and “shed big tears” from the fourth £2,000 [134850] ship (1950), Hardy notes that Pearsall Smith’s “fa- impression onwards). vourite poem by Mr T. S. Eliot” was “Boston Evening Transcript”—one of the five included in the Catholic Linder, p. 421; Quinby 2. 115 Anthology (Hardy, p. 188). Eliot’s essay “The Preacher £5,000 [116062] POUND, Ezra (ed.) Catholic Anthology 1914– as Artist” (The Athenaeum, 28 November 1919) was 1915. London: Elkin Mathews, 1915 written as a review of Pearsall Smith’s book on John Donne’s sermons. 114 Octavo. Original grey paper covered boards with geomet- Gallup (Eliot) B1; Gallup (Pound) B10; Robert Gathorne Hardy, POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nut- ric design by Dorothy Shakespear in black to covers, titles to spine and front cover black, fore and bottom edges Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith: The Story of a Friendship, kin. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903 untrimmed. Touch of wear to extremities, spine faintly Macmillan Company (1950); Rennie Parker, Georgian Poets: Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Lascelles, Thomas (1999). Sextodecimo. Original grey boards, titles to front cover and browned, boards and contents lightly foxed; a very good spine in white, pictorial label with illustration to front cover, copy indeed of this uncommon work. £4,000 [134738] pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 illustrations in col- first edition, one of 500 copies, including the our by the author. Spine minimally rolled and toned, slight first appearance of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred rubbing to spine ends and tips, top edge faintly foxed; a remarkably bright copy. Prufrock”, and four other poems by Eliot. It also contains Pound’s “Contemporania” and “Poem: Abbrevi- 115

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First book edition of the original uncensored text 116 PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeyevich. Evgenii Onegin roman v stikhakh . . . Izdanie tretie [Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse . . . Third Edition]. St Petersburg: Press of the Department of State Currency Production [ for Ilya Ivanovich Gla- zunov], 1837 116 Sextodecimo (102 × 61 mm). Contemporary dark tan calf preserving the original attractive blue wrappers printed with titles and decorative border, spine with gilt titles and decora- ally in parts between 1825 and 1832. A complete set of ducing a miniature pocket-sized edition of his works, tion, blue coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Ownership stamp these is almost unobtainable (though one did appear beginning with Onegin. Pushkin agreed, and became of Vladimir Fedot’ev (veterinary doctor), and ownership in- recently at auction and sold for close to half a million very interested in the details of the book itself, the scription of Julia Gil’enbrandt, both to front flyleaf. Extremi- pounds). size of which was something of a novelty in the Rus- ties rubbed, first four and last two leaves repaired at gutter, The work was greeted with universally favourable sian book trade at the time. He acted as proof-reader last leaf repaired at fore edge and corners, occasional light soiling and spotting. reviews, and each new chapter was eagerly awaited. himself, and the book was published on 19 January In 1833 the text appeared for the first time in book 1837. Ten days later Pushkin was dead from a bullet- rare first edition in book form of the origi- form, but with heavily altered text due to censorship. wound received in a dramatic duel over the honour nal uncensored text of eugene onegin, russia’s The 1837 edition, the third overall, reverts to the full of his wife, and the entire edition (5,000 copies) sold greatest poem and pushkin’s last and finest uncensored text as published in the original parts. out within the week. This popular pocket edition is work, this a lovely copy in a contemporary bind- Crucially this is now the standard accepted text for now understandably rare—OCLC records only four ing with the original decorated wrappers bound in. all future editions, printed here for the first time in copies in libraries worldwide, all in the USA. pushkin’s best-known and best-loved work took more book form. Kilgour 877, note; Mezhov, Puschkiniana, 1926; Smirnov-Sokol’skii than seven years to write, from May 1823 to Septem- In 1836 Vasily Polyakov, the manager at Glazunov’s 36. ber 1830. The eight chapters were published individu- bookshop, had suggested to Pushkin the idea of pro- £22,500 [134507]

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117 in a specially commissioned luxury binding (RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles. A and including a unique full-page original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawing by Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann; Rackham (signed “Arthur Rackham 36”), showing J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1915 Peer Gynt being swarmed by the trolls and surround- Octavo (198 × 141 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in red morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Title page printed in red and black, colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates all printed directly on plate paper with captioned tissue guards and black and white illustrations in the text. A fine copy. first trade edition, early issue, with the frontispiece printed directly on white plate paper, the date 1915 on the title verso. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 44–45; Riall p. 124–25. £1,750 [134579]

118 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936 Quarto (265 × 189 mm). Specially bound for the publisher in green full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and panelled spine, single-line gilt panel on sides with gilt corner ornaments from designs by Rackham, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (the original pictorial endpapers bound in after binder’s blanks). Coloured frontispiece and 11 mounted colour plates, black and white drawings in the text, by Rackham. A fine copy. deluxe edition, number 6 of ten “special copies” reserved by the publisher, presented 118

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ed by anthropomorphic trees. Describing his artistic method for these “specials”, Rackham pointed out that “my little sketches must inevitably be of a light hearted or joking nature . . . They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper is such that there can be no preparatory drawing and no alterations”. Latimore & Haskell, p. 74; Harrap, A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, 1994, p. xvi; Riall p. 192. £25,000 [135675]

119 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) SHAKESPEARE, Wil- liam. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. London, William Heinemann; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908 Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt with cornerpieces, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 39 plates, line drawings throughout. Some mild browning to binder’s front blank and half-title, the occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy. first rackham edition, trade issue, with an original ink drawing of Bottom to the half-title signed “Arthur Rackham Xmas 08”. Latimore & Haskell, p. 32. £5,000 [135382]

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120 ten in the Tower, Raleigh’s history is divided into five rated with a repeated neoclassical star motif, front cover with portrait of Münchhausen in coloured onlays, gilt sin- [RALEIGH, Sir Walter.] The History of the books, the first two principally, though not wholly, concerned with biblical history, the last three mainly gle fillet frame to sides, gilt edge roll, richly gilt turn-ins, World. At London: printed [by William Stansby] with the story of Greece and Rome. Raleigh takes marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a plush-lined red for Walter Burre [, and are to be sold at his shop in cloth slipcase. Hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece the story from the creation of the world to 146 BCE, of Münchhausen and 23 similar plates (four folding). Occa- Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane], 1614 the time of the second Macedonian war. His preface sional slight offsetting, imprint of some plates cropped. A Folio (317 × 216 mm). Contemporary gilt-tooled panelled calf is a discussion of the philosophical problems raised very good copy. lifted from the original binding and relaid on heavy boards by the concepts of prescience, providence, free will, Handsomely bound mid-19th-century reissue of the and rebacked to style, with two original gilt-tooled spine and fortune. Raleigh began writing it about 1607; the 1792 edition, which includes the striking plates from panels laid down, the restoration probably mid-20th-centu- work was entered in the Stationers’ register in 1611 ry. Engraved title page, 8 double-page plates; woodcut gene- the editions of Kearsley (1786) and H. D. Symonds and appeared towards the end of 1614. It was briefly (1792). This work is one of the many offspring of alogical tables and maps in the text, tables, indexes, errata, suppressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. colophon; the first leaf contains “The minde of the front”. Raspe’s 42-page chapbook called Baron Munchausen’s With medial blank leaf 3K4 but lacking terminal blank 7C6. ESTC S116300; Pforzheimer 820; Printing and the Mind of Man 117; Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, STC 20637. Letterpress title from the 1621 edition with vignette portrait published in 1786, which was not definitively identi- of the author, not called for but inserted after the engraved £12,500 [132070] fied as Raspe’s until 1824. By that time, it had been title. Rubbed in places, lower corners knocked; internally a reprinted, expanded, illustrated, and translated in a small number of minor tears at corners or edges, some with minor paper loss but not affecting text, sporadic light stains 121 vast number of editions. “Though the greatest of all travel liars, Raspe’s or marks, the occasional spill-burn, sometimes costing a let- [RASPE, Rudolph Eric.] The Surprising Trav- ter or two, the last few leaves creased at upper outer corner, Munchausen was based on a real German original, Karl overall a very good copy, generally clean and well-margined. els and Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchausen first edition of Raleigh’s million-word fragment London: Published for the Booksellers, [c.1840] (1720–1797), who during his youth had fought in Rus- of an intended world history, described as “The Octavo (182 × 106 mm). 20th-century red straight-grained sia against the Turks. Years afterward, as a country first part of the general history of the world”. Writ- morocco by Bayntun, spine gilt lettered direct and deco- squire at Bodenwerder, near Hameln, he regaled his

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123 REED, Lou, & Mick Rock. Transformer. Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2003 Folio. Original sheep, spine lettered in gilt, cover design after the original album art, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Also enclosed is a vinyl with the tracks “Walk on the Wild Side” and “Coney Island Baby”, and a print signed by Mick Rock in a black envelope. Housed in the original black cloth folding box, within the cardboard box as issued. Illustrated in colour and in black and white throughout. A fine copy. signed limited edition, number 172 of 350 deluxe copies signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on the title page. The total edition was 2,000, but Reed died before he could sign the 1,650 non-deluxe copies, which consequently only bear his facsimile signature alongside Rock’s signature. Lou Reed’s 1972 album Transformer established his reputation as a solo artist, with Mick Rock 122 providing the photograph used as the cover art. Rock continued to photograph Reed throughout the 1970s, guests (Raspe supposedly among them) with droll Of these stories, seventeen tales were published in and the present book gathers these photographs along- recitations of incredible personal adventures, adding the German periodical Vade Mecum für lustige Leute side commentary and recollections by Reed and Rock. straight-faced assurances of their veracity” (ODNB). between 1781 and 1783, somel of which have been at- £2,000 [134170] tributed to Raspe. Five examples of his publication of the baron’s stories, rendered into English in 1786, “include Cornish mining slang and scenery. Later augmentations added topical allusions and adapted fantastic plots from earlier tellers” (ibid.). Howgego, “Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel”, M59. £1,250 [135644]

122 RAYE, Charles. A Picturesque Tour through the Isle of Wight. London: printed for the proprietor by Howlett and Brimmer, 1825 Oblong quarto (209 × 278 mm). Original red straight-grain half roan, drab paper sides, front cover with red morocco title label lettered and bordered in gilt. 24 hand-coloured aquatints, with blank interleaves. Early ownership inscription of Eliza Farquharson, Ballogie, [Aberdeenshire,] on front pastedown. Spine neatly restored at head, rear free 121 123

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With pencilled annotations by a talented female front covers, gilt panelled spines, gilt edges. 6 lithographed there is pleasure to be had from many of the indi- Egyptologist and artist pictorial titles, 121 tinted lithographed plates, 120 half-page vidual plates, where Haghe’s skillful and delicate li- tinted lithographs by Louis Haghe after Roberts, litho- thography, and his faithful interpretation of Robert’s graphed portrait of the author by C. Baugniet on India pa- 124 draughtsmanship and dramatic sense, combine in per, 2 engraved maps. Some skilful restoration to spines and ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, corners, some spotting, chiefly marginal; a very good copy. what are undoubtedly remarkable examples of tinted lithographic work” (Abbey). Roberts had toured Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. London: F. G. first edition of “one of the most important and Moon, 1842–9 Eqypt, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Palestine, Lebanon, elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publish- and Baalbec during 1838 to 1839 making detailed 6 volumes bound in 4, large folio (613 × 430 mm). Publishers’ ing, and the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph . . . dark purple half morocco, gilt-blocked arms of Jerusalem on

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drawings of the most significant sites, from which he the Egypt Exploration Society of artefacts from their worked up the final pictures for his master work. excavations at Deir el-Bahari. Alice Carthew’s pencil annotations in the Holy Land provenance: Peter Carthew (1808–1870), of 15A volumes (dated 1914 and 1926) relate to the topo- Kensington Palace Gardens, with his bookplate, graphical accuracy of Roberts’s views, presumably presumably bought at publication; passed on to after visits she had made to the actual locations. For his daughter Alice Grace Elizabeth Carthew (1867– example next to “The Ravine” she notes “steps not 1940), with her notes in pencil initialled “A.C.” Alice steep enough”, and beside “Petra Looking South” Carthew was a noted collector of William Blake prints “good picture . . . far too much water”. and antiquities, subsequently donating her abundant Abbey Travel 385 and 272; Blackmer 1432; Tooley 401–2. collections to institutions including the British Mu- seum, the Hunterian, the Victoria & Albert Museum, £65,000 [132004] and the Tate Collection. She donated Mycenean antiquities and a Cycladic figurine to Girton College, Cambridge, and made a number of watercolours for 124

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125 endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Roosevelt dan to Khartoum. “Lavishly illustrated, African Game with facsimile signature and 48 half-tone plates. A fine copy. (ROLLING STONES.) TARLÉ, Dominique. Trails was irresistible to readers who could stomach first edition. the meticulous descriptions of bullets drilling hearts The Making of Exile On Main St. Guildford: Wheelock, p. 10. and brains. Even those who could not . . . had to Genesis Publications Ltd., 2001 concede that Roosevelt was scientific in his scrutiny Quarto. Original yellow leather-backed blue cloth boards, £1,250 [134762] of every aspect of the African wilderness, and often titles to spine in black, and to printed label to front cover, movingly lyrical. The density of recorded details, photographic endpapers, gilt edges. With the original glass- 127 whether ornithological, paleontological, botanical, ine wrapper. Housed in the publisher’s slipcase. Illustrated or anthropological, was almost overwhelming. Most throughout with many photographs by Tarlé. A fine copy. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings came not from notes, but from the author’s movie- first edition, number 920 of 2,000 copies signed camera memory, which in advance of any system yet by the photographer. Exile on Main St. was The Rolling of an American Hunter Naturalist. New York: available in nickelodeons, registered both sight and Stones tenth studio album released in the UK. Many Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910 sound. Over and above its documentary appeal, the of the tracks were recorded in the summer of 1971 at Octavo (233 × 155 mm). Finely bound in green morocco gilt, book exuded a kind of savage romance new to Ameri- a rented villa named Nellcôte in the south of France, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands, compartments with Af- can readers” (Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt, 2010). where the band lived as tax exiles for six months. This rican game figures in gilt within floral and foliate motifs, the Czech, African Big Game, p. 138–39 (“one of the most famous of all work, released on the album’s 30th anniversary, acts latter repeated at each corner of boards and turn-ins, gilt big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, as Tarlé’s photographic record of that time, and the pictorial green morocco onlay of an elephant on front board, was almost continually in print until the 1930s . . . Roosevelt’s villa’s numerous inhabitants, such as William S. Bur- boards and turn-ins ruled in double gilt fillets, edges gilt, total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that marbled endpapers. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 8 era”). roughs, Terry Southern, and Gram Parsons. plates from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin, numerous pho- £3,250 [135034] tographs to the text, “by Kermit Roosevelt and other mem- £2,250 [134769] bers of the expedition”, many of them full-page. A fine copy. 126 first trade edition. Absenting himself from 128 politics for a year, Roosevelt set off on an elaborate ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Outdoor Pastimes ROTHSCHILD, Lionel Walter. The Avifauna hunting trip to gather specimens for the Smithso- of Laysan and the Neighbouring Islands: with of an American Hunter. New York: Charles Scrib- nian. The huge party, including over 250 porters and ner’s Sons, 1905 guides, was partly underwritten by Scribner’s who a complete history to date of the Birds of the Octavo (218 × 145 mm). Finely bound in dark brown morocco gave Roosevelt a $50,000 commission for a series of Hawaiian Possessions. London: R. H. Porter, gilt, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands, compartments and 12 articles on the safari which form the basis of this 1893–1900 turn-ins with foliate and acorn motifs in gilt, triple gilt fil- book. The party crossed British East Africa, into the 2 volumes, small folio (374 × 270 mm). Near-contemporary lets and foliate motif in gilt to boards, edges gilt, marbled Belgian Congo, and traced the Nile across the Su- red half morocco-grain sheep, spines with five raised bands,

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on the birds of Hawaii to that date, as well as a con- densed version of Palmer’s collecting diary. Except for its contemporary publication Aves Hawaiienses by Scott B. Wilson and A. H. Evans (London, 1890–99), The Avifauna of Laysan was the only illustrated work on the birds of Hawaii to that time” (Smithsonian Li- braries online, retrieved 28.05.19). The fine handcoloured lithograph plates of birds are the work of John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912), “for thirty years he was the unrivalled and unequalled draughtsman of ornithological subjects” (obituary in British Birds, 1 July 1912). The collotype plates are after photographs by J. J. Williams (1853–1926), who oper- 128 ated a well-established studio in Honolulu and “sold island views to visitors passing though the islands” gilt lettered direct, red linen sides, pink marbled endpapers, Rothschild was 23, he sent a sailor named Henry (Davis, p. 133). with the original pink printed wrappers bound-in at the Palmer to the Sandwich Islands (as the Hawaiian Is- end of vol. II. With 55 hand-coloured lithograph plates (52 provenance: neat ownership stamp to preliminary lands had been named by Captain James Cook in the binder’s blank in each volume of Ed. N. Garrison of birds, 3 of nest and eggs, a number heightened with gum late 1770s) and most particularly to Laysan, one of arabic), 6 tinted lithograph views and 2 uncoloured plates of (1914–2002), co-founder of the Western Foundation anatomical details, all by and after J. G. Keulemans (52) and the Leeward Islands in the Hawaiian archipelago now of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ) in Camarillo, Califor- F. W. Frohawk (11), printed by the Mintern Brothers, 20 col- part of the Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation. His in- nia, and described by their website as “a passionate lotype plates after Williams of Honolulu, printed by Bedford structions were to collect as many different birds as natural historian. He was an active wildlife photogra- Lemaire & Co. Bindings professionally refurbished, joints a possible, with special attention to inter-island varia- pher, and an avid collector of bird skins, eggs, nests, little rubbed, vol. II with a few marks to leather on back cover tion. Palmer spent over two years at the task, from and natural history books” (retrieved 28.05.19). and a few scratches to cloth, corners bumped, head of a cou- December 1890 to August 1893, and sent almost 2000 Anker 429; Fine Bird Books, p.135; Davis, Lynn Ann, ple of leaves in same volume a little dusty. A very good copy, specimens back to Tring, including representatives the plates clean and bright. “Photographically Illustrated Books about Hawai’i, 1854–1945”, of 15 species previously unknown to Western science History of Photography, Vol. 25, 2001, Issue 3; Forbes 4497; Hawaii first and sole edition, limited to 250 copies, and several species which have since become extinct. Hundred 96 (“this wonderful account”); Nissen IVB 794; Wood, a landmark study in hawaiian ornithology, These specimens formed the basis of Rothschild’s p.543; Zimmer, p.532. originally issued in three parts; Laysan is one of the monograph The Avifauna of Laysan and the Neighboring £25,000 [133714] Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. “In 1890, when Islands. The work includes a survey of the literature

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129 131 133 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Pris- RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997 oner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999 New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, titles to front cover in Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth backed grey papered yellow, white and dark green, titles to spine yellow, white Slight rubbing to bottom edge of boards and spine, a near- boards, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Rem- and black. Issued without a dust jacket. Housed in a red cloth fine copy. nants of small ownership label to the bottom of the front flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Very light shelfwear at first edition, first state, with the requisite free endpaper, small rust mark from a paper clip to the top extremities, small nick at head of rear wrapper, tiny periph- of the front free endpaper with just a trace to the front past- eral stain to half-title and title page, small peripheral crease points: number series on the copyright page from 10 edown, pages nice and clean. A very good copy in the bright to pp. 191–2. Still a near-fine copy, unread. down to 1, “Joanne Rowling” as the copyright holder, dust jacket, ever so slightly nicked at the tip with some slight and the dropped line of text on page 7. It is generally first edition, paperback issue. This is one of tanning to the back panel. held that there were 2,500 copies of the first state. 5,150 copies in wrappers, with all the requisite points of the first printing: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down- Errington A7(a). to-1 number line, the list of equipment on p. 53 with £2,500 [130038] “1 wand” appearing twice in the list, and the misprint “Philospher’s” on the back cover. It was published si- 132 multaneously with the casebound issue of 500 copies. Errington A1 (aa). ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000 £7,750 [135693] Octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and front cover in blue and black. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in 130 the jacket with negligible creasing to spine ends, a couple of spots of glue residue to rear panel. ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Cham- ber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1998 first edition, signed by the author on the dedication page, and additionally signed by the cov- Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the pictorial dust jack- er artist, Giles Greenfield, to the front panel of the et. Contents very lightly toned as often, small 2 cm tear to the final leaf, head and tail gently bumped, a near-fine copy in the dust jacket. Copies of this work signed by both Rowl- bright jacket with very slight creasing to extremities. ing and Greenfield are notably uncommon. This copy is the rarer variant printed at Omnia Books, Glasgow. first edition. Errington A9(a). Errington A2(a). £3,000 [131863] 133 £2,250 [132019]

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£1,250 [132212] 135 ger by his parents when he was born. Salinger pur- SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Bos- chased his Cornish estate in New England two years 134 afterThe Catcher in the Rye was published. ton: Little, Brown and Company, 1951 RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice. London: Intriguingly, Miriam also writes about her grand- Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the Smith, Elder and Co., 1873–4 daughter Margaret (“Peggy”), who was eight years old dust jacket. Accompanied by a 2-page autograph letterin at the time. She writes, “I told our little Peggy she is 3 volumes, large octavo (241 × 165 mm). Late 20th-century green ink on plain paper, in the original stamped addressed just a wonderful little girl. She said I don’t think they brown half morocco by Bayntun, twin red and green moroc- envelope, postmarked 28 July 1963. Housed in a red quarter co labels, spines gilt to compartments, brown cloth sides, morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Spine ends a would agree at my house”. In 2000, Margaret Salinger top edges gilt. With 62 illustrated plates and illustrations in little bruised, small bump to front board fore edge, light fox- released Dream Catcher, a memoir of her childhood and the text. Some light foxing. An excellent set. ing to edges of book block and endmatter, a little worming to her difficult relationship with her father. signed edition, one of 1,500 copies signed by the rear inner hinge. A very good copy in the jacket, spine panel somewhat browned, spine ends and tips a little chipped. £12,500 [132352] author at the end of the preface. One of the key texts of the aesthetic movements, The Stones of Venice was first edition, together with an autograph letter first published from 1851 to 1853 and was “a revolu- signed from Salinger’s mother Miriam, in which she tionary success” (PMM). Its importance lies “in its writes about Salinger, with a return address on the celebration of the Byzantine and the Gothic, which envelope of 1133 Park Avenue, Salinger’s childhood had an immediate effect on Victorian architects, who home; also laid in is a bookmark inscribed: “Happy began to introduce Romanesque forms and Venetian holidays and a good New Year from the Salingers.” and Veronese colour and sculptural features into The letter is addressed to Cynthia Sudholz, a close their designs” (ODNB). childhood friend of Doris, the author’s older sister, Printing and the Mind of Man 315 (for first edition) who also babysat Salinger. In the letter, dated 27 July 1963, Miriam Salinger writes to about Doris and J.D., £2,500 [135466] noting that “We are having a real heat spell—not pleas- ant. Doris is in Cape Cod this weekend—she said heat is very bad there. Sonny [J.D.] said it’s the same in New England...” “Sonny” was the nickname given to Salin- 135

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136 SAYERS, Dorothy. L. In the Teeth of the Evi- dence and Other Stories. London: Victor Gol- lancz Ltd, 1939 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Spine minimally rolled, faint rubbing to cloth, light foxing to book block edges, very faint offsetting to endpapers; a very good copy in the lightly soiled jacket with sunned spine, slight nicks to extremities and dampstains to verso. first edition of Sayers’s third collection of short stories, two of which feature Lord Peter Wimsey. Gilbert A32, a. 137 £2,000 [132137] effectively the earliest obtainable print- The year 1709 was highly significant in Shakespeare 137 ing of shakespeare’s major poetry, combining scholarship, the year in which Rowe issued his first the complete uncorrupted text of the 1609 Sonnets octavo edition of the plays. As Rowe had not pur- SHAKESPEARE, William. A Collection of with Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. Benson’s 1640 edi- chased copyright in the poems, Lintott, who was a Poems, in Two Volumes; being all the mis- tion of Shakespeare’s Poems lacked both Lucrece and keen rival of Rowe’s publisher Jacob Tonson, quickly cellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which Venus and Adonis and its text of the Sonnets was both issued these two volumes to supply the lack. were publish’d by himself in the year 1609, incomplete and bowdlerized—combining poems, ESTC T138086. mixing masculine and feminine pronouns etc.—but and are now correctly Printed from those Edi- Lintott referred to the original 1609 edition of the £22,500 [134529] tions. London: for Bernard Lintott, [1710–11] Sonnets, correcting Benson’s mistakes and including 2 volumes bound together, octavo (167 × 90 mm). Contem- the two longer poems for the first time. Volume 1 was 138 porary sheep, unlettered, sides with two-line gilt rules. originally published separately with a title-page dat- SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. Lon- Housed in a brown morocco-backed solander box. Without ed 1709; when Lintott completed the second volume free endpapers. Bookplate of Robert Ball. Corners repaired, don: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1891–1893 a new general title was issued and the dating of the joints starting at head but holding, occasional spotting as parts altered. 9 volumes, large octavo (226 × 146 mm). Finely bound by usual, still a very good copy. Bayntun-Riviere in green half crushed morocco, titles and centre tool to spines gilt, raised bands, green cloth boards,

62 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington green endpapers, top edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Minor open tear in gutter of half-title of vol. I. Couple of volumes with minor partial toning to endpapers. Overall a clean and bright set in excellent condition. A handsomely bound set of Wright’s Cambridge Shakespeare, comprising the second edition of vols. II–IX and the third edition of vol. I. The Cambridge Shakespeare was first published from 1863–6 with William George Clark as the editor and William Aldis Wright as a collaborator, but Wright “was solely re- sponsible for the second edition (1891–3), which remains the great monument to his industry and accuracy . . . It was in his nature to be silent about poetic beauty and dramatic genius; but learning, accuracy, and common sense combined to make him one of Britain’s greatest Shakespearian scholars” (ODNB). Jaggard p. 699.

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139 passed, and Mary was allowed to prepare a proper edi- 140 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. tion provided there was only a minimum of biographi- SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature London: Edward Moxon, 1839 cal information. “Mary Shelley brought Shelley into and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: 4 volumes, octavo (168 × 104 mm). Finely bound by Zaehn- the mainstream of the national culture. He was no sdorf for McClurg in brown polished full calf, spines gilt in longer the author of a notorious banned poem [Queen printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1789 compartments with dark red morocco title labels gilt, sides Mab] only obtainable from shops specializing in blas- 3 volumes, octavo (213 × 125 mm). Contemporary polished bordered with double gilt rule, top edges gilt, marbled end- phemy, sedition and advice on birth control. He was speckled calf, red morocco labels to spine, raised bands papers. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. one, half-title the prophet of Prometheus Unbound, one of the most ruled in gilt, volume number to fourth compartment on in each volume. Some minor rubbing to extremities, scrape ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by litera- green morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt, edges across front board of vol. three, an excellent set, sound and speckled red. Armorial bookplates of Clan Cumming to ture, and of other works such as the “Ode to the West internally clean. front pastedowns. Extremities rubbed with a few small spots Wind” . . . The notes that Mary added are masterpieces first edition of mary shelley’s collected of wear, corners a little bumped, boards lightly marked, of editing, adding so immeasurably to the reader’s un- hinges gently cracked but holding, a few spill-burns to upper edition of her husband’s poetical works, the derstanding that nobody would now consider printing edge of vol. 2, a very good set. first complete collected edition, which established Shelley’s poems without them” (St Clair, p. 492). fifth edition, one of 1,500 copies printed, the Shelley finally and irreversibly amongst the great po- This is set comes from the library of the philosopher ets of the English language. last edition to be published in Smith’s lifetime. It and writer Alan W. Watts (1915–1973), with his self- was taken from the third edition (1784). “Where the Pirate editions of Shelley’s works had persuaded designed esoterically illustrated bookplate—with the his father, Sir Timothy, that all hope of obscurity had political aspects of human rights had taken two cen- biblical motto “pulsate et aperietur vobis” (“knock, turies to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring and it shall be opened to you”)—to each volume. Watts the study of economic aspects to the same point in a was a highly significant early popularizer of Zen Bud- single work. The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but dhism in the Western world, and his ownership of this as a provisional analysis it is completely convincing. Shelley set makes for an unexpected but compelling The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human association. Commentators from Yeats onward have nature have made it the first and greatest classic of identified the mystical strain of Shelley’s writing, and modern economic thought” (PMM, p. 134). the recent Romanticism and Buddhism volume (2007, ed. Goldsmiths’ 13794; Kress B.1722; Tribe 33. See Printing and the Mark Lussier) contains an essay by John G. Rudy on Mind of Man 221. “Shelley’s Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in A Defence of Poetry and Ode to the West Wind”. £4,750 [118023] Dunbar, Shelley Studies 345; Granniss, 88; Wise, p. 87; St Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family, 1989.

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Companion to Voltaire, p. 10). Strachey’s 1912 book Landmarks in French Literature has three chapters on the philosopher. The book was possibly bound by Franc- es Partridge, who hand-bound many of the books in Ham Spray. £1,250 [133996]

143 STRAVINSKY, Igor. An Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936 141 Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt facsimile signature to front cover. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and seven 141 142 other plates. Paper spine label absent, hinges repaired, some underlining in red ink to the text, jacket chipped with resto- STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works, (STRACHEY, Lytton.) VOLTAIRE. Candide. ration on verso. A good copy. Vailima Edition. New York, Charles Scribner’s Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1913 first edition, inscribed by the author on Sons, 1921–3 Octavo. Near-contemporary cream cloth, green morocco p. viii: “To Mr Leon Machan sincerely I. Stravinsky 26 volumes, octavo (221 × 142 mm). Finely bound by Za- label lettered in gilt to spine, light blue endpapers. Spine Cleveland 25 February 1937”. The recipient Leon toned, light soiling to cloth, foxed. A very good copy. hensdorf in blue half calf, brown and green morocco labels, Machan (1887–1945) was a pianist with the Cleveland elaborate tooling to spines gilt, green cloth boards, marbled lytton strachey’s copy of Voltaire’s Candide, with orchestra. In February 1937 Stravinsky visited Cleve- endpapers, top edges gilt. Photogravure frontispiece por- his bookplate to the front pastedown, his ownership traits. Spines faded and just a littled rubbed, a very good set. land and conducted the orchestra, which performed signature and the pencilled shelfmark of his Ham his Pétroushka suite, his Violin Concerto, and the di- vailima edition, one of 1,030 sets for the United Spray house to the front free endpapers. Strachey has vertimento from his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss. Machan’s States of which this is number 93. A handsomely made a few minor pencilled notes to the introduction. signed bookplate is on the front pastedown. bound set. Strachey “devoted several essays to Voltaire and £1,750 [133974] £5,750 [134289] hung a portrait of him by Jean Huber over his desk, where it dominated his study” (Cronk, Cambridge

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144 estimated to be a fair day’s work and the best means Edward Moxon, following Poems (1833). It contains TAYLOR, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of ensuring such a standard of production . . . The original unpublished poetry written in the interven- adoption of his methods there contributed notably ing decade, which was one of Tennyson’s saddest and of Scientific Management. New York: Harper & to the speedy recovery of German production after most creative, following the sudden death of his dear Brothers Publishers, 1911 the First World War. His methods were anathema to friend Arthur Henry Hallam, in whose memory In Me- Octavo. Original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front trade unionists almost everywhere else” (PMM). moriam (1850) was written. board with single fillet border in blind. Ownership signature Downs, Books That Changed America, 17; Norman 2059; Printing and “Ulysses” and “Morte d’Arthur” both appear here of R. L. Rowley dated 27 March 1911 to front pastedown, his the Mind of Man 403. for the first time, “prompted by the death of his Ar- armorial bookplate to front free endpaper; subsequently thur, Tennyson finding extraordinarily compelling from the library of esteemed collector Victor Niederhoffer. £2,250 [134761] correlatives, in ancient worlds, for his feelings per- A near-fine copy, spine slanted and light rubbing to extremi- sonal and universal, ancient and modern” (ODNB). ties, some offset from bookplate residue to front pastedown, 145 contents evenly toned. The first volume reprints selections from poems that had been previously published in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical first edition, the scarce privately printed TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Poems. London: (1830) and Poems (1833), many of them significantly issue, of the first and most influential book Edward Moxon, 1842 revised. These include such classics as “The Lotos on business and industrial management. 2 volumes, octavo. Original boards, titles in black to paper Eaters” and “The Lady of Shalott”. Though the col- “This special edition [was] printed in February 1911 labels to spines. Housed in custom dark red cloth backed lection was much reprinted, the first edition is very for confidential circulation among the members of marbled paper solander boxes. Half-title in both volumes, scarce—to have a copy surviving in the original the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with two pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear of volume one, terminal blank in volume two. With the D. Wylie and boards is rare indeed; only two copies in boards are the compliments of the author” (title page state- Son circulating library ticket to front pastedowns. Slight recorded at auction in the past 20 years, one of which ment). The first trade edition followed the same year. wear to extremities, spines and head of boards browned, was rebacked. In the Society’s journal for 1911 (Vol. 83 So. 1) a “R. L. seemingly from storage in a prior slipcase, spine labels Rowley” is listed as having been elected a new mem- rubbed, a couple of grease spots to boards, joints cracked provenance: With the bookplate of noted American ber on 1 June 1911, and is likely the first or at least one with old glue repairs, front hinges cracked, but still sound; a book collector Herschel V. Jones to front pastedown of the earliest owners of this copy. very good copy of this fragile publication. of vol. I and the bookplate of Charles and Elizabeth “F. W. Taylor, an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel first edition, in the rare boards, of tenny- Decker and ownership inscription of Barbara and Works in Philadelphia, was the originator of what he son’s important and uncommon early col- Gary Bouaird to front pastedown of vol. II. called ‘scientific management’, now known as ‘time lection, containing the first appearance of “Ul- £2,500 [134795] and motion study’. His system was based on what he ysses”. The publication was Tennyson’s second with

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146 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in gilt on black ground, cream endpapers, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine minimally cocked and faintly 146 presented a paper on “Modern Poetry Etcetera” to the toned, browning to endmatter, small marks to pp 114–5; a very good copy indeed in the price-clipped jacket with faded THOMAS, Dylan. 18 Poems. London: The Sun- Nashe Society at St John’s College, Cambridge, and after this event the two got drunk together. In a let- spine, chips to spine ends, nicks to extremities, a couple of day Referee and The Parton Bookshop, 1934 ter to Peter, penned from Fraser’s Bookshop in Cam- short closed tears to head and foot of front panel. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With the dust bridge, Thomas writes: “So sorry about not calling first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by jacket, supplied. Later ink ownership inscription to front free this morning to do a Richards with you. I’ve got the the author to his mother-in-law Yvonne Macnamara endpaper. Spine titles dulled, ends and corners rubbed, cloth filthiest feeling in my head, & I had another Prairie on the front free endpaper, “for Yvonne, from Dylan, a little stained, foxing around endpapers, but a sound copy in good condition, with the dust jacket chipped at the end and Oyster made with H.P. sauce & it made me feel worse. with love. January, 1947.” Thomas and Caitlin lived corners and with a few other small closed tears (one with tape I really can’t face anything, and I shall be sitting in with her mother, Yvonne, for much of the late 1930s. repair to verso) but still in better than usual condition. the Baron pub. Do come along if you can. Love, Dy- During this stay Thomas and Yvonne’s relationship first edition, one of 500 copies, wonderfully lan” (Revised Ferris edition of his letters, dated by appeared to have been strained. Writing to his friend inscribed and annotated by the patently the editor to 1937). This copy was evidently inscribed Charles Fisher in January 1939 Thomas claimed to “sit drunk poet, first upside down on the rear free end- at some point during this Cambridge bender to his and hate my mother-in-law, glowering at her from paper in a crapulous hand, “Upside down, FOR Peter, new-found undergraduate drinking companion. corners and grumbling about her in the sad, sticky, God bless Dylan & Peter, 1937”, and additionally with This is the second issue (rounded spine, trimmed quiet of the lavatory” (Ferris, pp. 402–3). By the time a line of poetry inside the rear cover, “For as long as fore-edge, 1934 date omitted from the title page, and of this inscription, however, their relationship seems forever is / and the fast sky shakes in the web / Dylan”. Parton Press advertisement leaf tipped between half- to have mellowed, perhaps aided by the fact Thomas Thomas has also scribbled commentaries on three po- title and title page), with the first issue jacket (with and Caitlin were now living elsewhere, namely with ems: aside poem 16, “I dreamed my genesis...” he has 3/6 price). The first issue was bound and released in the historian Alan J. P. Taylor and his wife Margaret in scrawled “one of the worst poems ever”; poem 18, “All December 1934, with the remaining 250 sets of sheets Oxfordshire. all and all the dry words lever...” he has condemned bound and distributed in February 1936. This copy is in the first issue “aquamarine” bind- as the product of a “Welsh masturbating Swinburne”; Rolph B1b. ing and first issue jacket with the front panel signed “Lowry” at lower corner, and with the correct pub- and the second part of poem 17, starting “My world is £13,500 [132176] pyramid...”, receives the approbation of a tick. lisher’s address “500 Fifth Ave” on the rear panel. Ferris, The Collected Letters (2000); Rolph B11. Inscribed copies of Thomas’s first collection are 147 very scarce, and this is a highly characterful exam- £4,750 [132178] ple. The recipient was an undergraduate named Peter THOMAS, Dylan. The Selected Writings. Hume, who worked on a short-lived Cambridge liter- New York: New Directions, 1946 ary journal Light and Dark. In February 1937 Thomas

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be important for this picture alone. As it is, in terms of the concept of the photographs, and the volume’s aims and ambitions as a book, Street Life in London is one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium’s history” (Parr & Badger). The work was first published in 12 monthly parts and then in book form, as here: the book form is genuinely rare, as well as a most attractive piece o f Victorian book production. 148 Parr & Badger, I, p. 48; Truthful Lens 169; Open Book, 42–43. £20,000 [135678] One of the most significant and far-reaching tle rubbed, sometime rehinged, occasional light foxing; a photobooks in the medium’s history remarkably bright and well preserved copy. first edition, book issue, of the work which 148 pioneered the genre of photojournalism. THOMSON, John, & Adolphe Smith [Head- The photographer John Thomson (1837–1921), who ingley]. Street Life in London. With perma- had made his reputation with photographic records of nent photographic illustrations taken from his Far Eastern travels, joined forces with the radical journalist Adolphe Smith Headingley (fl. 1870–1920) to life expressly for this publication. London: document the lives of ordinary Londoners, combining Samson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, [1877] hard-hitting, albeit staged, street photography, with Quarto. Publisher’s green cloth on bevelled boards, elabo- documentary-style prose. “Structurally, Street Life is a rate pictorial blocking to front board in black and gilt, de- combination of street portraiture . . . and interviews vice and border to back board in blind, titles to spine in with the subjects. Thus it was the direct predecessor gilt, all edges gilt, yellow end papers. Housed in a custom black cloth box lined with brown velvet. 37 woodburytype of the journalistic picture stories that would appear in photographs on 36 sheets (with tissue guards), all mounted illustrated magazines from that period onward” (Parr on heavy stock paper and set within a red single-rule bor- & Badger). There is however, a picture in particular der with captions in red, the majority approximately 11 × 9 which, according to Parr & Badger, “takes us straight cm. Bookseller’s ticket of John & Arnold Slark, Fishergate, into the twentieth century” which is that of The Crawl- Preston to front pastedown. Light wear to extremities, a liter: a destitute old woman apparently unaware of (or in- different to) her picture being taken. “Street Life would 148

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149 stamp of Thoreau (5 cents, 1967) is additionally af- 150 THOREAU, Henry D. Walden; or, Life in the fixed to the front pastedown. TOLKIEN, J. R. R. [The Lord of the Rings.] BAL 20106; Borst A2.1.a; Grolier American 100, 63. Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854 The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; Octavo. Original brown ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, £8,500 [132450] The Return of the King. London: George Allen large decorative device within panels in blind to endpapers, and Unwin, 1954–5 pale yellow endpapers. Housed in a custom brown cloth box, spine lettered in gilt (a little rubbed). Wood-engraved 3 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, title-page vignette of Thoreau’s hut, chart of Walden Pond top edges red. With the dust jackets. Folding maps by Chris- (with the publisher’s imprint—later state but no prior- topher Tolkien at end of each volume, map entitled “A Part of ity of issue), and 8-page publisher’s catalogue dated May The Shire” in Fellowship. Spines minimally cocked, slight rub- 1854 bound between the rear endpapers. Spine ends lightly chipped with sympathetic cloth strips for reinforcement, else unrestored; some very light rubbing to cloth, a few minor fox marks but generally clean internally. A very nice copy in the original cloth. first edition. This copy has the advertisements dated May 1854—the earliest state of the advertisements is April 1854, but as the book was not published until 12 July 1854 there is no priority of issue. Other advertisements go as late as September 1855; although BAL states that they are of “no known bibliographical significance” the pre-publication advertisements are obviously preferable. provenance: from the library of J. Roy W. Barrette, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Barrette was the author of the Thoreau-inspired work A Coun- tryman’s Journal: Views of Life and Nature from a Maine Coastal Farm (1981), and two sequels. Also with the contemporary ownership signature of one A. J. H. Pugh to the front free endpaper. A commemorative

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68 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington bing to extremities, faint marks to top edges, small mark to fore edge of Return, light offsetting to endpapers; a very good copy in the faintly soiled jackets with browning to spines, edges, and head of front panel of Return, slight nicks to spine and fold ends, and a short closed tear to foot of front panel of Return. first editions. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most popular works of literature in the 20th century, containing richly rendered detail of a new mythological world, not yet surpassed. The Return of the King is in the following production variant states: the third state variant with broken type and signature 4 on p. 49 (previously identified by Hammond as the first state); the second state variant of p. 281 with no gap in the middle of “Men” on the final line, and the second state dust jacket variant with reviews of the first two books to the rear flap. The textual variants within the first impression, and the priorities as- signed to them, are of manufacture only; they would have been published simultaneously. Hammond & Anderson A5a i, ii, & iii. £12,500 [133296]

151 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. Bilbo: En Hobbits Även- tyr. Trans. Britt G. Hallqvist. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1962 Octavo. Original quarter green cloth, pictorial sides, gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations by Tove Jansson. Spine lightly sunned and gently rolled, very minor rubbing to 153 ends and tips, some mild fading to boards around margins, internally sound and fresh, an excellent copy overall. first jansson edition, scarce and much first editions. “Taken as a whole, the 12 books are first edition, published on 9 June, preceding the sought after for its illustrations. This was a remarkable testimony to the creativity of J. R. R. first American edition by some six months. Twain the second and preferred Swedish translation, fol- Tolkien and the industry and painstaking scholarship chose to have the book published first in London lowing that of Tore Zetterholm whose effort proved of his son Christopher” (George Beahm, The Essential to ensure copyright and perhaps also because he controversial in deviating too far from Tolkien’s origi- J. R. R. Tolkien Sourcebook, p. 34). was more highly esteemed in Britain than at home. nal (notably renaming Bilbo “Bimbo”). Hammond A21–9. “The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village £2,500 [134161] £4,500 [132065] code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, presented a sharp contrast 152 153 to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches literature TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The History of Middle- TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Saw- which was then the common fare doled out to chil- Earth. London: George Allen & Unwin, Unwin Hy- yer. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876 dren . . . these books let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own child- man or Harper Collins, 1983–96 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in hood, and they will be classics the world over as long gilt with black design, yellow endpapers. Housed in a burgun- 12 volumes, octavo. Various coloured cloth with various col- dy quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery, Ear- as there are boys” (Grolier American 79). oured dust jackets. A sharp clean set in the bright jackets, ly bookseller’s ticket of G. A. v. Halem in Bremen, Germany to BAL 3367. single scratch to the front panel of volume 1 and 3 volumes front pastedown. Cloth bright, very minor wear and rubbing with the publisher’s small price sticker to the bottom inner at extremities, lean to spine, edges foxed, contents clean. A £30,000 [134119] flap. An excellent set. very nice copy, fresh and unrestored, scarce thus.

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154 state. The first printing of 30,000 copies was done us- 155 TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry ing electrotype plates, produced simultaneously on (VICTORIA, Queen.) MARTIN, Theodore. different presses, hence minor variations within the Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: first printing due to damaged plates. The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885 The frontispiece is in the first state with the table Consort. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1875–80 Square octavo. Original green pictorial cloth blocked in cloth visible and unsigned on the finished edge of the 5 volumes, octavo. Original reddish-brown cloth over bev- black and gilt, titles to spine and front cover in gold and bust, but this was separately printed and inserted in elled boards, spines lettered in gilt, sides with frames black. Housed in a green cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea copies at random, and so has no bearing on prior- stamped in black, black-coated endpapers. Engraved por- Bindery. Photogravure frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt’s por- ity. Copies were issued in leather bindings (sheep or trait frontispieces to each volume, 8 other plates of portraits trait bust of Clemens, 173 text illustrations after E. W. Kem- and views with tissue guards; one a folding facsimile of a three-quarters morocco), in blue cloth for those who ble. Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription dated draft memorandum by Prince Albert to Lord Lyons in 1861. 1885 to head of front free endpaper. A little rubbing and cou- wanted it uniform with Tom Sawyer and, as here, in Light rubbing at extremities, a few small chips and patches ple of tiny spots of wear to spine ends and tips, front inner green cloth. There is no priority between them: all of minor wear to cloth, light white marking to fore edges of hinge with neat superficial tissue repair and a couple of tiny were first available to the public on the same day in boards, splits to rear hinge of vol. IV and front hinge of vol. splits, book block sound and tight, short closed tear to head February 1885. V. A very good set. of rear free endpaper. A very good, fresh copy in bright cloth. At some stage it was realised that the Uncle Silas presentation copies from queen victoria, in- first u.s. edition. Only three substantive changes illustration on p. 283 had been mischievously tam- scribed on the front free endpaper of three volumes: were introduced after the first printing: at p. 13 the er- pered with. In this copy, the illustration is in the vol. I, “To John Longden from Victoria RI Windsor roneous page reference “88” was changed to “87”; at second (or arguably third) state, with the changes Castle Dec. 24. 1877”; vol. IV, “To John Longden from p. 57, 11 lines from the bottom the misprint “with the removed. VRI [Victoria Regina et Imperatrix] July 31. 1879”; was” was corrected to “with the saw”; and at p. 9 the BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50; Kevin vol. V, “To John Longden Esq from VRI June 1880”. misprint “Decided” was corrected to “Decides” (this MacDonnell, “Huck Finn among the Issue-Mongers,” Firsts; The A most attractive association: the recipient, John last change overlooked by Johnson, Blanck et al.) Book Collector’s Magazine, Volume 8, Number 9 (September 1998), pp. 28–35. Longden, was one of the longest serving members of These are the only points to distinguish between the the queen’s household, apparently originally entering first two printings, and our copy has all three in first £8,750 [132615] royal service in 1838; he may have been the son of a J.

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Longden who is listed as a Yeoman of the Coalyard in 1829. The Royal Kalendar between 1838 and 1853 lists him as one of three groom porters, promoted to First Groom Porter (1854), Yeoman Porter (1855); by 1874 he had risen to the rank of First Gentleman Por- ter and in 1878, as “J. Longden, Esq.”, is listed as one 157 of two clerks. In 1865 Victoria presented him with a Prince Albert stickpin. chips at extremities, yet still a near-fine copy of this fragile pastedowns, still a near-fine copy, fresh and clean inter- The set is of mixed editions: vols. I and IV, fourth; publication. nally, with one unopened top edge. vols. II and V, third; vol. III, first; each volume was first edition of wilde’s first independent first edition, signed limited issue, number 46 quickly reprinted and “was generally well received, to publication. The inspiration for Wilde’s prize- of 100 large paper copies signed by the author. Wil- the queen’s delight” (ODNB). winning poem came on a “vacation ramble” to Italy de’s last and greatest play opened to huge acclaim on This extensive biography of Prince Albert (1819– in 1877 with the precentor and junior dean of Trinity Valentine’s Day 1895 but was withdrawn after Wilde’s 1861) was begun in 1866 and originally intended to be College, Dublin, William Mahaffy. failed libel suit against Lord Queensbury led to his a continuation of The Early Years of His Royal Highness arrest. The subsequent “utter social destruction of the Prince Consort (1867) by Victoria’s private secretary Mason 301. Wilde” (ODNB) meant that the play was not published Charles Grey. The queen interviewed Martin on 14 £1,750 [134798] in book form until February 1899, after Wilde’s re- November 1866 and, finding him “very pleasing, clev- lease from prison. Richard Ellmann comments that er, quiet, and sympathique”, engaged him to write 157 Smithers’s handsome editions of Earnest and An Ideal the biography, Victoria selecting the documents for Husband “brought Wilde a little money”. use and intervening widely in the manuscript. WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Ear- nest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The play was issued in a standard edition of 1,000 £4,000 [135698] copies, this large paper edition, and 12 copies on vel- London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899 lum, most of which the author presented to his few 156 Square octavo. Original pale purple cloth, gilt lettered loyal friends. spine, gilt floral motifs from designs by Charles Shan- Mason 382. WILDE, Oscar. Newdigate Prize Poem. Raven- non on spine and covers, edges untrimmed, pages uncut. na. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, Housed in a custom brown quarter morocco and cloth £50,000 [132907] solander box and matching chemise. Housed in a purple 1878. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878 quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Octavo, pp. 16. Original grey-green printed wrappers. Cloth very slightly faded at spine and upper and inner edge Housed in a custom blue cloth folding case, spine lettered of front board, a couple of small areas of cockling to front in gilt. Very light foxing to covers, minor nicks and tiny board, free endpapers browned as usual from reaction to

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158 selves in front of a jury” (ibid., p. 79). Their eloquent 160 (WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.) Suffrage Speeches arguments emphasised the nobility of the organisa- WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. tion’s motives and their attempts to acquire equal from the Dock. Made at the Conspiracy Trial, rights peacefully, and called into question the defini- London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Old Bailey, May 15th–22nd, 1912. [London:] tion of militancy held by the government. Press, 1929 The Woman’s Press, [1912/13] See Mayhall, Laura E. Nym, The Militant Suffrage Movement: Small crown octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in Octavo. Original grey printed wrappers, wire-stitched. Ad- Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860–1930, Oxford University gilt. With the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Partially vertisements for the WSPU on the inside front cover, and for Press, 2003. erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine gently cocked, negligible rubbing to bottom edge, small Votes for Women on the rear cover. Sticker to front cover re- £1,250 [135352] pricing from 1d to 2d. Wrappers very discreetly repaired and bump to top outer corner of front board, faint foxing to edg- reattached, small chip to top right corner, a very good copy, es, light offsetting to endpapers; a remarkably bright copy in the contents bright and clean. 159 the foxed jacket with creasing and small chips to spine ends and tips, a couple of short closed tears to rear panel. first edition, with the compliments slip of Emme- WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. London: line Pethick-Lawrence laid in (“Lord” crossed out by first trade edition. A Room of One’s Own is Woolf ’s published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Ho- feminist literary manifesto, in which she assesses the hand and replaced with “Lady” so as to repurpose her garth Press, 1925 husband’s card). This scarce collection reprints the history of women as writers and the challenges they Octavo. Original dark reddish-brown cloth, spine lettered in speeches given by Emmeline Pankhurst, Emmeline have faced. She notes the effects of patriarchal liter- gilt. Bookplate of the collector Arnold M. Muirhead (1900– ary culture on female characters, and makes the case Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William Pethick-Law- 1988) to front pastedown. Only the slightest sunning to rence, and Tim Healy (counsel for the defence) dur- that women must carve out both physical and psycho- spine, very minor rubbing at ends and corners, faint traces logical space for themselves in order to become part ing their trial for conspiracy. Having first appeared in of spotting to endpapers, small marginal tear at bottom cor- of the literary establishment. The work is based on Votes for Women, they were published here “in rather ner of leaf S8, still an excellent copy. more permanent form” by the WSPU’s publishing two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and first edition. Around 2,000 copies of this first the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. The signed lim- arm, the Woman’s Press (p. 3). OCLC and Library printing were produced. The novel has become one Hub trace just seven copies in institutions worldwide, ited edition was issued simultaneously in the US and of Woolf ’s most famous works and one of the defin- in the UK three days earlier. only one of which is outside the UK. ing texts of literary modernism. Kirkpatrick A12.b. The trial garnered extensive media attention and Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer, Hogarth Press, 82. “provided the WSPU with a public forum in which £2,750 [134208] it could portray itself as a large, successful, well-run £2,500 [135121] organisation representing the political aspirations of thousands of women all over the country . . . The greatest triumph for the WSPU, however, was that its members were given the opportunity to defend them-

72 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 161 (WOOLF, Virginia.) SARTORIS, Adelaide. A Week in a French Country-House. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867 Octavo. Original purple cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front cover elaborately lettered and stamped in gilt, decorative frame blocked in blind to covers, grey coated endpapers. Frontispiece and plate with tissue guards. Spine cocked and faded, wear to spine ends and tips, a little soiling to cloth, occasional foxing to contents, a couple of gatherings slightly proud, inner hinges a little delicate; a good copy. first edition, with Virginia Woolf ’s ownership inscription to the dedication page, dated 1931. A contemporary gift inscription sits below Woolf ’s “To my kind friends at ?Brume, C.H. August 28 1868.” Adelaide Kemble Sartoris (1815–1879) was an opera singer and author. She was close friends with William Makepeace Thackeray and his daughters Minny and 162 163 Anny. Minny Thackeray (1840–1875) was Leslie Ste- phen’s first wife, and Woolf was close to Anny, upon and untouched but for the most trivial rubbing at spine cor- by King Louis XVIII, and so the menagerie was reclas- whom she based Lady Hilbery in Night and Day (1919). ners and tips. A copy of the 1902 edition of this work was recorded sified as “royale,” prompting Saintin to reissue the in the Leonard Woolf library catalogue. A Week in a first edition, an exceptional copy in the jacket, of book from the same sheets with a suitably updated French Country-House was serialized in the Cornhill mag- what is generally accepted to be Yeats’s single most title. The work is an attractive embodiment of the azine in the same year and was “appreciated for its important collection. The Tower includes many of early 19th-century endeavour to turn royal and impe- humour and freshness” (ODNB). Yeats’s greatest and most enduring poems, includ- rial menageries, displays of power and authority, into ing “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Nineteen Hundred and zoological gardens, where the goals were entertain- £3,750 [134099] Nineteen”, “Leda and the Swan”, and “Among School ment and inspiration, perhaps even education, for Children”. the general public. 162 Wade 158. Not listed in Copac, nor at the Bibliothèque na- tionale de France, OCLC only lists three copies of the YEATS, W. B. The Tower. London: Macmillan £6,000 [134740] “Impériale” edition. We were unable to trace a com- and Co., Limited, 1928 plete set in auction records or on the market. Octavo. Original olive green cloth, spine and front cover 163 Huzard 4010 (4009 and OCLC 177700993 for the 1812 edition lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge trimmed, others un- “Impériale”). trimmed. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue buckram- (ZOOLOGY.) La Ménagerie Royale. Paris: backed custom folding case. A genuinely fine copy, uncut Saintin et Mame, 1814 £1,250 [134214] 4 volumes, sextodecimo (approx. 130 × 96 mm). Publisher’s pink coated-paper boards, titles and volume numbering in gilt on spines, edges untrimmed, housed in a later pink hand-made paper-covered card slipcase. With 107 hand-coloured engraved plates, including a frontispiece of the visitors to the menagerie in the first volume. Pencil ownership inscriptions of Euphémie and Esther Courtois on front free endpaper versos, one dated “38,” possibly pointing to a contemporary family living near Guiscard in the Oise department, north of Paris. Light sunning and soiling to spines, some wear to extremities, rubbed, occasional light foxing; else a charming, attractive set with bright plates. first edition published under this title, second overall. This work was first published in 1812, under Napoleon’s reign as emperor, as “La Ménagerie Im- 161 périale.” Napoleon abdicated in 1814, to be succeeded 163

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164 A. C-G.: Rosove 71.J1 (“very rare”); Wilson: Books on Ice 6.8, the gians. For his services Jackson was awarded in 1898 the first edition); Rosove 296.A8. (CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley.) SEAVER, George. Norwegian order of St Olav” (ODNB). £1,500 [134115] Howgego remarks that “apparently this sober, detailed [Title from front cover:] A. C-G. 1886–1959. [To- account of three years well-ordered survival so impressed gether with:] SEAVER, George. Edward Wilson Roald Amundsen that he filled two exercise books with of the Antarctic: Naturalist and Friend. With an An inspiration to Amundsen notes from it”. Like many of the books from the heroic Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. 8th print- 165 age of polar travel, A Thousand Days in the Arctic is superbly ing, 1935. JACKSON, Frederick G. A Thousand Days in the produced, fit to sit on the shelf alongside the works of Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Mawson, Nansen, and 2 works, octavo. A. C-G.: pp. 31, original pale green cloth- Arctic. With preface by Admiral Sir F. Leopold Mc- Cherry-Garrard. backed grey boards, green morocco label to front cover. Clintock. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, Wilson: original navy blue cloth, gilt lettered white spine la- Not in Books on Ice; Howgego, Polar, J1. 1899 bel, colour frontispiece portrait, 22 plates, 3 maps. A. C-G.: £850 [134640] spine sunned and with a few minor abrasions, otherwise 2 volumes, large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, gilt let- excellent. Wilson: spine cocked, a few small tears to label, tered spines and front covers, large gilt block to front covers, scattered foxing, a very good copy. top edges gilt. Portrait frontispieces of Jackson and Harms- 166 worth (vol. I), frontispiece of Jackson and Armitage on their first and sole edition of this rare offprint of LAMONT, James. Yachting in the Arctic Seas or sledge journey (vol. II), numerous illustrations throughout George Seaver’s 31-page biography of Apsley Cherry-Gar- from photographs by Jackson and drawings by R. W. Mac- notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in rard, “based on interviews and other primary sources” beth, Harry C. Edwards, and F. W. Frohawk, 5 folding maps. the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya (Rosove), which appeared as the foreword to the 1965 Light crumpling to extremities of spines, corners just a lit- Zemlya. London: Chatto and Windus, 1876 Chatto & Windus edition of The Worst Journey in the World, tle rubbed, scattered foxing. Very good: a superior copy in Octavo (212 × 136 mm). Contemporary black calf by Seton & described by Rosove as “a significant edition”, being the a bright, sharp-cornered example of the attractive original Mackenzie (of Edinburgh), decorative gilt spine, red label, first to be published after Cherry-Garrard’s death in 1959; cloth binding. sides with concentric gilt single fillet and Greek-key frames Copac and OCLC locate two copies only, at the British first edition. The Jackson–Harmsworth polar expe- enclosing a blind rope-twist panel, gilt zigzag-and-dot edge Library and Museum’s Victoria Library. This was almost dition sailed in the Windward in 1894, and was based at roll, Nonpareil pattern marbled paper edges and endpapers. certainly intended for presentation to a very small cote- Cape Flora in Franz Josef Land for three years. Jackson Wood-engraved frontispiece, 24 similar plates (2 folding), rie of those close to Cherry-Garrard. and Albert Borlase Armitage explored the British Chan- 4 vignettes in text, 2 folding colour maps. Front cover with Seaver’s biography of Edward Wilson is inscribed on the nel and found the north Queen Victoria Sea, which put gilt stamp of Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, within a front pastedown, “A. M. Cairnes”; the recipient being an end to their hopes of a journey to the pole by land. On laurel wreath; attractive prize label to front pastedown. Light Alice Cairnes, whose mother’s family were neighbours 17 June 1896 Jackson encountered Nansen and Fredrik rubbing to binding, occasional faint foxing and light toning around plate edges. A very good copy. of Cherry-Garrard at Lamer Park, Hertfordshire. George Hjalmar Johansen on their return from their northern re- Seaver wrote five books on members of Scott’s team, “an cord of latitude 86° 14’ N. “When Jackson met them they first edition, presented here in a particularly appeal- essential body of work concerning individuals associated had hardly any food or ammunition left, and this chance ing prize binding. “In 1858–59 the Scottish yachtsman with Scott’s last expedition” (ibid.). encounter probably saved the lives of the two Norwe- James Lamont (1828–1913) visited the fjords of West

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Spitsbergen and coaled his steam-yacht in Adventf- was Alice Cairnes, whose mother’s family were neigh- Rosove (writing in 2001) notes a copy at the Scott Polar jorden and King’s Bay. Lamont took at least five voyages bours of Cherry-Garrard at Lamer Park, Hertfordshire. Research Institute, Cambridge, and three others, either in the Arctic, visiting Spitsbergen in the steam-yacht Di- William Lashly was a petty officer on the two Scott in private hands or listed by booksellers. ana in 1869–71 in the company of the artist W. Livesay, expeditions and made significant contributions to both. Not in Books on Ice; Rosove 197; Taurus 87; Cherry-Garrard on whose important early sketches were incorporated into “He is best remembered for the saga of the return of Lashly: Polar Record, Vol. 3, Issue 20, July 1940, p. 331. Lamont’s narrative” (Howgego). the Last Supporting Party from the south with ‘Teddy’ £18,500 [134083] Howgego, Polar Regions, S43; Toy, A Nautical Bibliography, 550. Evans and Petty Officer Tom Crean from 4 January to £500 [135432] 22 February 1912, during which Lashly and Crean saved Evans’s life and for which King George V awarded both 168 men the Albert Medal. The Diary of W. Lashly concerns NANSEN, Fridjtof. Farthest North. Westminster: Ar- “An extraordinarily vivid and simple that return journey . . . Evans’s foreword was completed chibald Constable and Company, 1897 within two weeks of Lashly’s authorization to proceed” narrative”—a black tulip among polar books, 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue-green vertical-ribbed cloth, (Rosove). Cherry-Garrard incorporated Lashly’s diary presented by Apsley Cherry-Garrard spines lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial block of the Fram entries into Worst Journey, where he describes them as “an gilt to front covers, top and fore edges untrimmed. Etched 167 extraordinarily vivid and simple narrative”. His apprecia- frontispiece to volume 1, photogravure frontispiece to vol- LASHLY, William. The Diary of W. Lashly: A re- tion of the man was deeply felt and undying, writing in ume 2, title pages printed in red and black, 127 plates of cord of the return journey of the last supporting Chapter VII of Worst Journey, “But Lashly was wonder- which 16 in colour, 92 illustrations to the text, 4 folding ful—if Scott had only taken a four-man party and Lashly party with Capt. Scott to the South Pole, with a colour maps; title pages printed in red and black. Spines to the Pole!” cocked, old splash staining to back cover of vol. I, short foreword by Admiral Sir Edward R. G. R. Evans Only three copies located on auction records; Copac closed-tear to stub of map at end of same volume. A bright, K.C.B., D.S.O., LL.D, Reading: University of Reading, cites only the Reading University copy among British and clean copy. 1938–39 Irish institutional libraries; OCLC adds four locations. first edition, preceding the first Norwegian edition Octavo, 37 pp. Original linen-backed pink paper boards, title of the same year, of the official account of the firstFram vignette reproduced on front cover. With the glassine dust expedition, beautifully illustrated from photographs and jacket. Wood engraved title vignette and four wood engrav- from Nansen’s own sketches. ings in the text. Portions of glassine spine panel lost, some Arctic Bibliography 11983; Books on Ice 5.2; Howgego, Polar, N3; other nicks and chips. A near-fine copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 384. first edition, number 8 of 75 copies only, de- £500 [134627] scribed in Taurus as “a true Antarctic rarity” and by Ros- ove as “of substantial rarity and charisma”, here given additional cachet by being a presentation copy from Apsley Cherry-Garrard, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Alice from Cherry, Christmas 1939”. The recipient 167

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169 (Taurus). “Scott’s eloquent prose propelled him into the 171 SCOTT, Robert F. Scott’s Last Expedition. London: realm of greatness despite his flaws . . . One does not SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The Story of have to wonder why it has gone through so many edi- Smith, Elder & Co., 1913 tions and printings: few stories of exploration touch the Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914–1917. London: 2 volumes, large octavo. Original dark blue combed cloth, soul so deeply” (Rosove). William Heinemann, 1919 gilt lettered spines and front covers, top edges gilt, others Books on Ice, 6.10; Howgego, III, S13; Rosove 290; Spence 1056; Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines and front cover let- uncut. Photogravure frontispieces, 6 other photogravures Taurus 77. tered in silver, front cover with large silver block of Endur- from original sketches by Dr E. A. Wilson, 18 coloured ance stuck in ice, publisher’s device in blind to rear board, plates, 16 from drawings by Wilson, and numerous plates £750 [134633] top edge blue. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, from photographs taken by Herbert G. Ponting and other folding map at the rear. A little rubbed, just a touch whitened members of the expedition; 11 folding panoramas, 8 folding 170 at the extremities, patch of faint mottling to the lower board, maps; title pages printed in red and black, Slight rumpling SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the Ant- text-block less strongly browned than is typical, short closed of cloth to spine of vol. I, vol. II with a couple of light marks tear to the map as usual, one other short tear to a fold, rear to front cover and very small dent to fore-edge, partial crack- arctic. London: William Heinemann, 1909 hinge a little cracked but entirely sound, small Times Book ing to front inner hinge of same volume, scattered foxing, 2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered Club label to rear pastedown. A very good copy. couple of leaves at beginning of vol. II carelessly opened with spines, front covers lettered and with large pictorial block in concomitant small tears. A very good set, bright and sharp- first edition. An extremely well-preserved copy from silver, top edges gilt, untrimmed. Photogravure frontispiece an edition which is most often marred by the low qual- cornered, uncommon in such condition. to each volume, 12 captioned tissue guarded coloured, and ity of the war-time materials available on publication. 255 black and white other plates in all, 3 maps, panorama first edition, of “the most widely known of all Antarc- Shackleton embarked in 1914 on the Endurance to make in end-pocket of volume II, and numerous illustrations and tic expeditions and publications”, illustrated throughout the first traverse of the Antarctic continent. But 1915 from “the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting” diagrams throughout; title pages printed in sanguine and black. Spines sunned and a little cocked, slight bubbling of turned into an unusually icy year in Antarctica; after cloth to back cover of vol. II, scattered foxing. A very good drifting trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance copy, with the errata slip in vol. II. was crushed in the ice on October 27. “Shackleton now showed his supreme qualities of leadership. With five first edition of Shackleton’s account of the British companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22-foot Antarctic Expedition of 1907–9 (Nimrod), reviewed on boat through some of the stormiest seas in the world, publication by the Manchester Guardian as “the best book crossed the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, of Polar travel which has ever been written”. The expe- and reached a Norwegian whaling station on the north dition established Shackleton as a “bona fide English coast. After three attempts. Shackleton succeeded (30 hero”, but the success of the book did little to alleviate August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party “the financial problems left to him by the expedition” and bringing them to South America” (ODNB). (Books on Ice). Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus 105. Books on Ice 7.4; Rosove 305.B1b; Spence 1097; Taurus 58. £3,750 [131840] 169 £1,500 [134630]

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172 AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. With an in- 172, 173, 174, 175 troduction by Joseph Jacobs and illustrations by Chris Hammond. London: George Allen, 1899 ing preserving the original dust jacket with light browning for this authorized Macmillan edition which, although to spine and fore edges. Octavo (175 × 113 mm). Recent dark blue morocco by Bayn- dated 1866, was ready by November 1865, in time for the tun-Riviere, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt ruled cov- first edition of Capote’s classic novella, the basis for Christmas market, and was published in an edition of ers and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Black line the much-loved film. The additional three short stories 4,000 copies. drawing frontispiece, chapter headpieces, and illustrations are “House of Flowers”, “A Diamond Guitar”, and “A Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 46 & Crutch 84. to text. A fine copy. Christmas Memory”. £8,500 [134484] first hammond edition. Christine “Chris” Ham- £1,975 [134665] mond (1860–1900) was a prominent female illustrator 175 best known for her book illustrations of Austen, Thack- 174 eray, Mrs Gaskell, and George Eliot. Of Austen’s works CARROLL, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland; Alice Hammond illustrated just Sense and Sensibility and Emma CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonder- Through the looking Glass. London: Macmillan and (1898). By «representing the main characters in ways that land. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 [but 1865] Co., Limited, 1938 & 1935 stress their individuality . . . Hammond’s terse line often Octavo (186 × 125 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in 2 volumes, small octavo (151 × 96 mm). Finely bound by creates a spontaneous, and sometimes even a febrile ef- recent red crushed morocco, titles and decorative motifs to Riviere in blue polished calf, brown and green morocco la- fect” (Cooke). spine in compartments in gilt, White Rabbit vignette in gilt bels, elaborate decoration to spines in compartments sepa- Simon Cooke, Christiana Mary Demain ‘Chris’ Hammond (2016); to front cover, single rule frame to covers in gilt, edges gilt, rated by raised bands, twin rule to boards, pictorial block to Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators turn-ins tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. With the origi- front boards, dentelles gilt, decorative endpapers, gilt edges. and Caricaturists (1996); Gilson E94. nal cloths bound in at rear. Housed in a custom red cloth With black and white illustrations by John Tenniel. Spines £1,750 [134388] slipcase. Frontispieces and 90 illustrations by John Tenniel. faded, ever so slightly rubbed at tips, an excellent copy. Slightest trace of neat ownership inscription to front free a handsomely bound pair of the miniature editions endpaper verso. A couple of faint spots to leather; a bright, 173 near-fine copy. which were first published in this format in 1907. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New first edition. The text was originally printed in Ox- £1,500 [132025] York: Random House, 1958 ford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but that print- Octavo (194 × 130 mm). Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/ ing was suppressed when Dodgson heard that Tenniel Zaehnsdorf in red morocco, titles in gilt on spine, raised was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. He re- bands ruled in gilt, edges and turn-ins with single gilt fillets, called the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to moiré white silk endpapers, gilt edges. With the original his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most dust jacket bound in at the end. A fine copy in a fine bind- perished. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay

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176 177 178 CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life. A Roving CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the Eng- Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948–54 lish-Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company 1930 6 volumes, octavo (205 × 134 mm). Near-contemporary red Ltd, 1956–8 Octavo (211 × 133 mm). Recent red morocco for Asprey, spine crushed morocco by Asprey’s, spines lettered in gilt, gilt 4 volumes, octavo (236 × 149 mm). Recent red half morocco lettered in gilt, gilt rules to spine compartments, covers and beaded roll to spine bands and single rule to spine compart- for Asprey, spines lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, marbled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Photographic fron- ments, single gilt fillet to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt endpapers, gilt edges. Several maps and genealogical tables tispiece and 15 plates of which 12 are from photographs, edges. Maps and diagrams, some folding. Front endpaper of to text. Very light rubbing to sides. A near-fine set. vol. I lightly creased, a few minor marks to morocco, rear folding map, 8 maps and 2 plans to the text. Some light fox- first editions. Churchill began his history of the Brit- ing. A near-fine copy. cover of vol. VI with repeated indentations and with pastedown slightly lifted through damp, volume number of vol. ish Empire and the United States during his period in the first edition, first state, retaining the cancelland VI misnumbered and altered. A very good set. political wilderness in the early 1930s, but did not com- half-title. Churchill’s only volume of autobiography, My plete it until after his retirement in the late 1950s. The first uk editions of Churchill’s masterpiece, in a Early Life covers his formative years from his birth in 1874 events of the Second World War, the major interruption highly attractive binding. The Second World War ranks as until his election as MP for Oldham in 1900. Among his in the writing process, had reconfirmed his belief in the one of the supreme historical achievements of the 20th most widely-read works, it provides a highly entertaining “special relationship” between Britain and the United century. Churchill was the only major war leader to give account of his childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military States. Consequently he gave considerable attention to an authoritative account of the conflict, and his ringing training at Sandhurst, experiences as a war correspond- the key events of American history: around a quarter of phrases seeped into the collective memory. As Max Beloff ent in Cuba, and service attached to the Malakand field the third volume, The Age of Revolution, is dedicated to the observed, there was no statesman of the twentieth cen- force on the north-west frontier of India, charging with War of Independence, and a full third of the final vol- tury “whose retrospective accounts of the great events in the 21st lancers at Omdurman, and as a POW in South ume, The Great Democracies, contains a detailed study of which he has taken part have so dominated subsequent Africa during the Boer War. the American Civil War. historical thinking”. The British editions were published a Cohen A91.1.b; Woods A37(a). few months after the US editions for contractual reasons, Cohen A267.1(I)–(IV); Woods A138(a). £2,000 [134698] but were treated as the definitive texts by Churchill, who £2,500 [134699] reserved his last-minute revisions for them. Cohen A240.4 (I-VI).a. £3,850 [129492]

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179 ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece and 25 line- tispiece with tissue guard, illustrations in the text by Dan drawings to the text by Dan Beard. A fine copy. Beard. A fine copy. [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. With over 300 illustra- first edition, handsomely bound for Asprey. first uk edition, handsomely bound for Asprey. Twain’s sequel to the adventures of Tom Sawyer and of tions. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883 BAL 3434. £750 [134915] Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad lampoons adven- Octavo (182 × 113 mm). Finely bound in blue morocco for ture stories such as those of Jules Verne. The US edition Asprey, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments and cov- was published earlier that year. ers tooled in gilt, gilt rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, 181 BAL 3447. gilt edges. Original red cloth bound in at rear. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Very light sunning to spine [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN, Mark. £750 [134916] and bumping to top tips. A near-fine copy. The £1,000,000 Bank-Note. And other new sto- first edition, first issue, with March 1883 ads, pre- ries. London: Chatto & Windus, 1893 183 ceding the first US edition by five days; here finely bound Octavo (166 × 173 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in green mo- [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN, Mark. for the luxury purveyors Asprey. rocco, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments, covers and The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young Peo- BAL 3410. turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 32 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. A fine copy. ple of All Ages. Illustrated by W. Hatherell. New £750 [134913] first uk edition, handsomely bound for Asprey. The York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909 US edition was published two weeks earlier. Quarto (217 × 162 mm). Finely bound for Asprey by Zaehn- 180 BAL 3436. sdorf in red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, single gilt rule to spine compartments and covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN, Mark. £600 [134914] The American Claimant. New York: Charles L. Web- endpapers, gilt edges. Original front cover and spine bound in at rear. With 7 colour illustrations by Hatherell including ster & Co., 1892 182 frontispiece. Very minor cockling, discolouration, and bow- Octavo (198 × 133 mm). Finely bound for Asprey by Sangor- ing to rear cover. A very good copy. [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.] TWAIN, Mark. ski and Sutcliffe in red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, spine first hatherell-illustrated edition, handsome- compartments and covers panelled in gilt, gilt rule to turn- Tom Sawyer Abroad. With illustrations by Dan ly bound for Asprey. First published in 1881, The Prince and Beard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894 the Pauper represents Twain’s first attempt at historical Octavo (188 × 128 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in red mo- fiction, set in Tudor England. rocco, spine lettered in gilt and richly gilt to compartments, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated fron- £750 [134921]

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184 spines, compartments and boards ruled in single gilt fillets, of Dickens within roundel to front cover, gilt facsimile signa- holly and ivy motifs in gilt to spines, turn-ins richly gilt, gilt ture to rear cover, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The edges, marbled endpapers, each volume with its original red Engraved frontispiece, vignette title page (£ sign transposed, Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 and brown cloth blocked in gilt and blind bound in at rear. no priority of issue), and 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Octavo (208 × 132 mm). Recent green morocco by Bayntun, Housed in custom red cloth, plush-lined slipcase. Christmas Half-title present. Binding in fine condition; discreet repairs spine lettered in gilt and gilt to compartments, gilt portrait Carol with hand-coloured frontispiece, 3 full-page hand-col- to short closed tears to frontispiece and a few other plates, of Dickens within roundel to front cover, gilt facsimile sig- oured plates, illustrations within the text; other titles with a couple of plates trimmed around margins, plates and con- nature to rear cover, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt frontispiece and engraved title, illustrations in the text by tents a little toned as usual. Overall a very good copy. edges. Etched vignette title page, frontispiece, and 41 plates Leech, Maclise, Stanfield, Doyle and Landseer. Very occa- first edition. Dickens wrote to a contemporary that “I by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne. Bound without half- sional light foxing; a superb set. think Chuzzlewit is a hundred points immeasurably the best title. Binding in fine condition; plates toned with some light first editions of Dickens’s annual Christmas books. A of my stories” (Berard, Dickens and Landscape Discourse, p. 3). offsetting. A very good copy. Christmas Carol is the first issue, with “Stave I” on the first Smith I, 7; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 183–212. first edition in book form of the novel that trans- page of text, red and blue title page, green endpapers, and formed the obscure journalist into England’s most fa- all the first edition textual points; The Chimes has the first £1,500 [134817] mous writer in a matter of months; first published in se- state vignette title page; The Cricket on the Hearth has the sec- rial form from March 1836 to November 1837. This copy is ond state of the advertisement leaf; and The Battle of Life has 187 a later issue with the plates with publisher imprints and the fourth variant vignette title, all as described by Smith. DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A the signboard reading “Weller”. A Christmas Carol was an instant success, reportedly sell- fairy tale of home. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846 Hatton and Cleaver p. 1; Smith, I.3. ing all 6,000 copies of the first edition on the first day Octavo (162 × 102 mm). Finely bound for Asprey by Zaehn- £1,250 [134818] of publication, and Dickens went on to produce a small festive book for each successive Yuletide. sdorf in red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments and covers tooled in gilt, gilt floral turn-ins, marbled Smith II.4; 5; 6; 8; 9. 185 endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved frontispiece and title page, £9,750 [134801] 12 illustrations in the text. A fine copy. DICKENS, Charles. [The Christmas books:] A first edition, handsomely bound for Asprey. This Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the 186 copy has the first state of the advertisement leaf and Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man. Lon- Smith’s requisite textual points. don: Chapman & Hall; Bradbury & Evans, 1843–8 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844 Smith, II, 6; Eckel, pp. 119–120. 5 volumes, octavo (161 × 98 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun £850 [134816] in uniform red morocco gilt, raised bands, titles in gilt on Octavo (207 × 128 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun, spine lettered in gilt and gilt to compartments, gilt portrait

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188 Dickens’s tale of ruined lives, yet offers a welcome in- 191 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of terpretation of the novel, maintaining his characteristic DICKENS, Charles. The Life & Adventures of Mar- vibrant colours despite the subject matter. Ardizzone Nicholas Nickleby. Illustrated in Colour by C. E. illustrated Great Expectations again a decade later for the tin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, Brock. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1931 Curwen Press, but there opted for a much darker, more and Henry Frowde; Oxford University Press American Octavo (228 × 144 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in green sombre tone than here. Branch, New York, [c.1989] morocco, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments, cov- £850 [134820] Octavo (200 × 131 mm). Blue half morocco for Asprey, spine ers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides, floral patterned endpapers, With 16 colour illustrations, including frontispiece, all by gilt edges. With 40 illustrations after the originals by Phiz. Brock. Light foxing to initial few leaves. A near-fine copy. 190 Very minor sunning to spine, else a fine copy. first edition illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of A handsome copy, bound for Asprey, of this facsimile of handsomely bound for the luxury purveyors Asprey. the Pickwick Club. London: Nottingham Court Press, the first edition of 1844. £750 [134824] 1979 £500 [134808] Octavo (211 × 125 mm). Contemporary green morocco for 189 Asprey, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments, covers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: With 43 illustrations after the originals by R. Seymour and For the members of the Heritage Club, 1939 Phiz. A fine copy. Octavo (222 × 144 mm). Attractively bound in recent red A handsome copy, bound for Asprey, of this facsimile of morocco by Bayntun, spine lettered in gilt, spine compart- the first edition of 1837. ments, covers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 8 colour plates including frontispiece, title £650 [134809] vignette, and black and white head- and tail-pieces for each chapter, all by Edward Ardizzone. A fine copy. first edition of Edward Ardizzone’s rendering of Dickens’s classic novel, handsomely bound. The Her- itage Press reprinted classic volumes in a deluxe, well- illustrated format, as here. Ardizzone, predominantly a children’s illustrator, was an unusual choice to illustrate

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192 ized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 it was a feverish suc- little dulled with very minor rubbing at ends, slipcase worn. A very good copy. (DISNEY, Walt.) TAYLOR, Deems. Fantasia. With cess, with queues at the publisher’s office and throughout the country. a foreword by Leopold Stokowski. New York: Simon A handsomely bound and attractively printed copy of the Green & Gibson A26. sonnets of Keats. and Schuster, 1940 £3,000 [132284] £300 [135385] Folio (317 × 235 mm). Finely bound for Asprey & Garrard in purple morocco gilt, titles in gilt on spine, gilt pictorial boards depicting the Sorcerer’s Apprentice scene in onlays 194 196 of multi-coloured morocco, turn-ins with triple gilt fillets, FORSTER, E. M. Howards End. London: Edward KIPLING, Rudyard. Kim. London: Macmillan and gilt edges, pink and purple pictorial endpapers. 16 colour plates, tipped-in as issued, and in-text colour illustrations Arnold, 1910 Co., Limited, 1901 throughout. Boards a little bowed, a near-fine copy. Octavo (183 × 115 mm). Finely bound in red morocco by Bayn- Octavo (192 × 123 mm). Recent red morocco by Zaehnsdorf first edition. tun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, spine compartments, cov- for Asprey, twin black morocco labels to spine, single gilt fil- ers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. let to covers, gilt elephant vignette to front cover, gilt foliate £3,750 [134743] With 8 pp. of publisher’s advertisements at rear. A fine copy. turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece with first edition, second issue with publisher’s advertise- tissue guard, 9 plates, title page printed in red and black. 193 ments. The novel was the basis for the 1992 Oscar-win- Publisher’s advertisements at rear. A fine copy. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Bask- ning film of the same title. first uk book form edition, handsomely bound. “Considered to be Kipling’s greatest work, and the finest ervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. Kirkpatrick A4a. novel about the India of the British Empire” (Richards). London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902 £1,850 [134793] The novel was initially serialized in the US in McLure’s Octavo. Finely bound by Bayntun in crimson calf, green and Magazine from December 1900 through October 1901, black morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spine gilt, twin 195 and in the UK in Cassell’s Magazine from January through rule to boards with cornerpieces gilt, inner dentelles gilt, November 1901. This first UK book form edition was marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in matching cloth KEATS, John. Sonnets. London: Leopold B. Hill, [c. 1915] published on 17 October 1901, preceded by the first US slipcase. Frontispiece and 15 monochrome plates by Sidney book form edition, published 16 days earlier. Paget. Touch of rubbing to the joints, an excellent copy. Sextodecimo (123 × 98 mm). Contemporary red calf by Martindell 96; Richards A174, Stewart 254. first edition of Sherlock Holmes’s “comeback” novel, Riviere & Son, spine lettered and tooled in gilt with twin after his shocking demise at the Reichenbach Falls had brown morocco labels, double gilt fillet to covers, gilt turn- £950 [134694] stunned his loyal Victorian readership. When first serial- ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Marbled paper slipcase. Frontispiece with tissue guard, red woodcut initials. Spine a

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197 198 journalist, novelist, and fervent admirer of Kipling. Puck KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories. London: Mac- KIPLING, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s Hill. London: of Pook’s Hill brings together ten stories and 16 poems by Kipling, which had previously appeared in journals. millan and Co. Limited, 1902 Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906 Richards A205; Stewart 306. Quarto (228 × 171 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun, Octavo (192 × 126 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in red mo- spine lettered in gilt with gilt animal vignettes to compart- rocco, spine lettered in gilt, gilt foliate ornaments to spine £950 [134746] ments, covers ruled in gilt, front cover with elaborate ele- and cover corners, gilt ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, phant and palm tree centrepiece incorporating brown, green gilt edges. With 20 full-page black and white illustrations 199 and white morocco onlays, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. including frontispiece. A fine copy. Original cloth bound in at rear. Red cloth slipcase. With 22 MILNE, A. A. [The Pooh books:] When We Were first edition, handsomely bound for Asprey. With a Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; full-page illustrations by the author. A fine copy. typed letter signed from Kipling tipped in. Dated 7 Feb- first edition, handsomely bound, of Kipling’s fa- ruary 1921, Kipling writes to Coulson Kernahan “this is a The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & mous collection of 12 stories and 12 poems including bad business anyway, without Farrow importing his pe- Co., 1924–28 “How the Camel Got His Hump” and “How the Leopard culiar methods of finance into it. I will write off at once 4 volumes, octavo. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in red crushed Got His Spots”. to the R.L.F. and I hope it will be helpful. Meantime, you half morocco, red cloth sides, raised bands to spines, titles Martindell 99; Stewart 260. must somehow engineer his getting the enclosed quietly and Winnie-the-Pooh devices to compartments gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Original cloth covers and £2,500 [134753] and, no name attaching. This is not nice weather to be ill in. My sincerest condolences over the speech-making. spines laid down on card and bound in at the end of each vol- I know few things more upsetting to the interior. With ume. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Illustrations through- every good wish, Yours always, Rudyard Kipling”. out by Ernest H. Shepard. A fine set. Kipling has made a few minor manuscript emenda- first editions of the four Pooh books. When We tions, and has added a postscript by hand: “P.S. letters Were Very Young in the second state, with page number burned as requested. RK”. Coulson Kernahan was a ix present in the preliminaries. £4,500 [96371]

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200 203 207 STEINBECK, John. The Pastures of Heaven. New — The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939 — Tortilla Flat. New York: Viking Press, 1947 York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932 first edition. Octavo (198 × 131 mm). Finely bound for As- first illustrated edition. Tall quarto (228 × 158 mm). first edition. Octavo (180 × 122 mm). Finely bound for prey in dark brown morocco gilt, gilt pictorial front board. A Finely bound for Asprey by Zaehnsdorf in blue morocco gilt. Asprey by Sangorski & Sutliffe in green morocco gilt. A fine fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A12. panels and front flap of original dust jacket bound. With 17 copy. Goldstone & Payne A2. colour illustrations. Covers lightly bowed, a near-fine copy. £1,750 [134683] Goldstone and Payne A4d. £1,250 [134722] 204 £650 [134728] 201 — The Moon Is Down. New York: Viking Press, 1942 208 — To A God Unknown. New York: Covici Friede Pub- first edition. Octavo (183 × 115 mm). Finely bound by lishers, 1933 [1935] Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Asprey in black morocco gilt. A fine — East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952 copy. Goldstone & Payne A17. first edition, second issue with cancel title page. Octavo first edition. Octavo (203 × 137 mm). Finely bound for As- prey in green morocco gilt. A fine copy. Goldstone & Payne (182 × 115 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in orange morocco £1,250 [134726] gilt. A fine copy. Goldstone and Payne A3b. A32b. £1,250 [134720] 205 £1,250 [134713] — Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945 209 202 first edition. Octavo (180 × 122 mm). Finely bound for As- — The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press, 1938 prey in red morocco gilt. US army stamp to p. 13. A near-fine — Sweet Thursday. New York: Viking Press, 1954 copy. Goldstone and Payne A22. first edition. Octavo (191 × 122 mm). Finely bound for As- Octavo (197 × 130 mm). Finely bound for Asprey in red morocco gilt. A fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A33d. prey by Zaehnsdorf in red morocco gilt, original dust jacket £650 [134732] bound at rear. A fine copy. Goldstone and Payne A11a. £650 [134734] £650 [134718] 206 — The Wayward Bus. New York: Viking Press, 1947 first edition. Octavo (196 × 129 mm). Finely bound for As- prey in red morocco gilt. A fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A23a. £650 [134703]

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210 212 vignette of Jesus to title page and other engraved religious plates. Printed in red and black. Ink notation to rear end- BAILEY, David. Rock and Roll Heroes. Text by Neil BANKS, Ian M. Consider Phlebas. London: Macmil- paper. Minute wormhole at head of spine, light rubbing to Spencer. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997 lan, 1987 extremities, else a fine copy. Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, pub- Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black. With A highly attractive copy of this devotional work, in an lisher’s device to front board in silver. With the photograph- the dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the jacket, small chip at ornate and personalised contemporary Italian binding. ic dust jacket. Illustrated with 84 full-page or double page head of rear fold repaired with tape on verso. £750 [128833] plates, 73 in duotone and 11 in colour. A fine copy. first edition, inscribed by the author on the first edition, signed by bailey on the half-title. title page, incorporating Macmillan’s “M” device: “To A collection of some of Bailey’s portraits of musicians John Baxter, from Ian [M] Banks, g’day!, 19/9/87” (the fi- 214 taken during the 1960s up to the 1990s. nal word written upside down). The book is uncommon DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Eleva- £625 [135521] with a personalized inscription, with this a particularly tor. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973 playful example. The recipient John Baxter was also a Octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and front science fiction novelist, alongside publishing many 211 cover in white. With the original price sticker on the rear non-fiction works on science fiction in film, in a writing cover. No dust jacket issued. Black and white illustrations (BALFOUR, Ronald.) OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubai- career spanning over half a century. Consider Phlebas was throughout by Faith Jacques. Wear to extremities, a few mi- yat. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920 Banks’s fourth book, and his first science fiction novel, nor marks to contents. A good copy. its title taken from Eliot’s The Waste Land. Quarto. Original japon-covered boards, spine and front first uk edition of the sequel to Charlie and the Choco- cover lettered in gilt, colour-printed circular illustration laid £950 [134096] late Factory. Originally published in the US the preceding down to front cover. With 38 mounted colour and black and year. white plates, and illustrations in the text. Spine toned, some 213 very light soiling to covers. A lovely copy. £250 [132274] first balfour-illustrated edition, deluxe issue (BREVIARY.) Officium Herbdomada Sanctae Se- in full japon. This gorgeously illustrated Rubaiyat, deca- cundum Missale Et Vreviarium Romanum S. PII dent, faintly erotic, and distinctly Beardsley-esque, is the V. Pontif. Maximi. Jussu editum, Clementis VIII. only major publication of artist Ronald S. Balfour (1896– Et Urbani VIII. Auctoritate recognitum. Venice: Et 1941). There was also an issue in cloth, and a signed issue Typographia Balleoniana, 1777 printed on japon. Octavo (197 × 114 mm). Contemporary calf, orange calf la- Potter 116. bel, spine richly gilt to compartments, covers with ornate £875 [135314] roll-tooled border incorporating green pigment, owner’s name of “Prof. C.co G. G.” stamped in gilt on covers below gilt floral centrepiece, gilt gauffered edges, green and red decorated pastedowns, green silk page marker. Engraved

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 85 215 DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978 Quarto. Original pictorial boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red and black, green endpapers. No jacket issued. Illustrated throughout the text in colour by Quentin Blake. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper. Very minor wear at spine ends and tips, else a very good copy. first edition. This was the first of Dahl’s works to be illustrated by Quentin Blake. £500 [134093]

216 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 Octavo. Original light grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Faint rubbing to spine ends. A fine copy in the fresh dust jacket. first edition. Dahl’s fantastical tale was expanded from a short story within his 1975 book Danny, the Cham- 219 your battle-line, belong | to music’s heart no less than pion of the World. A film adaptation directed by Steven DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. Lon- these, | I bring you my campaigns of song”. Hamilton Spielberg was released in 2016. had commanded the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force don: Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 1987 £550 [134521] in the Gallipoli campaign, but was recalled to London af- Small quarto. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine white ter the campaign’s failure, effectively ending his military and front board black, green endpapers. With the dust jack- career. Drinkwater’s dedication of Tides, predominantly 217 et. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by John Minton a collection of war poetry, can perhaps be seen as a show DAHL, Roald. Matilda. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 and colour reproductions of paintings by various artists. An of support for the disgraced commander. Drinkwater excellent copy in price-clipped jacket with sunned spine and had published 19 of 34 poems earlier that same year un- Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the mild wear to extremities. dust jacket. Numerous illustrations in text by Blake. A good der the same title with the Beaumont Press. signed limited edition, number 164 of 450 cop- copy in the dust jacket, spine panel sunned, extremities a lit- £750 [134237] tle creased, chip to front fold. ies, signed by the author on the title page. The author’s landmark second book, first published in 1951, was writ- first edition. Matilda won the Children’s Book Award ten while rationing was still in force. David (1913–1992) 221 in the year of its publication. It formed the basis for both taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the success- ERWITT, Elliott, & Sean Callahan. Personal Best. abroad during the early 1940s, and in 1949 she began ful stage musical which premiered at the RSC’s Court- Kempen: TeNeues, 2009 writing a food column for Harper’s Bazaar. Her first book yard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010. was published to wide acclaim the following year, and Tall quarto. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, titles in black and white to spine and front wrapper. Monochrome photo- £500 [132525] she is now recognised for her profound influence on graphs of late 1940s–early 1950s America by Erwitt. Lightly British culinary culture. rubbed, a near-fine copy. 218 £450 [132054] Second edition, inscribed by Erwitt “To Paul” on half-title. DAHL, Roald. Esio Trot. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990 £375 [134613] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the 220 pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin DRINKWATER, John. Tides. London: Sidgwick & Blake. Spine ends a little bumped. A near-fine copy in the 222 Jackson, Ltd, 1917 unclipped dust jacket, slight foxing to verso of spine. FAIRBAIRN, William Ewart. All-In Fighting. Rifle first edition, signed by the illustrator quen- Octavo. Original red cloth, printed paper label to spine. Section by Captain P. N. Walbridge. London: Faber Spine lightly sunned, else a near-fine copy. tin blake on the title page. Esio Trot was the final book and Faber Limited, 1942 to be published during Dahl’s lifetime. first trade edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title verso “To Sir Ian Octavo. Original rust cloth, lettered in red on the spine and £550 [134516] with red title panel to the front board. With the pictorial dust Hamilton from John Drinkwater 1917”. Drinkwater dedi- jacket. Numerous full-page illustrations. Thin boards a little cates the book to General Sir Ian Hamilton with the dedi- bumped, typical “war economy standard” toning, the jacket catory stanza “because the darling chivalries, | that light somewhat rubbed, a few marks, slightly chipped at cor-

86 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington first edition, second state binding as usual, without the gun design blocked in gilt on the front cover, which proved too expensive and was dropped after the first 940 copies had been sent abroad. The Man with the Golden Gun was Fleming’s final full-length Bond novel, published eight months after his death. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1974, starring Roger Moore. Gilbert A13a (1.2). £750 [135632]

226 FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. London: Jonathan Cape and Queen Anne Press, 2014 3 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spines and front covers in gilt, front covers numbered in red. [Together with:] two prints by John Burningham housed in the green cloth portfolio. All housed together in the grey cloth slipcase. Illustrations by John Burningham. A fine set. first edition thus, one of 50 deluxe issue cop- ners and spine ends, quite lengthy tear to the lower panel, ing to rear panel, very minor nicking and creasing at head ies, numbered by the artist, this being number 140. In- no loss, neatly repaired internally with archival tape, a very of spine panel. cluded with the three text volumes are two prints, signed good copy. first edition of the only Bond book to be written in and numbered 40 of 50 by Burningham. The deluxe edi- first edition. “The majority of the methods shown the first person, presented as the testimony of a 23-year- tion was numbered 101–150; a further 100 trade copies, are drastic in the extreme. In contrast to judo, they rec- old Canadian woman with whom Bond has an ill-fated numbered 1–100, were also issued. This edition is a fac- ognise no accepted rules. They are not intended to pro- affair. In furtherance of this pretence, Vivienne Michel simile of the first edition, published as three separate ad- vide amusement for all-in wrestling spectators, but for gets a spurious credit on the title page as co-author. The ventures as it was in 1964, with the illustrations reworked use in these dangerous times as part of national prepar- title was used for the film adaptation produced in 1977, by the artist. edness against our enemies” (Introduction). The author starring Roger Moore. For Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, see also item 48. was in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Police Riot Gilbert, A10a (1.1). Squad and was their chief instructor in self-defence. He £975 [134332] £750 [134064] was the first foreigner living outside Japan to be awarded a black belt degree by the Kodokan Jiu-Jitsu University on 227 Tokyo, and is probably best known as co-designer of the 224 Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife, instructions for the use (FLEMING, Ian.) WOOD, Christopher. James FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jona- Bond, the Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan of which are contained in the present book. The descrip- than Cape, 1964 tion of the “grape vine” in “Various Methods of Securing Cape, 1977 Octavo. Original black cloth (binding variant A, no priority a Prisoner” is a thing once read, never forgotten. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the of issue), spine lettered in silver, Japanese characters to front Genuinely uncommon (just six locations on Copac, BL, dust jacket. A very good copy in the price-clipped jacket, cover in gilt, patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. IWM, NLS, TCD, NLW, Oxford; OCLC adds the Austral- folds with a few minor short closed tears, some light rub- Lean to spine. A very good copy in the jacket, lightly rubbed bing. ian War Memorial, Danish Royal Library, NLNZ, LoC, at extremities, faint staining to verso. CIA, and University of Tulsa) and particularly so in the first edition, of the novelization of the 1977 film The first edition. jacket. Spy Who Loved Me. Although the film shared the same £750 [134212] Gilbert A12a (1.1). name of Fleming’s 1962 novel, the author did not give £375 [134061] permission for the filmmakers to use the plot of his 223 book. As a result, the screenplay of the film bears no re- 225 semblance to the original novel. Eon Productions there- FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: fore commissioned Christopher Wood, who co-wrote Jonathan Cape, 1962 FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. the film’s screenplay, to novelize the production. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 Octavo. Original dark grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, dag- £850 [135631] ger design to front cover in silver and blind, red endpapers. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, green With the dust jacket. Double-page spread illustration pp. endpapers (Gilbert’s binding A, no priority). With the dust 6–7. A near-fine copy in the price-clipped jacket, light soil- jacket. A fine copy.

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 87 230 (GOBLE, Warwick.) KINGSLEY, Charles. The Wa- ter-Babies. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909 Quarto (238 × 174 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in blue morocco gilt, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands, compartments ruled in single gilt fillets and with lily pad design in gilt, triple ruled frames to boards and turn-ins, double comb pattern marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 31 colour plates, tipped-in as issued, with captioned tissue guards. Rear board slightly rubbed, very occasional faint spotting; a very good copy indeed. first goble edition. The Water-Babies was first published in 1863, and first illustrated in 1886 by Linley Sambourne. London-born Warwick Goble (1862–1943) was an illustrator of children’s books who specialized in Japanese and Indian themes. Having worked for monthly magazines until 1909, he then became resident gift book illustrator for Macmillan, and produced illustrations for The Water Babies, and many others. £975 [134693] Fox-trotting to Communism One of the biggest hits of this Russian foxtrot boom, Tahiti Trot is best known today in the arrangement pro- 231 228 duced by Shostakovich in response to a challenge set HOLMES, Richard. Dusty Warriors: Modern Sol- FOMIN, Boris Ivanovic, & Konstantin N. Podre- by his teacher, the conductor Nikolai Malko. After the diers at War. London: HarperPress, 2006 vsky. Taiti-trot. Rostov-On-Don: Author’s Edition, 1927 two had listened to a recording of the piece at a party at Octavo. Original brown boards, title gilt to the spine. With Folio (250 × 265 mm). Original pictorial self-wrappers de- Malko’s house, the conductor bet his pupil 100 roubles that he could not transcribe and orchestrate the song, the dust jacket. 8 colour plates, numerous black and white signed by Nikolai Rogachev, front wrap printed in mid-blue illustrations and maps to the text. A very good copy, in an from memory, in less than an hour. Shostakovich suc- and orange, notation printed verso of the lower panel, single unclipped jacket. sheet with notation on both sides loosely inserted. A little ceeded in just 45 minutes. It was later incorporated as an rubbed, and lightly soiled, wrappers just starting head and entr’acte in his ballet The Golden Age. The designer Nikolai first edition of Holmes’s account of the Princess of tail of the spine fold, a few minor edge-splits, contemporary Rogachev (1890–1954), was one of the most prolific and Wales’s Royal Regiment in Iraq. This copy signed on the ownership inscription in blue indelible pencil to the front interesting artists specialising in these self-published front free endpaper by Holmes, General Sir Michael Jack- panel, overall very good. sheet music covers. son, CGS during the Iraq War, Private Johnson Beharry VC, Lt Col. Matt Maer DSO, 2Lt Richard Deane MC, CSM unusual provincially-published edition of £650 [134553] the arrangement of vincent youmans’s tea for David Falconer MC, and several other members of the regiment, of which Holmes was colonel. two, under the new title Taiti-trot, made by Boris Fomin 229 (1900–1948) in 1926 for inclusion in his operetta The £350 [134072] Career of Pierpont Blake, lyrics by Konstantin Podrevsky GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and (1888–1930). “After the restoration of diplomatic rela- Fall of the Roman Empire. London and New York: G. 232 tions between the USSR and many Western European Virtue, [c.1890] countries in 1924, several new dances—fox-trot being JAMES, Montague Rhodes. A Warning to the Cu- 2 volumes, quarto (248 × 160 mm). Contemporary green rious and other Ghost Stories. London: Edward Ar- the most popular—flowed across the border” (Khait & half calf, burgundy and brown morocco labels, elaborate Davis, The Russian and Early Soviet Sheet Music Collection. The gilt tooling to spines separated by raised bands, marbled nold & Co., 1925 Columbia University Libraries: An Introduction, p. 5). boards and endpapers. Engraved frontispieces, vignette, Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered Uninterested in the pre-revolutionary folk tradition, folding plate and map and 25 further engravings in volume in brown. Light marking to cloth and faint foxing to initial immune to the appeal of officially-generated agitmuzyk, 1; 28 further engravings in volume 2. Some occasional fox- and final few leaves, yet still a very good copy. and tired of the “diet of hits from light operas . . . Russia ing, bookseller’s small ticket to bottom front pastedowns, first edition of James’s fourth and final collection of was fox-trotting to communism, and when the official boards rubbed, a very good copy. ghost stories. publishers couldn’t meet the demand for new fox-trot Illustrated edition, attractively bound, of Gibbon’s great £875 [133970] melodies, the writers published them on their own, of- work, originally published from 1776 to 1788. ten engaging the best designers to do the covers” (Starr, £300 [133878] Red & Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union, p. 59).

88 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 233 (KALDOR, Nicholas.) WELLS, H. G.; George Ber- nard Shaw; J. M. Keynes; & others. Stalin-Wells Talk. The Verbatim Record and a Discussion by G. Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, J. M. Keynes, Ernst Toller and others. London: The New Statesman and Nation, 1934 Octavo, pp. 47. Original orange printed wrappers with a caricature by David Low, stapled as issued. 3 caricature portraits of Shaw, Wells and Keynes by David Low. Split at foot of front joint, wrappers a little soiled and rubbed. A good copy. first edition, the copy of the cambridge econo- mist nicholas kaldor (1908–1986) with his pencilled ownership signature to the title page. “The discussions [Wells] had with Stalin were recorded by a secretary and Wells later published an edited version as Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record. It became clear to Wells that Stalin’s vision of the machinery required to power a so- cialist system was not the same as his, and that Stalin’s view of the bourgeoisie was less than condescending. What Wells didn’t know, of course, was that Stalin was opens with the assertion that “Sixteen years ago I was forgotten: she does not, for example, have her own en- in the process of planning the wholesale liquidation of a communist”, Lane outlines her eventual rejection of try in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, despite being those he considered undesirable in his reformation of socialism and articulates the immediate threat that the mentioned or cited dozens of times in the biographies government” (Feir, H. G. Wells at the End of His Tether, p. “economic tyranny” of Roosevelt and the New Deal pos- of others. A student at Radcliffe College (where Alfred 38). Wells’s deferential conversation was criticized by es to the pursuit of American individualism and uncon- North Whitehead was her professor) and then at Harvard Keynes, Bernard Shaw, and others, which Wells gra- strained personal freedom. and the University of Vienna, Langer was predominately ciously includes in this publication. See Jennifer Burns, “The Three ‘Furies’ of Libertarianism: Rose influenced by Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and the neo- Laurence, Shaw, B238; Moggridge, Keynes, D244. Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand”, Journal of American Kantian Ernst Cassirer. “By any measure of academic History, Vol. 102, Issue 3, Dec. 2015, pp. 746–74; John E. Miller, achievement, hers was an exceptionally distinguished £375 [135131] Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and career in philosophy, with regard to both teaching and Culture, University of Missouri Press, 2008. scholarship. Yet, surprisingly, her voluminous written 234 £900 [133866] work, pioneering and evocative in many respects, has LANE, Rose Wilder. Give Me Liberty. New York: been fairly neglected in professional circles . . . It must Longmans, Green and Co., 1936 235 also be recalled that Langer was a woman, indeed, a divorced woman, working in a male-dominated field Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in black against LANGER, Susanne K. Philosophy in a New Key. A during her time. By all accounts, she was supremely self- red ground. With the dust jacket. Some areas of wear to Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. assured and forthright . . . [and] her intellectual mastery spine ends and top edge of rear board, else a bright, clean Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, and originality was the equal of any 20th-century phi- copy in the toned dust jacket with some loss and closed tears to extremities and joints, a few small punctures to lower half 1942 losopher” (ibid., pp. 239–45). Her contributions focused of spine panel and joint of rear flap, tape repair to head of Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, frame on symbolic logic, symbolism and semiotics, art and spine verso. blocked to front board in blind, top edge blue. With the aesthetics, and the philosophy of the mind. first edition in book form of Lane’s “proudest at- dust jacket. A fine copy in the very good jacket, spine and See Richard E,. Hart, “Susanne K. Langer, 1895–1985”, The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, ed. Armen T. Marsoobian & tempt to summarize her political ideas” (Miller, p. 196), extremities sunned, some chips and short closed tears, two faint marks to front panel, a few areas of dampstain at foot John Ryder, Blackwell Publishing (2004). her “personal Declaration of Independence” (jacket of spine. blurb). Sections of Give Me Liberty first appeared in £750 [135258] “Credo”, the lead article in the Saturday Evening Post on 7 first edition of the author’s best-selling and most March 1936. Acclaimed upon publication, Lane’s mani- influential work, dedicated to “Alfred North Whitehead, festo of individualism has been reprinted many times. my great teacher and friend”. Philosophy in a New Key re- The American journalist and political theorist Rose mains “one of the largest selling paperbacks in the his- Wilder Lane (1886–1968) is credited as one of the “three tory of the Harvard University Press” (Hart, p. 239). furies” of the American libertarian movement along- One of the most insightful and popular thinkers of the side Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson (William F. Buckley 20th century, the American philosopher and educator Jr. quoted by Burns, p. 746). In Give Me Liberty, which Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) is also one of the most

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 89 236 LANGER, Susanne K. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967, 1972, & 1982 3 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines and front boards lettered in gilt, black endpapers to vol. I only. With the dust jackets. Numerous black and white full-page and in-text illustrations. Ownership signature, “Robert Lyman Potter MD”, to front free endpaper of vol. III. Overall in near- fine condition, the bindings particularly tight and square, contents crisp and clean, the jackets bright with just a little creasing and rubbing, and a few nicks to extremities. first edition of Langer’s magnum opus, her monumen- tal study of the human mind and the “capstone of her life’s work” (Hart, p. 240), the final volume of which was published when she was 87 years old. See Hart, Richard E, “Susanne K. Langer, 1895–1985”, The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, ed. Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder, Blackwell Publishing (2004). £750 [135266] with single gilt rule, gilt French fillet panel to the compart- year Granville encouraged him to stand—successfully as 237 ments, double gilt fillet panels with small rosette corner- it turned out—for Aylesbury. pieces to the boards, armourial supralibros of the 1st duke of (LATIN POETRY.) WALKER, William Sidney Atabey 685; Blackmer 968, second edition, “this well-received Sutherland to front boards, marbled edges and endpapers, and fascinating account”. (ed.) Corpus Poetarum Latinorum. London: J. Dun- board edges milled in gilt, turn-ins in blind. Two-tint litho- can, 1828 graphic frontispiece to each and 20 other plates in all, one £650 [133106] One volume in two, octavo (227 × 143 mm). Contemporary double folding, one double-page, 5 folding maps and plans, maroon straight-grain morocco, flat bands gilt to spines numerous illustrations to the text. Some light scuffing of the 239 extremities, one or two small stripped areas, foxing front forming compartments, second and fourth gilt-lettered, LE CARRÉ, John. A Legacy of Spies. London: Vi- the remainder blind-tooled, concentric blind rolls to sides and back of both volumes affecting the first and last few enclosing central gilt frame with fleuron cornerpieces, deco- leaves, occasional browning to the plates, pale toning to the king, 2017 rative gilt roll to board edges and turn-ins, page-edges gilt, text-block, overall very good. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, motif to yellow surface-paper endpapers. Text printed in double col- first edition. “Apart from the archaeological value of front board gilt, patterned endpapers. In the grey cloth slip- umn. Pale tide-mark to the front pastedown and free endpa- his work in identifying Kuyunjik as the site of Nineveh, case. A fine copy. per of vol. 1, a few trivial marks. An excellent copy, retaining and in providing a great mass of materials for scholars to first edition, signed limited edition, number 130 the terminal errata leaf. work upon . . . Layard’s are among the best written books of 250 copies signed by the author. second edition of walker’s useful anthology of travel in the language” (Ency. Brit.). £350 [121459] of latin poetry, in a splendid contemporary The supralibros is the armorial stamp of George Gran- binding, unsigned but resembling the work of Charles ville Leveson-Gower, 1st duke of Sutherland (1758–1833). Lewis (1786–1836). The duke’s grandson, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 240 £750 [118084] second earl Granville (1815–91), son of the duke’s half- LLEWELLYN, Richard. How Green Was My Valley. brother, gave Layard his first government position as London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1939 his under-secretary of foreign affairs in 1851. “The ap- Octavo. Original cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt on 238 pointment caused considerable surprise, since at that red morocco label, top edge gilt. Spine very lightly sunned, time nearly all Government patronage was given to a LAYARD, Austin Henry. Nineveh and Its Re- minor foxing to endpapers and edges. A very good copy. mains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean closed circle of big families, but it was well received by first edition, signed limited issue, number 122 Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil- the Press. The Daily News complimented Granville for his high courage in calling a man of the people to his aid . . . of 200 copies signed by the author. This book was one Worshippers; and an Enquiry into the Manners There were many other young men who might have been of the early successes that secured the future of Michael and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. London, John chosen, and it is a measure of the extraordinary impres- Joseph’s fledgling publishing house, founded in 1935 at a Murray, 1849 sion Layard had created that he should have been given time when many well-established companies were expe- 2 volumes, octavo (216 × 133 mm). Contemporary full Rus- this important Government post. He owed it to Nineveh” riencing financial difficulties or closing down. Llewellyn sia, black morocco double lettering-pieces, low flat bands (Waterfield, Layard of Nineveh, pp.228–9). The following originally proposed the title Land of My Fathers, which

90 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 243 MILTON, John. Areopagitica. New York: The Grolier Club, 1890 Octavo (170 × 114 mm). Contemporary brown full morocco by C. & C. McLeish, raised bands to spine, title and ruling in gilt, double rules with embellishment in gilt to sides, turn- ins ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. Slight rubbing along joints, pale sunning to top of rear cover, very occasional foxing to text block. An excellent copy. first grolier edition, one of 325 copies published on Holland paper. Areopagitica was Milton’s response to the licensing order of June 1643, and has come “to be val- ued as the most eloquent defence in English of the right to publish without prior censorship” (ODNB). This copy has been handsomely bound by C. & C. McLeish, the fa- voured binders of T. E. Lawrence. £800 [122297]

Lionel Robbins’s copy 244 he changed at Joseph’s suggestion to something “more tions from Novalis in his own books: his favourite being biblical and nostalgic” (ODNB). It brought Llewellyn “Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and MISES, Ludwig von. The Theory of Money and “instant celebrity and an assured income for the rest of perhaps will”, which he invokes in Phantastes, Lilith, Credit. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934 his life. Filmed in Hollywood by John Ford in 1940 (win- and The Portent. William Raeper, MacDonald’s biogra- Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge ning five Oscars), the novel soon became a best-seller, pher, notes: “The life and thought of Novalis so gripped black. A very good copy, joints at head of spine starting to was translated into some two dozen languages, and has MacDonald that he returned to him again and again, split and head of rear joint chipped, a few marks to cloth, never since been out of print. It is the most famous book finding some deep affinity in the spiritual, sad and -sim light foxing to half-title and a few other leaves. ever written about south Wales and one of the most en- ple poetry of the afflicted German.” first edition in english; from the library of Lionel duringly popular novels in English of the twentieth cen- £875 [132842] Robbins, with his ink ownership inscription to the front tury” (ibid). free endpaper and reading notes to the rear free endpa- £750 [135378] 242 per. Robbins provided the introduction to this work. Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was a notable econo- (MARTIN, George.) LAWRENCE, Alistair. Ab- 241 mist and a major influence on the modern libertarian bey Road. The Best Studio in the World. London: movement. He has been called the “uncontested dean MACDONALD, George. Exotics. A Translation of Bloomsbury, 2012 of the Austrian School of economics”. His theories have the Spiritual Songs of Novalis, the Hymn-Book of Quarto. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered influenced such subsequent economists as Friedrich von Luther, and other Poems from the German and in silver, photographic endpapers, red edges. With the dust Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Vernon L. Smith, and George Italian. London: Strahan & Co., Publishers, 1876 jacket. Housed in the original black imitation-record box, Reisman. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and illustration gilt to within the original cardboard box as issued. With photo- £875 [132823] spine and front, brown coated endpapers. Ends and cor- graphic illustrations throughout. Newspaper article on the ners somewhat worn, cracking to hinges (more so to rear), book loosely inserted. A fine copy. 245 inscription erased from head of title, small chip from fore- first edition, signed limited issue, number 150 corner of front free endpaper repaired, still a bright attrac- of 215 copies signed by George Martin. Abbey Road is a MORIYAMA, Daido. On The Road. Tokyo-to Chofu- tive copy in very good condition overall. major photographic celebration of the eponymous re- shi: Getsuyo-sha, 2011 first edition of this scarce anthology of German and cording studio; along with this limited edition signed by Quarto. Publisher’s black pebbled wrappers, titles in white Italian poetry translated into English by noted Victorian Martin, the “Fifth Beatle”, an unsigned trade issue was to spine and front wrapper, promotional wrap-around band. fantasy writer George MacDonald, including the Spiritual also released. Black-and-white photographs by Moriyama. A fine copy. Songs of Novalis. Also presented are English renditions of £850 [132288] first edition, signed by the author on the title Luther, Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Petrarch, Milton (from page. his Italian), and others. MacDonald first encountered Novalis when cataloguing a library in 1842, and issued £250 [134601] a small privately printed edition, now very rare, of the Spiritual Songs in 1851. MacDonald often used quota-

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 91 249 PASTERNAK, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Ha- rari. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1958 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Lightly shaken, minor marking to edges. A very good copy in the price-clipped jacket, light creasing and short closed tears at extremities, faint tape residue on verso. first english-language edition. First published in Italy in 1957, the original manuscript had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the same year. It was an immediate success and has been adapted to screen a number of times, most famously in the 1965 film adaptation starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Alec Guinness. Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature the same year as this edition’s publication. £400 [134036]

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246 248 (PENGUIN CLASSICS.) DOSTOEVSKY, Fydor. The Idiot. London: Penguin, 2006 OBAMA, Barack. Dreams From My Father. A Story ORWELL, George. Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal Farm, Large octavo. Original wrappers, titles to edges in black. of Race and Inheritance. New York: Times Books for Ukrainian]. Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei, 1947 Housed in the original printed perspex box. With the origi- Random House, 1995 Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Housed in a flat-back nal cardboard packaging. A fine copy, in the publisher’s Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cloth box. Staining to covers and contents, light creasing to shrink wrap. covers, yet still a good copy of this fragile book. beige paper-covered sides, yellow endpapers, fore edge un- limited edition, number 35 of 1,000 copies designed trimmed. With the dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the jack- first ukrainian edition, and the first to in- by Ron Arad and published to mark the sixtieth anni- et, with very light soiling and very minor rubbing at extremi- clude a preface by orwell. A copy of the first English versary of Penguin Classics. The Idiot was first published ties, minor crease at head of front flap fold. edition of 1945 fell into the hands of Ihor Shevchenko, a serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–9, and first edition, as stated on the copyright page with son of Polish anti-Bolshevik nationalists. “In April 1946, was first translated into English from the Russian by the row of numbers going from 9 to 2, as called for. The Shevchenko wrote to Orwell, a mourning widower and Frederick Whishaw in 1887. The translation used in this future president’s first book, Dreams from My Father was single parent of adopted baby at that time, requesting au- edition, by David McDuff, was first published in 2004. published as Obama began his run for the Illinois Sen- thorization to publish his Ukrainian translation. He de- £450 [133763] ate in July 1995, and helped to establish his reputation scribed to him how he had translated the book out loud and image. to a transfixed audience of Ukrainian DPs [displaced per- 251 £800 [135151] sons] and they had always been puzzled how the West could be so naïve about the Soviet Union and wondered (PENGUIN CLASSICS.) DOSTOEVSKY, Fydor. if anyone ‘knew the truth’. He concluded: ‘Your book has Crime and Punishment. London: Penguin, 2006 247 solved that problem . . . Refugees reacted to the underly- Large octavo. Original wrappers, titles to front cover and ONAKA, Koji. Distance 1991–1995. [Tokyo:] Ma- ing values of the book, to the tale ‘types,’ to the under- spine in red and silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in the lying convictions of the author and so on. Besides, the tatabi Library, 2012 original printed perspex slipcase. With the original card- mood of the book seems to correspond with their own Small quarto. Publisher’s pictorial blue wrappers, titles in board packaging. A fine copy, in the publisher’s shrinkwrap. white and orange to spine and front wrapper, in the glass- actual state of mind’. While Animal Farm had been a message of hope to the Ukrainian DPs, Shevchenko’s letter limited edition, number 769 of 1,000 copies designed ine. Black-and-white photographs by Onaka. Slight wear to by FUEL and published to mark the sixtieth anniversary extremities; a near-fine copy. was a message of hope to Orwell, who enthusiastically agreed to a Ukrainian translation” (Tatara). Orwell con- of Penguin Classics. The artistic duo FUEL consists of first edition thus, signed by the author on p. tributed a new preface, which was his most extensive Stephen Sorrell and Damon Murray. Dostoyevsky’s novel 157 and numbered 164 of 300 copies. This title was first commentary on the story and his motives for writing it. was first published in the literary journal The Russian Mes- published by Mole in 1996 at the author’s expense; this senger in twelve monthly instalments during 1866, and edition has been enriched with previously unreleased Fenwick A.10.T25; Kalyna Tatara, “George Orwell and the Ukrainian Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm”, Ukrainian was first translated into English in 1886 by Frederick photographs. Institute, 31/7/2012. Whishaw. £225 [134607] £975 [133982] £250 [133764]

92 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 252 (PENGUIN CLASSICS.) FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. London: Penguin Books, 2006 Octavo. Original black cloth, black endpapers, black silk bookmark. With the jacket designed by Sam Taylor-Wood. Housed in the original printed perspex slipcase. With the original cardboard packaging. A fine copy, in the publisher’s shrink wrap. limited edition, number 659 of 1,000 copies, the binding designed by filmmaker and photographer Sam Taylor-Wood. To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the Penguin Classics, the firm commissioned five prominent artists to design bindings for limited runs of influential books previously published in the series. Tender is the Night was first published in 1934. £275 [133760]

253 (PENGUIN CLASSICS.) FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. London: Penguin Classics, 2006 liberalisation of British publishing, and a gateway to the 256 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in permissive social attitudes of the 1960s. white, yellow page marker. With the dust jacket. Housed in POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Jeremy Fisher. £800 [133761] the original printed perspex slipcase. With the original card- London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1906 board packaging. A fine copy, in the publisher’s shrinkwrap. Sextodecimo. Attractively rebound in recent dark green limited edition, number 447 of 1,000 copies, with a 255 quarter morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised dust jacket designed by the shoe designer Manolo Blah- POTTER, Beatrix. The Pie and the Patty-Pan. Lon- bands, original pictorial boards and pictorial endpapers at nik. Issued to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the don: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905 front. With colour illustrations by the author. Neat owner- Penguin Classics (see previous item), Madame Bovary ship signature to half-title, a very good copy. Quarto. Original blue boards, lettered in white on spine and was first published serially in La Revue de Paris between front cover, front cover illustration in colour, lightly marbled first edition. 1 October and 15 December 1856. It was first translated lavender endpapers. Colour frontispiece, 9 coloured plates, £400 [134675] into English by Eleanor Marx-Aveling in 1886. black and white illustrations in the text, all by the author. Touch of wear to spine ends, spine negligibly sunned, faint £550 [133762] 257 offsetting to endpapers, light foxing to contents; a very good copy indeed. 254 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. first edition. This was the last book Norman Warne London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910 (PENGUIN CLASSICS.) LAWRENCE, D. H. Lady worked on with Potter, and his proposal of marriage was Sextodecimo. Original blue boards, titles to front board and Chatterley’s Lover. With an Introduction by Doris sent during its creation. Potter completed the project spine in white, pictorial label to front board, pictorial endpa- Lessing. London: Penguin, 2006 alone; it was published two months after Warne’s un- pers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Large octavo. Original purple boards, titles to spine in white, timely death. It was the first of Potter’s works to be pub- Contemporary ownership inscription of Daphne P. Foster floral patterned endpapers, multi-coloured silk page marker. lished in a larger format. The illustrated endpapers, in- and recent bookplate to front free endpaper verso. Spine With the white silk dust jacket embroidered with titles in troduced the previous year, were forgotten for this work, faded, boards faintly soiled, two small nicks to bottom edge black and flowers in blue and yellow. Housed in the original Potter writing “I conclude there is no time to get an end- of boards, a couple of faint marks to contents; a very good printed perspex slipcase. With the original cardboard pack- paper [sic] design done—unless Mr. Stokoe has already copy indeed. aging. A fine copy, in the publisher’s shrink wrap. designed one—I do not mind one way or another”; the first edition. The first two printings are believed to limited edition, number 347 of 1,000 copies. The em- book appeared with plain or lavender endpapers (Linder be identical. broidered Paul Smith design for Lady Chatterley’s Lover is p. 172). The later edition published in a smaller format, Linder, p. 429; not in Quinby. one of the most popular of this series, issued to celebrate to match Potter’s other works, was renamed The Tale of the £875 [134853] the sixtieth anniversary of the Penguin Classics (see pre- Pie and the Patty-Pan. vious item). Lady Chatterley’s Lover was first published in Linder, p. 172. the UK, by Penguin, in 1960 after a well-publicised legal £800 [134852] battle in November of that year. Penguin’s successful defence of the work is acknowledged as a milestone for the

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 93 258 ROBERTS, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts. Forty-One Years in India. From Subaltern to Com- mander-in-Chief. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1897 2 volumes, octavo (218 × 138 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by Bickers, spines with five low raised bands, gilt panelled and lettered direct, red “gold vein” marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece portrait of Roberts, 27 plates and maps (some folding, two linen-backed), title pages printed in red and black and with a wood-engraved vignette. Folding map in vol. I misfolded and standing proud of top edge, only slight rubbing to extremities, vol. II with light bump to head of spine, scattered foxing. A very good set. first edition of the runaway best-seller, hurtling through eight editions/impressions in the first month of publication alone, presented here in a smart and straightforward period binding. This copy with the added attraction of having the first appearance of Kipling’s “Bobs” (four leaves), extracted from the Pall Mall Maga- Large octavo (249 × 160 mm). Contemporary red crushed zine (December 1893) and bound in before the main text 261 half-morocco gilt with the original printed wrappers bound in volume I. in, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands, compartments richly SHAKESPEARE, William. The Merry Wives of Bruce 4073; Ladendorf 364; Riddick 401; Sorsky 909; Taylor 669. gilt with fine cross motifs in green and yellow morocco on- Windsor. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. London: £750 [134222] lays, marbled boards and endpapers, untrimmed. 17 etch- William Heinemann, 1910 ings by Jacques Wagrez including the frontispiece, a deco- Octavo (250 × 190 mm). Contemporary blue half morocco, 259 rative border to the prologue, ten plates with tissue guard, raised bands to spine, title and ruling to spine gilt, marbled and five smaller illustrations as act headpiece; and 5 tissue RUSSELL, Bertrand. A History of Western Philos- sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Mounted colour frontis- guarded heliogravures by Louis Titz. Bookseller’s stamp of piece and 39 mounted colour plates, all with tissue guards. ophy. And Its Connection with Political and Social A. Van Loock in Brussels to front pastedown, and engraved Ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Spine Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Pre- bookplate of Geo. Valdelievre by Pierre Fritel on japon lightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed. An excellent copy. sent Day. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945 tipped-in to blank preliminary leaf. Minor wear to extremities, a near-fine copy. first thomson edition. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title first and only edition thus, one of 300 copies on £275 [122238] across blue ground, Russell’s signature stamped in gilt to front board, brown endpapers, top edge stained blue. With Holland paper, from a total edition limited to 350 copies, the dust jacket. Title page printed in black and blue. Con- lavishly illustrated by French artist and interior designer 262 temporary gift inscription to front pastedown, dated Christ- Jacques Wagrez (1850–1908) and Belgian painter and SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems of William water-colourist Louis Titz (1859–1932). mas 1945. A near-fine copy, with some light shelf wear, book Shakespeare. Printed After the Original Copies of block fore edge foxed, in the very good dust jacket, spine This copy with loosely inserted material including an faded, panels browned, with some creases, chipping, and original etched ex-libris for Jules Grosfils by Louis Titz Venus and Adonis 1503, The Rape of Lucrece 1594, short closed tears to extremities. dated 1926, signed and numbered 8/80 in pencil, and Sonnets 1609, The Lover’s Complaint. London: Pa- first edition, preceding the first UK edition pub- two autograph letters signed from Titz to Grosfils. One radine Publications, 1975 lished by George Allen and Unwin Ltd by a year. Far of them is dated October 1926, discussing arrangements Octavo. Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, green scarcer than the UK edition, and especially so in the dust for a meeting, the other shows the illustrator’s prefer- silk ties. With explanatory booklet in green card covers. jacket, this is the first thus that we have handled. ence for some of his work in both this work and another, Housed in a green card slipcase. Covers bowed, else a near- telling Grosfils that “he would be happy to know the Blackwell & Ruja A79.1a. fine copy. plate chosen by [Grosfils] in case another bibliophile £750 [133952] number 31 of 100 copies initialled by the binder Al- asks me the same question”. fred Brazier and the pressman Ridley Burnett. This is a Jules Grosfils (1896–1979) was a Belgian businessman limited facsimile of the 1893 Kelmscott Press edition of 260 and bibliophile. He is also the author of a book on origi- Shakespeare’s poems, with a further ten lettered copies SHAKESPEARE, William. Romeo and Juliet. New- nal Belgian engravings, featuring the work of Titz, the for presentation. second letter certainly a list of suggestions from the art- York: Duprat & Co, 1892 ist as to which illustration to publish. £475 [131825] £850 [135591]

94 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 267 STEADMAN, Ralph. Zwei Esel und eine Brücke. Mönchaltorf: Nord-Süd Verlag, 1972 Small folio. Publisher’s colour pictorial boards, titles in black on spine and boards. Colour illustrations by Steadman throughout. Corners lightly bumped, slight foxing to edges; a bright, very good copy. first edition, signed by steadman on the title page and with his signature sad-face original drawing. £275 [134545]

268 (STEADMAN, Ralph.) STONE, Bernard. Emer- gency Mouse. London: Andersen Press, 1978 Quarto. Publisher’s colour pictorial boards, titles in black on spine and front cover, colour pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout, by Steadman. A fine copy. first edition, inscribed “For Bernard’s Joan, from Bernard [Stone]”, and “ with love from Ralph Steadman” 263 265 on the title page, with an original drawing by Steadman SHAKESPEARE, William. The One Hundred SMITH, Eleanor. Christmas Tree. London: on the verso of the front free endpaper. Fifty-Four Sonnets. Designed and illustrated by Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933 £250 [135197] Aldren Auld Watson. New York: The Thomas Y. Crow- Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in green. With the ell Company, 1944 pictorial dust jacket. The publisher’s retained copy with their 269 Octavo (249 × 163 mm). Contemporary red morocco by Mau- stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front past- STEADMAN, Ralph. Ralph Steadman: Proud Too rin, twin raised bands to spine lettered in gilt, floral decora- edown. Some foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent Be Weirrd. [No place:] Ammo Books, 2013 tion to spine in gilt, double gilt fillet to covers, turn-ins gilt, copy in the slightly foxed jacket. Folio. Publisher’s red cloth, titles in black to spine and front board edges gilt, marbled endpapers, green silk page mark- first edition. Set in post-war London on Christmas board, ink stain-patterned endpapers, housed in publisher’s er, top edge gilt. Title vignette and 11 plates by Watson. Gift Eve, the novel interweaves the lives of seven different white cardboard box printed in black, with pictorial promo- inscription to binder’s blank. Loss to headcap, dark marking people buying Christmas trees in a department store. tional poster loosely inserted, as issued. Colour illustrations to spine and covers, a little rubbing to joints and tips. A very throughout, with a fine art print (445 × 305 mm) titled “New good copy. £450 [93772] York Spectacles” by Ralph Steadman. A fine copy, in the first watson edition. Aldren Auld Watson (1917– clean publisher’s box, a few bumps, lightly rubbed. 2013) was an American artist and hand-bookbinder, 266 first edition, signed by steadman, limited edition, whose work includes illustrations for a 1948 edition of STEADMAN, Ralph. Ralph Steadman’s Jelly Book. this copy numbered 333 of 1,000. Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books. For Genevieve and Westminster Children’s Hospi- £375 [134538] £500 [123224] tal. London: Dobson Books Ltd, 1967 Oblong quarto. Publisher’s orange cloth boards, titles to 270 264 spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Colour illus- THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. SEUSS, Dr. Fox In Socks. New York: Random House, trations throughout by Ralph Steadman. Corners slightly London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849 1965 bumped, one gathering a little loose. A very good copy in the lightly soiled and rubbed dust jacket. Octavo (212 × 132 mm). Near-contemporary red pebble- Octavo. Original pictorial boards, spine and front board grained half morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, lettered in grey and red, pictorial endpapers. With the dust first edition, signed by steadman on the title page. One of Ralph Steadman’s early children’s books, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. With jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Extremities a engraved frontispiece, vignette, 38 engraved plates and nu- little rubbed. An excellent, bright copy in the slightly toned the fable was published in Great Britain as Two Donkeys and a Bridge (1983). merous wood-engraved illustrations within the text. Some jacket. mild foxing and browning, spine and board edges slightly first edition, with all the points of first issue. £500 [134556] rubbed. A very good copy. Younger and Hirsch 24. An attractively bound early edition. Vanity Fair was first £600 [123849] published in 1848. £250 [134015]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 95 273 THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. Lon- don: Harper Collins, 1995 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 20 leaves of photographic reproductions. Light creasing at jacket extremities. A very good copy. first edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title page “To Woodrow with warm regards and many thanks for all your help Margaret Thatcher”. An excellent association—the recipient was Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), Labour Member of Parlia- ment for most of 1945 to 1970, who switched sides and became Thatcher’s “sympathizer and close friend” (as she writes in p. 306 of the Path to Power). His bookplate is on the front pastedown. Thatcher held a meeting with Wyatt after her election as Conservative leader in 1975, which was arranged by her publicity adviser Gordon Reece. Wyatt recalled in his memoirs: “She won me over. The strength of her deter- mination and the simplicity of her rational ideas unclut- 271 1974 progressed, Thatcher became increasingly disillu- tered by intellectual confusion convinced me that she sioned with the Conservative leadership under Edward THATCHER, Margaret. Typed letter signed. 1974 was the first party leader I had met, apart from Gaitskell, Heath, whom she served as shadow secretary of state for who might check Britain’s slide and possibly begin to re- Single page, octavo, House of Commons letterhead in green, the environment. Several months after this letter, after verse it. She did not seem much like a Tory but she had verso blank. Central crease as folded, light offset from signa- Heath lost the next general election in October, Thatch- ture. In very good condition. the Tory Party to work for her, which was a useful start”. er mounted a challenge against the leadership and took (Wyatt, Confessions of an Optimist, p. 343). Wyatt, who had a typed letter from margaret thatcher, signed control herself, feeling, perhaps, that the public were often mocked Thatcher in the past, now promoted her in her customary blue ink, to one of her for- now ready. in his weekly column in the Labour-supporting Sunday mer constituents, dated 2 May 1974. Thatcher writes The recipient, Mrs. I. Woodrow, lived in Oakleigh Mirror, and later in his other columns in the News of the in response to a letter from the recipient in the aftermath Road North in Whetstone, which was formerly part of World and The Times. of the Conservative Party’s loss in the February 1974 elec- Thatcher’s Finchley constituency, but was moved to She came to have a friendly relationship with Wyatt tion: “I feel the same way about many things. We tried Chipping Barnet in the boundary changes of February and sought his advice, and his influence grew after her to put some of the points across to the public during the 1974; surviving letters show that Thatcher continued to election as prime minister in 1979. In 1987 she elevated General Election campaign, but it seems that they were have correspondence with Mrs. Woodrow for at least a him to the House of Lords with the title Baron Wyatt of not ready to listen. However, I do not believe that the couple more years, even if she was no longer her MP. Weeford. British public want more State control, and I hope that £650 [134360] they will soon turn away from the present Government Thatcher mentions Wyatt in both volumes of her au- and that we shall be able to bring an end to the policies tobiography, firstly in the Downing Street Years where she which you and I dislike. It was good of you to write, and I 272 records that Wyatt held a private buffet in March 1985 where she met with miners who had continued work- enjoyed reading your letter”. (THATCHER, Margaret; Harold Wilson). Christ- The letter hints at her disillusionment with the cur- ing despite the Coal Strike (p. 370), then secondly in the mas card from Denis and Margaret Thatcher to Path to Power where she notes that Wyatt helped draft her rent state of British politics, expressing her belief that Harold Wilson. 1985 at heart the public are in agreement with her principles, first speech as Conservative Party leader in 1975 (p. 306). but “not ready to listen”. Yet it is notable that she does Folded bifolium (211 × 148 mm), colour photograph to front. After his death Wyatt’s diaries were published in three not propose a move towards the left to appease a cur- Light creasing and soiling from handling, else good. volumes from 1998 to 2000, which detailed events in his rently left-leaning public; instead, she is adamant that the christmas card sent from margaret thatch- private meetings with Thatcher, and which have been they will come round to their views, though she leaves er and her husband denis to former prime min- used by biographers as a source for Thatcher’s private it open whether this would occur due to the necessity ister harold wilson in 1985, signed “Denis and reaction to public events. of events, or through the campaign of an invigorated Margaret Thatcher” in their respective hands. The card, £975 [135680] Conservative Party. The letter shows that at this stage otherwise unmarked as Harold Wilson’s, remained in the she was not firmly putting the blame of the loss on the possession of Harold, and then his wife Mary, until the lat- Conservative Party itself, instead blaming the public. At ter’s death in 2018; thereafter entering the market through the same time, she is clearly not very enthusiastic about the sale of the Wilson estate in 2019. the Party’s efforts to try and put their points across. As £400 [133659]

96 Christmas 2019: Peter Harrington 274 THOMAS, Dylan. New Poems. Norfolk, CN: The Po- ets of the Year, New Directions, 1943 Octavo. Original purple boards, front board lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Spine-ends lightly bumped. An excellent copy in the price-clipped, spine-sunned dust jacket. first edition, one of 1,000 casebound copies; a further 1,500 copies in paper wrappers were also issued. Rolph B9. £500 [106609]

275 TICE, Clara. Animals and Nudes. New York: Melo- mime, 1922 Octavo, pp. 16. Original brown paper wrappers stitched with red string, front cover lettered and decorated with a vignette of a tiger and a woman in silver. With 3 tipped-in linocuts plates, illustrations in the text, all by Tice. Spine starting to split but still firm, string broken, otherwise a very good copy. first edition, deluxe issue, one of 30 copies with 277 Aldous Huxley, who wrote the preface and persuaded a an original etching and watercolour by tice; WHITECHURCH, Victor L. Murder at the College. number of those figures, such as Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw, to have their hands read. this copy additionally marked as the “artist’s copy”, with London: The Crime Club Ltd, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, an presentation inscription by Tice to the colophon, “To £500 [133481] Colonel Hughes, Clara Tice”. Tice’s exhibition Animals [1932] and Nudes, for which this is a catalogue, was held at the Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in 279 Anderson Galleries in New York between 11 and 25 No- black. With the pictorial reminder issue dust jacket. Spine vember 1922. The recipient, Colonel Henry D. Hughes, a touch rolled, pastedowns, occasional light foxing, chiefly WILKES, Maurice Vincent. Automatic Digital was a prominent art collector from Pennsylvania. to pastedowns, prelims and edges of text block, cloth bright and fresh. A very good copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket. Computers. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1956 Clara Tice (1888–1973) was a famed New York bohe- Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With first edition of Whitechurch’s final detective story. A mian artist who began exhibiting her often erotic art the dust jacket. With 8 plates and 108 diagrams, one folding. from 1910. particularly attractive copy. Annotations to index else contents clean. A very good copy £750 [123615] Hubin p. 424. in the dust jacket, spine panel light sunned, minor chipping £375 [89373] and short closed tears at extremities. 276 first edition of this early overview of computer sci- 278 ence by one of its pioneers, the British scientist Maurice (VELLUM BINDING.) The Book of Job. London: Wilkes (1913–2010), inventor of microprogramming, and George Bell & Sons; The Abbey Press, Edinburgh, 1902 WOLFF, Charlotte. Studies in Hand-Reading. designer of the electronic delay storage automatic calcu- Small quarto (213 × 177 mm). Contemporary limp vellum With a Preface by Aldous Huxley. London: Chatto & lator (one of the first stored programme computers). with ties, front cover painted and lettered by hand with a flo- Windus, 1936 £500 [134102] ral design, top edge trimmed, others uncut. With black and Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles and pentangle device to white woodcut illustrations throughout by Robert T. Rose. spine in gilt, top edge red, bottom edge untrimmed. Portrait 280 Vellum a little soiled with red mark to rear cover, loss to ties frontispiece of the author from a photograph by Man Ray, on front cover. Even so a very attractive copy. and 62 other plates of palm-prints, with schematised read- WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. London: Leonard limited edition, number 288 of 750 copies on hand- ing diagrams to the text. Spine minimally cocked and toned, Smithers and Co., 1899 rear board a little bowed, slight touch of wear to tips, small made paper, here in an Arts and Crafts-influenced hand- Quarto. Original pink cloth, title to spine and floral motifs indent to fore edge of rear board, light fading to cloth, a little painted vellum binding. to covers in gilt, edges untrimmed. Spine lightly sunned and soiling to book block edge; nevertheless a very good copy. £500 [135313] rolled, minor cockling and faint soiling to cloth. A very good first edition of this uncommon work, with an copy. excellent provenance, bearing the ownership inscrip- first edition, one of 1,000 copies. tion of the renowned palmist Mir Bashir (1907–1997). In this work Wolff analysed the palms of numerous key Mason 385. contemporary creative figures, including her close friend £975 [131848]

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