Gifts to Treasure
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Gifts to Treasure
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Contents
Fiction, Poetry & Prose 07
Children’s & Illustrated 39
Visual and Performing Arts 67
History & Natural History 77
Special Interest & Sports 91 6 Shapero Rare Books Fiction, Poetry & Prose A Very Attractive Edition
1. AMIS, Kingsley. Bright November. 2. AUSTEN, Jane; A. Wallis Mills, illustrator. [Novels]. 6 vol. The Fortune Press, London, [1947]. in 10, ‘St. Martin’s Illustrated Library of Standard Authors’ series. Chatto & Windus, London, 1908-09. An excellent copy of the first edition of the author’s scarce first published work, in the first issue binding. Volume 1 (Pride and Prejudice) contains a general introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. “Throughout his career, Amis has been a poet devoted to use of traditional formal devices in poetry; his poems rhyme 8vo., colour frontispieces, colour plates and pictorial endpapers by A. Wallis Mills, and scan, and he makes good use of terza rima and challenging a couple of hinges starting to crack but still sound, publisher’s green cloth, gilt, oval colour illustration mounted as locket on upper covers, a little rubbed at forms likes the villanelle. Sometimes critics claim membership extremities, spines very slightly faded, a few small spots to upper cover of for him in “The Movement,” a postwar trend in English poetry Northanger Abbey, otherwise a very good-plus set. that might best be defined as anti-Modernist, anti-Romantic, Gilson E117. dedicated to clarity of thought and feeling and a return to the main lines of English verse.” (Understanding Kingsley Amis, £1,200 [ref: 96547] Merritt Moseley, 1993).
Thin 8vo., publisher’s black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket, price-clipped (as usual), with publisher’s “10/6” sticker affixed to front flap, spine panel and folds slightly sunned.
£1,000 [ref: 95522]
8 Shapero Rare Books 3. AUSTEN, Jane; Charles E. Brock, illustrator. [Novels]. 4. AUSTEN, Jane, H. M. BROCK, [Illustrator] Northanger 6 vol., ‘Series of English Idylls’. Abbey. J. M. Dent & Co. & E. P. Dutton, London & New York, J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1907. 1907-09. First edition in this form, 8vo., colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, decorative title Brock originally illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Macmillan in page, a further 22 colour plates, endpapers browned, light spotting to blank verso of Frontispiece, else clean and bright, publisher’s light blue cloth, sumptuously gilt 1895, with black and white line drawings, and again with his panelled to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, top of brother H. M. Brock in an Austen set for Dent in 1898. He spine a little creased and minimal age-toning, otherwise near-fine. was commissioned by Dent again in 1907 to illustrate all the novels in colour, as here. Emma retains the dedication to the £275 [ref: 95802] Prince Regent from the first edition, omitted in many of the intervening editions.
8vo., colour frontispieces, decorative titles and plates by Charles E. Brock, original grey cloth, upper covers with central design of basket of flowers in gilt, spines gilt, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers printed in green (a little browned), a very attractive set. Gilson E114, 116, 120, 124, 127 & 129.
£1,000 [ref: 96545]
Shapero Rare Books 9 The Silver Jubilee Edition, Signed by the Poet
5. BECKETT, Samuel. Whoroscope. 6. BETJEMAN, John. Summoned by Bells. Hours Press, Paris, 1930. John Murray, London, 1977.
The first edition of the author’s first separately published ‘Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world work, particularly scarce with the original wrap-around When firelight shone on green linoleum; announcing the young author as prize-winner of a contest I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky, sponsored by the Hours Press to compose a poem on the And turned to Archibald, my safe old bear,...’ concept of “time”. Deluxe edition, number 14 of 100 specially bound copies signed by the author, First edition, 8vo, number 93 of 100 copies signed by the author, some minor original delivery note loosely inserted, publisher’s blue morocco gilt, fading to spine spotting, light blemish to foot of colophon, publisher’s red printed wrappers, some otherwise a fine copy with original slip-case inset with a gilt bell on blue morocco minor staining and soiling, publisher’s promotional printed wrap-around. mirroring that on the front cover.
£5,250 [ref: 96523] £675 [ref: 95895]
10 Shapero Rare Books Capote’s classic novella, the basis for the much-loved film
7. BROOKE, Rupert. Poems. 8. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1911. and Three Stories. Random House, New York, 1958. A superb example of this highly influential collection of poetry published when Brooke was only 23, which together Stated First Printing on the copyright page and date of 10/58 with ‘1914 And Other Poems’ cemented Brooke’s reputation on upper flap of dust-jacket. as one of the key poets of the First World War. First edition, ‘First Printing’, 8vo., contemporary Ex Libris plate on front free First edition, 8vo., Ex-Libris to upper pastedown, publisher’s black cloth, printed endpaper, publisher’s cloth, a little bumped on upper corners, else near-fine, paper label, in exceptionally fine state, preserved in folding chemise and custom dust-jacket, price clipped, professionally closed tear to lower panel not affecting slip-case. illustration of Capote, slight fading to spine with minor chips to extremities and corners but primarily a very good copy and internally near fine. £2,500 [ref: 95631] £1,400 [ref: 95523]
Shapero Rare Books 11 One of 50 special copies for presentation
9. CAPOTE, Truman. Music For Chameleons: new writing... 10. CHARTERIS, Leslie. The Saint in New York. Random House, New York, [1980]. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1935.
Inscribed by the author: “This is one of fifty copies designed An excellent example of one of the most visually stunning and printed for friends of the author. No. 17 Truman Capote” ‘Saint’ first editions, the best copy we’ve ever seen and additionally enhanced by the presentation inscription from “Music for Chameleons is a continuation of Mr. Capote’s Charteris and the presence of the original wrap-around, concern with developing the artistic possibilities of journalism.” asking ‘Is this one of the Saint stories you haven’t read?’ with repeated Saint motif in the background. First edition, first impression (with Random House’s standard number line commencing with ‘2’), number 17 of 50 special copies for presentation, signed & The inscription from the author is on the half-title, and reads inscribed by the author, 8vo, original cloth, slightly dulled at spine but otherwise very good, plastic jacket and slip-case. “To H.W. Brown With all good wishes & thanks for his efforts to sell it. Sincerely - Leslie Charteris”. £950 [ref: 96739] The Saint in New York is the 15th book chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar (aka The Saint), Charteris’ most enduring character, whose exploits were brought to the small screen and the big screen by, most famously, Roger Moore, Ian Ogilvy and Val Kilmer respectively. The book is considered the most popular Saint title and was the first “bestseller” of the Simon Templar series, establishing Charteris as a literary celebrity in America and Britain. Due to the book’s popularity, it became the first Simon Templar story to be adapted for film (1938), starring Louis Hayward.
First edition, 8vo., signed presentation copy from the author, 8pp. advertisements, publisher’s blue cloth, spine slightly dulled, otherwise very good, dust-jacket by Stead, an excellent example, with the publisher’s original promotional wrap-around also present.
£7,000 [ref: 96534]
12 Shapero Rare Books 11. CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. 12. CHRISTIE, Agatha. Evil under the sun. Jonathan Cape, London, 1977. Collins, The Crime Club, London, 1941.
First edition, 8vo., frontispiece map, plates, map endpapers, original boards, “This is one of the prettier jackets from the 1940s, with its dust-jacket, mercifully spared any of the fading to the spine that plagues most mysterious sunset and colouring of the front cover and spine.” copies, a very good copy. (Wagstaff & Poole, Agatha Christie: A Reader’s Companion). £480 [ref: 96286] First edition (without price to front flap, for international or colonial edition), 8vo., 3 pp. advertisements at end, original red/orange cloth (slight fading to extremities), dust jacket, small creases and one or two nicks at spine ends, otherwise unusually good and clean.
£1,650 [ref: 96525]
Please also see number 102 for related item.
Shapero Rare Books 13 Rare in such a bright dust-jacket
13. CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Hound of Death. 14. CHRISTIE, Agatha. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. Odhams Press, London, 1933. Collins, for The Crime Club, London, 1939.
A collection of twelve stories, only ever published together Motives for Murder: A fortune in uncut diamonds, hidden by thus in the UK, with this edition published by Odhams an eccentric old man; a woman’s love, too freely given; a preceding that issued by Christie’s normal publishers Collins. business empire built on ruthlessness; each of them may have Many of the stories involve an element of the supernatural been a motive for a brutal murder. They present Hercule or paranormal, strikingly intimated by the suitably macabre Poirot with a baffling challenge, one that the astute detective dust-jacket design. solves only through his uncanny ability to see “the little things”.
First edition, 8vo., original burgundy cloth, usual slight dulling to spine lettering, First edition, 8vo., 3pp., advertisements, modern full green morocco with maroon dust-jacket, some rubbing and creasing to lower edge of upper panel and spine letting pieces, gilt panelled, all edges gilt, in fine condition. end and upper edge of rear panel, professional restoration to lower fore-corner of upper panel, otherwise a superior example of this highly sought after title. £950 [ref: 96499]
£975 [ref: 96524]
14 Shapero Rare Books “Style is not the man; it is something better”
15. CLARKE, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 16. CRISP, Quentin. How to have a Life-Style. Hutchinson, London, 1968. Cecil Woolf, London, 1975.
Adapted from Clarke’s short-story The Sentinel (1951), 2001 Not as famous perhaps as the author’s The Naked Civil Servant was written simultaneously with the screenplay for Stanley (1968), How to have a Life-Style nevertheless became one of Kubrick’s famous film and published in the US & UK shortly Crisp’s most popular and reprinted works, and is considered after the film’s release. by many to provide the best insight into his philosophy on life. In it Crisp writes: First UK edition, 8vo., browning to extreme edge of upper fore-corner of text-block, publisher’s boards, slight shelf-lean, dust-jacket, slightly darkened “Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, with minor rubbing to upper corner-tips, overall very good. dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as £180 [ref: 96262] building materials selected elements from his own character. Style is the way in which a man can, by taking thought, add to his stature. It is the only way.”
An attractive copy, with the splendidly evocative stylised jacket design by Vaughan & Crawford; an uncommon title, signed by the author.
First edition, 8vo, signed by the author in red ink on front free endpaper, dust-jacket by William Vaughan and Neil J. Crawford, price-clipped, a little creasing and fraying to extremities, overall very good.
£380 [ref: 96692]
Shapero Rare Books 15 With the rare dust-jacket
17. dICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books by Charles Dickens. 18. rACKHAM, Arthur, [Illustrator]; Charles Dickens. [Comprising]: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the A Christmas Carol. Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man. Heinemann, London, 1915. Oxford University Press, 1920. ‘First trade edition, first issue with the mounted frontispiece 12mo., 472pp., 16pp advertisements, modern full red calf by Root of London, and the date printed on the verso of the title page. gilt-panelled, green lettering piece and stylised flower motif to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles and all edges gilt, a hint of fading to spine otherwise fine. First Rackham trade edition, 4to., [4], 147, [1, blank] pp., twelve colour plates and twenty black and white vignettes and illustrated endpapers by Arthur Rackham, £250 [ref: 95918] slight age-toning, otherwise fine, publisher’s green cloth illustrated in black, illustrated dust-jacket, age-darkened, the spine a little chipped at extremities with two professionally closed tears, in all a very good example and rare with the dust-jacket. Latimore & Haskell pp. 44-45; Riall p. 124-25.
£1,300 [ref: 94656]
16 Shapero Rare Books “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
19. dU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. 20. dULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; Edgar Allan Poe. The Gollancz, London, 1938. Bells and Other Poems. Hodder & Stoughton, London, [1912]. Du Maurier’s classic thriller, rich in characterisation and now regarded as one of the major novels of the twentieth century. First Dulac edition of 750 copies, this one not numbered, 4to., signed by Dulac, One sham marriage followed by a tortured one with layers Poe’s portrait on title-page, 28 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, 10 black ink head-pieces on tan ground, publisher’s decorative vellum gilt, top of deceit, psychological cruelty and destruction. A certain edge gilt, others untrimmed, original promotional flyer for the Exhibition of Dulac’s servant by the name of Mrs. Danvers is not to be trusted.... water-colours for this title and also dated 1912, loosely inserted (foxed), usual slight age-toning and off-setting, new silk ties, otherwise a fine copy. First edition, 8vo., 446pp., slight age-toning and the odd, random spot, else fine, Conolly Hughey 29. modern full navy blue morocco, finely gilt panelled, decorative devices to spine panels, cockerel endpapers and all edges gilt. £1,950 [ref: 95919]
£1,100 [ref: 95857]
Shapero Rare Books 17 Superbly Bound by Bayntun Riviere Rare “One of the best thrillers ever written” (Reid, 134)
21. dULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; Omar Khayyam. The 22. dUMAS, Alexander. The Count of Monte Cristo... With Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm. Rendered Into English Verse by Twenty Illustrations, Drawn on Wood by M. Valentin. Edward Fitzgerald. Chapman and Hall, London, 1846. Hodder & Stoughton, London, [1909]. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) established himself as one of First Dulac trade edition, 4to., twenty tipped-in illustrations by Dulac within the most popular and prolific authors in France, known for decorative borders, captioned tissue-guards, the occasional, faint spot, else near plays and historical adventure novels such as The Three fine, modern full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, double gilt-panelled, gilt serpent and chalice design to front cover, richly gilt foliate spine compartments, Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. His romantic style, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, bright and fresh in often compared to Victor Hugo, proved immensely popular custom burgundy cloth slip-case. and with the money he earned from publishing his novels, Dumas purchased land and built the Château de Monte £650 [ref: 96309] Cristo in Port Marly, Yvelines, France. This home (now a museum) was intended to be a sanctuary for the author, and he spent much of his time writing and entertaining there before debt overtook him, forcing him to sell the property. He fled to Belgium in 1851, and later to Russia, to evade creditors. Dumas continued to publish, including travel books on Russia, during his period of exile.
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy and forgiveness, it focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned (Dumas’ father was imprisoned for two years following a disagreement with Napoleon and died shortly following his release), escapes from jail (in a dead man’s body bag tossed to the waves), acquires a fortune and sets about wreaking revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty.
The historical context of the story is important, taking place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon returned to power after his exile). It is now regarded as one of the literary greats and Dumas’ works have been translated into more than 100 languages and adapted for numerous films.
18 Shapero Rare Books First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., frontispiece, (i-iii), iv, (1)-464 & frontispiece, (i-iii), iv, 23. egAN, Pierce. Real life in Ireland; or the day and night (1)-464 pp., age-toned, some random, spotting mostly to endpapers and a few scenes, rovings, rambles and sprees... of Brian Borus, Esq....by a margins, else very good, publisher’s terracotta cloth, decoratively blind-embossed, real Paddy. smooth, gilt-panelled spines, evenly rubbed worn with some minor marks, corners gently bumped, otherwise a remarkable survival of a very original and B. Bensley, London, 1821. exceptionally rare set. Scarce. A classic look at Dublin low-life. £18,500 [ref: 96241] Real Life in Ireland was initially shunned by educated readers and even a quick glance at the language and misdeeds of the central characters, Brian Boru and Sir Shawn O’Doherty, reveals that such a publication might once have given offence. However, the work is in fact not unlike the works of Flann O’Brien and, although written nearly 200 years ago, is very readable and very funny.
First edition. 8vo. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece designed by William Heath, title, vii pp. contents, [1] p. directions to binder, [3]-296 pp. with 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Henry Alken and Heath. 19th century full green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in 6 panelled compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Abbey ‘Life’, 282; Tooley 201.
£1,350 [ref: 95652]
Shapero Rare Books 19 Inscribed by the Author
24. ELIOT, T[homas] S[tearns]. The Cultivation of Christmas 25. ePICTETUS. The Discourses of Epictetus. Trees. Ariel Poem. George Bell & Sons., London, 1902. Faber and Faber, London, [1954]. Epictetus (55–135 A. D.), was an exponent of Stoicism who Eliot’s poetic attempt to reconcile the divide that exists flourished about four hundred years after the Stoic school of between a child’s joy and an adult’s fear in the face of the Zeno of Citium was established in Athens. Our knowledge of Christian faith, and explain why the two coexist and are his philosophy and his method as a teacher comes to us via bound to each other by necessity, echoing themes from his two works composed by his student Arrian, the Discourses other poems including The Waste Land and Burnt Norton. and the Handbook. Although Epictetus based his teaching on The cultivation of Christmas trees acts as a metaphor for the works of the early Stoics (none of which survives) which keeping fresh & green that memory of childhood wonder dealt with the three branches of Stoic thought, logic, physics whilst simultaneously attending to the soul’s preparation for and ethics; the aforementioned works concentrate almost everlasting life. exclusively on ethics. The role of the Stoic teacher was to encourage his students to live the philosophic life, whose end This poem was part of Faber & Faber’s second series of the was eudaimonia (‘happiness’ or ‘flourishing’), to be secured by ‘Ariel Poems’, and was Eliot’s last separately published poem. living the life of reason, which – for Stoics – meant living virtuously and living ‘according to nature’. In the original postal envelope with Talcott’s address written in Eliot’s hand (envelope worn with tears and glue remnants). Bookplate to each upper paste-down of Annie Cowdray Priscilla Talcott Spahn (née Priscilla Stearns Talcott) was Eliot’s (died 1932), wife of Weetman Peason, 1st Viscount Cowdray; great-niece, and the last living relative to have known and had showing Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, leased by Lord a personal relationship with T. S. Eliot. Cowdray in 1907 and then purchased by him in 1912.
First edition, inscribed by Eliot to his niece on the title-page: “Christmas Greetings/ 2 volumes, 8vo., translated by George Long, edition limited to 250 copies on to Priscilla Talcott/from Uncle Tom/1954”, 8vo., [4] pp., with two illustrations by handmade paper, titles in red and black, later half navy morocco over marbled David Jones, publisher’s cream paper wrappers printed in light blue and black, boards gilt by Bumpus, matching endpapers, top edge gilt and others uncut, a sewn, a fine copy. fine set. Gallup A66. £650 [ref: 96640] £1,600 [ref: 96657]
20 Shapero Rare Books Signed by the author
26. fAULKS, Sebastian. Birdsong. 27. fITZGERALD, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosophers. Hutchinson, London, 1993. Scribner’s, New York, 1920.
The first impression of Faulks’ most famous novel, despite First edition, first issue. Fitzgerald’s short stories were so being his fourth book. The novel follows two main characters popular that this collection came out almost immediately separated by time; the first, Stephen Wraysford, is a British after the stories had appeared in magazines. His writing soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World accurately portrayed the emotional depth of a society War, whilst the second, Elizabeth Benson, is his granddaughter, devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards the who attempts to explore and understand her grandfather’s catastrophe that was only a few years ahead. experience of the Great War. 8vo., publisher’s dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine tips slightly frayed, The book has been adapted into a 1997 BBC Radio 4 spine gilt rubbed, front hinge cracked, bookseller’s label; presented with facsimile dust jacket. adaptation, a 2010 television adaptation and a 2012 mini-series. Bruccoli A6.1.a.
First edition, 8vo., signed by the author on title-page, publisher’s cloth, pictorial £580 [ref: 95524] dust-jacket, slight creasing to upper edge, small scratch to upper panel, otherwise very good.
£650 [ref: 96639]
Shapero Rare Books 21 Exquisite binding by Cedric Chivers
28. [FITZGERALD, Edward. Translator]. The Rubàiyàt of Cedric Chivers, established his business in 1878 in the premises Omar Khayyàm. The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into formerly occupied by Robert Riviere in Union Street, Bath. English Verse. They subsequently moved to a double fronted shop at 39 MacMillan and Co., Limited, London, 1903. Gay Street and then, as the business expanded, to a large house at Portway in Combe Park where they operated until This is not only a rare Chivers binding but with a very relevant 1990. In its prime the company experimented and specialised provenance since the tipped-in letter is from Oliver Howard in highly skilled and beautiful bindings; this example being one of Bernard Quaritch. Quartich first published Fitzgerald’s of them. translation in 1859, the company’s eponymous founder was a friend of his and Fitzgerald was a regular visitor to the shop. 8vo., (4), 112pp., contemporary vellum binding by Cedric Chivers, Bath, gilt panelled with hand-painted decoration and inlaid with mother-of-pearl to both boards and spine, gilt panelled dentelles and linings, top edge gilt, others In the letter Howard explains: ‘I expect you already have a copy untrimmed; with tipped-in A.L.s. from Oliver Howard of Bernard Quaritch to his of Omar, but I feel sure the binding will interest you. It has a thin Aunt Nannie (C. Nannie Quaritch Wrentmore) as a Christmas gift, dated transparent sheet of vellum stretched over the painting and inlay, December 22nd, 1928, the usual age-toning to the vellum, else fine, near- in the manner of Edwards, the eighteenth century Halifax binder, contemporary slip-case mounted with ink manuscript label of provenance. as a protection.’ £2,500 [ref: 96327]
22 Shapero Rare Books The author’s first book and the first appearance of James Bond.
29. fleMING, Ian. Casino Royale. Jonathan Cape, London, 1953.
‘Connoisseurs of realistic fiction will particularly note the careful documentation of the Secret Service background, the chilling portrait of Le Chiffre, the authentic menace of SMERSH, and the sensual appeal of the girl in ‘’Soi Sauvage’’...’ The Author.
Following a spell with Reuters and then as a stockbroker in the City, Fleming joined the Navy at the outbreak of War in 1939. As personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, he found the war “intensely exciting“. When it was over, Lord Kemsley offered him the foreign managership of Kemsley newspapers. Fleming accepted on condition that he could have two months’ holiday a year to spend at his house, Goldeneye, in Jamaica, where subsequently he did most of his writing, If his war experiences and his post-war job provided the background for his thrillers, Fleming maintained that it was his marriage to Anne, Viscountess Rothermere in 1952 that spurred him to start writing.
First edition, in the first issue dust-jacket without the Sunday Times review on the upper flap, 8vo., publisher’s black cloth lettered in red on spine and with heart design on upper cover, dust-jacket ‘devised by the author’, expert restoration to top edge of upper panel, spine ends and fold corners of flaps, otherwise it now presents as a near-fine (or better) example; preserved in a custom-made slip-case. Gilbert A1a (1.1).
£32,000 [ref: 96366]
Shapero Rare Books 23 30. fleMING, Ian. You only live twice. Jonathan Cape, London, March 1964.
Inscribed by the author: “To Xavier Koike from Ian Fleming”
Xavier Koike (b. 1922) was a half-English/half-Japanese British citizen who unluckily moved to Japan just in time for the outbreak of World War II, at which point he was arrested under suspicion of espionage and detained in one of the Japanese prisons for political enemies. He remained under arrest for two and a half years and was only released after Japan’s surrender, at which point, still a prisoner, he was called upon to act as a translator during the tribunals of suspected Japanese war criminals. When it became clear he was an interned British citizen he was immediately released by the Allies and went on to work for the Supreme Court, helping to oversee the administration of Japan under the new American occupation.
At the same time Koike was also engaged by GHQ, though in what capacity we do not know and it was seemingly during this time that he met Ian Fleming. The two became correspondents and according to his family Koike provided Fleming with information regarding Japan’s administrative processes and agencies, as well as suggestions for locations in and around Tokyo to be used in, You Only Live Twice.
Xavier Koike subsequently wrote two books, English Crowns from 1649 (1977) and Large Size Paper Money of the United States (c.2000).
First edition, second issue, autograph dedication signed by Ian Fleming on front free endpaper, 8vo, slight toning to front free endpaper and extreme edges of text-block, publisher’s boards (Gilbert’s Type A) blocked in silver and gilt, dust-jacket by Richard Chopping, some browning and edge-wear.
£15,000 [ref: 96697]
24 Shapero Rare Books The only special limited edition of any of the “James Bond” novels
31. fleMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. 32. greene, Graham. The End of the Affair. Jonathan Cape, London, 1963. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1951.
First edition, 8vo, number 74 of 250 copies signed by the author, frontispiece A beautifully crafted novel portraying the intricate machinations portrait of Fleming by Amherst Villiers, original vellum-backed, black cloth boards, and agonies of an illicit affair and possible divine intervention; top edge gilt, minor bumping to fore-corners but overall a very good copy, in the original transparent dust-jacket, very small chip to one edge, otherwise very good. a semi-auto-biographical work loosely based on Greene’s Gilbert A11a. own affair with Lady Catherine Walston.
£12,500 [ref: 96699] First edition, 8vo., publisher’s grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities, printed dust-jacket some patches of toning and mottling, a couple of closed tears, still a very good and attractive copy of a title that has become increasingly difficult to find in decent condition.
£275 [ref: 96665]
Shapero Rare Books 25 Signed by the author
33. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring: A 34. hILTON, James. Lost Horizon. Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race. Macmillan, London, 1933. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1926. First edition, signed by the author on the title-page. The first edition of Hemingway’s first long work, a satirical treatment of pretentious writers; in the original first issue Hilton’s classic novel of the fictional Tibetan utopia, famously dust-jacket listing nine titles on the rear panel. brought to the silver screen by Frank Capra in 1937. An increasingly scarce first edition in the dust-jacket, especially 8vo., toned, slight residue and offsetting to upper endpapers from excised signed thus and in such good condition, and one of only a bookplate (?), else near-fine, publisher’s dark green cloth stamped in red, few recorded in the variant red cloth. dust-jacket, professionally restored, damp-stain on rear flap, spine panel darkened, otherwise very good. Hanneman A4a. 8vo., publisher’s variant red/orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slight lean; unclipped dust-jacket with “7/6 NET” printed price, small, professional restoration to head of spine and top edge of upper panel, the occasional spot, mild toning, otherwise £3,500 [ref: 95525] very good-plus. Bleiler (1978), p. 100; Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 45.
£9,500 [ref: 95526]
26 Shapero Rare Books 35. hUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. 36. IRWIN, Margaret. Knock Four Times. Faber and Faber, London, 1974. William Heinemann, Ltd., London, 1927.
One of the recipients, Kay Kiernan, was a close friend of the ‘Knock Four Times is a story of present-day London, the London Author (and also Edna O’Brien). of little flats and haphazard hospitality, the London of the young and poor and friendly – but it holds the dream of First paperback edition, small 8vo., INSCRIBED on half-title page; “To Kay + Manning another world round the corner...’ (jacket blurb) (Hughes’ own error corrected and camouflaged with floral doodle)/ Xmas 1972/ affectionately/ Ted /7th Jan 77’’, publisher’s stiff card binding with a design by First edition, 8vo., original cloth, dust-jacket, some light superficial soiling, spine Leonard Baskin, toned, binder’s glue residue to upper hinge, corners slightly partly darkened with small abrasion, overall a very good example. bumped and small blemish under C of Crow on front cover, otherwise very good-plus. £330 [ref: 96535] £350 [ref: 96682]
Shapero Rare Books 27 37. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. 38. KAFKA, Franz. The Castle. Translated from the German John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1936. by Willa and Edwin Muir. Martin Secker, London, 1930. The first truly complete edition of Joyce’s literary masterpiece, incorporating the author’s corrected text and complemented This is the first English translation of any of Kafka’s books, by a prefatory list of previous editions and three appendices, preceding English editions of The Trial and Metamorphosis including a legal history of the novel and a bibliography of the by some seven years, making it by far the rarer of the titles. author’s works. First published in German in 1926, The Castle is the last and First UK edition, one of 900 copies (this numbered 871) on Japon vellum, from longest work of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), written in the final an overall limitation of 1000, 4to, leaves unopened as issued, original green two years of his life but left unfinished at his death. Kafka’s buckram with gilt Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill to upper cover, spine slightly sunned, otherwise a fine, top edge gilt, others uncut. novel adapts the mediæval grail narrative, replacing the quest Slocum & Cahoon A23. for the grail with his protagonist’s surreal struggle against a secluded and secretive bureaucracy of the sort encountered £1,500 [ref: 96593] by the author in the years shortly after the fall of the Habsburg monarchy. Kafka’s intended interpretation of this novel has remained the subject of debate; this first English edition chooses to focus on the text’s religious symbolism, with some critics equating the attempts to reach the castle with a search for salvation, rather than the partially autobiographical nature of the book, which Kafka began in the first person.
This translation is drawn from the first German edition, including the posthumous alterations made by Kafka’s confidante Max Brod in preparation for publication.
First edition in English, 8vo., xii, 450, [2]pp., with half title, ink ownership to front free endpaper, publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt, a trifle sunned at extremities, spotting to fore-edge, dust-jacket, superb professional restoration to head and base of spine and corners, otherwise very bright indeed.
£2,500 [ref: 96663]
28 Shapero Rare Books 39. KELMSCOTT PRESS; Geoffrey Chaucer. The Works. Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1896.
A magnificent copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer.
From the edition limited to 438 copies, with this one of 425 on paper (the remaining copies were printed on vellum).
The most ambitious and magnificent book of the Press, the Kelmscott Chaucer was four years in the making. Morris designed the watermark for the paper, which was copied from an Italian incunable in Morris’ collection and made entirely of linen by Batchelor. It took several requests before Clarendon Press granted permission to use Skeat’s new edition of Chaucer.
Burne-Jones devoted all his Sundays for almost three years to the work, and Morris came to talk with him as he drew. As the artist worked he increased the number of proposed illustrations from 48 to 60 to 72 to 87, and Morris accepted each change. The process of adapting the drawings to the woodblock, and engraving them, was entrusted to W. H. Hooper and R. Catterson-Smith, with Burne-Jones closely supervising every detail.
A work described as ‘perfect... both in design and in the quality of the printing... the last and the most magnificent, the Kelmscott Chaucer’ (Printing and the Mind of Man, p.223).
‘The finest book ever printed - if W. M. had done nothing else it would be enough...’. (Burne-Jones).
Limited edition, one of 425 copies on paper, (iv), 554 pp., folio. (434 x 298 mm), ornamental woodcut title, 14 large borders, 18 different frames round the illustrations and 26 initials designed by William Morris and 87 wood cut illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by W. H. Hooper; shoulder and side titles printed in red and the whole printed in two columns in Chaucer type designed by William Morris (longer titles of poems printed in Troy type) on Batchelor hand-made paper with the Perch watermark.
£65,000 [ref: 96466]
Shapero Rare Books 29 40. lARKIN, Philip. The Whitsun Weddings. 41. leroUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. Faber and Faber, London, 1964. The Readers Library, London, [c.1925].
First edition, 8vo., 46 pp., 32 poems, publisher’s plum cloth boards, printed An attractive copy of a rare and important early edition in dust-jacket, marginal abrasion to rear, otherwise a near-fine copy. English of Leroux’s classic horror novel about a demented musician who haunts the 19th century Paris Opera House £265 [ref: 96679] and plays a terrifying svengalian role in the career of a beautiful young singer. This edition’s jacket artwork is taken from the 1925 Universal Studios production, and possibly precedes the “photoplay” edition which was published in the same format and jacket but which included black & white photos from that film. The story took on a new lease of life with the world-famous musical production by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1986, though for many heavy metal fans it was the Iron Maiden song of 1980 that truly brought it back into public consciousness...
Early UK edition, small 8vo, usual toning to pages, original red cloth with elaborate gilt work and lettering, slightly dulled at spine, wrap-around dust-jacket, a near-fine copy.
£850 [ref: 96857]
30 Shapero Rare Books 42. MILLER, Henry. Quiet Days in Clichy. 43. MURDOCH, Iris. Under the Net. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1956. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
First edition, second state with matt photographs as opposed to glossy, stated The author’s first novel, subsequently selected by the American ‘First and original printing’ on title-page, small 8vo., 171, [1] pp., with 29 full-page Modern Library as one of the Best 100 English novels of the plates photogravures (recto and verso), by Brassaï, publisher’s soft wraps with stiff self-wrappers designed by T. Tajiri and printed in black, grey and yellow, very slightly 20th century. rubbed & creased, otherwise a near-fine copy. Shifreen & Jackson 100a; Kearney 20. First edition, 8vo., original boards, dust-jacket, some very minor creasing to head of spine, a small amount of rubbing and very small tear to head of spine at turn, spine slightly faded, but a remarkably sharp, near-fine copy overall. £950 [ref: 96607]
£950 [ref: 96461]
Shapero Rare Books 31 44. ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. 45. QUEEN, Ellery [Frederic Dannay]. The Misadventures Secker & Warburg, London, 1949. of Sherlock Holmes. Boston, 1944. An attractive, unsophisticated copy of one of the 20th century’s landmark works of fiction and a classic of dystopian literature. A near fine copy in a modestly sophisticated jacket with a The jacket is found printed in either green or red, with opinions pleasant overall appearance. Thirty-three Sherlock Holmes vacillating over the years as to which is preferred or most stories not by Arthur Conan Doyle, including authors such as scarce. The red in particular is notorious for losing colour Maurice Leblanc, Vincent Starrett, Agatha Christie, Ellery at the spine but this example is better than many, with both Queen, Mark Twain, O. Henry and August Derleth. panels in very good condition. From the KoKo Collection. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, mild sunning around spine, in the original red First and limited edition, number 92 of 125 copies signed by Frederic Dannay as dust-jacket, usual loss of tone to spine, small splits and chipping to spine ends, Ellery Queen, telegram addressed to Edgar Smith of the Baker Street Irregulars rubbed at fore-edge of upper panel, but otherwise a better copy than one from Adrian Conan Doyle calling this book “a monstrous perpetration and highly usually finds. detrimental to the good name and honest of American literature” laid in, 8vo., xxii, [2], 356, [357-365, acknowledgements, bibliography, index], [1, blank] pp., limitation leaf inserted, publisher’s black cloth, embossed lettering in red, spine £4,000 [ref: 96661] ends and corners lightly worn corners mildly bumped, upper endpapers discoloured from telegram, publisher’s black cloth, spine and front board stamped in red, dust-jacket, spine panel dulled, rear panel lightly rubbed with some minor soiling to rear flap fold, very small blemish to front panel with light colour loss, lightly restored at spine ends and edges of folds; faint discoloration to verso of spine panel, otherwise this presents very well indeed.
£2,500 [ref: 96655]
32 Shapero Rare Books 46. ROWLANDSON, Thomas, Illustrator; [William 47. sASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems... Combe]. [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax]. William Heinemann, London, 1919. R. Ackermann, London, [1828-23]. A collection of the author’s best known war poems, including A very attractive set of the desirable “miniature edition” of numerous previously unpublished verses. Titles include ‘Trench Combe’s classically Picaresque rendering of the adventures of Duty’, ‘The Dug-Out’, ‘Counter Attack’, ‘Return of the Heroes’ the good-natured but somewhat pompous Doctor Syntax, and ‘Aftermath’. splendidly illustrated by Rowlandson. The plates were freshly re-engraved for this version, to one third of the size of the Very scarce in the dust-jacket, especially in such condition. originals, creating a more pocket-sized edition. Provenance: Bookplate of John Harris designed by Reynolds Stone. 3 vol., miniature edition, mixed impressions, 12mo, vol. I & III with engraved titles with hand-coloured vignettes, 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson, First edition, 8vo., early 20th century bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary vol. III with hand-coloured aquatint tailpiece, some minor marking and toning, light ownership inscription on front free endpaper, publisher’s red cloth with printed offsetting, 2 vol. with contemporary ownership inscription on preliminary blank title label to upper cover and spine, very slightly lightened at spine, otherwise leaf, gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers, handsomely bound in late 19th century excellent, original printed dust-jacket, slightly lightened at spine with chipping to red morocco with multiple gilt roll borders and corner-pieces, spine gilt compartments spine ends but otherwise a remarkably good example. within raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, very slight rubbing to joints, one Keynes A20. subtle repair. Tooley 430; Abbey Life 269. £1,850 [ref: 96261]
£680 [ref: 96907]
Shapero Rare Books 33 48. sILLITOE, Alan. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance 49. stoKER, Bram. Miss Betty. Runner. C. Arthur Pearson Limited, London, 1898. W. H. Allen, London, 1959. A scarce Stoker work and his only experiment in historical The first collection of short stories by Alan Sillitoe (1929-2010), romance, involving love, war and highway robbery. Hard to The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is most notable for find, especially in such condition, with only one copy coming the work that lends the collection its name. Recounting in up at auction that we could find. the first person the tale of a boy sent to a Borstal for theft, the unrepentant narrator’s monologues are used to express Provenance: Bookplate of Helen F. Egleton (the Egletons were Sillitoe’s views on the class antagonism between upper-class notable Australian collectors, Mr. Egleton’s collection coming ‘In-law blokes like you and them’ and the masses of ‘Out-law up at auction several years ago. blokes like me and us’ (p. 10). The story was acclaimed by contemporaries, winning the Hawthornden Prize for 1959, First edition, 8vo., frontispiece portrait of the author, device on title, 5pp. and is now considered to be a significant product of social advertisements, bookplate on front free endpaper, original cloth, slightly sunned at spine with some minor discolouration to lower cover, otherwise a very good copy. unrest in the aftermath of the Second World War.[1]
First edition, 8vo., publisher’s grey cloth, usual age toning, pictorial dust-jacket £875 [ref: 96529] printed in mustard-yellow and black, a little rubbed at extremities, rear panel a little dust-soiled, otherwise very good. [1] Quoted in Helen Small, ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner in Browning, Sillitoe, and Murakami’, in Essays in Criticism, Volume 60, Issue 2, 1 April 2010, pp. 129–147.
£475 [ref: 96637]
34 Shapero Rare Books Ellery queen’s copy
50. steVENSON, R. L. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Longmans, London, 1886.
A very well restored copy with excellent provenance, preserved in a bespoke solander box. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone and basis for several films, including John S. Robertson’s 1920 adaptation providing John Barrymore with a career-defining role.
One of the author’s most enduring works (the other being Treasure Island), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an immediate success and helped cement Stevenson’s reputation. The work is decidedly ‘dark’ in classification since it presents a jarring and horrific exploration of various conflicting traits lurking within a single person. The success of the book enjoys longevity in its international acclaim, inspiring countless stage productions and more than 100 films.
The book was in fact ready in December 1885 but because ‘the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc. and the trade would not look at it, publication was postponed until January 1886 and the date on the cover altered by the pen’ (Mr. Charles Longman in Balfour’s Life, ii, 14). ‘Until 1886 [Stevenson] had never earned much...by his pen. But in that year came two successes that greatly increased his reputation and with it his power to earn. These were The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Kidnapped; the former, founded partly on a dream, is a striking apologue of the double-life of man. The success of these two tales, both with the critics and the public, established Stevenson’s position at the head of the younger English writers of his day’ (DNB).
From the KoKo Collection. First edition, first issue with wrapper correction in ink by the publisher, Sml. 8vo., [viii], 141, [1, blank] pp., (lacking final leaf, K8, with advertisements), signed by Frederic Dannay on the half-title as Barnaby Ross and Ellery Queen, pseudonyms for works co-written with his cousin, Manfred B. Lee, publisher’s perfect binding in original light brown wrappers printed in red and blue, rebacked in matching paper, wrappers lightly soiled; edges lightly worn with a couple of short closed tears and soft marginal creases, restoration to inner margin of final leaf, page edges lightly worn with occasional minor, marginal soiling; contemporary owner signature to title-page, else very good.
£3,850 [ref: 96651]
Shapero Rare Books 35 51. tolKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of First editions, 3 volumes, 8vo., first editions, publisher’s uniform red cloth, spines the Rings-The Two Towers- The Return of the King. lettered and stamped in gilt; top edges stained red, comprising: The Fellowship of the Ring, 423, [1, colophon] pp., signature mark “4” at the bottom of page 49; George Allen and Unwin, London, 1954-5. map tipped to rear endpaper, ownership signature, light offsetting to endpapers and rear hinge just starting, [together with:] The Two Towers, 352 pp., map tipped At first, Tolkien intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children’s to rear endpaper, over-opened at pages 64-65 and pages 144-145, causing a tale in the style of The Hobbit but it quickly grew darker and couple sprung gatherings, with light foxing on preliminary and terminal leaves more serious in the writing. Though a direct sequel to The [and] The Return of the King, variant three with signature mark ‘4’ present on Hobbit page forty-nine and lines ‘sagging’ in the middle, originally designated as first , it addressed an older audience, drawing on the immense state by Hammond/Anderson, later corrected by Wayne Hammond [The Tolkien back-story of Beleriand that Tolkien had constructed in previous Collector, Issue 11], 416 pp., map attached to rear endpaper, boards slightly years and which eventually saw posthumous publication in bowed, page edges lightly foxed, occasional minor over-opening, topstain faded, The Silmarillion and other volumes. Tolkien’s influence weighs crease along upper edge of page 415/416, professionally restored original heavily on the fantasy genre that grew following the success dust-jackets, upper corners of first softly bumped, the third title in second state The Lord of the Rings. with reviewer blurbs for the first two titles on the rear flap, price clipped, all three of with light fading to spine panels, still an attractive, very good set. Hammond and Anderson A5 i, ii, iii.
£22,000 [ref: 96653]
36 Shapero Rare Books 52. ТУРГЕНЕВ, Иван; КОНАШЕВИЧ, Владимир 53. WODEHOUSE, P.G. The Pothunters. [художник] [TURGENEV, Ivan; KONASHEVICH, Vladimir Adam & Charles Black, London, 1902. [artist]]. Первая любовь [First Love]. Grzhebin, Berlin, 1923. The true first issue of Wodehouse’s first published novel, set in the fictional public school of St Austin’s. A lovely, fragile edition of this love story, illustrated by the artist and member of Mir Iskusstva Vladimir Konashevich First edition, first issue, 8vo., 10 plates, some light finger-marking and similar, (1888 — 1963). For this publication the artist opted for hinges pulling slightly with splitting to rear endpapers, contemporary lending library label on front pastedown, original cloth with silver lettering and loving cup pocket format and added small vignettes to help convey motif, rubbed at extremities, wear to corner tips and spine ends with small the particularly lyrical mood of the novel. abrasion to spine, a somewhat shaky copy but overall sound. McIlvaine A1a. 16mo (14.7 x 10 cm). 130 pp. including half-title and title, with multiple illustrations including 4 full page, publisher’s wrappers; small closed tear to spine. £1,500 [ref: 96533]
£375 [ref: 90355]
Shapero Rare Books 37 38 Shapero Rare Books Children’s & Illustrated A Rare and Beautifully Illustrated Edition of Two Fairy Tales
54. ALLIX, Susan, Bookbinder & Illustrator; Omar 55. BEAUMONT, Edouard [Illustrator] & [Charles Khayyam. Rubaiyat of... Rendered into English by Edward Perrault - Author]. Cinderella [together with] The Two Gifts. FitzGerald. Boussod Valadon & Co., Paris, 1886. Susan Allix, London, 1973. Probably a limited edition but not specified, this charmingly One of only 25 copies specially bound by the artist Susan Allix; illustrated version was originally published loose leafed and the remaining 50 copies were bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. later tabbed into the bespoke binding to allow the leaves to Allix trained at the Royal College of Art, and has been making lie flat when open. and binding hand-crafted books since 1973. She has exhibited internationally and examples of her work are to be found in Bookplate to upper paste-down of Annie Cowdray (died 1932), the British Library, the Library of Congress and the Dutch wife of Weetman Peason, 1st Viscount Cowdray; showing Royal Library. Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, leased by Lord Cowdray in 1907 and then purchased by him in 1912. 4to., NUMBER 18 OF 25 COPIES BOUND AND SIGNED BY SUSAN ALLIX, from an overall limitation of 75 copies, 27 copper etched designs printed in First edition thus, folio, 34 unpaginated sheets containing 33 illustrations and various colours on thick paper, mostly geometric and abstract, many full-page, vignettes by Edouard Beaumont, most in colour, a very few, random spots, mostly some double-page, with borders and vignettes, uncut in original red goatskin by to uncut fore-edge with little affect to pages, later binding of full navy blue morocco Susan Allix, upper cover with gilt lattice-work design containing small stars, spine by Riviere & Son, the upper cover onlaid with a champagne saucer, rose, butterflies lettered in gilt, slip-case. and a bugle bearing a symbolic pennant, top edge gilt others untrimmed, slight bumping to corners, otherwise a unique binding of a rare edition. £5,250 [ref: 95886] £1,250 [ref: 96691]
40 Shapero Rare Books Paddington bear original artwork Paddington bear original artwork
56. BOND, Michael; Fred Banbery. ‘He opened his suitcase 57. BOND, Michael; Fred Banbery, artist. “Perhaps you’d and peered inside’, like to tell him he’s won a free supply of groceries”, [c.1973]. [c.1973].
A charming preliminary pencil study of Paddington searching A wonderful coloured intermediary study by Banbery for optimistically inside his suitcase for sufficient money to pay Michael Bond’s Paddington Goes Shopping (1973, pp.30-31), for the vast quantity of shopping he has piled up, for Michael with the central figure of Paddington finished to a relatively Bond’s Paddington Goes Shopping (1973, pp.24-25). high degree.
Pencil on tracing paper, image 190 x 290mm., framed & glazed. Provenance: The Estate of Fred Banbery. ‘Fred Banbery and Paddington Bear’, Chris Beetles, April 2000. Coloured pencil, ink and pencil on tracing paper, image 200 x 290mm, £1,200 [ref: 96470] framed & glazed. ‘Fred Banbery and Paddington Bear’, Chris Beetles, April 2000.
£1,500 [ref: 95881]
Shapero Rare Books 41 Unique Collection of Original Drawings and Signed Etchings
58. CRUIKSHANK, George, [Illustrator]. Rare Album Comprising: eight original pencil drawings (22 x 18 cm), heightened with [Cruikshank’s Fairy Library]. water-colour and a complete set of twenty-four etching proofs (20 x 16 cm), mounted on tabs. Superb early 20th century full morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt [c. 1853 -54]. panelled and blocked with stylised passion flowers to boards, spine and dentelles, silk moiré linings and all edges gilt, preserved in a contemporary solander box. Each of the finely drawn and detailed pencil drawings (from Puss in Boots and Jack and the Beanstalk) is mounted opposite £8,500 [ref: 95604] its subsequent etching; all 24 etchings are inscribed in pencil by Cruikshank: ‘From Geo. Cruikshank to his friend Fredk Arnold.’ Arnold was Cruikshank’s publisher.
Although Cruikshank’s illustrations for the first English translation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales received a great deal of praise, this foray into the world of children’s fantasy proved less successful. Many, including Charles Dickens, criticised the artist for the Temperance-inspired slant he put on these traditional stories. In Cinderella, for instance, the court prepares for the ball by setting fire to its entire reserve of alcohol. It was alterations such as this that prompted Dickens to write and publish a satirical attack on Cruikshank entitled ‘Frauds on the Fairies,’ in Household Words magazine in 1853.
42 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 43 59. dARTON, William, publisher. Mrs. Mitford’s One Penny 60. detMOLD, Edward J., [Illustrator]. The Fables of Books complete set of 12 chapbooks, comprising Aunt Clara’s Aesop. Lesson; The Cousins; Disobedient Joseph; Frank and his Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1909]. Christmas Gift; The Island Home; The Little Girl’s Housekeeping; The Overturned Chaise; The Serious Question; The Spring Possibly some of Detmold’s finest and most beautiful work. Morning’s Ride; Sunday Talk on Natural History; Travellers’ Wonders; True Fortitude. First Detmold edition, 4to., xvi, 152pp. in addition to 23 tipped-in colour plates Darton & Co., London, [1849]. with titled tissue-guards, age-toning and a little spotting to endpapers and last few terminal pages, else fine, publisher’s sand coloured cloth gilt, illustrative gilt panel to front board, pictorial endpapers, a little rubbed on corners and An extremely rare survival. The British Library set of twelve spine-ends, a few minor marks, otherwise a near-fine copy. was destroyed in World War II. No other complete sets have been found either on COPAC or WorldCat. Lawrence Darton £350 [ref: 96491] was presumably unaware of the publisher’s paper wrapper as it is not mentioned in his bibliography.
12 vol., small 8vo., wood-engravings to text, a few spots, mainly to edges, printed paper wrappers, each with vignette on front cover, very good, well preserved examples, contained in publisher’s decorative paper sleeve, front with mounted circular illustration of a windmill, professional restoration to edges and corners, preserving a very good example. Darton, H1084-H1089 and H1091-H1096.
£3,200 [ref: 96520]
44 Shapero Rare Books 61. dULAC, Edmund [Illustrator]. Sinbad the Sailor and 62. dULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; Hans Christian other stories from the Arabian Nights. Andersen. Stories from Hans Andersen. With illustrations by Hodder & Stoughton, London, [n.d.1914]. Edmund Dulac. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911. First Dulac trade edition, 4to., 23 tipped-in colour plates, plates and text set within elaborate gilt borders, tissue guards, some spotting to preliminary pages, mostly The deluxe edition of this beautiful book sold out almost to half-title, original tan and indigo blue flowered cloth, stamped with gilt lettering and ship design, spine gilt, edges of text block lightly spotted, which has wept immediately on publication and was one of Dulac’s most onto some extreme page edges, otherwise a very attractive copy. successful titles. Conolly Hughey 35a. Large 4to., viii, 250pp., number 544 of 750 copies signed by the artist, 28 £575 [ref: 96788] tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, notification for the Dulac Exhibition at Leicester Galleries (1911) loosely inserted, publisher’s vellum gilt, original yellow silk ties, top edge gilt, one small light spot on upper cover and small mark at foot of spine but overall an unusually fine copy. Hughey 27a.
£2,800 [ref: 95883]
Shapero Rare Books 45 Superbly Bound by Bayntun Riviere.
63. dULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; Laurence Housman. 64. DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; Omar Khayyam. The Stories from the Arabian Nights. Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm. Rendered Into English Verse by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1907. Edward Fitzgerald. Hodder & Stoughton, London, [1909]. Comprising: The Fisherman and the Genie; The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; The Story of First Dulac trade edition, 4to., twenty tipped-in illustrations by Dulac within the Magic Horse; The Story of the Wicked Half-Brothers; the decorative borders, captioned tissue-guards, the occasional, faint spot, else near fine, modern full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, double gilt-panelled, gilt Story of the Princes of Deryabar. serpent and chalice design to front cover, richly gilt foliate spine compartments, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, bright and fresh in Limited edition, 4to., number 343 of 350 copies signed by the artist, 50 tipped-in custom burgundy cloth slip-case. colour plates by Dulac, publisher’s full vellum gilt, top edge gilt, ties, dark mottling to head of spine and upper joint from the usual vellum-glue reaction so often £650 [ref: 96309] found, otherwise a good binding and internally near-fine.
£1,975 [ref: 96510]
46 Shapero Rare Books Rare
65. dULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; Robert Louis Stevenson. 66. grAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Treasure Island. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Ernest Benn, Ltd., London, 1927. Methuen & Co., London, 1931.
A very rare deluxe Dulac edition, considerably at odds stylistically LIMITED EDITION, no 55 of 200 copies, SIGNED by both with the more well-known Edwardian and Inter-War deluxe Kenneth Grahame just a year before his death, and by Ernest editions produced by Hodder & Stoughton et al. Writing of H. Shepard. this work in his bibliography of the artist, Ann Conolly Hughey states that the water-colours “...show a new Dulac style... The Limited edition. 4to, printed on hand-made paper, ONE OF 200 NUMBERED detailing and design of the pictures present some of Dulac’s COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR, publisher’s green cloth backed boards with cream paper label to spine printed in black, original most careful and superb painting. He himself liked these plain dust-jacket lettered in dark blue, boards with some minor shelf-wear, jacket illustrations best of all his work.” spine darkened, chips to head and tail of spine and to one corner, some toning and stray abrasions, otherwise a very good copy overall and internally near-fine. Provenance: Via direct descent within the Benn family, but with no ownership markings or similar to this effect. £7,850 [ref: 95860]
Small 4to., one of only 50 copies signed by the artist, colour frontispiece, 11 plates and numerous black & white decorations and illustrations by the artist, a little light foxing, publisher’s vellum with morocco spine label, top edge gilt, slight bowing as usual, but otherwise a very good copy.
£5,800 [ref: 96505]
Shapero Rare Books 47 With the Exceptionally Rare Dust-Jacket-one of only two currently on the market
67. grAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen and Co., London, 1908.
First editions of this iconic title are rare and even more so in the dust-jacket. This example has some restoration to a few edges internally and to some extremities of the dust-jacket (see Description below), otherwise this makes a very presentable copy indeed.
‘The Wind in the Willows, is a far more interesting book than its popular and often juvenile audience might suggest. First, it is the work of a writer who had known considerable success in the 1890s as a young contemporary of Oscar Wilde, and who was also an admired contributor to the literary quarterly The Yellow Book. At that point, Grahame was employed by the Bank of England but, still in his 20s, was publishing stories in literary magazines, work that became collected in Dream Days (1895) and an even more successful publication, The Golden Age (1898).
The text of The Wind in the Willows also encrypts a family tragedy. In 1899, Grahame married and had one child, a boy named Alastair who was troubled with health problems and a difficult personality, culminating in the boy’s eventual suicide, the cause of much parental anguish. When Grahame finally retired from the Bank (as secretary) in 1908, he could concentrate on the stories he had been telling his son, the stories of the Thames riverbank on which Grahame himself had grown up. So The Wind in the Willows is a tale steeped in nostalgia, and inspired by a father’s love for his only son.’ (Robert McCrum)
First edition, 8vo., frontispiece by Graham Robertson, slight toning and a few random spots to endpapers, professional repairs to irregularly cut edges on pp. 187, 253, 255, 265, 267 & 297, one closed tear to margin of p. 103, all these are at the extremities of the margins and not affecting the text, publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt, slight rubbing to extremities, top edge gilt, pictorial dust-jacket, exceptional professional restorations to spine, top edge and flap folds preserving a very good example.
£25,000 [ref: 96509]
48 Shapero Rare Books 68. greene, Graham; Dorothy Craigie, illustrator. The 69. [GREENE, Graham]; Dorothy Craigie, illustrator. The Little Horse Bus. Little Train. Max Parrish, London, 1952.
The third in the series of children’s books by Graham Greene; The first of Greene’s series of children’s books, though unlike “The Little Horse Bus places beyond doubt that Graham Greene the others this does not feature Greene’s name anywhere, and Dorothy Craigie are leading names in contemporary presumably in part to ensure the book was sold on the merits writing for young children. They clearly wrote and designed it of his then girlfriend Craigie’s efforts rather than on the back page by page together.” (jacket blurb) of his reputation, but also possibly out of an anxiety that it might not be good for said reputation to be associated with First edition, small 4to, illustrations in colour and tone by Dorothy Craigie, pictorial such a work. Craigie and Greene collaborated again with the endpapers, original cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, dust-jacket, price- formation of a Victorian detective fiction collection that they clipped, rubbed with minor wear to corners and head of spine, but overall an attractive copy. catalogued alongside John Carter under her married name of Dorothy Glover. £350 [ref: 96527] First edition, oblong 4to, colour illustrations by Dorothy Craigie, map endpapers, original pictorial cloth, an attractive copy.
£400 [ref: 96961]
Shapero Rare Books 49 70. [HAGGADAH] - AGAM, Yaacov (illustrator). held in numerous museum collections, including the MOMA, Haggadah shel Pesach. and he is the only Israeli artist who has been chosen to be Capepark LTD, London, 1985. for the Centre Pompidou Mobile - the travelling museum exhibition of the Centre Pompidou (2012-2013). His works A modern Haggadah with hand-printed illustrations by Yaacov are abstract and extremely colourful, many were placed in Agam. Introductory leaf signed by Agam and numbered H.C. public spaces and his best known pieces include “Double 3/9. First and last prints also signed by Agam. “All colour Metamorphosis III” (1965), “Visual Music separations were produced by the artist, all screens used for each image were destroyed”. Printed in Paris by Atelier Arcay. Orchestration” (1989) and fountains at the La Défense A total of 584 were printed of this Haggadah, numbered for district in Paris (1975) and the “Fire and Water Fountain” in three editions of 180 each, an A.P. edition of 27, H.C. edition of the Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv (1986). 9 and a parchment edition of 8. The offered copy is numbered 3 out of 9 of the H.C. edition. 58 original serigraphs, “pulled by hand on Rivs 270 gr. (Arjomarie-Prioux) by Atelier Arcay in Paris”. Text in Hebrew with English in preface. Exquisite velvet binding, with gilt lettering and ornament, matching original solander box, slightly Yaakov Agam, born 1928, is an Israeli artist and sculptor based rubbed (52 x 42.5 cm). A fine copy. in Paris, best known for his contribution to optical and kinetic art. He had a retrospective exhibition in Paris at the Musée £7,500 [ref: 94472] National d’Art Moderne in 1972 and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980, among others. His works are
50 Shapero Rare Books 71. hARRIS, John and John WALLIS. Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third. Harris and Wallis, Corner of St Paul’s Churchyard, London, [early 19th Century].
An uncommon and early edition of a popular historical race game designed for the education of young children, beginning at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and ending with the accession of King George III in 1760. In an advertisement for the game, the author hoped that the ‘utility and tendency of this Game must be obvious at first sight; for surly there cannot be a more agreeable study than History’.
The game saw children using a teetotum, or spinning top, to progress through English history in a clockwise direction, with each child assigned a letter to play with and a set of rules that either rewarded or fined the players dependent on which of the 158 medallions they landed upon during the game. The rules for each of the medallions greatly differed, for example the player had to land on the Doomsday medallion in order to continue, and could not share medallions with other players apart from The Holy Land. Despite the monarchic character of the game, medallions also highlight controversy, such as Edward II’s supposed love affair with Pierre Gaveston.
The game also saw later Victorian editions, with the Queen in the centre. Available here, as usual, without the separately published booklet of rules, this example belongs to an early edition, quite possibly the first of 1803 which was published 6 years before King George III’s Golden Jubilee - an event that set a precedent for the public celebrations we see today. Uncommon: COPAC lists only 7 locations.
Engraved children’s game, dissected and mounted on linen, original hand-colour. Dimensions: 550 × 510mm (21.75 × 20 inches).
£650 [ref: 83719]
Shapero Rare Books 51 72. leAR, Edward; Leslie Brooke [Illustrator]. The Nonsense 73. leWIS, C. S. [The complete Chronicles of Narnia series]. Songs of Edward Lear. With Drawings by L. Leslie Brooke. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1950-56. Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., London, [c.1900]. First editions of the complete set of the Chronicles of Narnia, A charming edition of two earlier collections of Lear’s rhymes Lewis’ masterpiece, born in part from a dream the author and while not dated the references to ‘The late Mr. Edward had: “At first I had very little idea how the story would go. Lear’ (he died in 1888) and the review by ‘Mr. Ruskin’ on the But then suddenly Aslan came bounding into it. I think I had rear panel of the jacket, suggest a pre-First World War been having a good many dreams of lions about that time... publication. It is rare to find this edition and more so in the once he was there, he pulled the whole story together, and dust-jacket. soon he pulled the six other Narnian stories in after him (On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature, 1980). Large 8vo, [144pp.], with frontispiece and a further 12 colour lithographed plates, numerous black & white drawings within text, pictorial endpapers, the usual “[The Narnia books are] intoxicating to all but the most age-toning and the odd spot, mostly to endpapers, else very good, publisher’s bevelled, pictorial tan cloth, blocked in black to upper board and spine, a little relentlessly unimaginative of readers, and must be judged rubbed at extremities but clean and bright, printed dust-wrapper mounted with the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by colour roundel of the Owl and the Pussy-Cat, professional restoration to spine-ends a 20th-century author” (Carpenter & Pritchard, The Oxford and closed tear to top left-hand corner of upper panel, toned and a little worn Companion to Children’s Literature 370). on flap corners, otherwise very good. “Lewis was perturbed by the simpering, wishy-washy way £350 [ref: 95800] goodness was portrayed in most religious teaching, making children inevitably feel that it was much more glamorous to
52 Shapero Rare Books be bad. He agrees with the aesthetic tradition that art should teach by delighting, by making the reader enchanted with an ideal.” (Harold Bloom)
An attractive, sophisticated set of C.S. Lewis’ classic series for children, in part preserved by sympathetic and skilful restoration.
7 volumes, first editions, comprising The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, some sunning to cloth, jacket restored at spine and edges, 1950; Prince Caspian, ink names on half-title, some minor spotting, light mottling to lower board, jacket restored at spine and edges, 1951; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, skilful restoration to spine and extreme edges of jacket, price-clipped, 1952; The Silver Chair, jacket restored at spine, edges and corners, price-clipped, 1953; The Horse and his Boy, light stain to head of first few ff., small ink name to head of front free endpaper, light stain to covers, jacket slightly stained at head of spine with some minor wear to corners, some light marking to lower panel, 1954; The Magician’s Nephew, prize plate on front pastedown, jacket with neat restoration to spine and edges, price-clipped, 1955; The Last Battle, jacket spine slightly browned, some rubbing, but overall a very good example, 1956, plates, illustrations and maps by Pauline Baynes, including colour where called for, original cloth/boards, dust-jackets as described.
£12,500 [ref: 96825]
Shapero Rare Books 53 74. MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. 75. MILNE, A.A. The House At Pooh Corner. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1927. Methuen, London, 1928.
An outstanding, sharp and bright example of the third of the After the Winnie-The-Pooh title itself this is the last and most Christopher Robin books, in the original publisher’s box. popular of the Pooh quartet; increasingly rare to find in such a good state both internally and externally. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, original gilt-pictorial red leather, gilt edges, a fine copy, original card box, without glassine jacket. First edition, 8vo., illustrations by E. H. Shepard, mild offsetting from jacket to pictorial endpapers, spotting to fore-edge but not affecting leaves, internally fine, £1,750 [ref: 96462] publisher’s salmon coloured cloth, gilt, very bright, dust-jacket with vignette illustrations, minimal dust-soiling, mostly to flap folds but no restorations, a remarkably near-fine copy internally and externally.
£1,300 [ref: 96676]
54 Shapero Rare Books The First Volume Inscribed by the Author
76. MILNE, A.A. A Complete Set of Winnie-the-Pooh Books. discoloured and moderately worn with a few chips on spine ends and tips of flap I. When We Were Very Young. II. Winnie-the-Pooh. III. Now We Are creases; board edges of third volume slightly rubbed, spine ends bumped, spine Six. IV. The House at Pooh Corner. slightly cocked, hints of minor foxing on fore-edge of text block, a few places over-opened within text, dust-jacket spine panel lightly darkened, edges a tad Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1924-28. shelf-worn; the lower board edges of fourth volume lightly rubbed and soiled, corners a touch bumped, spine a bit cocked, a few places over-opened., Milne’s first volume (When We Were Very Young) was dust-jacket recto rubbed and soiled, spine panel darkened slightly, edges worn published in November 1924 and was such a resounding with some open tears and minor loss on spine ends and tips of flaps, else a very good or better collection, preserved in a bespoke solander box. success that the subsequent three titles followed in quick succession. This is a lovely, unrestored set of first editions, £14,000 [ref: 96654] with the jackets, the first volume inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper; L. T. Harding’s book, A. A. Milne. Internally they are near-fine with no ownership inscriptions.
Four volumes, small 8vo., illustrations by E.H. Shepard, the first with p. ix numbered (second state), inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper, publisher’s cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, front boards ruled and decoratively stamped in gilt, two rear boards stamped in gilt, pictorial dust-jackets, spine ends and corners of first title bumped, board edges lightly rubbed with effect on corners, faint foxing on front paste-down, dust-jacket recto mildly soiled and rubbed on panels, edges moderately worn with a few chips to spine ends; boards of second volume moderately rubbed with some effect on corners, some offsetting on endpapers, a few places over-opened, cloth showing in lower portion of gutter margin between front free endpaper verso and half-title, dust-jacket recto dusty and rubbed on panels, signs of offsetting on front panel; spine panel darkened; creasing on spine panel, lower portion of front panel, and lower corner of rear panel; edges slightly
Shapero Rare Books 55 Rare First Impression
77. MILNE, A.A.; Ernest H. Shepard, illustrator. When we 78. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. were very young. Frederick Warne and Co., London and New York, 1908. Methuen & Co., London, 1924. An excellent copy of Beatrix Potter’s most critically acclaimed “the greatest children’s book since Alice” The Times. work; in many ways the story of the trusting duck, the crafty ‘They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace- fox and the heroic dog Shep, is a modern retelling of Little Christopher Robin went down with Alice.’ Red Riding Hood with a number of ironic twists. Jemima Puddle-Duck was also the first of Potter’s books to be set A very good example of the first and rarest of the Christopher wholly at Hill Top Farm, with both the locations and many of Robin books, increasingly hard to find in the first issue state, the characters such as Shep and the farmer’s wife drawn some 5,175 were printed and sold out in one day, November from life. 6, 1924. Consequently by the end of the year over 53,000 copes had been printed but the second print-run included First edition, first, second or third printing, 16mo., colour frontispiece, plain title the Roman numeral ix on the contents page. vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, contemporary ink gift inscription dated August 1908 to front free endpaper, original olive green boards with mounted colour illustration, minor shelf-lean, spine a little darkened, First edition, first issue with no roman numerals on Contents page, 8vo., otherwise a near-fine copy. frontispiece and illustrations by E.H. Shepard, some quires opening but still strong, Linder p.427; Quinby 14. original blue cloth blocked and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, some bumping and rubbing to extremities and corners, otherwise very good. £1,700 [ref: 95277] £1,400 [ref: 96522]
56 Shapero Rare Books A Near-Fine Example
79. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. 80. rACKHAM, Arthur, [Illustrator]; Clement C. Moore. F. Warne & Co., London, 1909. The Night Before Christmas. George C. Harrap & Co., Ltd., London, [1931]. With the notice board still present on page 14, no robin on page 81, 1st edition, Quinby 16 endpapers). ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse’. A sequel to Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, this tale uses as a backdrop the garden at Gwaenynog, Denbigh, home of Limited edition, number 58 of 275 copies signed by Rackham, 8vo., 4 colour the Burtons, Potter’s uncle & aunt, and fortunately is neither plates and further black & white illustrations and vignettes by Arthur Rackham, some with minor offsetting, publisher’s vellum gilt, a remarkably bright, near-fine “soporific” nor “improvident”. example overall, original slip-case with wear to extremities.
First edition, 12mo. (14.5 x 11cm), 84pp., colour frontispiece, 26 colour plates, £2,200 [ref: 96608] plain title vignette and pictorial endpapers by the author, contemporary ink name on verso of front free endpaper, two small marks to margin of P.76, internally very good, original brown paper covered boards with inset colour illustration, top right-hand corner of upper cover slightly bumped, otherwise a very good, sharp copy. Linder, p.428; Quinby 16.
£750 [ref: 94854]
Shapero Rare Books 57 81. roBINSON, W. Heath. [Author & Illustrator] 82. roWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Bill the Minder. Bloomsbury, London, 2000. Constable & Co., London, 1912. First edition, 8vo., 636pp., pictorial boards with corresponding dust-jacket, fine, A collection of 16 children’s stories of the exploits of the unread condition. King of Troy and his boot-cleaner Bill, exquisitely illustrated. The titles are: Bill the Minder; The King of Troy; The Ancient £250 [ref: 96190] Mariner; The Triplets; Good Aunt Gallandia; The Doctor; The Respectable Gentleman; The Sicilian Char-Woman; The Interval; The Real Soldier; The Wild Man; The Musician; The Lost Grocer; The Merchant’s Wife; The Camp-Followers; The Siege of Troy.
First Traded edition, 4to., xiv, [2], 254, [2] pp., frontispiece and 15 colour plates with captioned tissues guards and 126 black and white illustrations throughout by W. Heath Robinson, light spotting to endpapers and extreme edges, else very good, publisher’s blue cloth gilt, the upper cover mounted with a pictorial plate, age-toned, bumped on spine ends and a little rubbed, otherwise a decent copy.
£475 [ref: 96186]
58 Shapero Rare Books 83. roWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury, London, 2007.
An excellent copy of the last, and possibly darkest of the Harry Potter books, in which the eponymous hero has his final battle with “he who must not be named”. An especially appealing copy given the name of the dedicatee!
Accompanying the book is a small sheaf of ephemera connected to the event including balloons, badges, the bag in which the book was placed after signing, the recipient’s ticket and the original letter of invitation to the event, places having been allocated as a result of a prize draw. A fine, charmingly inscribed copy with excellent provenance.
First edition, first impression, inscribed by J. K. Rowling to the title page at the July 2007 Midnight Signing at the Natural History Museum in London. “To Harry… My first Harry of Book 7!” 8vo., pictorial boards and corresponding dust-jacket, bright, crisp condition, possibly unread.
£3,250 [ref: 96609]
Shapero Rare Books 59 84. [RUSSIAN CHILDREN’S BOOK] - Осень и Зима в 85. sILBERMANN, Dr. A.M. (editor). The Children’s Деревне [Autumn and Winter in the Village]. Haggadah. Sytin, Moskva, 1915. Shapiro, Vallentine & Co., London, 1933.
This book educates young readers about work and leisure in First Edition of this famous and much loved children’s the countryside through a series of colourful illustrations. Haggadah with its moveable parts.
Having opened his first printing house in 1876, Ivan Dmitrievich Illustrated by Erwin Singer “with a new translation in prose Sytin achieved national recognition in 1882 when he was and verse” by Mr. Isidore Wartski and Rev. Arthur Saul Super awarded a medal for his work at the All-Russia Industrial and “with a selection of Seder Melodies” (9 pp.). Elaborate Exhibition. From then on, his combination of stunning design illustrations, some of which include moving parts. and high quality production materials ensured that the name ‘Sytin’ became a mark of the best quality in Russian publishing, Erwin Singer was a Berlin artist and art teacher, who emigrated particularly within children’s literature. Sytin also founded an to Britain, circa 1930s. He took part in a few Emigre exhibitions art school at the turn of the century in order to train his in Britain. His work Jüdische Pfadfinder (Jewish Boy Scouts, own team of illustrators. 1932) hangs in the Jewish Museum Berlin, side by side with work by Max Liebermann. 4to (26 x 22 cm), concertina-style album with 14 full-page colour illustrations captioned in lower margin, publisher’s illustrated boards; worn and rubbed with First edition; Large 4to, (31.3 x 23.3 cm); [2], 45, [5] ll.; text in Hebrew and some marginal loss. English. Some signs of wear and occasional wine stains. Original illuminated boards, rust-coloured cloth spine. A good copy. £350 [ref: 94738] Yudlov 3449.
£600 [ref: 94273]
60 Shapero Rare Books Beautifully Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ‘We love you, yeah, yeah, yeah.’
86. sMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians. 87. sUTTON, Margaret. We Love You Beatles. Written and William Heinemann, London, 1956. Illustrated by... Doubleday and Co., New York 1971. First edition, 8vo., Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone, modern full black morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with abstract design of Dalmatian puppies A superb children’s picture book in psychedelic colours that on the front cover, Japanese endpapers and all edges silvered, a stunning copy. reflects the popularity and international appeal of probably £1,500 [ref: 95601] the most iconic band of the 20th century.
First edition, landscape 4to., lavish, full-page illustrations containing vignettes of text, publisher’s pictorial boards, blue endpapers, corresponding dust-jacket, a little rubbed with a few blemishes, more so to rear panel, otherwise very good and internally fine.
£625 [ref: 96683]
Shapero Rare Books 61 88. thoMPSON, Kay. Eloise At Christmastime. Drawings 89. tolKIEN, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. by Hilary Knight. Illustrated by the Author. Max Reinhardt, London, 1959. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1937.
The third title in Eloise series in which the reader finds the The first of Tolkien’s works of fiction to be published, The eponymous little girl engaged in seasonal antics at the Plaza Hobbit began as an amusement for the Tolkien children, and Hotel, New York. reached print rather unexpectedly, a typescript of it having been shown to the publisher by a former pupil of Tolkien’s. First English edition, 4to., vignettes, full and double-page illustrations by Hilary Once published, it was an equally unexpected success and Knight, publisher’s cloth boards, illustrated dust-jacket, rubbed at extremities, else Unwin pressed Tolkien for a sequel, which grew into the Lord a near-fine copy. of the Rings trilogy. £150 [ref: 96331] First edition, first issue, 8vo., frontispiece, one plate, 8 illustrations, map endpapers printed in red and black, all by the author, 2pp advertisements, fine modern binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full green morocco with reproduction of original wrap-around dragon design in silver, with silver-star edges, a splendid example.
£7,500 [ref: 96673]
62 Shapero Rare Books 90. WHITE, T.H. The Sword in the Stone. 91. БИЛИБИН, Иван [художник]; ПУШКИН Collins, London, 1938. [Александр Сергеевич] [BILIBIN, Ivan [artist]; PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich]. Сказка о Золотом Петушке [The The first, and most famous, part of the tetralogyThe Once Golden Cockerel]. and Future King, originally published as a stand-alone work. Eksped. zagot. gos. bumag, Skt. Peterburg, 1910. The future King Arthur’s formative years, under the aegis of Merlin and comprising a series of literally transformative A beautiful children’s book, finely illustrated in colour. experiences. Rarely found in such fresh condition.
First edition, 8vo., illustrative chapter headings by the Author, spotting to terminal Tales illustrated by Bilibin are among the most famous children’s ff., otherwise internally very good, publisher’s cloth, minor bumping to fore-corners books both within and outside of Russia. One of the nation’s and slight shelf-lean, otherwise very good, dust-jacket, some loss to head of spine, closed tears to lower edge of lower panel and foot of spine, jacket slightly most influential illustrators, Bilibin first came to prominence darkened at spine as usual, but still a very good example of a scarce work in the when some of these folkloric illustrations were shown as original dust-jacket. part of an exhibition by the Mir Iskusstva.
£950 [ref: 96282] Provenance: From the collection of the late Mrs. Aldyth Cadoux.
Landscape folio (25.5 x 32.5 cm). 12 pp., illustrated throughout. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers; spine neatly restored.
£1,250 [ref: 94143]
Shapero Rare Books 63 92. ГИППИУС, Александра. [GIPPIUS, Aleksandra]. 93. ЛИССНЕР, Эрнест Эрнестович [художник] Нептун. [Neptune]. [LISSNER, Ernest Ernestovitch [artist]. Сказка о Горе Volf, Moskva, 1903. [A Tale of Mishap]. Kushnerev for G. E. Lissner, Moskva, 1902. The touching story of the loyal dog Neptune, given by Dmitrii Nikolaevich to his son, with beautiful illustrations by Lissner was a Russian painter and graphic artist who also Sokolovskii. owned the printing press ‘E. Lissner and J. Roman,’ based in Moscow. He created these illustrations, which are in the style 8vo (22.5 x 17.5 cm). 168 pp. with 5 plates, including 1 colour, illustrations of Bilibin, while studying at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts within text, publisher’s cloth; light occasional spotting, slightly rubbed and stained, in St Petersburg. else good. These ornate illustrations depict scenes from a Russian folk £500 [ref: 88878] tale sometimes known as The Bogotyr’s Woe, which tells the story of a very poor man with a rich merchant for a brother. One day the rich brother invites the man and his wife to his name-day party, only to forget about them, leaving them with nothing to eat or drink. On their way home the husband starts singing and, in doing so, invites Woe to visit him. Woe convinces him to sell all of his own possessions as well as his wife’s and spend the money on drink. Woe then takes the poor man to visit a large rock in a field and tells him to look underneath it. The man finds a pit of gold, which he piles into a cart before tricking Woe into lying underneath the stone and trapping him there. With his new found wealth the man becomes richer than his merchant brother, who becomes jealous and releases Woe, hoping that he will make his brother poor again. Instead, Woe attaches himself to the merchant brother. However, this brother has a cunning plan; he suggests they play hide-and-seek and taunts Woe, saying that he would never be able to hide in so small a spot as a cartwheel. Woe rises to the bait and the brother wheels the cart into the river, where Woe drowns.
Folio. 12 pp. with 5 large chromolithograph illustrations by Lissner, publisher’s pictorial wrappers; stamps of a Russian shop to lower wrapper, some light soiling and small marginal repairs.
£875 [ref: 94605]
64 Shapero Rare Books 94. НАРБУТ, Егор [художник]; РЕПНИН, С. [NARBUT, 95. ЧАРСКАЯ, Лидия Алексеевна. [CHARSKAIA, Lidiia Egor [artist]; REPNIN, S.]. Сказка о любви прекрасной Alekseevna]. Юркин хуторок. [Yura’s Farm]. королевы и верного принца. [A Tale about the Love between a Volf, Skt. Peterburg, Moskva. Beautiful Queen and a Faithful Prince]. Petrograd, 1916. Within the canon of Russian children’s literature, there are few writers as popular as Lidiia Churilova (1875 – 1937), A charming children’s book, finely illustrated in colour. who went by the pseudonym Charskaia. The Russian Symbolist Fedor Sologub even claimed that she was more popular than Egor Narbut (1886 – 1920) was a Ukrainian artist of many Krylov in Russia and Andersen in Denmark. From 1901 to talents. A member of Mir Iskusstva, he developed his skills 1918 Charskaia wrote and published more than 180 works, under the supervision and patronage of Benois, Bilibin and rendering her ‘a ruler of the hearts and the minds’ of many Bakst. Narbut is also widely known as the creator of the bank generations of Russian children. notes, postage stamps and charters of the short-lived Ukrainian National Republic. 8vo (23.5 x 17.5 cm). Half-title, frontispiece, title, 25 illustrations including full-page. Presentation inscription to upper fly-leaf. Original publisher’s cloth; Folio (29.3 x 21.6 cm). 63 pp. including title, with 5 chromolithographed plates, rubbed. later maroon cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover, original upper wrapper bound in; author’s misspelled surname on upper cover corrected with pen. £450 [ref: 88880] M.V. Seslavinskiy, Girlianda iz knig i kartinok № 249.
£475 [ref: 94740]
Shapero Rare Books 65 66 Shapero Rare Books Visual & Performing Arts An Exceptionally Bright Example
96. [BAKST] - LEVINSON, André. Histoire de Léon Bakst. 97. BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy Imprimerie Kapp for Henri Reynaud, Paris, 1924. in Two Acts. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1956. The first French edition of the first full survey of Bakst’s life and works. Limited to 345 copies; this one is num. 323, one First English edition, 8vo., publisher’s note tipped in, a few spots and off-setting of 150 copies on Arches velin, richly illustrated and published from jacket to endpapers, otherwise a very clean text block, publisher’s yellow cloth, spine lettered in crimson, dust-jacket printed in black and white with the last year of Bakst’s life. minimal rubbing to extremities, otherwise a near-fine copy of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century. Provenance: Boris Berezovskiy (1946-2013, Russian businessman and politician). £750 [ref: 96674]
Large 4to (38.2 x 29.1 cm). 242 pp. and 68 mounted colour and monochrome plates, each with its own tissue guard, numerous illustrations in text; some spotting, mostly to text pages, neat closed tear to p.167 without affecting text, modern blue half-morocco, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt.
£2,750 [ref: 92051]
68 Shapero Rare Books A rare silent film MGM
98. COOLIDGE-RASK, Marie. London After Midnight. 99. freUD, Lucian; MOORE, Nicholas. The Glass Tower. Illustrated Edition. A Metro-Goldwin Mayer Picture. Poetry London, London, 1944. Reader’s Library, London, [1928]. The first drawings of Lucian Freud appeared in this collection This book is particularly rare given the photographic stills of Moore’s poems. Published in the same year as Freud’s first found therein provide a glimpse of a long lost film from the solo exhibition, the illustrations include a number of motifs twilight years of the silent film era; it was made in 1927, starring that Freud would revisit; an interesting record of his early and directed by Lon Chaney (1883-1930), stage and film work in superior condition. actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter, Chaney was known as the ’Man of a Thousand Faces’ due to his versatility First edition. 8vo. 127 pp., 6 plates (2 colour), small vignettes throughout. Original in his acting and make-up skills in transforming himself into cloth-backed boards with Freud design to upper board, original dust-wrapper; light spotting to endpapers (as usual), small bump to fore-edge of upper board, extreme characters from vampires to orientals; he was one dust-wrapper toned with some spotting. of the great pioneers of the silent era. £475 [ref: 96680] Chaney did make one ‘talkie’ prior to his untimely death, which also revealed the same versatility in his voice.
Provenance: Ink inscription to front free endpaper: D. E. Jones/Police Stn/Hexham/1928.
First U. K. MGM edition, small 8vo., six full-page photographic stills from the film, toned, faint spotting to fore-edge (edge of text block, publisher’s red cloth boards gilt, pictorial dust-jacket, illustrated on both panels, a couple of short closed tears, a little rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good.
£1,250 [ref: 96694]
Shapero Rare Books 69 100. hoCKNEY, David [&] Stephen Spender [Editor]. 101. LICHTENSTEIN, Roy. Water Lily. Hockney’s Alphabet. 1993. Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, London, 1991. Water Lily was created to benefit the campaign of Los Angeles Hockney has illustrated the alphabet and the authors have city councilman Joel Wachs. each taken their relevant letter as the inspiration for the composition; T. S. Eliot’s letter to a Miss Quinn makes a double Screenprint in colours, on Lana Royale, signed and dated in pencil, numbered entry for Q, with that of William Golding’s. An Elegy of X by from the edition of 130 (there were also 28 artist’s proofs), co-published by the artist and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the Anthony Burgess is also used. The other contributors are reverse, Sheet 470 x 584 mm. Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Catalogue: Corlett 281 William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo £30,000 [ref: 93270] Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Gore Vidal, Anthony Burgess and Ted Hughes.
First edition, signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender, 4to., drawings by David Hockney with written contributions from twenty-six authors, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge, publisher’s yellow cloth, grey cloth slip-case, in fine condition.
£600 [ref: 96659]
70 Shapero Rare Books Film
102. lord SNOWDON [Antony Armstrong-Jones]. 103. MOORE, Henry. Plate XXI Mother & Child (C. 691). Portraits of actors in “Evil under the Sun” after Agatha Christie. 1983. [1982]. Etching and aquatint and roulette printed in colours, signed in pencil, inscribed A set of six large format photographic portraits of the cast of with the plate number, numbered 4/65 (there were also 15 hors de commerce proofs) on Arches wove paper, with the printer’s blindstamp, James Collyer and “Evil Under the Sun”, British mystery film based on the 1941 John Crossley, London, published by Raymond Specer Company Ltd for the Henry novel by Agatha Christie, taken by Lord Snowdon. Moore foundation, Much Hadham, Plate: 34.6 x 24.8cm Sheet: 62 x 52.1
The screenplay was written by Anthony Shaffer, who had £3,500 [ref: 92926] worked on previous Christie films. Ustinov was making his second film appearance as Hercule Poirot, having previously We have two further prints from this series. played the Belgian detective in Death on the Nile (1978).
Lord Snowdon (1930 - 2017) managed to establish himself as a successful portraitist through his photographs of British royals, including Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in 1957. Already by the 1970s his work had placed him among England’s most well-respected photographers. In 2001, Lord Snowdon’s photography was featured in a career retrospective held at the National Portrait Gallery.
Set of six colour photographs. Dimensions: app. 51 x 40 cm. (19.75 by 15.75 inches).
£1,000 [ref: 61789]
Please see number 12 for the book on which the film was based.
Shapero Rare Books 71 104. MURAKAMI, Takashi. Flower Ball (3D) Sequoia Sempervirens. 2013.
Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist combining the fine and the commercial art worlds. Often categorised alongside artists working within the tradition of Pop Art, such as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Jeff Koons, Murakami’s work has achieved a widespread level of fame beyond the art world. His innovative “Superflat” aesthetic—combining classical Japanese art with contemporary Japanese pop culture—has made him one of the most innovative artists working today. He continues to explore the links between traditional printmaking and Japanese styles of comics in post-war society in his highly graphic, vibrantly coloured works. Despite its outward playfulness, Murakami’s art acts as a cultural critique with subversive undertones hidden in its imagery. Born in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan, where he currently lives and works, Murakami has embraced commerce through the founding of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., an artist management agency and studio. With his popular collaboration with the fashion label Louis Vuitton, Murakami has established himself as a pioneer of promoting art as a brand. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions around the world, including those held at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Gagosian Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Versailles Palace.
Offset lithograph, signed and numbered from the edition of 300, Publisher Kaikai Kiki Ltd., Tokyo.
£1,500 [ref: 95342]
We have further prints by this artist; please ask for further details.
72 Shapero Rare Books 105. osBORNE, John. Look Back In Anger. 106. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays of William Faber and Faber, London, 1957. Shakespeare. In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are added, Notes Osborne’s highly autobiographical play concerns a love by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition...by triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected the Editor of Dodsley’s Collection of Old Plays. young man of working-class origin (Jimmy Porter), his For T. Longman et al., London, 1793. upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles). The play was such a success While still containing various Prefaces, Essays and Criticisms, that it spawned the term “angry young men” to describe in short all the requisite scholastic Gravitas that one would Osborne and those of his generation who employed the wish for in a serious edition, this one has the added interest harshness of realism in the theatre in contrast to the more and allure of the engraved plates and a ‘Historical Account of escapist theatre that characterised the previous generation. the English Stage’ that not only gives a history of its development but features some of the actors of the time such as Richard First edition, sml. 8vo., 96pp., offsetting to endpapers, otherwise unusually bright Burbadge, described as; ‘the most celebrated tragedian of our internally, publisher’s cloth boards, pictorial dust-jacket, minor chips to extremities, author’s time...’ There are also chapters on the learning of otherwise very good-plus. Shakespeare’s writing, as well as commendatory verses or £250 [ref: 96638] poems on Shakespeare by various poets. Aesthetically pleasing in every respect, in near-contemporary bindings.
Provenance: Bookplates for Milltown Park and John Chamier Esq.
15 volumes, 8vo., EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with about 145 engraved plates by S. and E. Harding, Milltown Park stamp to each volume, occasional browning and off-setting, mostly to margins and verso of plates, near-contemporary straight- grained light brown morocco, all edges gilt, a little rubbed and bumped at extremities, otherwise a very good and readable set.
£3,500 [ref: 96229]
Shapero Rare Books 73 107. rACKHAM, Arthur, [Illustrator]; SHAKESPEARE, 108. Walter, Stephen. Mayfair and St James’s Map. William. The Tempest. 2016. Heinemann, London, 1926. Mayfair & St James’s, etching, with gold & silver leaf on Moulin du Gue, Signed First edition, fist issue, 4to., 185pp., 20 tipped-in colour plates including and numbered by the artist, Edition of 75. 76.5 x 99.5cm (image size). frontispiece, 25 black and white drawings, publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt, some spotting to fore-edge, cream dust-jacket printed in red, usual slight browning £1,950 [ref: 94174] with minor creasing at head, else a fine copy indeed. Latimore & Haskell p.61.
£1,250 [ref: 93040]
74 Shapero Rare Books 109. WARHOL, Andy. Sigmund Freud, from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. Ronald Felman Fine Arts, Inc.; Jonathan A Editions, New York; Tel Aviv, 1980.
101 x 81 cm. Colour screen-print on Lenox Museum Board. One of 200 copies. Signed in pencil, artist’s copyright inkstamp to reverse.
£45,000 [ref: 96170]
Shapero Rare Books 75 110. WOOL, Christopher. Insomniac. 111. KUSAMA. Yayoi. Pumpkins. 1989. 2016.
From the Black Book, New York and Cologne, Thea Westreich and Gisella Capitan, Two painted cast resin works with original boxes, each stamped on the base, screen-print on smooth wove paper, signed on the colophon, copy 49 of 350 published by Benesse Holdings, Japan, each 100 x 80 x 80mm. (there were also 8 artist’s proofs), 600 x 410 mm. £3,000 [ref: 96473] £3,850 [ref: 92760]
76 Shapero Rare Books History & Natural History
Shapero Rare Books 77 112. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. The history of the colleges of 113. ALBIN, Eleazar. A natural history of English insects. Winchester, Eton and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Illustrated with a hundred copper plates, curiously engraven schools of St. Paul’s, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and from life: and (for those who desire it) exactly coloured by the the free-school of Christ’s Hospital. author Eleazar Albin, painter. R. Ackermann, London, 1816. For the author, London, 1720.
The finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools The first edition of the first British book with coloured in England, this was the fifth of Ackermann’s ‘sumptuously illustrations of butterflies, moths, and other insects. illustrated volumes of English topography.’ The artists include Pugin, Nash and Westall, while the engraving was carried out Albin (circa 1713-1759) produced this “splendidly artistic by such masters of aquatint as Stadler, Buck and Havell, work” (Dunbar) largely based upon his own collecting on the among others. The plates are chiefly of interior views with outskirts of London, with the villages of Hampstead, Highgate, illustrations of gowned scholars. A fine, wide-margined copy. and Chelsea mentioned as locations where particular species were to be found. First edition. Large 4to (35 x 28.5 cm. approx.). 48 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates, issue with plate 23 in third state (masters behatted) and plate 26 in third The costs of producing such an ambitious work were very state; some mild foxing, offsetting from plates, modern half morocco, spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second and fourth, others with gilt ornament. high, especially for an art teacher such as Albin. To defray the Adams 116; Abbey Scenery 440; Tooley (1973), 3; Prideaux p126; Martin-Hardie cost he sought wealthy patrons and included coats-of-arms pp106-7. and a suitable dedication for the plates.
£3,000 [ref: 96202] First edition, 4to., 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by the author, each with accompanying text leaf by W. Derham, list of subscribers, plates 51-100 numbered neatly in ink to the upper right corner of the plate, light soiling to a few plates, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt with morocco lettering label, an excellent example. Lisney 123; Nissen 58.
£5,750 [ref: 95875]
78 Shapero Rare Books 114. BARRATT, Thomas J. The Annals of Hampstead. 115. BYRON, Robert. The Road to Oxiana. A.& C. Black, London, 1912. Macmillan, London, 1937.
First edition, 3 volumes, 4to., edition limited to 550 copies signed by the author, A classic of modern travel writing, the journey takes in Cyprus, profusely illustrated throughout including a large folding map and some colour Persia, and Afghanistan. Whilst in Persia the author visited many plates tipped-in, some light spotting to endpapers, original decorated blue cloth gilt, armorial device to front covers, all edges gilt, rubbing to spine-ends and of the more important Islamic monuments. corners, rear joint of vol. I starting but sound, otherwise an excellent set First edition, 8vo, 2pp. advertisements, photographic frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations, publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, backstrip very slightly £575 [ref: 96611] dulled, dust-jacket, rubbing to edges, fraying to corners with slight loss and closed splits to head of spine and upper fore-corners, all professionally stabilised rather than over-restored, otherwise very clean and bright. Ghani p64
£3,250 [ref: 96855]
Shapero Rare Books 79 116. CESCINSKY, Herbert. Chinese furniture a series of 117. CHURCHILL, Winston. Marlborough His Life and Times. examples from collections in France. Harrap, London, 1933. Benn, London, 1922. The author’s magnum opus biography of John Churchill, Pioneering study by one of the outstanding furniture historians Duke of Marlborough. “Marlborough was originally intended of the twentieth century. to run to only 200,000 words, but eventually exceeded 1,000,000” - Muir First edition. 4to., 20 pp., 54 collotype plates, each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress, original black cloth gilt, rebacked Four volumes, all first editions, 8vo., illustrated with various black & white preserving spine, new endpapers, a very good example. illustrations and maps, modern half red morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath, spines in six gilt ruled compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and third, gilt military £1,350 [ref: 96333] devices to others, top edge gilt, volume one with a few marks to cloth sides and top edge, otherwise a near-fine set. Woods A40(a).
£1,500 [ref: 95836]
80 Shapero Rare Books Signed by Churchill Churchill’s First Book
118. [CHURCHILL, Winston]; C. J. Bard (Artist). Etching of 119. CHURCHILL, Winston L. Spencer. The Story of the a pen-and-ink portrait of Winston Churchill. 1942. Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. Longmans, London, 1898. A stunning likeness of the great wartime leader that captures his steely determination and unrelenting resolve, signed and “While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force, I wrote a dated during the midst of hostilities when victory was far series of letters from the London Daily Telegraph. The from won. favourable manner in which these letters were received, encouraged me to attempt a more substantial work” To date we can find little information on the artist, Charles J. Bard, which seems incredible given that it is such a fine First edition, first issue without the errata slip preceding the map, 8vo., frontispiece portrait and Churchill thought it worthy enough to sign it portrait, 6 maps (2 folding), 32pp. advertisements dated 12/97, a few random spots, mostly to endpapers, contemporary ink ownership to half-title, otherwise and give it to someone. very good, publisher’s cloth, some minor discolouration to covers, still a very superior, sharp copy. Signed and dated “Winston Churchill, 1942” across lower margin, also featuring Woods A1(a) the pencil signature of the artist “C. J. Bard”, handsomely mounted, framed and glazed, with a “10 Downing Street” complement slip on reverse, printed; ‘With £4,500 [ref: 95635] the Personal Private Secretary’s Compliments’, overall size 38.1 x 31.4cm (15 x 12 1/2 ins.)- image size 23 x 17cm (9 x 7 ins.)
£5,950 [ref: 96600]
Shapero Rare Books 81 120. [CORONATION] - В Память Священного 121. eWALD, Alexander Charles. The Right Hon. Benjamin Коронования их Императорских Величеств в Москве 1896 Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and his Times. г. [In the Memory of the Coronation of their Imperial Majesties William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh and Dublin, 1882. in Moscow in 1896]. Skt. Peterburg, German Goppe, 1896. In 1852 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Derby’s minority government. He A fresh example of this luxurious edition celebrating the served as chancellor under Derby in three such governments, coronation of Nicholas II of Russia, in original binding. reforming parliament in 1865 with a bill that doubled the existing electorate. When Derby retired in 1868, Disraeli The first part comprises an overview of all of the coronations ‘climbed to the top of a greasy pole’ as the new prime minister. that took place in Russia during the reign of the Romanovs, a He oversaw a shift towards the emergence of two parties, dynasty that lasted almost three hundred years. The second each with their own, coherent, policies. The polarisation was part is dedicated entirely to the coronation of the last Russian accentuated by the mutual loathing of Disraeli and Liberal Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. The text is richly leader William Ewart Gladstone. illustrated with scenes from the coronation, images of the Imperial regalia and reproductions of menus and programmes Domestically, Disraeli concentrated on social reform. He for the festivities. codified the law on public health and passed laws to prevent labour exploitation and recognise trades unions. Abroad, his A beautiful work produced by one of the best publishers of acquisition of shares in the Suez Canal was a major success. illustrated books in Russia; rare in original binding. Provenance: Ex Libris William George Smith. Two parts in one volume. Folio (41.3 x 30.7 cm). Lithographed title, half-title, letterpress title, 100 pp.; [2], 210, iv pp., with 1 double page plate and multiple Five volumes, 4to., various steel-engraved portraits of leading figures of the day illustrations in text, many full page, publisher’s calf spine over cream cloth boards and other plates at the beginning of each volume, split following first quire in decorated red, black, gilt and silver, all edges gilt, upper and lower covers of dust volume one but holding, a few spots, mostly to secondary endpapers, otherwise jacket preserved. very clean, publisher’s midnight blue cloth, the upper boards emblazoned with Disraeli’s coat of arms, all edges gilt, minimal rubbing to extremities, spine ends £5,950 [ref: 93302] bumped, else very bright.
£575 [ref: 95762]
82 Shapero Rare Books The First Hebrew Edition
122. herZL, Theodor. Medinat HaYehudim. (Der Iudenstaat). [The Jewish State, An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question]. Halter And Eisenstadt for Toshiah, Warsaw, 1896.
First Hebrew edition of Herzl’s manifesto leading to the creation of the Jewish State.
Published the same year as the original German version, Der Judenstaat.
“It was Herzl’s book that really crystallized the idea of a national home for the Jews. Through his work, he transformed the Jewish people from a passive community into a positive political force. (...) That a Jewish State was created in Palestine within fifty years of his death was due to the vision and the practical methods of Herzl, expressed in his manifesto of 1896.” (J. Carter, Printing and the Mind of Man). Der Judenstaat is considered to be the founding manifesto of political Zionism. In 1896, Der Judenstaat, Versuch einer Modernen Lösung der Judenfrage (The Jewish State, Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question) was published in Vienna by then 35-years old Theodor Herzl, a Hungarian journalist of Jewish descent. The previous year, Herzl had witnessed the Dreyfus affair in Paris and had been appalled at the outbreak of anti-Semitism that it had generated in the “birthplace of human rights”. He came to the conclusion that the creation of an independent Jewish state during the 20th century would be the best way for Jews to escape European anti-Semitism.
Octavo (17 X 12.3 cm), title, i-iv, 5-82 pp., portrait of Herzl and post stamps to upper pastedown, stamps to endpapers and title page, post stamp to title page; censure’s approval stamp on back of title page, in Russian, dated November 25, 1897, Warsaw. Contemporary quarter black cloth. PMM, 381.
£8,500 [ref: 94221]
Full description available on request.
Shapero Rare Books 83 The Earl of Derby’s copy - from the library at Knowsley
123. hooKER, Sir William Jackson, & John Charles Lyons. Quarto (300 x 233 mm). Contemporary russet-coloured pebble-grain morocco A Century of Orchidaceous Plants selected from Curtis’s Botanical sometime neatly rebacked with the original richly gilt spine laid down, two-line gilt Magazine. Consisting of those most worthy of cultivation, border on sides, all edges gilt, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers. 100 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates (with tissue guards) by Walter Hood Fitch. Light systematically arranged, and illustrated with coloured figures abrasions to front cover. An excellent copy. and dissections chiefly executed by Mr. Fitch. Accompanied Nissen 918 (erroneously dating the first edition to 1846); not in Plesch or Pritzel. by an introduction on the culture and general management of orchidaceous plants, and with copious remarks on the treatment £6,500 [ref: 95934] of each species. Full description available on request. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, London: 1849.
First edition, from the Knowsley library of the Earl of Derby, with his armorial bookplate and inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper: “Back Library, Knowsley, West Bookcase B / Shelf 2 No. 450”; also inscribed at the head of the half-title “from Boone April 15th 1849” (just shaved by the binder) - which is almost certainly a reference to the London bookseller/publisher T. & W. Boone. Edward Smith Stanley, thirteenth earl of Derby (1775–1851), politician and naturalist, became “one of the figureheads of the science of zoological classification, particularly the taxonomy of birds. He was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, and president of the Zoological Society of London for twenty years from 1831 until his death.” (ODNB).
The illustrations here are by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), described by Hooker’s son, Sir Joseph Hooker, as an “incomparable botanical artist” (cited in Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950, p. 224). “Fitch remains the most outstanding botanical artist of his day in Europe. He was the first draughtsman to produce really satisfactory drawings from dried herbarium specimens, and for this alone botanists in England would remain forever in his debt.” (ibid.). The plates are bright and fresh in this copy, which has a very appealing provenance.
84 Shapero Rare Books 124. [LANQUET, Thomas, and Thomas COOPER]. Coopers Chronicle contenynge the whole discourse of the histories as well of thys realme, as all other Countreis. [London], 1 August 1565.
Thomas Cooper (c. 1517-1594), Bishop of Lincoln and then Winchester, first completed and published Lanquet’s chronicle in 1549. The work was further updated in 1560 and 1565, this edition being the only one to continue from 3962 BC until 1564, providing a complete history of the world from Creation to the reign of Elizabeth I. Accompanying the text are two marginal columns of dates, one giving “the yere of the world” (i.e. since Creation) and the other “the yere of Christ”. Printed with woodcut decorations and initials.
Provenance: John Somerset Pakington, later Lord Hampton (1799-1880), armorial bookplate, sale, Sotheby’s, 14 February 1881, lot 151, £1 1s., to Stibbs; William O’Brien, bequest book label dated 1899; Library label for Milltown Park, Ireland.
3rd edition, expanded and updated. 8vo (19 x 15cm): a6, b 2, c-d8, g 4, h 2, A-Zz8, A 8, C-D4; [30], 376, [8] ff; seemingly complete, early ink annotations, some leaves soiled, multiple washes of water-staining, occasional tears in place touching type, full calf [late 18th century?], gilt titling with blind lines to spine, foliate blind border, false endbands, red-speckled edges, scuffed, joints starting, top-edge dust-stained, worn. STC 15220.
£8,500 [ref: 95866]
Shapero Rare Books 85 125. loUDON, Mrs. Jane. The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. William Smith, London: 1841.
First and best edition. “Mrs. Loudon’s attractive flower books, first published in the forties, were reissued ten or fifteen years later with plates that had become coarsened and joyless” (Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950, p. 236).
Jane Loudon née Webb, (1807-1858), “was to Victorian gardening what Mrs. Beeton was to cookery. Her beautifully illustrated books on gardening and plant identification sold in their thousands and women all over the country were enthused by them to take up gardening as a hobby” (V&A online). She met her husband, the landscape gardener and horticultural writer John Claudius Loudon, when her extraordinary early novel The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827) - a pioneering science-fiction work that set futuristic technology, including a steam plough, among the trappings of Egyptomania - was reviewed favourably by Loudon in The Gardener’s Magazine. The Scot decided to “seek out the acquaintance of the writer, whom he believed to be male” (ODNB) - and they were married seven months later.
Quarto (264 x 201 mm). 58 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates (with tissue guards) by Day & Haghe after the Misses Loudon. Publishers deluxe binding(?) of dark brown skiver, decorative gilt spine, three-line gilt border on sides enclosing elaborate gilt panel, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers, Head of spine chipped, binding a little rubbed and scraped. A very good, clean copy. Nissen 1235; Plesch p. 317 (”aux illustrations élégantes bien composées, certaines dénotant un talent peu commun”); Pritzel 5633; see also Sarah Dewis, The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry (2016).
£1,875 [ref: 95923]
86 Shapero Rare Books Inscribed by Queen Mary
126. MCAULAY, Allan. The Safety of the Honours. 127. USTRIALOV, Nicolas; Babouchkine, E. [translator] William Blackwood and Sons, London, 1906. [УСТРЯЛОВ, Николай Герасимович и БАБУШКИН, Е. [переводчик]]. Revue historique du regne de l’empereur Nicolas ‘The version of the story of the Honours of Scotland I. [Historical Review of the Reign of Emperor Nicholas I]. adopted in this novel differs in some material respects from Tip. ekpeditsii zagotovleniya gos. bumag, Skt. Peterburg, 1851. the ordinarily historical version...’ Author’s Note. Beautifully bound copy of this overview of the reign of Nicholas Provenance: ‘Lord Cowdray’: Weetman Dickinson Pearson, I, written by one of the most respected historians of the time. 1st Viscount Cowdray (1856–1927). Nikolai Ustrialov (1805 –1870) was a Russian historian and First edition, 8vo., x, 351 (blank), 32pp., inscribed by Queen Mary [consort of King professor at Saint Petersburg University. He published a number George V] ‘To Lord Cowdray from Mary R. Sept: 1924.‘ on front free endpaper, a of important works on the history of Russia, all of which were few minor, random spot, publisher’s red cloth gilt, a little rubbed at extremities, spine slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy with an excellent provenance. favourably received by the Imperial court and government.
£475 [ref: 96152] In 1847 Ustrialov published a historical overview of the reign of Nicholas I in Russian to serve as a textbook for his students. The work was considered so important that Nicholas I personally reviewed the manuscript and made corrections.
The original edition was followed by a French translation four years later. The motives of the translator are explained in the introduction: during his travels around Europe, Babushkin found that Europeans were very ignorant of Russian history and culture; he therefore felt it necessary to create a reliable source of information in the language most commonly understood in European courts.
Rare. We could not trace the French edition in any public holdings in the West.
viii, 214, [6] pp., contemporary presentation blue velvet binding, blind tooling to covers, all edges gilt, owner’s inscription to half-title; very slightly rubbed.
£1,250 [ref: 93342]
Shapero Rare Books 87 Rare artefact of British women’s suffrage
128. PANKHURST, Sylvia. Writ on Cold Slate. ‘Only this age then marched along corridors and up flights of stairs to be that loudly boasts Reform, hath set its seal of vengeance ’gainst locked one by one in small, stone-floored, iron-doored cells. the mind, decreeing nought in prison shall be writ, save on cold slate, and swiftly washed away.’ Sylvia was released on November 6th. She would be imprisoned The Dreadnought Publishers, London, [1922]. many more times and subjected to forcible feeding when she staged hunger strikes. A scarce collection of poems written by Pankhurst during one of her numerous prison terms; no other copy shown in First and only edition, 47, (1) pp., text browned, publisher’s printed wrappers, auction records in the last 40 years. COPAC lists five copies. advert on rear panel for the author’s ‘Soviet Russia, As I Saw It’, light browning to spine, otherwise very good. Prison. £3,750 [ref: 95629] On October 23rd, 1906, a group of suffragettes led by Mrs. Pankhurst herself (the author’s mother), infiltrated into the lobby of the House of Commons and started a protest meeting. They were bundled out into the street by policemen, there was what Sylvia Pankhurst called ‘a scrimmage’ and ten of the women were arrested. When they came up in Cannon Street police court the next day, the magistrate refused to listen to them and peremptorily ordered them to be bound over to be of good behaviour for six months or go to prison for six weeks. They protested and demanded the right to be heard in their own defence but the magistrate had them removed by the police.
At this point Sylvia walked into the courtroom and complained that women who wanted to give evidence in the case had not been allowed in. Promptly dragged out into the street by force, she tried to make a speech to an interested crowd but was hauled back into the court again, charged with obstruction and sentenced to pay a pound fine or go to prison for fourteen days. Choosing prison, she was taken to the women’s gaol at Holloway with the others in a Black Maria.
Once there, after hours of waiting, they were strip-searched and made to take a bath (the baths, Sylvia wrote, were ‘indescribably dirty’ and the water ‘clouded with the scum of previous occupants’) and then dress in scratchy prison clothes, stamped in black with the broad arrow. On their heads they wore white cotton caps fastened under the chin, and each was provided with a handkerchief to last for a week. They were
88 Shapero Rare Books Signed by ‘The Iron Lady’ and her husband, Denis Thatcher Signed
129. thATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street Years. 130. thATCHER, Margaret. The Path To Power. Harper Collins, London, 1993. Harper Collins, London, 1995.
First edition, signed by Margaret and Denis Thatcher on front free endpaper, large First Trade edition, signed on title-page, large 8vo., 656 pp., illustrations, publisher’s 8vo., 914 pp., illustrations, envelope tipped in at rear containing the original ticket cloth boards, photographic dust-jacket, a fine copy. to the Waterstone’s launch of this book signing with a newspaper review of the ‘Iron Lady’s’ visit to the Pump Room at Cheltenham Town Hall, publisher’s cloth £375 [ref: 95853] boards, contemporary ownership sticker to front free endpaper, photographic dust-jacket, a fine copy.
£475 [ref: 96660]
Shapero Rare Books 89 Superbly bound set
131. VASILI, Count Paul [pseudonym].La Sainte Russie. 132. YARRELL, William. A History of British Birds [together Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1890. with] A History of British fishes. Van Voorst, London, 1845 & 1841. A fine copy of this deluxe production, richly illustrated and beautifully bound. A superbly bound set, rarely found in this state. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoologist and one of the Possibly written by the Russo-Polish Princess Catherine original members of the Zoological Society. He took over his Radziwill, who was born Countess Ekaterina Adamovna father’s bookshop and news agent’s but spent his spare time Rzewuska in 1858 in St Petersburg and who died in New becoming a proficient shooter, angler and collector of York in 1941 as the widow Catherine Kolb-Danvin. specimens. He joined the Royal Institution in 1817, and having published his first zoological work, On the Occurrence of some Large 4to (29 x 21.5 cm). Half title, wood engraved portrait frontispiece, title, Rare British Birds, was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society preface, 550, [1] pp., one folding map and 2 plans with printed tissue guards, 4 of London in 1825. chromolithograph plates with printed tissue guards and 197 wood engravings in text after various artists, including 37 full and double-page; slight browning at beginning and end, original red morocco-backed cloth bound by Engel, richly gilt Provenance: the Earls of Craven with armorial bookplate, and tooled by Paul Souze after a design by A. Giraldon, all edges gilt, marbled possibly William, the second earl (1809-1866). endpapers, blue silk bookmark. Lipperheide Kaa 75; Vicaire 969. First edition of first work, second edition of second, together two works in five volumes (3 + 2) 8vo., wood-engraved illustrations throughout, luxuriously bound £750 [ref: 80414] by White of Pall Mall in matching (but not uniform) full green morocco gilt, red morocco labels, all edges gilt, a fine set. Nissen, FBI 133; BBI, 1029; ZBI 4488.
£2,500 [ref: 95758]
90 Shapero Rare Books Special Interest & Sports
Shapero Rare Books 91 Angling
133. BAINBRIDGE, G.C. The Fly Fisher’s Guide, Illustrated by Coloured Plates, representing upwards of Forty of the Most Useful Flies, accurately copied from Nature. Printed for the Author by G. F. Harris’ Widow and Brothers. Liverpool, 1816.
One of only 12 copies printed as presentation copies, this one inscribed by the Author; To Charles Rogers from his sincere friend the author.
Heckscher 120. Starkman p61. One of the earliest books to include colour plates of tied flies. This is considered the precursor to Ronalds’ Flyfisher’s Entomology, 1836, and is only the second work, (after George Scotcher’s Fly-fisher’s Legacy, Chepstow, 1800) on angling to be illustrated with hand-coloured engravings of trout & salmon flies. According to Westwood & Satchell “Twelve copies of the first edition were in 4to., coloured with greater care, and published at two guineas.”
Large paper edition, limited to 12 copies, inscribed by author, 4to, plate i, viii, (1), 2-150, (4) pp., 2 copper engraved text vignettes, eight hand-coloured, numbered plates (heightened in gold), hand-made paper, many leaves with the Harris watermark, age-toned, some occasional, very light spotting, one page uncut at head, later ink inscription to later endpaper, 3 inch closed tear to page (151), not affecting text, near contemporary quarter diced calf over paper-covered boards, rubbed and worn at extremities but in all a very good copy.
£12,500 [ref: 96910]
92 Shapero Rare Books Angling
134. WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation...with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicholas. William Pickering, London, 1836.
“Edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, this edition was illustrated by the foremost contemporary artists, produced by an excellent printer and issued by an outstanding publisher. It has been acclaimed as the finest Angler ever published? It was the first edition to be divided into days, contains many editor’s notes and comments, and has new material on Walton and Cotton” (Horne).”The illustrations consist of sixty-one plates, and drawings by T. Stothard, Mr. Derby, Mr. Willement, Mr. Edward Hassell, Inskipp, Pine, Augustus Fox, Delamotte, Sir Francis Sykes, Bart., Mr. Hixon, and T. S. Cape, engraved by W. Humphreys, Byfield, G. Adcock, H. Robinson, Fox, W. H. Worthington, J. Richardson, W. J. Cooke, J. G. Armytage, W. J. Wilkinson, Roberts, J. Thompson, and Freebairn” (Oliver).Large paper copy, “where all the illustrations are engraved on India paper and laid down in the text. In addition, all the 61 portraits, views, fishing scenes, head-pieces are duplicated by a set of proofs on India paper laid down and bound in, in place”.
Provenance: Hugh Perkins, bookplate and pencil note’’bound for me by F. Bedford’’.
First Nicholas edition, 2 volumes (bound from parts), royal 8vo., large paper copy, [16], cxl, [6, “Appendix to the Memoir of Walton”], [cxlv]-clxiv, [4, half-title and dedication leaf to “Life of Charles Cotton”], [clxv]-ccxii, [2, “Pedigree of Cotton”], 129, [1, blank]; [4, half-title and title], [131]-436, [32, index] pp. titles in red and black, 61 engraved plates and illustrations, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH ADDITIONAL SUITE OF ALL THE PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS on india-proof paper, the odd spot and very occasional marginal browning, else very good, early 20th century green crushed morocco gilt by F. Bedford, richly gilt-panelled, especially to spine, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, near-fine. First mentioned - Coigney 44; Thacher pp.544-545; W&S p.228-229.
£2,250 [ref: 95877]
Shapero Rare Books 93 Cookery Cookery
135. HENRY, May and Kate HALFORD. Dainty Dinners and 136. hoWLAND, Miss L. C. Entrées: A Collection of Recipes Dishes for Jewish Families. Including a Selection Suitable for Jewish Cookery. Wertheimer, Lea & Co., London, 1902. H. Virtue and Company Limited, London, 1901.
Jewish-British cookbook published by two sisters, aimed at the A British cookbook of first courses with some heavy French, wealthier audience. Italian and Eastern European influences, including a section of Kosher recipes that are marked with an asterisk throughout May Henry first published The Economical Jewish Cook in the book. Some of the recipes, which are unmarked, would 1897. This was “a modern orthodox recipe book for young also fit for Kosher cooking if the meat used is Kosher slaughtered, housekeepers”. such as the Russian Ox Tongue (p.9) or Calf’s Head in Jelly (p.25).
Following the success of that first publication Henry teamed The author prides herself to be a “Diplomee of the National up with her sister, Kate Halford, to publish the offered work, School of Cookery” and “Associate of the Universal Cookery which was intended to “cater for a class to which the other Association” with “practical experience in the Cuisine of one book did not appeal, by reason of the rigid economy necessary of the best London Clubs”. in recipes written primarily for Board School Cookery Classes.” This edition is not in the British Library. This book contains twelve Sample Menus - one for each month of the year, richer recipes arranged by food groups First edition. 8vo, 19 x 13 cm; [i-vii] viii-xii, [1] 2-187 [188], [i-iv] pp.; bookplate from and a small chapter on Passover Cookery. a previous owner to rear pastedown, with signature on the opposite leaf, dated 1906, publisher’s embossed and illustrated green boards imitating half leather, spine edges rubbed, slight browning to endpapers, pristine pages; a fine copy. First edition. Octavo (18.5 x 12 cm); xvi, 191 pp., publisher’s pictorial red cloth boards, edges rubbed, previous owner’s signature on title-page upper right corner, occasional illustrations by G. Lilian Bright throughout the book, a very good copy. £250 [ref: 95835] Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain 1875-1914 by Elizabeth Driver, pages 321-322.
£375 [ref: 96208]
94 Shapero Rare Books Christianity - Handsomely bound Bible and Book of Common Prayer Set Christianity
137. [BIBLE, English]. The Holy Bible containing the Old and 138. [Church of England]. The Holy Bible, Containing the the New Testaments [TOGETHER WITH:] The Book of Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Common Prayer... Tongues; And with the former Translations Diligently Compared Oxford University Press, London, 1844 & 1846. and Revised. By his Majesties Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches. [PRECEDED BY] The Book of Common The bible is the single most important book in the history of Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites ideas and this King James version is the most widely-published and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the text in the English language. Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches. Two volumes, 12mo., uniformly bound in near-contemporary crushed morocco by [FOLLOWED BY]: The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into Hayday, gilt panels to covers and spine panels, gilt dentelles and all edges gilt, English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others. small area of erosion to bottom spine panel of bible volume, otherwise a fine set in original, custom-made box. Conferred with the Hebrew. Set forth and Allowed to be Sung in Herbert 869. all Churches, of all the People together.... Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s most £275 [ref: 96641] Excellent Majesty, and the University, Oxford, 1715.
Provenance: Various 18th and 19th century ownership inscriptions by members of the Atkins family.; the New Testament has a separate title-page of the same date, the verso of which has contemporary genealogical ink manuscript that is evident through to the recto.
Folio, 325 x 208mm, ornate woodcut capital letters at the beginning of each chapter, slight damp-staining and dusting in the lower margin of first few pages of The Book of Common Prayer, a few page-heads close-shaved, some minor spotting, tanning, dusting and marks of use but in the main crisp, clean and tight, contemporary calf, re-backed to style with tan lettering piece, endpapers replaced, a very good copy.
£950 [ref: 95708]
Shapero Rare Books 95 Cricket - Scarce Cricket - Signed publicity post-card
139. BARLOW, R. Gordon. Batting and Bowling, With hints 140. [GRACE, W. G.]. [Black and White post- card of W. G. Grace]. on Fielding and Wicket-Keeping. [Circa 1890]. Geo. G. Bussey & Co., London, [1882].. W. G. Grace (1848-1915) was always an attractive personality 8vo., 9 full-page illustrations, the usual rusting to the staples at the rear, else on the cricket field, and in the later years of his great career internally near-fine, publisher’s printed wrappers with illustration of Barlow carried a certain atmosphere of romance about him. His great holding a Bussey bat, advertisement on rear panel, a little soiled from handling, abrasion to spine but sound, two small closed tears, else good. towering figure, with his strong features and full black beard, [Padwick 402]. instantly commanded attention, and there was always the expectation among the spectators that he might be out for £175 [ref: 96312] some great performance. Descriptions of him even at his best make no reference to any special degree of style in his batting. His great height made it inconvenient for him to hold his bat down to the block-hole; it was generally held some distance off the pitch, looking a mere toy in the hands of a giant. Yet it was with a remarkably straight bat that the ball was played. His batting was distinguished for its strength and certainty rather than for its elegance; his regard, however, for orthodoxy of style comes out in his own statement that he was forty years of age before he adopted the fashionable ‘pull’ stroke. “Style is ease, and ease is strength,” he once said, and that summed up his creed on the point.
140 x 90mm, signed by Grace below image, 140 x 90mm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches), mounted, very good-plus.
£675 [ref: 96313]
96 Shapero Rare Books Cricket Cricket
141. grACE, W. G. Cricket. 142. STEEL, A. G. and the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton. The J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol & London, 1891. Badminton Library - Cricket. With contributions by A. Lang, W. G. Grace, R. A. G. Mitchell and F. Gale. With numerous engravings Copy number 514 belonging to the original subscriber Tom after Lucien Davis and from photographs. Garnett, with his bookplate. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1888.
Limited deluxe edition of 652, signed by the Author, crown quarto, pp xii, 512, 45 Every aspect of cricket is covered including the history of cricket, illustrations including frontispiece portrait of Grace, usual toning to endpapers, batting, bowling, captaincy, umpires, fielding, ‘The Australians’, a publisher’s half black morocco, rebacked preserving original spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, slightly rubbed, else very good-to near-fine. chapter by W. G. Grace titled ‘Outfit’ and much more. Padwick 433. First Trade edition, thick 8vo., xiii, [2], frontispiece, 429, [1] pp, 2 pages of advertisements, 10 further plates and numerous vignettes within the text, £1,200 [ref: 96314] modern full green morocco, lettering-pieces and gilt cricketing devices to spine, original endpapers and all edges gilt, a fine copy.
£425 [ref: 94644]
Shapero Rare Books 97 Economics Fashion - Inscribed by the Author.
143. KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of 144. hARTNELL, Norman. Royal Courts of Fashion. Employment, Interest and Money. Cassell, London, 1971. Macmillan, London, 1936. Sir Norman Hartnell (1901–1979), one of the most famous Written in the aftermath of the great depression, the General and long-standing British fashion designers, Royal Warrant Theory is regarded as one of the most influential social science Holder to both Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and treatise of the century; it quickly and permanently changed Queen Elizabeth II; he designed both the latter’s Wedding the way the world looked at the economy and the role of and Coronation dresses. government in society. This is the book “on which [Keynes’] fame as the outstanding economist of his generation must First edition, large 8vo., contemporary inscription by the author to title-page, full rest” (DNB). and half-page colour plates, illustrations and black & white photographs, publisher’s blue cloth gilt, illustrated dust-jacket, slightly rubbed on corners and spine extremities, otherwise near fine. Provenance: Giovanni (Jo) Maggio, Italian economist, classmate of Sir Eric Wyndham White at the London School of £285 [ref: 96180] Economics in the 1930s, and colleague of his at the Secretariat of GATT (now the World Trade Organisation) during the early rounds of negotiations.
First edition, 8vo., xii, 403pp., ownership inscription of Giovanni Maggio, ‘G. Maggio, London Feb 4th 1936’, on front free endpaper, publisher’s blue cloth, gilt-lettered, ends of spine slightly creased, spine lightly spotted, free endpapers little browned, light crease to front free endpaper, otherwise very good. PMM 423.
£1,850 [ref: 96594]
98 Shapero Rare Books Football
145. MOORE, Bobby. The Book of Soccer. Stanley Paul, London, 1965.
A miscellany of articles by Moore and his contemporaries, giving a marvellous insight into football at that time and a year prior to Moore’s captaincy of the winning England team of the World Cup.
Moore captained West Ham United for more than ten years and in 1963 the 22-year-old captained the England team for the first time, the youngest man ever to do so.
1964 turned out to be quite an eventful year for Moore. As well as gaining the England captaincy, he lifted the FA Cup as West Ham defeated Preston North End 3–2 in the final, the first of three successful Wembley finals in as many years for Moore. In 1965, he lifted the European Cup Winners Cup after West Ham defeated 1860 Munich 2–0 in the final with both goals coming from Alan Sealey. By now he was the first choice captain for England with 30 caps and around whom Alf Ramsey was building a team to prove correct his prediction that they would win the 1966 World Cup.
First edition, 4to., signed by the Author on the pictorial frontispiece, a dozen other signatures of footballers, mostly West Ham players, including Geoff Hurst and Alan Sealey, numerous monochrome photographic illustrations, small marginal stain affecting last new leaves, otherwise very good, modern blue calf, lettered in gilt, a lovely copy.
£750 [ref: 96787]
Shapero Rare Books 99 Judaism - First English Edition of the Haggadah
146. [JUDAICA] - ALEXANDER A[lexander] (translator). and Raameses” in Hebrew at the bottom and “Engraved for The Passover Haggadah Containing the Ceremonies and Prayers the Hebrew Hawgoda” in English at the top. In fact this engraving which are used and read by all families in all houses of the is a copy of Bar Jacob’s illustration for the Amsterdam Haggadah, Israelites, the Two first Nights of Passover: Faithfully Translated from which itself is a copy of a biblical engraving by Matthaeus the Original Hebrew. To which is added, the Explanations thereon. Merian dating back to the first half of the 17th century. W. Gilbert for Alexander, London, 1770. Provenance: Billah Jacobs (handwritten inscription to lower The very first printing of the Haggadah in English. Very Rare. fly leaf).
“This development is significant not only as a measure of the Duodecimo in half sheets, (17 x 11 cm). lxxvii pp., frontispiece engraved by Terry, linguistic acculturation of English Jews by the latter part of a bit spotted and stained, frontispiece slightly cropped, contemporary calf spine over marbled boards; upper hinge splitting, rubbed; preserved in a new calf the eighteenth century but also as a break with previous solander box with gilt lettering. policies. Only five years before, the publication of an English Yudlov 258; Roth B8:11; Yaari 167; Yerushalmi 74; Roth B8:11. translation of the prayer-book prepared by Isaac Pinto had been thwarted by the conservative leaders of the Sephardic £35,000 [ref: 90269] community. In their view only Spanish translations, hollowed the practice of centuries, were to be allowed.” (Yerushalmi, Haggadah and History).
This first English translation of the Haggadah, being also the first bilingual edition of the Haggadah, was translated by Alexander from Hebrew to English and published by him in 1770. It was issued in two editions - Ashkenazic, in which the hymns ‘Adir Hu’ and ‘Had Gadya’ appear in Yiddish at the end of the book, and the present Sephardic edition - without the hymns but with inscriptions in Ladino (written in Hebrew letters). This Haggadah represents the only known appearance of Ladino in Hebrew letters in a London imprint.
Very rare: this edition doesn’t seem to be in the British Library nor the Bodleian.
Alexander Alexander (Alexander ben Judah Leib) was one of the pioneers of the Hebrew printing in London, active in the 18th-19th centuries. He had established his Hebrew press in London in 1770. This haggadah was the second book published by him, following an earlier bilingual Common Prayer-Book.
The frontispiece illustration - ‘Moses slaying the Egyptian’ has the captions: “And they built for Pharaoh store-cities Pithom
100 Shapero Rare Books Judaism - First complete English translation of the bible (old testament) by a Jew
147. leeser, Isaac (translator). The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. [The Hebrew Bible]. 371, Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1853.
The first complete translation of the Old Testament by a Jewish translator into English.
This work was built upon Leeser’s 1845 translation of the five books of the Torah. Previous editions published by Jewish translators in England (such as Levi and Alexander) had simply utilised the King James translation. Leeser’s preface explains that this massive undertaking sprung from “a desire entertained for more than a quarter of a century, since the day he quitted school in his native land to come to this country, to present to his fellow-Israelites an English version, made by one of themselves, of the Holy Word of God.” Readers would now “have an opportunity to study a version of the Bible which has not been made by the authority of churches in which they have no confidence.”
Rabbi Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) was born in Germany and emigrated to America in 1824. The head rabbi of the Synagogue Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, he became America’s most influential Jewish writer, editor, and teacher. He promulgated Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States by providing American Jews with the numerous basic religious texts and conceptual tools they needed.
Quarto (28.5 x 25 cm), iv, 1011 pp., 2 blank family record leaves, short closed tear to leaf F3, some light foxing, contemporary calf gilt, spine in six compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt to second, raised bands. A very good copy. Goldman 12 (“first English translation of the complete Bible by a Jew”); Hills 1540; Singerman 1271; Wright, page 124.
£8,500 [ref: 93699]
Shapero Rare Books 101 Judaism
148. leVI, David (translator). Machzor [Set of Festival Prayers]. The Form of Prayers for The New Year: According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews; as read in their Synagogues and used in their families. Moshe bar Shmuel Halevi, London, 1824.
Set of Festival Prayers by one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London.
The Fourth volume contains a prayer for King George IV and the Royal Family. Sixth volume contains a list of subscribers, which includes Mr. & Mrs. N. M. Rothschild. (Nathan Mayer Rothschild first settled in Manchester, where he established a business in finance and textile trading. He later moved to London, where he founded N. M. Rothschild & Sons in 1811, through which he made a fortune with his involvement in the government bonds market.)
Volumes divided according to the five most important holidays in the Jewish calendar: Vol. I. New Year (Rosh HaShana); Vol. II. & III. Day of Atonement (Yom Kipur); Vol. IV. Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot); Vol. V. Feast of Passover (Pesach); Vol. VI. Feast of Pentecost (Shavuot).
David Levi (1740-1801) was an English-Jewish writer, translator and one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London.
Third revised edition, six volumes, small quarto (24 x 15.5 cm); parallel English and Hebrew text, age-toning and the very occasional spot otherwise very clean, contemporary calf, decorative gilt panels to boards, lettering pieces and decorative panels to spines, a little rubbed at extremities, a very handsome set.
£1,500 [ref: 90410]
102 Shapero Rare Books Physics
149. neWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light. Printed for William Innys at the West-End of St. Paul’s, London, 1730.
The first posthumous edition, prepared for the press by Newton before his death. Largely a reprint of the third edition but with the addition of citations to demonstrations from Newton’s lectures previously omitted (see advertisement to this edition).
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 were dead and, unusually for him, first published in English, perhaps a further defensive measure. Nevertheless, Opticks established itself, from about 1715, as a model of the interweaving of theory with quantitative experimentation. The great achievement of the work was to show that colour was a mathematically definable property. Newton showed that white light was a mixture of infinitely varied coloured rays (manifest in the rainbow and the spectrum), each ray definable by the angle through which it is refracted on entering or leaving a given transparent medium. “Newton’s Opticks did for light what his Principia had done for gravitation, namely place it on a scientific basis” (D. W. Brown).
The Fourth Edition, corrected. 8vo., [8],382,[2] pp., complete with final advert leaf, 12 folding plates (first plate with short tears, fore-edge a trifle dusty, occasional light spotting, etc., contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, lightly rubbed, red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy. B. C-M., I, p.162. Babson, 132 (1).
£4,000 [ref: 95759]
Shapero Rare Books 103 Philosophy Racing
150. PLATO. The dialogues of... Translated into English with 151. UPTON, Roger D. Newmarket & Arabia. An examination analyses and introductions. of the descent of racers and coursers. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892. Henry S. King, London 1873.
Bookplate to each upper paste-down of Annie Cowdray (died 1932), wife of Upton, a Captain in the Royal Lancers, wrote this work to Weetman Peason, 1st Viscount Cowdray; showing Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, promote and encourage understanding of the history of the leased by Lord Cowdray in 1907 and then purchased by him in 1912. Third edition, revised, 5 volumes, 8vo., later half blue morocco gilt by Bumpus, top horse, particularly thoroughbreds; part I discusses English edge gilt, a fine set. horses, part II the Arabian breeds.
£1,900 [ref: 96469] First edition, 8vo,. hand-coloured steel engraved frontispiece, 4 folding equine genealogical charts at rear, contemporary ink ownership to head of Preface page, publisher’s cloth gilt (variant), a little rubbed, bumped and worn but in all a very good copy.
£650 [ref: 95822]
104 Shapero Rare Books Hunting
152. ALKEN, Henry, Illustrator; Charles James Apperley. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire; High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and major in the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With notices of the hunting, shooting, driving, racing, extravagant exploits, by Nimrod. Ackermann, London, 1835.
Classic hunting adventures of the High Sheriff.
The very scarce first edition in the original cloth. Brilliant impressions of Henry Alken’s plates. Two of the plates, Blood and the Bull-Dog and Mytton masters the Savage Dog, are not found in later editions.
Between the years 1805 and 1820 Apperley devoted himself to fox-hunting. From 1813 to 1819 he was the agent for his brother-in-law’s estates and lived at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig. Around 1821, under the pseudonym of ‘Nimrod,’ Apperley began to contribute a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine that covered horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. His references to the personalities of the people he knew or met at such events helped to double the circulation of the magazine within a few years. Mr. Pittman, the proprietor of The Sporting Magazine, gave Nimrod a handsome salary and defrayed all the expenses of his tours. He also gave Nimrod a stud of hunters. After Pittman’s death, the proprietors of the magazine sued Apperley for the money that had been advanced. To avoid imprisonment, Apperley moved to Calais in 1830, where he supported himself by writing.
Provenance: Herman Le Roy Edgar.
First edition in book form. 8vo. iv, 110 pp., with 12 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece; bookplate on front paste-down, publisher’s brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover; neat repairs to spine extremities, maroon morocco-backed folding box. Abbey Life 385; Franklin 43-4; Schwerdt I, 38; Siltzer 73; Tooley 67.
£2,250 [ref: 95571]
Shapero Rare Books 105 Self-defence Shooting
153. fU, Leong [Atado]. Chinese Kung-Fu Karato....The 154. hAWKER, Lt. Col. P. Instructions to Young Sportsmen Chinese art of self-defence that is executed almost without any and all that relates to Guns and Shooting. bodily contact. Longmans, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, Self-published, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, [1958]. London, 1838.
The “Leong Fu System of Self-Defence”, illustrated throughout A highly exhaustive work on guns and shooting providing with useful diagrams and detailed descriptions for defensive information and advice for fledgling and confirmed hunters. and offensive moves, as well as methods of massage and Subjects include; guns, detonating system, powder, shot, flints, manipulation to recover from injuries suffered during training wadding, powder flask, shooting, dogs, game, boots and or combat. clothes, canoe shooting, boat shooting, wildfowl in France, punts, game laws 1838, shooting certificate, etc. First edition, 8vo., 21 original parts, illustrations by the author, original illustrated wrappers, within original postal box, a very good set rarely complete. 8vo., xxv + 549 pp. + 16pp. of ads’ at rear, engraved frontispiece with additional hand-coloured engraving affixed to reverse, a further 7 engraved plates including £600 [ref: 96464] a portrait of the author, vignettes within text, the occasional spot, mostly to first few pages, else fine, later half green morocco gilt, mildly browned and bowing to boards, otherwise very good.
£550 [ref: 95848]
106 Shapero Rare Books Sports
155. NICHOLSON, William, illustrator; Rudyard Kipling An Almanac of Twelve Sports. William Heinemann, London, 1898.
Each illustrated sport is associated with a month of the year and comprises: Hunting, Coursing, Racing, Boating, Fishing, Cricket, Archery, Coaching, Shooting, Golf, Boxing and Skating; one of Nicholson’s most sought after work. The text is taken from the poems of Rudyard Kipling
First edition. 4to. (320mm x 255mm); twelve colour lithographs by Nicholson, slight offsetting onto text leaves, random spotting to endpapers and one to title, otherwise very good, publisher’s paper-covered pictorial boards, a little spotted, more so to lower board, corners slightly rubbed, some overall dust-soiling, else a very attractive copy indeed and particularly good internally.
£575 [ref: 96689]
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