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a near-fine copy in the jacket with touch of creasing to first edition. The text, edited by Simon Cock, head of spine, tiny nick to head of front panel. secretary to the committee of the Company of first edition, first impression, with the au- Merchants Trading to Africa, purports to be the thor’s clipped signature tipped onto the front free account of an American sailor taken captive on endpaper. This extremely popular animal story the Barbary Coast and taken to Timbuktu. Cock 1 was initially turned down by all major publish- found Adams, born in New York state to a white ing houses. When it was finally published, sales father and African American mother, begging on 1 exceeded 100,000 in the first year and Adams was the streets of London; he claimed to have returned awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guard- from years of slavery in Africa and to have spent ACHEBE, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New ian Award for children’s fiction. time in the quasi-mythical city of Timbuktu. Cock York: Astor-Honor, 1959 £2,000 [130263] was eventually convinced of the veracity of his tale Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed, and arranged for its publication. sticker residue to front cover, else a very good copy. 3 Since first publication, the book has been subject first u.s. edition, wrappers issue. in- to heated debate. Although most people accept scribed on the front free endpaper to the New ADAMS, Robert. The Narrative of A Sailor, Adams’s tale of captivity, many have alleged that York author and bookseller Burt Britton (1933– who was wrecked on the western coast of his description of Timbuktu is a fabrication. A 2018): “Warmest regards to Burt Britton Chinua Africa, in the year 1810, was detained three recent critical edition of the book claims that it is Achebe”. Achebe’s first book, a foundation text years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great De- “wrong in nearly every detail” and that he “almost of African post-colonial literature, was originally sert, and resided several months in the city certainly” never went to the famous city (Adams, published in the UK the previous year. of Tombuctoo. With a map, notes, and an ap- p. xx). There is also a suggestion that Cock, a for- £1,250 [129691] pendix. London: John Murray, 1816 mer agent for slave traders, was using this book to revive his own reputation and that of his African Quarto (266 × 209 mm). Contemporary full calf, marbled Company. 2 edges, plain endpapers. Bookseller’s ticket of Martin The Narrative was the inspiration for Anglo-Afghan ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. London: Keene, Dublin and contemporary bookplate of Charles Arthur Tisdall to the front pastedown. Folding map fron- author Tahir Shah’s novel Timbuctoo (2012). Rex Collings, 1972 tispiece. Spine slightly toned, bumps and rubbing to ex- Howgego, R24; Huntress, 182C. Charles Hansford Ad- Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and rabbit tremities, partially split at top of front board, small close ams (ed.), The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Barbary Captive: design to front board in gilt. With the dust jacket. Col- tear at map stub, slight foxing to map and endpapers and A Critical Edition, 2005. our folding map. Minor rubbing to spine ends and tips; light browning to text block. A very good copy. £1,750 [128965]

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4 plates in all, 43 black and white plates, 5 maps, 4 of them 6 folding. Spare labels tipped-in. Spines lightly rolled with (ANTARCTIC.) BULL, H. J. The Cruise of the discreet repair, light discolouration to boards, minor (ANTARCTIC.) WILD, Frank. Shackleton’s ‘Antarctic’ to the South Polar Regions. Lon- wear around extremities, repair to one map. A very good Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest From the don: Edward Arnold, 1896 copy. Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. Octavo. Original blue morocco-grain cloth, titles to first edition, in cherry-garrard’s pre- A. H. Macklin. London: Cassell and Company, spine and front board in silver, decoration to front board ferred “polar” binding of cloth-backed Ltd, 1923 in silver and black, edges untrimmed, charcoal blue boards. “Cherry-Garrard seems an unlikely hero Large octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in coated endpapers, 2 leaves of publisher’s adverts at rear. of Antarctic exploration, but he has achieved that gilt, front board with titles in black and pictorial block Black and white frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 11 status largely through this book . . . a young but of the Quest to the front board in black, white and gilt, plates. Spine a little chipped at head and tail, boards wealthy patrician, near-sighted and frail, he paid all within concentric frames in black and white, picto- rubbed at corners, title page a little toned and foxed, tis- rial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece, 50 halftone plates sue guard toned and creased, slight finger-marking to his way onto the crew as an assistant zoologist, from photographs, sketch maps to the text. Spine gen- fore-margin of prelims. A very good copy. but performed splendidly in many harrowing situ- ations” (Books on Ice). The “worst journey” referred tly rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, top edge dust first edition, first impression, preceding toned, light foxing to edges, very occasionally to con- to in the title is not “Scott’s ill-fated rendezvous the Norwegian edition. Henrik Johan Bull’s Ant- tents, endpapers a little dirty, a very good, fresh, copy. with death,” but the earlier Ross Island Winter arctic expedition was the first to reach the Antarc- Journey, from Cape Evans to the penguin colony first edition. Wild had been with Scott on the tic continent. at Cape Crozier, with Edward Wilson and Henry Discovery, was with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was Conrad p. 81; Mackenzie 14; Spence 210. “Birdie” Bowers. Both of his companions on this a close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod £1,250 [128895] trip were to die on the Southern Journey with expedition of 1907–9 and second-in-command Scott, Cherry-Garrard being with the last group on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917 . . . Wild joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Ant- 5 sent back before the final assault on the South Pole. He was also sent to rendezvous with the re- arctic in 1921–23 but the explorer’s death sapped (ANTARCTIC.) CHERRY-GARRARD, Aps- turning party of Scott and his four companions, Wild’s desire to continue” (Howgego). His ac- ley. The Worst Journey in the World: Antarc- and was the discoverer of the tent and their frozen count is a “handsome publication . . . [including] tic 1910–1913. London: Constable and Company bodies. The book is “widely regarded as the mas- the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken” Limited, 1922 terpiece of polar exploration”. (Taurus). 2 volumes, octavo. Original linen-backed pale blue Books on Ice 61.12; Howgego, IV, S14; Renard, 305; Rosove Howgego III S25; Rosove 349.A1; Taurus 112. boards, printed paper labels to spines, blue endpapers. 71.A2; Spence 277. £1,250 [129554] Colour frontispieces with tissue guards, 4 other coloured £2,250 [129729]

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7 8 (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) LANE, Edward Wil- AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. With a liam (trans.) The Thousand and One Nights, Preface by George Saintsbury and illustrations 9 commonly called, in England, The Arabian by Hugh Thomson. London: George Allen, 1894 Nights’ Entertainments. A new translation Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board 9 from the Arabic, with copious notes. London: elaborately gilt-blocked with peacock design, green BAGEHOT, Walter. Lombard Street: A De- Charles Knight and Co, 1841–40–41 coated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrations by Hugh scription of the Money Market. London: Henry 3 volumes, octavo (241 × 149 mm). Contemporary red Thomson. Contemporary ownership inscription in pen- S. King & Co., 1873 morocco, spines lettered in gilt and richly gilt to com- cil to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled with cen- Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and boards let- partments, wide gilt-tooled borders to covers, gilt turn- tral crease, rubbing and a little fraying to spine ends, a tered and ruled in gilt and black, dark green endpapers. ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved half titles touch of wear to tips, and a couple of pages very slightly Housed in a brown cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea and engraved vignette illustrations in the text through- sprung; a very good, fresh, copy. Bindery. Ex-library copy, with deaccessioned label and out. With the bookplates of John C. Black. Light rubbing stamp to front pastedown and title leaf verso respective- around joints and extremities, else a near-fine set, con- first fully illustrated edition. The trade edition was issued in two formats: with top edge ly, binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Extremities rubbed, tents clean and bright. spine ends and corners bumped, a few marks to boards gilt, others untrimmed, as here, which is the less A handsome copy of Lane’s translation, richly illus- and a tiny spot of loss to lower spine joint, the occasional common of the two, or with all edges trimmed and trated by William Harvey. Lane’s edition, one of the mark to contents and one chip to top edge of advertise- gilt, and in a slightly smaller case. This was the earliest in English, “reigned as the leading English ment leaf, overall a very good copy. first edition to feature illustrations accompanying translation of the Nights for decades, and its copi- the text, as Bentley’s 1833 edition and subsequent ous notes are stimulating micro-essays of enduring printings had featured only a frontispiece. Thom- value” (ODNB). This set comprises the first edition son’s “light touch and feeling for period manners of the latter two volumes, and a later edition of the provide a charming and accessible gloss to the au- 9 first volume (originally published in 1839). thor’s work” (ODNB). The exquisite gilt design on £675 [129572] the front cover has led to this work being known as first edition, inscribed “from the author” the “peacock edition”; it is one of the most strik- in bagehot’s hand on the title page, with the con- ing examples of late-Victorian pictorial cloth. temporary ownership signature of London barrister Gilson E78. David Mitchell Aird adjacent and with Aird’s address at 3 Pump Court, Temple, on the facing blank in ink. £2,000 [128987] A member of the Middle Temple, Aird published an

4 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington abridgment of Blackstone, Blackstone Economized, also in 1873, followed by a number of works on civil laws in France and the French language. Scarce in commerce and described by J. M. Keynes as “an undying classic”, Lombard Street analyses the operation of the British financial system, focusing on the economic role of the Bank of England. Bagehot’s recommendation that the Bank alter gold reserves based on economic cycles was highly influential, and the book was considered authoritative into the 20th century. “The wonderful clearness of Bagehot’s power of statement, his exact knowledge of the subject treated on, together with his firm grasp of economic theory, have caused this volume to exert an influence which few books on a subject naturally so dry have possessed” (Palgrave I, p. 81). See Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 5–7; Masui, p. 113. 11 £7,500 [127112] first edition, first impression. Doubleday second and best english edition, first pub- 10 planned a US edition under the same title in the lished in English in 1709, from the French first edi- BALLARD, J. G. The Atrocity Exhibition. Lon- same year, but Nelson Doubleday, Jr. cancelled the tion of 1697. The second English edition was revised don: Jonathan Cape, 1970 publication, fearing legal action from celebrities and expanded, and was used as the text of editions as Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in gilt, top depicted in the book. The print run was “destroyed late as 1984 and 1997. “For over half a century, until edge pink. With the dust jacket. Negligible bumps to immediately prior to distribution” (Pringle). Con- the publication of the Encyclopédie, Bayle’s Dictionnaire spine ends; else a fine copy in the lightly toned jacket, sequently the first US edition was not published dominated enlightened thinking in every part of Eu- tiny nicks to head of front and rear flap folds. until 1972, released by the Grove Press under the rope” (PMM). French Protestant Pierre Bayle (1647– title Love and Napalm: Export USA. 1706) wrote his Dictionnaire while in self-imposed ex- Pringle A107. ile in Rotterdam as an “anti-clerical counterblast to Moreri’s [Le Grand Dictionnaire historique, 1674], in or- £500 [128728] der, as he put it, ‘to rectify Moreri’s mistakes and fill the gaps’. Bayle championed reason against belief, 11 philosophy against religion, tolerance against super- BAYLE, Pierre. The Dictionary Historical and stition” (PMM). The dictionary contains some 2,000 Critical. London: Printed for J. J. and P. Knapton, entries, including mostly biographies of religious et al., 1734–8 and historical figures as well as writers, in the latter case focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries, but also 5 volumes, folio (359 × 227 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, red and green calf labels to articles on geography, all bolstered with a vast array spines. Portrait frontispiece. Large ownership signature of shoulder and footnotes. The views he expressed in dated 1782 to title page of vols. III and IV, a few pencilled his detailed Life of Mahomet, which, in radical op- annotations to vol. IV. Half-titles present. Rear cover of position with the opinion of the Church, “stresses vol. II and front cover of vol. III replaced in sympathetic the superior tolerance and rationality of Islam’s core style, repair to patches of wear, abrasion to a few labels, teaching” (Israel), were reasserted by Voltaire in his some light creasing and cockling to pages, closed tears Traité sur la tolérance (1763). to vol. III p. 384 and vol. IV p. 109, a couple of trivial instances of worming, small stain to fore edge of vol. IV, a See Printing and the Mind of Man 155b and En français dans le few instances of minor blemishes to contents, but gener- texte 129; ESTC T143097. 10 ally clean and bright. A very good copy. £2,750 [128635]

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12 first sampson edition. “Sampson’s other great BERESFORD, J. D. The Hampdenshire Won- scholarly contribution was the restoration of the text of William Blake’s lyrics, long overlaid and der. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911 ‘improved’ by editors. In the Poetical Works (1905) Octavo. Original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. he established the definitive text, with much With the dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the bright dust critical and bibliographical apparatus” (ODNB). A jacket, minor chips at extremities, 2 short splits to folds, 14 spine panel toned showing outline of overprice sticker. highly attractive copy in a presentation binding, with a morocco presentation slip lettered in gilt on first edition, first impression, signed by the front pastedown reading “Margaret Sandford the author facing the title page. The author’s on her wedding day Sept. 22. 1926. From C.R.L.F.” first book and a significant work in early science fiction, Beresford’s novel was among the first £425 [129457] to include a “Wunderkind”, a child prodigy en- hanced through scientific meddling. The work is 14 highly scarce in the dust jacket, and is especially BLOSSFELDT, Karl. Art Forms in Nature: so signed. A blue cloth binding variant was also Second Series. Examples from the Plant produced, without priority of issue. World photographed direct from Nature. Lon- Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy 1/32. don: A. Zwemmer, 1932 £2,750 [130366] Folio. Original blue-green cloth, device and titles to front board gilt, titles to spine gilt. With the photographic 13 dust jacket. With 120 photogravures. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Slight rubbing to extremi- BLAKE, William. The Poetical Works. Oxford: ties, a little spotting to pastedowns but internally clean, Clarendon Press, 1905 a few nicks to spine ends and extremities of dust jacket Octavo (216 × 137 mm). Near-contemporary blue moroc- and a little spotting to verso. A very good bright copy. co by the Clarendon Press, spine lettered in gilt, covers first edition in english, first impression, ruled in gilt with gilt cornerpieces, gilt ruled turn-ins, of the second of Blossfeldt’s seminal trilogy. It marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 2 folding facsimiles was originally published earlier the same year in of Blake’s manuscripts. A fine copy. Berlin under the title Wundergarten der Natur; neue Bilddokumente schöner Pflanzenformen. The artist was 14

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15 15 by training a botanist; his use of extreme close-up technique began as part of his study. However he collected together a total of 248 of Eichenberg’s are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale Uni- swiftly developed a fully-fledged abstracted aes- illustrations and was made available institution- versity’s Sterling Library. thetic which found a ready audience around the ally and to a few major print collectors only. The Eichenberg (1901–1990) moved to the US in 1933 world. Many subsequent photographers cite his total number of proofs pulled from the 14 original books as a key influence on their work. and quickly became acknowledged as one of the woodblocks made for the Eichenberg’s Wuthering leading wood engravers of his generation, illus- £3,000 [130402] Heights edition is therefore roughly 30, the earlier trating such authors as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Poe, examples, such as these, distinguished by being and Grimmelshausen. 15 unnumbered. Proofs from the first printing are scarce, with one other selection, containing just £1,500 [129460] (BRONTË, Emily.) EICHENBERG, Fritz. four proofs, traced at auction. The original blocks Woodcut proofs for Wuthering Heights. [New York, 1943] Together 9 woodcut proofs on japon: 6 measure 305 × 230 mm; 3 measure 154 × 228 mm. In fine condition. a selection of nine woodcut proofs, from the library of the artist, each signed by the artist in pencil, done for Eichenberg’s edition of Wuthering Heights (New York, 1943). These proofs were printed in a limited though unnumbered run of 10 or fewer by Eichenberg in 1943. In 1980 Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Ty- pothetae issued a signed limited reprint of 20 copies. McGrath’s reprint, titled Artist of the Book, 15

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16 BUCHAN, John. The Thirty-Nine Steps. Edin- burgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1915 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in dark blue. Near-contemporary ownership inscription of Jean M. Orkney, Director of the Red Cross Maternity and Child Welfare Bureau, New Delhi, to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled and lightly toned, tiny spot of discolouration, rubbing to spine ends, touch of wear to very tips, couple of faint marks to covers, top edge dust toned, faint toning to endpapers, edges, and onto margins; a very good copy. first edition, first impression. The Thirty- Nine Steps was originally published in the All Story Weekly from 5 June to 31 July 1915, and in Blackwood’s Magazine under the pseudonym “H. De V.” from July to September 1915. It is the first of five novels featuring the detective Richard Hannay. Hillier A32. 17 £1,500 [129533] Small octavo (143 × 97 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, first edition thus, a translation into Scots dia- sides with gilt supralibros of a Tudor rose and the intials lect of Buchanan’s De Maria Scotorum Regina, from 17 A.G. within a gilt frame, lacks ties. Modern folding case the Latin edition printed the same year, but in- BUCHANAN, George. Ane Detectioun of by J. F. Newman & Son of Dublin. Complete with final cluding a number of items not in the Latin edition. blank, Y4. Early ownership inscription to title; modern the Duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes, Tou- collector’s bookplate of Howard Knohl. Vellum wrinkled Buchanan’s attack on Mary may have been written chand the Murder of hir Husband, and hir at front fore edge, spine darkened, two small marks to under political instructions and certainly contains Conspiracie, Adulterie, and Pretensed Mar- title, a little browning to upper margins of first gathering false allegations. In the wake of the rising of the iage with the Erle Bothwell. London: printed by (perhaps sometime reinserted), short closed tear at foot northern earls in late 1569 and Elizabeth’s excom- of M3, paper generally clean and strong, wide outer mar- munication in 1570, it was printed in both Latin John Day, [1571] gins, retaining a few uncut fore edges, very good.

8 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 18 19 and Scots by John Day, always keen to publish po- 19 single-tint lithographs, some with tissue guards, engraved plate of “Bedouin and Wahhabi Heads”, 4 maps litical tracts helpful to the regime, to justify Mary’s BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of continued incarceration in England. and plans of which 3 are folding. Bookplates of Arthur a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. Henry Sanxay Barwell (1834–1913), Canon of Chichester, ESTC S106062; Pforzheimer 113; STC 3981. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, to pastedowns. Very minor wear and bumping to tips, a £17,500 [128756] 1855–6 couple of scuff marks around spine ends, some light foxing to plates and surrounding pages but contents other- 3 volumes, octavo (218 × 133 mm). Early 20th-century wise clean. An excellent copy. 18 green half calf, spines lettered and tooled in gilt, mar- first edition. Fewer than half a dozen Euro- BUDDHAGHOSA. Parables. Translated from bled sides and endpapers. 15 plates of which 5 chromo- lithographs (including the famous portrait of Burton peans had made the hajj, or pilgrimage to the the Burmese By Captain T. Rogers, R.E. With as “The Pilgrim” mounted as frontispiece to vol. II), 8 Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, forbid- an Introduction, containing Buddha’s Dham- den to non-Muslims, and lived. Of those only the mapada, Or “Path of Virtue,” translated from Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed Pâli By F. Max Müller. London: Trübner & Co., account. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete 1870 disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic and cultural virtuosity which Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt device of figure in Abhayamudra pose, brown surface paper carried considerable risk. During the several days endpapers, terminal publisher’s catalogue. Bookplate of that Burton spent in Mecca, he performed the as- Liberal politician Robert Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of sociated rites of the pilgrimage such as circum- Crewe, who served as Secretary of State for India 1910– ambulating the Kaaba, drinking the Zamzam 15. Spine slightly rubbed, edges a little foxed, publisher’s water and stoning the devil at Mount Arafat. His catalogue foxed, pages uncut. A very good copy. resulting book surpassed all preceding Western first edition, combining a translation of the accounts of the holy cities, made him famous and important work by the fifth-century Indian Ther- became a classic of travel literature, described by avada Buddhist commentator and scholar Bud- T. E. Lawrence as “a most remarkable work of the dhaghosa, together with the German orientalist highest value”. Müller’s translation of the Dhammapadavatthu. Abbey Travel 368; Gay 3634; Howgego IV B95; Ibrahim- £1,500 [129649] Hilmy I p. 111; Penzer, pp. 49–50. £6,750 [129952] 19

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20 BURTON, Richard F. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872 2 volumes, octavo (212 × 133 mm). Contemporary half calf with marbled covers, titles gilt in labels to spines, raised bands and gilt decorated compartments to spines, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Volume 1: frontispiece and 3 etched plates, one lithographic folding map, 4 etched plans. Volume 2: frontispiece and 6 etched plates. Bookplates of R. D. Jackson and W. H. Ingrams to front pastedowns and endpapers respectively, bookseller’s stamp from “Sotheran Sackville St. London” to 21 verso of front endpapers. Some shelf wear to spines and extremities with wear along bottoms of covers, bumping Small quarto (180 × 138 mm), complete with the scarce provenance: Robert Borthwick Adam (1833– to tips, light foxing to prelims, plates standing slightly final leaf Ddd4 (errata). Late 19th-century red crushed 1904; leather bookplate); Edgar F. Leo (1880–1930, proud, tear to map with repair to verso. Remains a very morocco by F. Bedford, spine gilt in compartments and husband of the Provincetown Players playwright good copy. gilt-lettered direct, sides panelled gilt edges. Custom red Rita McCann Wellman; bookplate); Robert morocco backed flat-back folding case, oatmeal cloth first edition, from the library of Harold In- Walsingham Martin (1871–1961; bookplate); John grams (1897–1973), a British colonial administra- sides. Decorative woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Rear joint neatly repaired, title supplied; occa- F. Fleming (his sale, Christie’s New York, 18 No- tor who first came to Zanzibar in 1919 at the age of sional small marginal repairs; last four leaves with inner vember 1988, lot 61). 22 as assistant district commissioner and held sev- margins renewed; CC6 with repaired tear crossing text of Grolier, 100 English, 18; Grolier, L-W, 30; Jordan-Smith, eral positions there, including editor of the Zanzi- shoulder note; some pale spotting at end, a good copy. pp. 80–81; Pforzheimer 119; Printing and the Mind of Man bar Gazette. He later served in Yemen and Uganda first edition. “The Anatomy, as its publishing 120; STC 4159. and wrote a number of books on the region, in- history shows, was one of the most popular books £30,000 [127592] cluding Zanzibar: Its History and Its People (1931). of the 17th century. All the learning of the age as Casada 72; Howgego IV B96; Penzer 88–9. well as its humour—and its pedantry—are there. 22 £3,750 [128959] It has something in common with Brant’s Ship of Fools, Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and More’s Utopia, CAMOENS, Luis de. The Luciad, or Portugals Historicall Poem: written In the Portingall 21 with Rabelais and Montaigne and like all these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought Language; and Now newly put into English [BURTON, Robert.] The Anatomy of Mel- of the time. Dr Johnson deeply admired it, and by Richard Fanshaw Esq. London: Humphrey ancholy, what it is. Oxford: by John Lichfield and Charles Lamb’s often and strongly expressed de- Moseley, 1655 James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621 votion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion” (PMM 120).

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Folio (304 × 194 mm). Contemporary English mottled scurity to greatness. Camões based his Virgilian East” (Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420– calf, red morocco spine label, spine compartments fully epic around Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea 1620, New York, 1962, pp. 92 and 359). The Eng- gilt, decorative gilt roll to board edges. Engraved fron- route from Europe to India via the Cape of Good lish translator, Sir Richard Fanshawe, part of the tispiece portrait of Camoens with verses, 2 engraved Hope in 1497–8, coloured by his own experiences grouping often called the cavalier poets, was an portraits (of Prince Henry of Portugal, just shaved at fore margin, and of Vasco da Gama by Cross). Neat repair to during the 14 years he spent in the East (1553–67), accomplished linguist, who spent a good deal of spine ends, short split to frontispiece at plate mark at including wintering on Hormuz Island, where, time on the Iberian peninsula. From 1662 to 1666, lower inner corner, occasional faint waterstain at foot, Burton argues in Camoens: His Life and his Lusiads, he he was ambassador to Portugal and from 1664 to a few trivial blemishes, but a very good copy, the paper was exposed to Persian literature. 1666 was also ambassador to Spain. generally clean, strong, and well-margined. Boies Penrose calls The Luciad “one of the noblest ESTC R18836; Grolier English 349; Pforzheimer 362; Wing first edition in english of Os Lusíadas (1572), epics” and “the national poem par excellence and C–397. the epic poem describing Portugal’s rise from ob- the supreme epic of Portugal’s conquests in the £15,000 [128757]

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23 24 An attractive copy in a contemporary binding of CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in CERVANTES, Miguel. Don Quixote de La Cervantes’s masterpiece. Originally published in 1605, Don Quixote was an immediate and resounding Wonderland; [together with] Through the Mancha. Translated from the Spanish by success and was soon known throughout Europe. Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Motteux. A new edition, with copious notes; The writing of the second part was stimulated by London: Macmillan and Co., 1869 & 1872 and an essay on the life and writings of Cer- the publication of a spurious “second part” in 1614 2 works, octavo (175 × 122 mm). Recent red crushed mo- vantes. Edinburgh & London: for Archibald Consta- and was an even greater success. This edition uses rocco by Bayntun (Riviere), titles to spines in gilt, gilt ble; for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822 Peter Motteux’s English translation, “widely ad- motifs blocked to spine compartments, Mad Hatter and 5 volumes, octavo (180 × 114 mm). Contemporary diced mired throughout the 18th and 19th centuries for Queen of Hearts blocked in gilt to front covers, turn-ins calf, neatly rebacked with original twin black labels let- its descriptive lucidity and playful wit” (ODNB), and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With tered in gilt, Aldine tool to spines, gilt roll to covers, the original cloths bound in at rear. Illustrated through- here edited anonymously by John Gibson Lockhart, marbled edges. Hand-coloured frontispiece to each vol- out by Sir John Tenniel. Spines uniformly a little a faded, the Scottish writer and editor best known for his bi- ume. Some wear to extremities and tips, a little scuffing very occasional faint foxing to contents of Through the ography of Sir Walter Scott. and a few marks to covers, offsetting to title pages, oc- Looking-Glass, else a fine pair. casional spot of foxing to contents but generally quite £650 [127566] first edition of Through the Looking-Glass, early clean. A very good set. printing (eighteenth thousand) of Alice’s Adven- 25 tures in Wonderland. Like its predecessor, Through the Looking-Glass was published for the Christmas CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia; The Viceroy market and bears the following year’s date in its of Ouidah; On the Black Hill; The Songlines; imprint. It was actually published in December Utz. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977–88 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies. Together 5 separately published works, octavo. Original Williams, Madan & Green 46 & 84. cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With the dust jackets. Black and white photographs. Bookplate to In Patagonia. A very £3,750 [129471] good set in the dust jackets, some creasing, On the Black Hill price-clipped, In Patagonia price-clipped and a little stained at foot of spine panel with short closed tear to rear fold. first editions, first impressions, of Chatwin’s first five works. Chatwin (1940–1989) 24 was an English travel writer, novelist, and journal-

12 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington ist. In 1982 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel for his novel On the Black Hill and in 1988 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel Utz. £750 [129576]

26 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Thoughts and Ad- ventures. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1932 Octavo. Finely bound for Sotheran in blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illus- trated with photographic frontispiece, several cartoons. Pages nice and clean, spine faded, an excellent copy. first edition, first impression. A collection of reminiscences from Churchill’s earlier life. £875 [127457]

27 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Beating the In- vader. A message from the Prime Minister. London: Issued by the Ministry of Information in co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, 1941 Quarto single-sheet flyer (280 × 210 mm), text both sides. Without the additional notice printed in red found in the minority of copies. first edition, of which over 14 million copies were printed. “The huge print run might leave one with the impression that the leaflet would be commonly found today. It was, however, only a leaflet anticipating an event that never came to pass. In the event very few copies have survived” (Cohen). Stocks of Beating the Invader were delivered from the HMSO Press at Harrow to the GPO between 19 and 23 May 1941. Deliveries to each household in the country began on the 27th and were completed within a week. The imprint code includes “(2 kds.)” meaning “2 kinds” of leaflet, indicating those with and those without the additional notice 27 in red at the head of the front page. Those with the notice were issued to what became known as the munities on the list from Great Yarmouth round Cohen B76; Woods A69. Our special thanks to Mr Peter “38 towns”, those coastal communities that were to Hythe. This was later extended to take in Lit- Scott for information regarding the two variants of the to be evacuated under compulsory orders in the tlehampton and certain inland towns (Ipswich, leaflet. event of invasion. Initially there had been 17 com- Colchester, Canterbury, etc.). £850 [124869]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 13 29 CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. London: The Educa- tional Book Company Ltd, 1956–58 4 volumes, large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt-panelled spines with red leather labels lettered in gilt, front covers lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges blue, blue and white endbands. With plates, diagrams and tables throughout. A few light markings to cloth, else a very good set. first illustrated edition of Churchill’s famous history, the second overall. With an autograph letter signed from Winston Churchill pasted to the front pastedown of the first. The letter is 28 from the earliest stages of Churchill’s political career, responding to an unidentified request from 28 “H. S. Walts”, presumably for an autograph, “Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 30 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World of February 25th and have pleasure in granting your War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948–54 request. Yours truly, Winston S. Churchill”. Dated junior position “had proved that he was of Cabi- 6 volumes, octavo (205 × 134 mm). Near-contemporary 9 March 1907 and sent on Colonial Office Paper, red crushed morocco by Asprey’s, spines lettered in gilt, net timber” and could “dominate everything he Churchill at the time was the Under-Secretary to touched” (Gilbert, vol. II, p. 193). By March 1907 gilt beaded roll to spine bands and single rule to spine Lord Elgin in the Colonial Office, and despite his compartments, single gilt fillet to covers, marbled end- Churchill had dealt with the two main issues fac- papers, gilt edges. Maps and diagrams, some folding. ing the Colonial Office: “Chinese Labour in South Front endpaper of vol. I lightly creased, a few minor Africa and the establishment of a constitution for marks to morocco, rear cover of vol. VI with repeated the Transvaal” (Gilbert, Companion, p. 495). This indentations and with pastedown slightly lifted through capability ensured that “no limits could be now damp, volume number of vol. VI misnumbered and al- fixed to his ultimate success”, and he was sworn tered. A very good set. into the Privy Council on 1 May 1907 (Gilbert, vol. first uk editions, first impressions, of II, p. 193). Churchill’s masterpiece, in a highly attractive Cohen 267.2; Woods A138(a). binding. The Second World War ranks as one of the supreme historical achievements of the 20th cen- £2,500 [128809] tury, and is commonly cited as a major factor in Churchill being awarded the Nobel prize in litera- 30 ture in 1953. A man who had always primarily made (CLARKE, Harry.) POE, Edgar Allan. Tales his living by his pen, Churchill was the only major of Mystery and Imagination. London: George G. war leader to give an authoritative account of the conflict, and his ringing phrases seeped into the Harrap & Co., 1919 collective memory. As Max Beloff observed, there Large quarto. Original vellum with titles to spine in gilt, was no statesman of the 20th century “whose ret- central vignette to front cover in gilt, within gilt frame, top rospective accounts of the great events in which he edge gilt, others untrimmed, endpapers renewed. Frontis- piece and 23 plates in black and white with tissue guards, has taken part have so dominated subsequent his- title page vignette, head- and tailpieces. Very light soiling torical thinking”. The UK editions were published to covers, tiny scratch to rear cover, offsetting to half-title, a few months after the US editions and, unlike the faint mark to verso of final page; a near-fine copy. latter, included Churchill’s last-minute revisions. signed limited edition, number 89 of 170 Cohen A240.4 (I–VI).a. copies signed by the illustrator. Harry Clarke £3,850 [129492 (1889–1931) was a leading figure in the Irish arts 29 and crafts movement, predominantly in his role

14 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 30 31 as a stained-glass artist. This work was the first to 4 volumes, octavo (213 × 126 mm). Contemporary trade civil reforms of 1765”, going on to comment that establish him as an illustrator; it was subsequently binding of unlettered half sheep, gilt volume numbers the book “provided considerable detail” concern- reissued in 1923 with additional colour plates. direct to spines, marbled sides. Engraved portrait frontis- ing Clive’s financial improprieties and continued piece of Clive, folding map to vol. I (“An Accurate Map of In- with a character assassination built upon pages Ralph Pollin Burton, Images Of Poe’s Works: A Comprehensive dia”, title within a pretty rococo cartouche). Contemporary Descriptive Catalogue of Illustrations (1989), p. 9. bookplates somewhat hastily removed from pastedowns by “filled with stories of Clive’s cruelty, his immorality, £3,750 [128723] a previous owner (with stripping of paper). Heads of spines and his great vanity, all sharpened by insult”. Har- and corners professionally refurbished, text-blocks lightly rington concludes by saying that “perhaps its most toned. A very good set with the half-titles. interesting contribution was its detailed and sar- 31 first edition of the first biography of castic account of Clive’s suicide . . . The four-volume (CLIVE, Robert.) CARACCIOLI, Charles. clive, the initial volume issued in the year follow- Caraccioli biography was a venomous collection of The Life of Robert Lord Clive, Baron Plassey. ing his death. It is certainly uncommon and this is anecdotes representing Clive as a cruel, thuggish, Wherein are Impartially delineated his Mili- a most appealing set in a contemporary plain trade uncouth, avaricious adventurer” (Sir John Malcolm tary Talents in the Field; his Maxims of Gov- binding. The supposed author is the French-born and the Creation of British India, 2010, pp. 166–7). The ernment in the Cabinet, during the two last topographer Charles Caraccioli (b. 1722?), of whom book was drubbed by the critics, the Monthly Review referring to it as a “slovenly jumble”. Wars in the East Indies, which made him Ar- little is known, although ODNB notes that “it seems biter of Empire, and the richest Subject in Eu- likely that as a young man Charles left for the French provenance: ownership inscriptions on front free colony at Pondicherry, but moved to Britain during endpapers of Thomas Hodges, dated 1824; possibly rope. With Anecdotes of his Private Life, and the hostilities of the 1750s”. However, in his study the Thomas Hodges who corresponded with the the Particular Circumstances of his Death. of Sir John Malcolm, historian Jack Harrington East India merchant John Palmer (1767–1836), see Also a Narrative of all the last Transactions in notes that the real authors “are widely believed to Anthony Webster, The Richest East India Merchant: The India. London: T. Bell, [1775–7] have been East India Company army officers who Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta (2007). lost out financially as a result of Clive’s military and £1,650 [126702]

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32 was well established in literary circles: an early 33 CLOUSTON, William Alexander. Arabian champion of Swinburne, he secured a pension for COCKS, Charles. Bordeaux: Its Wines, and Tennyson and popularised the works of Emerson Poetry for English Readers. Glasgow: Privately in Britain, alongside publishing two volumes of the Claret Country. London: Longman, Brown, Printed, 1881 poetry in 1838, and a Life and Letters of Keats in 1848, Green, and Longman, 1846 Octavo. Contemporary half straight grained morocco based on the materials of Keats’s friend Charles Duodecimo. Original brown cloth, neatly rebacked with binding, title gilt to spine in black morocco compart- Armitage Brown. original gilt lettered spine laid down, spine and covers ment, raised bands with gilt rules to spine, cloth sides elaborately blocked in blind, yellow coated endpapers, with Houghton’s heraldic supralibros in gilt to front This anthology includes several entertaining and fore edge untrimmed. With 32 pp. of advertisements at board, marbled endpapers. Lithographed frontispiece of readable poems and folk tales from earlier trans- end. Engraved landscape frontispiece. Professionally re- an illuminated manuscript of a poem of al-Busiri in the lations by Carlyle, Redhouse, and Terrick Hamil- paired (spine ends and tips consolidated). Spine faded, possession of E. J. W. Gibb. Extremities a little rubbed, ton. Clouston includes a large section of the story wear to tips, cloth slightly soiled, top edge dust toned, edges lightly foxed. A very good copy. of Antar, as well as poems “To a little man with a light marks to endpapers, occasional faint foxing to con- first edition, one of 300 small paper copies. very large beard”, “On procrastination”, and “On a tents; a very good copy. Bound in at the front is a letter from Clouston to cat, that was killed as she was attempting to rob a first edition of the foundational text, the “sem- Lord Houghton, later the Marquess of Crewe and dove-house”. The list of subscribers at the front in- inal edition of what we know today as Bordeaux et Secretary of State for India 1910–15, thanking him cludes, alongside Lord Houghton, several impor- ses Vins”, a series of continuously revised editions for purchasing the book and asking to know his tant Orientalists, including Stanley Lane Poole, still considered the most comprehensive source of opinion of it. William Muir, and Aloys Sprenger, and other im- information on the Bordeaux vineyards (Gabler). Counted “among the giants of 19th-century folk- portant figures such as William Gladstone, the Michel-Édouard Féret commissioned Cocks, an lore”, Clouston was an Orcadian living in Glasgow, young Prince Leopold, and Sir Henry Rawlinson. Englishman who lived in Bordeaux from 1840 until who was well known for “rendering visible the net- Among the names is also the prominent Syrian Ot- his death in 1854, to produce this work as a direc- work of popular tales and fictions between Asia toman reformist Louis Sabunji, who was living in tory of wine aimed at his compatriots. In 1850 Fé- and Europe” (Dorson, The British Folklorists, p. 264). London at the time of publication, where he would ret translated the work into French and published He added notes to volumes 2 and 3 of Burton’s later teach Arabic. it as Bordeaux et ses Vins, the 18th edition of which Supplemental Arabian Nights, discussing “Variants £500 [129664] was published in 2007. Cocks’s English original is and Analogues” to some of the tales. Houghton

16 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 34 35 notably uncommon, with just ten copies traced in- the style of celebrated barroom artist John Held Being in the particular an elucidation of the stitutionally in the UK. Jr. More commonly found in later coloured states, Manners and Customs of people of quality in Gabler G16560. this is the rarely found first issue in the largest a period of some equality. London: Constable & size and with different text to the insert, notably £3,750 [129623] Company, Ltd, 1930 the tab changing from “Pull Here” in this issue Octavo. Original black cloth-backed metallic boards, to “Pull Here/Hold Below” in later issues, and the 34 spine lettered in gilt, front board decorated in green, smaller lower margins of the envelope which allow black, and grey, pictorial endpapers. Text printed in red (COCKTAILS.) BOLAND, John. Forty Fa- for a larger image but require a perilous grip on the and black. Frontispiece and coloured illustrations by Gil- mous Cocktails Being a Compendium of Re- edge of the envelope for the user. The tears in this bert Rumbold throughout. Manuscript cocktail recipe in liable Recipes Carefully Compiled for use in copy illustrate perfectly why these changes were pencil to the notes section (p. 282). Wear to spine ends quickly brought about in all later issues. and tips, rubbing to boards, tiny split to cloth at foot of this Arid Area. Engraved with Humble Apolo- rear hinge, a little paper residue to rear board, faint fox- gies to that Master Engraver John Held Jr. New £575 [127213] ing to bottom edge, top edge dust toned, contents nota- York: Colonial Sales Corp., [c.1930] bly clean and bright; a very good, fresh, copy. Two prints attached to form an envelope (190 × 290 mm), 35 first edition, first impression, with pagi- between the two prints a sliding card with text to be viewed (COCKTAILS.) CRADDOCK, Harry. The Sa- nated prelims and tipped-in Bacardi cocktail slip through cut-outs on each print. Engraved by John Boland. voy Cocktail Book. Being in the main a com- on p. 25. It features 750 of the most popular recipes Some light stains (drink splashes perhaps), bumped to edg- from the legendary American barman Harry Crad- es, closed tears to top and bottom of the envelope. plete compendium of the cocktails, Rickeys, dock, together with elegant art-deco illustrations, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, first issue of this imaginative movable cocktail and anecdotes behind the cocktails. recipe display featuring humorous illustrations in Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other drinks . . . £1,250 [129529]

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36 37 COLVILE, Henry Edward. The Accursed CORSO, Gregory. Bomb. San Francisco: City Land; Or First Steps on the Water-Way of Lights, 1958 Edom. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Broadsheet folded in quarters, titles printed in black. Rivington, 1884 Housed in custom red cloth folding chemise within red cloth slipcase, red morocco label to spine. Toned as usu- Octavo. Original light green cloth, title gilt to spine and al. A fine copy. front cover, gilt decorative figures on black backgrounds to spine and front cover, floral endpapers. Folding “Sketch first edition, first printing (with two lines map showing the author’s route”, frontispiece portrait of of advertisements and price of 25 cents), of Corso’s Colvile’s dragoman. Spine and tips slightly bumped, text early and best-known poem, inscribed by the au- block lightly browned a little foxing to endpapers, map thor on the rear cover with a red pen doodle of a cat and rear of frontispiece, pages uncut. A very good copy. and mouse, with his signature underneath. Printed first edition of this account of an early journey in the shape of a mushroom cloud, Corso’s poem in the Sinai Peninsula and Wadi Arabah undertaken was one of the earliest Beat works to engage with the in 1883 by Colvile, who later “achieved a reputa- existence of the nuclear bomb. “The Gregory Corso tion as one of the army’s best intelligence officers” poem ‘Bomb’ was more to the point and touched (ODNB). Colvile set out from Victoria Station with the spirit of the times better—a wasted world and his servant, Cash, in November 1883 and was joined totally mechanized—a lot of hustle and bustle—a in Venice by his friend Captain Peacocke of the lot of shelves to clean, boxes to stack. I wasn’t going Royal Engineers. Shortly after the party had passed to pin my hopes on that” (Dylan, Chronicles, vol. I, St Catherine’s Monastery he chanced to come face p. 235). The work is now rare, and is especially so 38 to face with Kitchener and a party of Englishmen, signed; no signed copies can be traced at auction. COWELL, John. The Curious and Profitable “a hundred miles or more from one of their kind”. Wilson A3. Gardener . . . To which is added, An exact de- Unable to pass, they “were forced, literally, to jostle scription of the great American aloe, its Man- each other arm to arm in the narrow gorge” (p. 72). £1,750 [129666] ner of Blossoming, and Uses; together with Colvile went on to have a distinguished career in the Army in Uganda and South Africa. the Culture of that, and many other rare Ex- otic Plants. London: printed for Weaver Bickerton, £750 [129541] & Richard Montagu, 1730

18 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington first edition, with a strong focus on the cultiva- tion of newly-introduced exotic plants: the work is notable for its lengthy list of the individuals who introduced exotic plants into the country (p. 124), and for its discussion of how to cultivate pineap- ples, bananas, and guava in Britain. provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library, with their neat stamp and shelf marks to pastedown, and pencilled shelf mark to title page. The library was assembled in the early 20th century by Sir John Russell, director of the Rothamsted agricultural research institution in Hertfordshire, and ranked as one of the finest English collections of agricultural material. ESTC T27169; Henrey 579; Hunt 482; Nissen 418. £2,750 [129023] 39 39 (CROSBY, Harry.) GOULD, Charles. Mythi- cal Monsters. With ninety-three illustrations. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1886 Octavo. Original lizard skin patterned brown cloth over bevelled boards, titles to spine in gilt, titles and illustrations to front cover in gilt, ownership crest in gilt on rear cover, gilt patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece, title page vignette, and 93 engravings in the text. Spine gently rolled and a little faded, wear to spine ends and tips, front board a little rubbed, occasional faint foxing throughout, hinges starting but holding. A very 39 good copy in uncommonly fresh, unrestored, condition. first edition, from the library of the Crosby was obsessed by the mystical and occult and “lost generation” icons harry and mary bought many supposedly sacred items during his (caresse) crosby, with Harry’s ownership in- travels with Caresse in Tunisia and Egypt, including scription on the half-title verso, “Harry Crosby, unidentifiable skeletons. It was in Egypt that Cros- a Paris ce Neuf Septembre 1925, Our Third Wed- by “became enamoured with sun worship, follow- ding Anniversary”; with the Black Sun blindstamp ing the ancient Egyptian rites to the sun god, Ra” 38 to the head of the half-title, their bookplate to the (Nash, p. 156). This work, an early example of cryp- front pastedown, and an elaborate version of their tozoology, is an appropriate association, as it de- 2 parts in 1 volume as issued, octavo (197 × 126 mm). crest blocked in gilt to rear cover. The bookplate tails the history of mythical creatures through pale- Contemporary panelled calf, later manuscript label to and crest both feature “The Crosby Cross”, a de- ontological evidence. It potentially also appealed to spine, blind-stamped floral cornerpieces to covers. With sign incorporating the names of Harry and Ca- Crosby’s obsession with ancient symbolism, exam- a folding hand-coloured engraved plate of bananas. Ini- resse, crossing at the first “r”, which Crosby has ining a number of early hieroglyphs, and suggesting tial contents leaves, often wanting, present. Pencilled copied out in ink above his ownership inscription. a connection to early Chinese characters. notes on rear endpaper. Very minor wear at head of spine Crosby and Caresse had eloped to Paris in 1922, and tips, faint stain to front cover, short closed tear to Jay Robert Nash, World Encyclopedia of 20th Century Murder front endpaper, tiny peripheral chips to title page, con- and subsequently embedded themselves in the (1992). tents a little toned, folding plate with tear along first fold avant-garde cultural scene, holding wild parties in £3,750 [129159] repaired, a few page corners lightly creased, marginal their palace on the île Saint-Louis, and founding repair to p. 122-3 without loss to text. A very good copy. the Black Sun Press.

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41 40 “Edward Kelly can be very interesting at times. Too bad that he let Aleister Crowley interfere so much” alchemist). There were six stories in all: Bleiler had 40 41 tracked down the four earliest stories from a partial collection of The International held at Harvard Library. CROWLEY, Aleister. The Stratagem and Oth- [CROWLEY, Aleister.] KELLY, Edward. The In his letter to Starrett, he writes: “Someday I hope er Stories. London: The Mandrake Press, [1929] Scrutinies of Simon Iff. Holliston, MA: Privately to find the 1918 issues for each story seems to me a Octavo. Original black cloth-backed snakeskin patterned printed by Everett Bleiler, 1954 little better than its predecessor, and the 1918 stories boards, printed paper title label to spine. Spine sunned, Octavo (178 × 122 mm), 98 pp., printed in typescript on should be very good – if the improvement continues” a little wear around extremities, sides slightly rubbed. A both sides. Original multi-coloured patterned cloth, The stories included here are: “Big Game” (Septem- good copy. handwritten cream paper label to spine in red and black. ber 1917); “The Artistic Temperament” (October first edition, first impression, the au- With a glassine jacket. Manuscript title page in black 1917); “Outside the Bank’s Routine” (November thor’s own copy, which he has signed “Aleister ink. Occasional corrections in Bleiler’s hand to the text, 1917); and “The Conduct of John Briggs” (December Crowley Library copy” on the front free endpaper. in blue ink. Tips a touch rubbed, a couple of very small 1917). They were not republished until 1987. Crowley has corrected a couple of passages in ink. marks to front cover, first gathering slightly loose but holding, occasional finger-marking. A near-fine copy in Crowley notably warranted only one, not so fa- The book passed following Crowley’s death to his the glassine jacket with slight loss to front cover. vourable, entry in Bleiler’s seminal bibliography, friend and executor, the novelist Louis Wilkin- The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, in which he de- son, with his re-presentation inscription under- one of only two copies: four of Aleister Crow- ley’s pseudonymously-published detective stories, scribes “The Testament of Magdalen Blair” as neath: “For Grace Lewis from Louis Wilkinson, “one of the most unpleasant stories in the genre” to whom it passed his executor”. Crowley and typed up from their original appearances in The In- ternational magazine (1917–1918) and hand-bound p. 132. Here, he drily notes to Starrett: “Edward Wilkinson had first met in around 1907, though it Kelly can be very interesting at times. Too bad that was not until 1915, when they were both living in by noted editor and science fiction bibliographer Everett Bleiler in 1954. The volume is accompanied he let Aleister Crowley interfere so much”. This America, that they became close friends. Wilkin- copy has Starrett’s bookplate, his ownership in- son never subscribed to Crowley’s teachings, but by a typewritten letter from Bleiler presenting it to his friend the writer and bibliophile Vincent Star- scription dated 17 December 1954 to the front free still admired him, stating that: “My chief feeling endpaper, and his initialled inscription to the rear about him is one of personal gratitude, for I have rett. In it, he notes that this slim volume is “the result of a tip you gave me several years ago” Bleiler pastedown, “Only two copies, typed and bound by known very few who, as persons, have impressed Everett Bleiler”, with Starrett’s initials below. me more or rewarded me more than he did” (cited retained a second copy for himself. The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 471. in Marlow, Seven Friends, 1953, p. 64). Crowley’s short stories, featuring the mystic detective Simon Iff, were published under the name Edward £2,000 [126693] £3,500 [127840] Kelly (most likely after the Elizabethan occultist and

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42 lished in the UK in 1967 and originally published 45 DAHL, Roald. Danny The Champion of the in the US in 1964. DAHL, Roald. Going Solo. London: Jonathan World. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975 £1,250 [129538] Cape, 1986 Octavo. Original pale orange boards, titles to spine gilt, Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pic- top edge orange, beige endpapers. With the pictorial dust 44 torial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontis- jacket. Black and white illustrations by Jill Bennett in the piece, several photographs throughout text, 2 maps. A text. Spine rolled; a very good copy in the jacket with faded DAHL, Roald. George’s Marvellous Medi- near-fine copy in the dust jacket, spine panel with faint spine panel, extremities a little creased and tips nicked. cine. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: mark and very minor creasing at head. first edition, first impression. It was the Jonathan Cape, 1981 first edition, first impression. signed by basis for the 1989 film of the same title starring Octavo. Original blue boards, title to spine in gilt. With the author on the half-title. Going Solo contin- Jeremy Irons, with his son Samuel in the title role. the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by Quentin ues Dahl’s autobiography from his account of his Blake. Faint mark to head of rear panel and onto spine, childhood years in Boy, describing his travels in £350 [126808] light foxing to top edge, partially removed ownership inscription and light mark to head of front free endpaper, Africa and his experiences in the RAF. 43 contents notably bright; a near-fine copy in the jacket £750 [129502] with lightly faded spine, small stain to head of rear panel DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate and onto spine, tiny loss of colour to foot of rear panel, 46 Factory. Illustrated by Faith Jaques. London: light foxing to flaps. George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1975 first edition, first impression, signed by DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to the author in purple on the front free endpa- Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 front cover and spine in black. Vignette illustrations by per, “Roald Dahl 6 March, 1982”. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With Jaques in the text throughout. Touch of wear to spine £3,750 [129531] the dust jacket. Numerous illustrations in text by Blake. ends, slight rubbing to tips; else a fine copy. Mild foxing to edges, a near-fine copy in the bright jacket first uk edition, sixth impression, inscribed with a little creasing to spine ends. by the author on the front free endpaper, “Sister first edition, first impression. Matilda won Quentin with love Roald Dahl”. We are unable to the Children’s Book Award in the year of its pub- identify the recipient, though it has nothing to do lication. with Quentin Blake, as the two did not meet until £500 [126776] 1978, when they collaborated on The Enormous Croc- odile. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first pub- 44

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47 48 over 5,000 volumes was dispersed in 1961 when DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species by DARWIN, Charles. The Effects of Cross and their building was sold. Means of Natural Selection. London: John Mur- Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom. Freeman 1249. ray, 1875 London: John Murray, 1876 £2,000 [129610] Octavo (187 × 115 mm). Contemporary green calf, red Octavo. Original green cloth, covers blocked with a blind morocco label, spine richly gilt to compartments, double panel, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Diagram at 49 gilt fillet to covers, turn-ins tooled in blind, marbled end- p. 53; 109 letterpress tables. Bookseller’s ticket to past- papers and edges. Folding diagram facing page 91. Spine edown. Errata slip bound upside down. Light rubbing to DARWIN, Charles. The Different Forms of lightly faded, minor foxing to initial and final leaves and joints and extremities, small dark mark to front cover, Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. With folding plate, else a very good copy, attractively bound. hinges beginning to split but firm, a few page corners illustrations. London: John Murray, 1877 sixth edition, fifth issue, marked as the lightly creased. A very good copy. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decorative bands “fifteenth thousand” on the title page. The sixth first edition. Darwin’s research on fertilisation gilt to spine, sides blocked in blind, dark brown coated is the last lifetime edition. Darwin continually in plants was an offshoot of his work on evolution endpapers. With the publisher’s 32-page catalogue, made revisions to his text: this edition featured a and natural selection. To demonstrate that ge- dated March 1877, to the rear. With 15 woodcuts and 38 tables in text. Bookseller’s ticket to pastedown. Spine new chapter, chapter VII, and a glossary by W. S. netic variation gave organisms an advantage in the lightly rolled with a couple of minor marks, a couple of struggle for survival, he performed experiments Dallas. “The edition was aimed at a wider public small mark to front cover, hinges beginning to split but and printed in smaller type . . . giving the general demonstrating that self-fertilisation weakened still firm. A very good copy. impression of a cheap edition, which at 7s. 6d, it plants in comparison with those that had been first edition, published in a single issue of 1,250 was”. It is also the first edition of the Origin of Species cross-fertilised. Darwin considered this volume copies, with adverts dated either January or March to feature the word “evolution”; the term was first to be a complement to his 1862 book, Fertilisation 1877 without priority. One of Darwin’s more tech- used by Darwin in The Descent of Man, published in of Orchids, though this one was more technical and nical books, much of the content had previously 1871. The sixth edition was reprinted unchanged the initial print run was low, with only 1,500 copies been published in journals. Freeman notes that from stereos in 1872 and again in 1873. The final selling in the first year. “had Darwin not chosen such genetically complex issue (eighteenth thousand) is dated 1876; stereos provenance: The Royal Philosophical Society examples, he might have approached more nearly of this issue were used for the very many issues of Glasgow, with their bookplate to pastedown, to an understanding of the laws of particulate in- which followed, from 1878 to 1929. and stamps to title and contents page. Founded heritance”. Freeman 398. in 1802 to discuss and improve the arts and sci- provenance: The Royal Philosophical Society ences in Glasgow, the Society built up a consid- £1,850 [129932] of Glasgow, with their bookplate to pastedown, erable library of scientific books. This library of

22 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 49, 50, 51 and stamps to title and contents page (see previ- general. By extending the idea of irregular cir- brown endpapers. 15 woodcuts to the text, publisher’s ous item). cumnutation the Darwins analysed the growth advertisement leaf at rear. Bookseller’s ticket to pastedown. Spine lightly rolled, minor wear to extremities, Freeman 1277. movement of plants in response to factors of the environment such as light, gravity, and wounds. else a very good copy, contents clean. £1,500 [129613] In addition, they demonstrated that the mecha- first edition, first issue, of Darwin’s final nism of curvature in both roots and shoots was book. Published the year before his death, the work 50 the result of differential growth rates. They could was remarkably successful, selling 6,000 copies DARWIN, Charles & Francis. The Power of also confirm that the effect of the stimuli on the within a year, and indeed initially sold faster than Movement in Plants. With illustrations. Lon- growth movement was indirect and that light and the Origin of Species had done. The culmination of ten years of intensive research and close observation don: John Murray, 1880 gravity act on some substance in the tip of the root and the shoot, which is transmitted to other parts on the interaction of earthworms with their physi- Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt with cal environment and their influence on great earth gilt decorative border at ends, covers blindstamped, of the plant. Francis Darwin later refined some of movements, the work “was his leitmotif, explaining brown coated endpapers. With 196 woodcuts in the text. the experimental techniques and modified their Bookseller’s ticket to pastedown. Hinges just beginning theoretical conclusions” (ODNB). vast changes by minute incremental events: moun- to split but still firm, a few instances of faint finger-soil- provenance: The Royal Philosophical Society tain uplift, evolving life, and now worms transforming, else an excellent copy, with little darkening to spine. of Glasgow, with their bookplate to pastedown, ing the soil” (ODNB). The first issue is distinguished first edition, first issue, with 32 pp. inserted and stamps to title and contents page (see previ- by the absence of a “thousand” statement on the title page. The first printing of two thousand cop- adverts dated May 1878 and with two lines of erra- ous item). ies was apparently split between two equal issues, ta at the foot of page x; 1,500 copies were printed. Freeman 1325. The collaborative authorship proclaimed on the the first without such a statement, the second with title page reflects Darwin’s concern to introduce £2,500 [129604] “second thousand” on the title; all issues thereafter his children into the world of science. Francis had a thousand statement. Darwin had trained as a doctor but turned from 51 provenance: The Royal Philosophical Society medicine to botany, initially working as secretary DARWIN, Charles. The Formation of Veg- of Glasgow, with their bookplate to pastedown, and assistant to his father. In 1876 he had been etable Mould, through the Action of Worms, and stamps to title and contents page (see previous item). for some months at the University of Würzburg, with Observations on their Habits. With il- learning laboratory methods from Julius Sachs. lustrations. London: John Murray, 1881 Freeman 1357. “The book was an extension of Charles Darwin’s £2,000 [129595] work on climbing plants and it showed that the Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front and rear covers panelled in blind, dark same mechanisms can be observed in plants in

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52 Octavo (214 × 126 mm). 19th-century red morocco by 54 Tout and Sons, titles to spine in gilt, spine elaborately DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. tooled in gilt in compartments, raised bands tooled in DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Decorated by John Minton. London: Macdon- gilt, triple ruled frames with elaborate floral cornerpiec- Clock. With illustrations by G. Cattermole ald, 1951 es to covers in gilt, floral textured doublures and end- and H. K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, papers, turn-ins elaborately tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in gilt on 1840–41 red silk book marker. Original paper wrapper for No. XII brown background. With the dust jacket, designed by bound in at front. Etched vignette title page with tissue 88 weekly parts, octavo. Original white wrappers printed Minton. Frontispiece, title vignette, illustrations in the guard, frontispiece, and 41 plates by Robert Seymour, in black. Housed in an early 20th-century green cloth text by Minton. Light foxing to cloth, endpapers and R. W. Buss, and H. K. Browne. Newspaper clipping la- chemise within green half morocco box, spine lettered edges; a near-fine copy in the jacket with browned spine belled in manuscript from The Morning Star, discussing in gilt, green cloth sides. With 3 engraved frontispieces and faint toning to flaps. claims that ownership of the characters lay with Robert and black and white illustrations in text. Neat contempo- first edition, first impression, of the au- Seymour, dated 2 April 1866 pasted to p. X. With the rary ownership signature to a few parts. Some parts with thor’s landmark second book, written while ra- addresses dated December 1836 (part X) and June 1837 damp stains and soiling, light creasing to centres, a bit tioning was still in force. Elizabeth David (1913– (part XV). Slight rubbing to spine and tips, a couple of of fraying and chips to peripheries, some parts with sew- ing loose, pp. 115–8 of part 8 crudely opened with 3.5 cm 1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking tiny scratches to leather, faint foxing to contents; a near- fine copy. closed tear, parts 62 and 63 with old mould marks, spill- while living abroad during the early 1940s, and in burn with a few letters loss to p. 145 of part 65, 6cm tear 1949 she began writing a food column for Harper’s first edition, early issue, bound from parts to p. 245 of part 73. A little bit of wear to box, morocco Bazaar. Her first book was published to wide ac- with the two Buss plates present (facing pages 69 sunned. A very good set. and 74), otherwise all the plates are in early states claim the following year, and she is now recog- first edition, in the original weekly with page numbers as called for, with neither titles nised for her profound influence on British culi- parts, the rarest of the three formats in which it nor imprints, and the vignette title-page with the nary culture. was issued (weekly; monthly; and in book form). signboard reading “Veller” (corrected to “Weller” £1,250 [129674] Gordon Ray described this as “the pinnacle of in later issues). Dickensian Gothic”. Master Humphrey was a pub- Hatton and Cleaver pp. 1 ff; Smith, I.3; Robert Patton, 53 lishing experiment on Dickens’s part, unique in Dickens and his Publishers, p. 326. his canon, of issuing two novels together: The Old DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers £2,950 [129476] Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. of The Pickwick Club. With forty-three illus- Hatton and Cleaver p. 163. trations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 £2,250 [127227]

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56 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844 Octavo (218 × 129 mm). Early 20th-century red half morocco by Root and Son for John Wanamaker, spine lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Bound without half-title or terminal advertisements. Spine faintly sunned, front cover 55 discreetly re-attached, tiny wear to extremities, some faint foxing but much less pronounced than usual. A 55 ter heading. A Christmas Carol was an instant suc- very good copy. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In cess, reportedly selling all 6,000 copies of the first first edition in book form, first issue, fol- edition on the first day of publication, and Dickens lowing serialization between December 1842 and Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. went on to write four more small festive books for July 1844. This copy has the £100 title plate, not With illustrations by John Leech. London: each successive Christmas. Of the five Christmas transposed. The transposed plate is often sug- Chapman & Hall, 1843 books, however, it is A Christmas Carol which has gested as a first issue point, though Hatton and Octavo (162 × 100 mm). Recent green full morocco by best stood the test of time. “It is rather as if Dick- Cleaver long ago dismissed this, stating that “It is Bayntun (Riviere), titles and decorations to spine in gilt ens had rewritten a religious tract and filled it both merely one of the five cases in Chuzzlewit of tripli- in compartments, white, red, pink and purple morocco with his own memories and with all the concerns cated steels, one of them reading ‘100£’ and the inlay depicting Scrooge to front cover, triple rule frame of the period. He had, in other words, created a other two ‘£100’ . . . all three of them in use during in gilt, with foliate cornerpieces, to covers, marbled endpapers, turn-ins ruled in gilt, edges gilt, original modern fairy story. And so it has remained” (Peter the issue in parts”. cloth bound in at rear. Housed in a custom green cloth Ackroyd, p. 413). Smith I, 7; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 183–212. slipcase. Hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 steel- Smith II, 4; Eckel pp. 110–15; Todd, The Book Collector, £600 [127226] engraved plates after Leech, wood-engravings within the 1961, pp. 449–54. Ackroyd, Dickens, 2012. text by W. J. Linton after Leech; title page printed in blue and red. A fine copy in a very pretty binding. £6,750 [130700] first edition, first issue, with red and blue title page dated 1843 and “Stave I” as the first chap-

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57 (DICKENS, Charles.) MENKEN, Adah Isaacs. Infelicia. London: [privately printed], 1868 Sextodecimo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt facsimile signature and title to front cover. Housed in a large cloth box, black morocco label. Portrait frontispiece and facsimile letter. Shelf label to rear pastedown. Cloth a little cockled and marked, frontispiece loosening at head, a few instances of finger-soiling. A very good copy. 58 first edition, the dedication copy, with charles dickens’s bookplate. This was the to dedicate it to him. The first edition includes his having been told by the auctioneer that the book only book of the famous American actress Adah agreement, printed in facsimile on the printed ded- had remained with Dickens’s family and was con- Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), published within days ication verso. The publishers had, however, merged signed by a descendant. of her early death. Menken was a great admirer of two different letters to make the facsimile, which £3,750 [130000] Dickens, first meeting him in 1864 at her London caused controversy when the fact came to light. Al- performance of Mazeppa. The meeting proved awk- though Dickens’s permission was not in question, ward, as Dickens disapproved of her bohemian they dropped the facsimile from later editions. Two “Never send to know for whom the bell tols” lifestyle. Nevertheless, Dickens helped in the com- states of the first edition are recorded: with the fac- 58 position of the book and she sought his permission simile inserted separately; and with the facsimile DONNE, John. Devotions upon Emergent printed directly, as here. Though sometimes cited Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes. as different issues or impressions, the two states were more likely issued together. Digested into 1. Meditations upon our hu- mane condition. 2. Expostulations, and De- Dickens had a large library, the majority of which batements with God. 3. Prayers, upon the was acquired eight years after his death by the London bookseller Henry Sotheran, though sever- severall Occasions, to him. The second Edi- al hundred books were retained by the family and tion. London: By A[ugustine]. M[athewes]., for dispersed over time. Included here are a private Thomas Jones, 1624 collector’s extensive notes on this copy, noting his Narrow duodecimo (143 × 74 mm). 19th-century vel- 57 acquisition of it at Swann Galleries in June 2001, lum, green morocco label, place and date in ink at foot

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Octavo. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in black, green and black geometric onlay to front cover, top edge black, others untrimmed. With the slipcase. 59 Newspaper obituary of Koteliansky laid in. Covers lightly bowed, vellum a little soiled, slipcase worn, else a very of spine. Without initial blank. Modern book collector’s good copy. label to front pastedown. Closely trimmed at outer mar- first and limited edition, number 284 of 300 gin, with occasional partial loss to outer edge of frame, copies. Inscribed by the translator on the front 60 last leaf with light water-stain, a good copy. free endpaper: “To Doctor Holton from his grate- Second edition, published in the same year as the ful patient S. S. Koteliansky January 5, 1951”. This Octavo (197 × 139 mm). Near-contemporary red half rare first edition. The work contains “Nunc lento beautiful production, printed in Linotype Estienne morocco, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, raised sonitu dicunt Morieris”, with Donne’s famous type on Kelmscott handmade paper by George W. bands ruled in gilt, red cloth sides ruled in gilt, marbled lines (often misremembered as being in verse): Jones, constitutes the first appearance as a stan- endpapers, all edges gilt. Vignette title page and full “No man is an Iland, intire of it self; every man is a dalone piece in English of the “Grand Inquisitor” page black and white engraving to text by Gikow. Spine piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod section of the Brothers Karamazov, one of the most faintly sunned, negligible rubbing to cloth at board edges; else a fine copy. be washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as celebrated passages in modern literature. A sepa- well as if a Promontory were, as well as if a Mannor rate issue under the Aquila Press imprint was also first edition thus, first impression, with of thy friends, or of thine owne were; Any mans published, without known priority. Gikow’s fittingly dramatic illustrations and an in- death diminishes mee, because I am involved in Roberts B28. troduction by literary critic Alfred Kazin. Garnett’s mankind, and therefore never send to know for translation was first published unillustrated in whom the bell tols, It tols for thee.” £750 [129654] 1914, as part of a 12-volume collection of Dostoyevs- Keynes 36; STC 7034. ky’s works issued between 1912 and 1920. “In 1910 60 Heinemann, following critical demand, invited £12,500 [127485] DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Crime and Punish- Garnett to translate Dostoyevsky, thinking him a ment. Translated from the Russian by Con- gamble worth taking” the subsequent collection 59 “provoking a literary craze” (ODNB). Dostoyevsky’s stance Garnett. Illustrated by Ruth Gikow. DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. The Grand Inquisi- novel was first serialized in 1866 in the literary jour- Introduction by Alfred Kazin. Cleveland: Fine tor. Translated by S. S. Koteliansky. With an nal The Russian Messenger, and was first translated Editions Press, 1947 introduction by D. H. Lawrence. London: Elkin into English in 1886 by Frederick Whishaw. Mathews & Marrot, 1930 £450 [129733]

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61 minor foxing to text. A fine set, the cloth exceptionally 62 bright and bindings unusually tight and square. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures DU MAURIER, Daphne. Rebecca. New York: of Sherlock Holmes; [together with] The first editions of the first two great collections Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1938 of Holmes stories, rare in such lovely condition. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George The first collection, Adventures, is the first issue Octavo. Original red cloth, silver and blue pictorial wraparound onlay to covers and spine, titles lettered in Newnes Ltd, 1892 & 1894 with the misprint “Miss Violent Hunter” on page blue to onlay to spine, yellow endpapers, top edge dark Together 2 works, quarto. Original pale and dark blue 317, and the blank street sign in the vignette to the blue, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Tiny white cloth respectively, titles to spines and front covers gilt, front cover. The textual error continued through mark to head of rear cover, small stain to rear endpapers, pale grey patterned endpapers, top edges gilt. Housed in three further printings, but from the second im- a near-fine copy in the bright jacket with small chip to a custom dark and light blue quarter morocco solander pression onwards the street sign was corrected to head of spine, tips and spine ends slightly chipped and box. Illustrated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. Ad- rubbed, a little creasing to extremities. ventures with small newspaper clipping to front paste- read “Southampton Street”. There are no corre- down, contemporary ownership inscription to front free sponding issue points for Memoirs. first u.s. edition, first printing, signed by endpaper of Memoirs. Touch of rubbing to extremities, Green & Gibson A10; A14. the author on the first free blank, believed to £22,500 [130318]

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63 (DULAC, Edmund.) Sindbad the Sailor & other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Lon- 63 64 don: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914] Quarto. Original pictorial tan cloth, elaborate blue and 64 to my mother Mrs. Pare when a young girl by Miss gilt design to spine and front cover, floral patterned (EDGEWORTH, Maria.) CROKER, Thomas Edgeworth”. The recipient, Geraldine FitzGerald- brown endpapers. Colour frontispiece and 22 colour de Ros Pare (1809–1881) was the daughter of Lord plates by Edmund Dulac, tipped in (with captioned tis- Crofton (ed.) The Christmas Box. An Annual Henry FitzGerald, who served in the Irish House sue guards), plates and letterpress within ornamental Present for Young Persons. London: John Ebers of Commons, in which Maria Edgeworth’s father borders printed in pale bisque. Later gift inscription to and Co.; William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1829 front free endpaper. Covers lightly bowed, occasional also served. She was also the niece of the notori- minor foxing to contents, else a very good copy. Octavo (154 × 95 mm). Contemporary purple half calf, ti- ous Lord Edward Fitzgerald, upon whom many be- tles to red morocco label to spine, floral pattern tooled in lieve Edgeworth based the, coincidentally named, first dulac trade edition. “The exotic sto- blind in compartments, raised bands tooled in gilt, mar- ries he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. Lady Geraldine Fitzgerald, in her novel Ennui, bled paper sides, floral roll in blind to borders of leather, published in 1809. In 1857 she married Reverend They allowed him to enlarge his skill at caricature, edges speckled red. Engraved title page and vignettes Frederick Pare, with whom she had her daughter, and at the same time to sharpen his miniatur- in text. Wear to spine ends and tips, slight rubbing to ist’s technique and to develop his lyrical sense of spine, offsetting to endpapers, loss to bottom outer cor- Geraldine Fortescue (d. 1883). The Christmas Box is a tone and composition. The sources he turned to ner of pp. 237–40 and rear free endpaper, occasional light collection of short stories, published annually, and were Japanese prints, which he had studied in his foxing to contents, closed tear to fore edge of pp. 91–2; edited by the Irish antiquary Thomas Crofton Cro- a very good copy. youth, with their flat colour and asymmetry, and ker, author of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South the high detail and colour of Indian and Persian first edition, inscribed by maria edge- of Ireland (1825–8). miniatures” (ODNB). worth, who contributed a story, to p. [i], “With See Katy Brundan, “Cosmopolitan Complexities in Ma- ria Edgeworth’s Ennui”, Studies in the Novel, Vol. 37, No. 2 Hughey 35a. Miss Edgeworth’s Compliments”. With a subsequent ownership inscription on the front paste- (2005) for more on the Fitzgerald connection. £975 [124759] down, “Geraldine Fortescue—This book was given £750 [129756]

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65 top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in the original brown cloth slipcase, within a custom folding cloth EINSTEIN, Albert. Albert Einstein: Philos- box. Portrait frontispiece and 2 plates. A fine copy in the opher-Scientist. The Library of Living Phi- slightly worn slipcase. 66 losophers Volume VII. Edited by Paul Arthur first and signed limited edition, number Schilpp. Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Phi- 54 of 760 copies signed and dated by ein- EINSTEIN, Albert. A fine collection of elev- losophers, 1949 stein, and additionally inscribed by the en offprints, including two distinguished as Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fac- editor on the half-title: “To Arnold H. Crewe some of his major works: Zur affinen Feldthe- simile signature to front cover in gilt, bevelled edges, with the best wishes of Paul A. Schilpp Glenview orie and Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation Ill. August 16 1965”. This is Einstein’s only signed und Elektrizität. [In:] Sitzungberichte der limited edition, and the first publication of his Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. autobiographical notes, in which he famously de- Berlin: Verlag der [Preussischen] Akademie der Wis- scribed the awakening of his scientific curiosity senschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter u. when shown a compass as a child. The contents Co., 1921–31 of this volume, gathered and edited by Schilpp, include Einstein’s autobiographical notes, a fac- 11 offprints, tall quartos (10 of which 256 × 183 mm, one 268 × 189 mm), between 6 and 20 pp. Original orange simile of his handwriting, descriptive and critical printed wrappers. Fine copies, a few with some faint essays on his work, Einstein’s reply to the essays, creasing to wrappers. and a bibliography. first separate editions, rare, comprising £10,500 [129956] 65 eleven of Einstein’s papers written for the Prus-

30 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington have been given to Einstein for presentation to colleagues, hence their scarcity. Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität is the first paper to present Einstein’s original approach to unified field theory, and the first to use the term “unified field theory” in its title. Though he had written several papers on this subject previously, these were predominately reactions or critiques to the ideas of others (such as his 1927 note on Theo- dor Kaluza, also present in this collection). The American philosopher of science Michael Friedman called Einstein’s aforementioned 1921 paper on Ge- ometry and Experience “a landmark in the philosophy of geometry”, a particularly beautiful lecture which “provided a very clear and sharp version of the distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’—mathemati- cal and physical—geometry that soon became ca- 67 nonical in 20th-century scientific thought” (p. 193). It contains Einstein’s famous answer to the question of why mathematics should be so well adapted 67 to describing the external world: “In so far as the ELIOT, George. Middlemarch. A Study of Laws of Mathematics refer to the external world, Provincial Life. Edinburgh and London: William they are not certain; and in so far as they are certain, Blackwood and Sons, 1871-2 they do not refer to reality”. 4 volumes, octavo (181 × 130 mm). Contemporary red At the recommendation of Max Planck and Walther half morocco by Maclehose of Glasgow, raised bands Nernst, in November 1913 Einstein became, at the to spines, lettered in gilt, marbled sides, endpapers and age of 34, the youngest member of the Academy. His edges. Spines notably bright, slight wear to spine ends yearly salary of 12,000 marks, plus the stipulation and tips, a few spots of foxing but overall a wide-margined, attractively bound set, complete with half-titles. 66 that he have no teaching requirements, allowed him to concentrate almost entirely on his research. He first edition in book form of George Eliot’s presented his field equations of general relativity in sixth and greatest novel, which garnered “accolades sian Academy of Sciences journal, Sitzungsberichte, a four-part speech to the Academy on 25 November in all the journals and sales of more than 10,000 including two distinguished as some of his major 1915 and continued to give occasional lectures until copies in the first year, well beyond her, or Black- works—Zur affinen Feldtheorie (1923) and Einheitli- his resignation in April 1933, part of his opposition wood’s, wildest dreams” (ODNB). Too long for the che Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität (1931), to German institutions in implicit support of Hit- traditional three-decker format, George Henry both asterisked in Weil and included in the Nor- ler’s regime. Mayer had become his assistant in 1929, Lewes suggested to Blackwood that “on the model man Library—three co-authored with his assis- whom Einstein insisted be also appointed to Prince- of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, it should be brought tant, Walther Mayer, and another, Geometrie und ton when he was given a professorship at the Insti- out in eight parts at two-monthly intervals, and Erfahrung (1921), considered one of his most cel- tute of Advanced Studies there in 1932. subsequently published in four volumes” (ibid.). ebrated lectures. The remaining offprints concern Weil 114; 120; 132*; 131; 156; 161; 169; 170; 180; 179; 182*. various aspects of Einstein’s attempts to achieve provenance: with the attractive armorial roun- Norman Library of Science and Medicine 698 (for Zur affinen a unified field theory that would combine the del bookplate of Alexander Dennistoun in each Feldtheorie); 701 (for Einstein and Mayer’s Einheitliche volume. Dennistoun (1790–1874) was a director of separate gravitational and electromagnetic field Theorie . . . Part I). See Michael Friedman, “Geometry theories, the first of which he himself had created. as a Branch of Physics: Background and Context for Ein- the Union Bank of Scotland and head of the fam- First issued as part of the Academy’s journal, these stein’s ‘Geometry and Experience’”, in Reading Natural ily dyeing and bleaching business of J. & A. Den- offprints would have been printed in relatively Philosophy: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science and nistoun; he gave his name to the substantial estate small numbers from the same type setting but of- Mathematics (2002). in the east end of Glasgow which was opened for ten with new pagination. Most, but not all, would £5,000 [130099] development in 1836. £2,250 [126036]

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First appearance of The Waste Land book block edges and occasionally scattered to contents; 71 single gathering unopened; a very good, bright, copy. 68 FAULKNER, William. Doctor Martino and first uk edition in book form, one of about Other Stories. New York: Harrison Smith and (ELIOT, T. S.) The Criterion. A Quarterly Re- 460 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs, with the view. Vol. I, No. I. London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, title label in the first state with asterisks (one of Robert Haas, 1934 October 1922 three states noted by Gallup, with no priority). Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge yellow. With the Hawkins-designed Octavo. Original card wrappers printed in black and Gallup A6c; Woolmer 28. dust jacket. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase, red. An excellent, well-preserved copy; some creasing black morocco label. A very good copy in the dust jacket, around overhanging cover extremities as usual, spine £7,500 [129587] spine panel sunned, small mark to rear panel, small nicks lightly darkened and a little scuffed with very minor chip around peripheries. Label of slipcase chipped. at foot, minor soiling and abrasion to covers, a few trivial 70 fox marks to contents but generally clean. first edition, first printing, trade issue. ELIOT, T. S. The Elder Statesman. A Play. A superb association copy, inscribed by the au- first edition, first impression, of the first is- London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1959 sue of The Criterion, containing the first appearance thor to the literary critic Malcolm Cowley on the Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With the in print of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, arguably the title page: “For Malcolm Cowley William Faulkner dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to front free Sherman, Conn. 20 Oct. 1948”. Malcolm Cowley most significant poem of the 20th century. The poem endpaper, “A further ‘T.S.E’ for your collection with my was not published in book form until December that (1898–1989) was responsible for almost single- very best wishes, HAS. 13.4.59.-” Negligible rubbing to handedly re-establishing the literary reputation year. The issue also includes material by Dostoevsky extremities, spine ever-so-slightly sunned, faint offset- (translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf ), ting to endpapers; else a near-fine copy in the jacket with of Faulkner through the publication in 1946 of The T. Sturge Moore, May Sinclair, Hermann Hesse, and lightly faded spine, small mark to spine, light browning Portable Faulkner, including a celebrated introduc- Valery Larbaud’s assessment of Joyce’s Ulysses. to top edge of flaps, slight nicks and chips to spine ends tory essay on the author. At the time, almost all of and tips. Faulkner’s works had fallen out of print, but the Gallup C135. first edition, first impression, signed by publication of the book, as well as Cowley’s persua- £5,000 [129704] the author on the title page, with his printed sion of Random House to publish new Modern Li- name struck through. The Elder Statesman was first brary editions of The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay 69 produced at the Edinburgh Festival between 25 Dying, resurrected Faulkner’s literary career. Con- sequently Faulkner’s next novel, Intruder in the Dust, ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land. Richmond: print- and 30 August 1958; the original cast list is printed at the end of the work. The green jacket of the pre- was received favourably, and his reputation reached ed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at such heights that Faulkner was awarded the Nobel the Hogarth Press, 1923 sent copy is listed by Gallup as a point of early issue; later copies have a thinner grey jacket. Prize for Literature in 1949. Faulkner later said that Octavo. Original marbled blue paper boards, white pa- “I owe Malcolm Cowley the kind of debt no man Gallup A70. per title label to front board printed in black, edges un- could ever repay” (cited in The New York Times’s obit- trimmed. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box. £1,250 [129589] uary of Cowley). The two became firm friends on Spine browned, slight wear to board edges, light foxing to

32 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 71 73 both an intellectual and a personal level, and cor- Octavo. Original dark green cloth, gilt lettered spine, 73 blind lettered front board, top edge trimmed, others responded with each other for almost two decades. FLEMING, Ian. Complete set of the original Some of this correspondence was published in 1967 uncut. Spine very gently rolled, minor rubbing to spine in the Faulkner-Cowley File, here included. ends and very tips, tiny touch of wear to bottom tip of James Bond novels and stories in first edi- front board; else a bright, near-fine, copy. tion. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953–66 The present copy of Dr. Martino, Faulkner’s sec- first edition, first printing, first state of 14 volumes, octavo (195 × 137 mm). Uniformly bound in ond collection of short stories, was signed during the text: with “chatter” on p. 60, line 16, “northern” late 20th-century half calf, raised bands to spines, com- Faulkner’s visit to Cowley’s Connecticut home in on p. 119, line 22, “it’s” on p. 165, line 16, “away” on partments tooled in gilt, twin red and black labels, gilt October 1948, where the critic was gathering ma- p. 165, line 29, “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9–10, roll to marbled sides, cream endpapers. Edges of a few terial for a Life Magazine profile on the novelist. and “Union Street station” on p. 211, lines 7–8. volumes browned with occasional dark marks, light mar- Faulkner inscribed eight of his books to Cowley on ginal foxing to a couple of volumes, contents otherwise the same day. All eight of these copies were later Bruccoli A11.I.a. clean, small red and purple ink marks on a few pages of sold to the bookseller Henry Wenning, who in turn £4,750 [129242] From Russia, With Love. An attractively bound set. sold them to Jonathan Goodwin, perhaps the great- first editions, first impressions. This is a est American collector of modern first editions of complete set of the original sequence of James the 20th century. Some of these copies were then Bond novels and stories by Ian Fleming, compris- sold at Goodwin’s sale at Sotheby’s in 1977, with the ing: Casino Royale (1953); Live and Let Die (1954); Moon- present book being lot number 94. The Goodwin raker (1955); Diamonds are Forever (1956); From Russia, sale was a highly important event in establishing With Love (1957); Dr No (1958); Goldfinger (1959); For the inscribed modern first edition as a high spot of Your Eyes Only (1960); Thunderball (1961); The Spy Who collecting. The catalogue of the sale, and a subse- Loved Me (1962); On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963); quent bookseller’s description, are also included. You Only Live Twice (1964); The Man With the Golden Gun Massey 438; Petersen A15a. (1965); and Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966). £19,500 [130074] Gilbert A1a (1.1); A2a (1.1); A3a (1.2) Moonraker: one of two variant states of first impression without priority of issue; A4a (1.1); A5a (1.1); A6a (1.3); A8a (1.1); A7a (1.1); A9a (1.1); 72 A10a (1.1); A11a (1.1); A12a (1.1); A13a (1.2); A14a (1.3). FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. £8,750 [126601] New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925 72

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74 vestigation of the Reissner cells appeared in print FREUD, Sigmund. Über den Ursprung der three months before the publication of his first original piece of student research, on the gonadic hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von structure of the male eel” (Norman). Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri). Offprint Grinstein 37; Jones I, pp. 51–2; Norman F1. 76 from: Sitzb. der k. Akad. der Wissenschaften, 3 £15,000 [128841] Abth., 75 (1877). [Vienna: K.k. Hof- und Staats- contribution to evolutionary biology by showing druckerei, 1877] that the spinal ganglion cells of Petromyzon repre- Octavo, pp. 13, [3]. Original brown printed wrappers. 75 sent a transition between the bipolar cells of lower Folding plate, lithographed by Schuma after Freud. Front FREUD, Sigmund. Über Spinalganglien und and the unipolar cells of higher vertebrates. wrapper dust-soiled at head, an excellent copy. Rückenmark des Petromyzon. Offprint from: Grinstein 34; Jones I, pp. 52–3; Norman F3 (this copy, first separate printing, presentation Sitzb. der k. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, 3 Abth., 78 purchased from F. Thomas Heller, with Norman sale copy, with freud’s inscription at the head (1878). [Vienna: K.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, bookplate). of the front wrapper, “Rollett”, that is, Alexander 1878] £12,500 [128842] Rollett (1834–1903), the Austrian physiologist and Octavo, pp. 87, [1]. Original brown printed wrappers. histologist. The presentation was likely made at the 4 folded lithographed plates by F. Schima after Freud. 76 suggestion of Freud’s supervisor, Professor Ernst Wrappers a little soiled and chipped, rear wrapper torn Brücke, who had mentored Rollett in his first post at head without loss, internally very good. FREUD, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung. Leip- at the University of Graz in 1863. Since then Rollett zig & Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900 [1899] first separate printing, presentation had been instrumental in making the University of copy, with freud’s inscription at the head of Octavo (approx. 237 × 152 mm). Dark blue crushed half Graz an international centre for physiological train- morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, probably 1970s, the front wrapper: “Seinem lieben Freunde, Hernn ing and education; he was rector of the university spine lettered in gilt between two raised bands, blue Chem. Dr. S. Herzig d. Verf.” Josef Herzig (1853– four times between 1872 and 1903. cloth sides, pale blue endpapers, edges untrimmed. 1924), professor of chemistry at the University of Diagrams to text. Early date 23 Feb. 1906 in blue crayon Freud’s first published paper was his “second piece Vienna, was one of Freud’s lifelong friends. erased from upper outer corner of title, one or two pen- of student research, on the function of the large Freud’s third paper published as a medical student cilled marginalia, an excellent copy, entirely untrimmed. Reissner cells in the spinal cord of the primitive continued his research on the large Reissner cells first edition of Freud’s greatest single work, fishPetromyzon . . . Freud showed that the Reissner in the spinal cord of the fish Petromyzon, which he The Interpretation of Dreams, one of only 600 copies. cells ‘gave rise to the root-fibres of the posterior had undertaken at the direction of the eminent “Die Traumdeutung contains Freud’s general theory roots’ (Standard edition III, p. 228). Freud’s in- physiologist Ernst Brücke. Freud made a major of the psyche, which he had developed during the

34 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington past decade. Using his refined understanding of the operation of the unconscious, Freud interpreted dreams on the basis of wish-fulfilment theory and discussed displacement (the appearance in con- scious thought of symbols for repressed desires), regression, Oedipal impulses, and the erotic nature of dreams. Although this was his first major work on normal psychology, Freud gave an unprecedented precision and force to the idea of the essential simi- larities of normal and abnormal behaviour, opening up the door to the irrational that had been closed to Western psychology since the time of Locke” (Nor- man). “It contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice” (PMM). The book was published on 4 November 1899, though post- dated by the publisher, but sold so slowly that the second edition did not appear until nine years later. Garrison–Morton 4980; Grinstein 227; Grolier/Horblit 32; Grolier Medicine 87; Norman F33; Printing and the Mind of Man 389. £22,500 [128834]

77 78 FREUD, Sigmund. Der Witz und seine Bezie- hung zum Unbewussten. Leipzig and Wien: ing, wrappers chipped and frayed at extremities, still a abhandlungen. Amsterdam: Verlag Allert de Franz Deuticke, 1905 very good, uncut copy. Lange, 1939 Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black, neatly first edition, first impression. In Jokes and Octavo. Original pale blue cloth, spine and front cover rebacked. Ownership inscription to front wrapper, spine their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud distinguishes lettered in gilt, top edge yellow. Extremities rubbed, skilfully renewed preserving part of the original letter- between jokes, the comic, and humour, arguing cloth faded, scattered spotting to early leaves and to that the formation of jokes – like dreams – can be edges, still a very good copy. traced to the unconscious. Divided into three parts, first edition, first printing, presenta- the investigation psychoanalyses the technique of tion copy to his son Ernst Freud (1892–1970) jokes, the motives behind them, and the relation- and his wife Lucie “Lux” Brasch (1896–1989), ship between jokes and dreams. “Jokes held a deep, parents of Clement and Lucian Freud, shakily in- personal significance for Freud . . . Freud often scribed by the author, “Seinem lieben Kindern identified with joke characters, jokes provided as- Ernst und Lux, vom verfass, März 1939”. The book sociations to his own dreams, and several impor- known by its English title as Moses and Monotheism tant psychoanalytic discoveries may first have been was the last of his books published in Freud’s life- suggested to Freud by jokes” (Oring, p. 3). time; publication date was March 1939, and Freud Grinstein 256; Norman F54. See Elliott Oring, The Jokes of died that September. Although Freud had six chil- Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity (2007). dren, presentation copies to any of his children are £1,750 [126431] notably scarce; this is the only such copy we have seen on the market. In institutional holdings, we 78 can only trace two other such presentation copies, both inscribed to his daughter Anna. FREUD, Sigmund. Der Mann Moses Grinstein 144. und die Monotheistische Religion. Drei 77 £20,000 [128838]

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79 ers, based on an unhappy six months spent at the 8 volumes, octavo (181 × 120 mm). Finely bound by Bayn- tun in red half calf, matching cloth boards, elaborate gilt FROST, Robert. Mountain Interval. New York: State Department during 1946. With a contemporary gift inscription to the American mining tooling to spines in compartments, dark red and blue Henry Holt and Company, 1916 tycoon Charles Engelhard and his philanthropist calf labels, plain endpapers, top edges gilt. Black and white frontispieces and further black and white illustra- Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front cover wife Jane on the front free endpaper. lettered in gilt, top edge cut, others untrimmed. With tions throughout. Some minor spotting to prelims and contemporary presentation inscription and bookplate £425 [126496] fore edges, an excellent set. to front endpapers. Minor wear to spine ends, contents a the knutsford edition, a handsomely bound little toned, else a very good copy. 81 set. first edition, first printing, first state GASKELL, Mrs. The Works. With an £1,750 [126818] with duplicated line 8 on p. 88 and “Come” for “Gone” in line 16 of p. 93. Frost’s third book, introduction by A. W. Ward. In eight volumes. Mountain Interval is notable for containing perhaps London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906 82 his most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken”. GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Prophet. New York: Al- Crane A4. fred A. Knopf, July 1929 £500 [129592] Octavo. Original black cloth, titles and design gilt to upper board. With the original publisher’s slipcase. 12 illustrations after drawings by the author. Spine titles dulled, 80 cloth mottled to front board, some faint marks within, GALBRAITH, J. K. The Triumph. A Novel of very good condition. Modern Diplomacy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin first edition, later printing, presentation copy Company, 1968 inscribed by Gibran, “To Anne Sligh with the kind- est remembrances of Kahlil Gibran 1929” on the Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom red fold- front free endpaper, and additionally embellished ing chemise within a red half morocco box, spine lettered by the poet with a signed pencil sketch on the lower in gilt, red cloth sides. A near-fine copy in the dust jacket, corner of p. 69/70—the corner has been cut with with very minor creasing and a couple of tiny chips to ex- scissors and Gibran has drawn a pair of wings and tremities. Spine of box a little sunned and rubbed. some flowers around the curve of the incision, sign- first edition, first printing, of Galbraith’s ing this “K.G.” This little remarque is particularly satirical novel attacking Washington policy mak- 80 appealing in the light of the fact that Gibran consid-

36 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 83 84 84 ered himself, like William Blake, as much an artist flower among the best products of English roman- The blue-blooded Lowell had conjured the image as a poet, and illustrated his own works. tic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustra- of Ginsberg in his infamous 1960 speech in which £7,500 [129440] tor, Eric Gill, the book among all books in which he characterised the divided nature of American Roman type has been best mated with any kind of poetry as the distinction between the raw and the illustration” (E. R. Gill, Eric Gill, 285). This is “ar- cooked. The year prior to this Ginsberg had visited “One of the great private press books of the century” guably Gill’s greatest achievement and one of the Lowell for the first time with Corso and Orlovsky, 83 great private press books of the century” (Hunter and probably given him a print copy of Kaddish, GILL, Eric. The Four Gospels of Lord Jesus & Kelly). a work to which Lowell gave qualified praise in Christ according to the Authorized Version of Chanticleer 78; Gill 285; Hunter & Kelly, A Century for the a letter a few days after that visit, calling it “really Century, 26. melodious, moving, liturgical. Maybe it ought to King James I. Waltham St Lawrence: The Golden £18,750 [129038] be shorter—the manner sometimes almost writes Cockerel Press, 1931 itself—probably there’s too much Whitman. And I Folio (330 × 235 mm). Original white half pigskin by San- do find it a bit too conventional, eloquent and litur- gorski & Sutcliffe, gilt lettered and banded spine, gilt 84 gical. Well, it’s well done, felt, and a good poem.” cockerel device in 5th compartment, cream-coloured GINSBERG, Allen. Allen Ginsberg Reads buckram sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. The inscription on this record, with its precise ev- Housed in the publisher’s cream slipcase. Printed in Kaddish. Atlantic Records: 1966 ocation of date and place, records Ginsberg once 18-point Golden Cockerel type, 65 wood-engraved il- 12 inch LP in card sleeve with photographic portrait of again offering the poem to Lowell, this time in re- lustrations by Eric Gill, 4 of which are full-page. Spine Ginsberg by Richard Avedon. Catalogue no. Atlantic cord form. We can find no record of this visit in the lightly toned and rubbed, else a fine copy in the slipcase 4001. Sleeve rubbed at corners, very good condition. biographies of either poet. The two would eventu- with split to edges of top panel and wear to extremities. inscribed and signed by ginsberg: “For Rob- ally share a podium together at the infamous 1977 limited edition, number 72 of 500 copies on ert Lowell, on the occasion of a visit to his house New York City reading, at which Lowell was inter- paper; 12 copies were also issued on vellum. “Con- in company with my father Louis Ginsberg on De- rupted and heckled by Corso before Ginsberg ral- ceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this cember 22, 1966 in the presence of Lord Gowrie lied the crowd in defence of Lowell. is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared and St Paul.” In addition, Ginsberg has drawn his £6,500 [129042] with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A fish triskellion.

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87 GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories as told by Gammer Grethel. Translated from the collection of M.M. Grimm, by Edgar Taylor. With Illustra- tions from Designs by George Cruikshank & Ludwig Grimm. London: Joseph Cundall, 1846 Octavo in sixes (182 × 115 mm). Contemporary blue calf, titles to red morocco label to spine, spine tooled in gilt in compartments with floral motifs, gilt fillet and dotted roll frame to covers, marbled endpapers and edges. Title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece of Gammer Grethel, engraved head- and tailpieces. Small shelf label to foot of rear pastedown. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to spine ends and tips, a couple of faint scuffs to covers, light foxing to title page, else contents clean and bright; a superb copy. first edition under this title of the earliest English translation of Grimms’ fairy tales, handsomely bound. Taylor’s translation was first published in two volumes in 1823 and 1828, as Ger-

85 mercial failure and the author did not allow the GREENE, Graham. Rumour at Nightfall. book to be reprinted in his lifetime. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931 Miller 9. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind £45,000 [130191] stamped star motif to front cover, publisher’s device in blind to rear cover. With the dust jacket. A near-fine copy 86 in a fine example of the jacket, with a couple of shallow chips and nicks to extremities. GREENE, Graham. The Collected Edition. first edition, first impression, in the highly London: William Heinemann and The Bodley Head, uncommon first state dust jacket, here in superb 1970–82 condition, and one of the nicest we have handled. 22 volumes, octavo (190 × 114 mm). Recent full green mo- Greene’s third novel, Rumour at Nightfall was a com- rocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, cream endpapers, top edges gilt. Contents

38 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 87 88 man Popular Stories from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, front pastedown, with his family motto, “I like my ple of tips, rear hinge of vol. I just starting, visible before with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In 1839 choice”. An influential ecumenist, Halifax had a rear free endpaper, text block entirely sound, occasional the work was reissued, with textual revisions and lifelong interest in storytelling. “A few years after marginal pencil annotations. A very good set. Ludwig Grimm’s additional illustrations, under his death, his son Edward published the ghost sto- signed limited edition, each one of 200 cop- the title Gammer Grethel, which was then reissued ries which he had collected throughout his life and ies (volume I number 62; volume II number 32) in this edition with the title German Fairy Tales and loved to tell, in Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book (1936) and signed by Dobson on the frontispiece. This copy Popular Stories. The Grimm Brothers’ Kinder- und Further Stories from Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book (1937)” is the result of collaboration between the Guild of Hausmärchen was first published in 1812. (ODNB). Copies of this edition are scarce, with Women Binders and colourist Gloria Cardew, with This work has the bookplate of Charles Lindley eleven copies traced institutionally worldwide, the frontispiece and plates hand-coloured by her. Wood, Viscount of Halifax (1839–1934) on the only one of which is in the UK. “Many books coloured by her were bound by mem- £750 [129687] bers of the Guild” (ibid., p. 126). The Guild of Women Binders “was not a guild 88 in the usual sense, but a business venture of the London bookseller Frank Karslake, who for the (GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS.) DOBSON, short time from 1898 to 1904 tried to enter the Austin. Poems. On several occasions. London: bookbinding trade. He was the financial backer of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd, 1895 the Hampstead Bindery, where male trade binders 2 volumes, octavo (207 × 132 mm). Contemporary red were employed, and started the guild as a selling crushed morocco by the Guild of Women Binders, spines outlet for certain groups of amateur women bind- lettered and decorated in gilt, floral vignettes to spines ers” (Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880–1920, p. and covers in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, marbled endpa- 115). This copy has an appealing literary associa- pers, red silk book markers, top edges gilt. Portraiture tion, with the bookplate of William Foyle, founder frontispiece with tissue guard to vol. I, illustrated fron- of Foyles bookshop. tispiece to vol. II and 6 similar illustrated hand-coloured plates. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Spines a little £2,250 [126866] 86 faded, slight rubbing to extremities, light wear to a cou-

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I sorry nobody’s made them adapt these! Dashiell Hammett, Hollywood July 31. 1935”. 89 £27,500 [129166]

89 Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Goodrich and 90 HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Thin Man; [to- Hackett co-wrote the screenplay for the film ad- [HARDY, Thomas.] Under the Greenwood aptation of Hammett’s The Thin Man, produced in gether with:] Dashiell Hammett Omnibus. 1934; written in three weeks and filmed in 18 days, Tree A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934 & 1935 the film was an overnight sensation. The magni- the author of ‘Desperate Remedies.’ London: The Thin Man: Original light green cloth, titles and deco- tude of this success is alluded to in Hammett’s in- Tinsley Brothers, 1872 ration to spine in red and blue, front cover with red outer scription in The Thin Man: “For Albert and Frances, 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, spines lettered frame enclosing blue mask, top edge dark red. Omnibus: who Hunting over dale and Dyke, gave it to mil- in gilt, covers ruled in black. Housed in custom cloth Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in chemises and slipcases. Some pencilled annotations. blind and orange, top edge red. Both housed in a custom lions where I only gave it to Eddie Knopf ’s brother. Gratefully, Dashiell Hammett. Beverly Hills, Calif A little rolled, rubbing and some minor wear to covers, black cloth folding chemise within black half morocco half-titles toned, a few instances of minor finger-soiling, slipcase, black cloth sides, twin red morocco labels. Nov. 14. 1935”. Hammett is punning on the names rear hinge of vol. II cracked. An attractive copy. Spines lightly sunned, very slight wear to extremities, a of the producer and the director of the film, Hunt few trivial marks to cloth. The Thin Man with a few pen- Stromber and W. S. Van Dyke, respectively; the first edition, presentation copy, with in- cilled marginalia and annotations, light abrasion to fore- brother of the film director Eddie Knopf was the scribed slips from the author mounted on edge. Omnibus with a few instances of faint finger soiling, book’s publisher, Alfred Knopf. The copy was the half-titles: “The author to his friend John Hut- top corner of pages lightly creased. Both very good cop- probably presented to the couple in their capacity ton. June 1873”. Hutton had requested a copy of the ies, with Frances Goodrick’s bookplate in Omnibus. as employees of the film company MGM and there- book to consult while writing a review of his third first editions, first printing ofOmnibus , third after held by them, as MGM’s library stamp is on novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), and Hardy sent this printing of The Thin Man. Presentation copies, the front endpaper, with residue from the library copy as a gift. In a letter of 26 June 1873, Hutton each inscribed on the front free endpaper to the plate removal. The Omnibus is likewise inscribed in thanked Hardy and asked, “Will you send me a slip husband-and-wife screenwriting duo Frances the same theme: “To Frances and Albert—and am of paper with a few words on it to be pasted into the

40 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 90 91 fly-leaf of your present to signify from whom and Leslie Stephen sufficiently for him to ask Hardy for Lord Houghton (1858–1945), the distinguished Lib- to whom it is given?” And in a letter of 3 July he told a story for the Cornhill Magazine, which turned out eral statesman. He was elevated as the Earl, then Hardy, “I have duly pasted in the slips you so kindly to be Far From the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s first com- the Marquess of Crewe, the title by which he is now sent me.” (Transcripts of these letters, made by the mercial success. remembered. His bookplate is on the pastedown. collector Howard Bliss, are present with the copy.) provenance: John Hutton (inscription); Freder- In May 1893 Hardy had visited Houghton’s Vice- Though he had penned for The Spectator a review ick Baldwin Adams, Jr. (bookplates; his sale, So- regal Lodge in Dublin. It was here that a “life-al- of Hardy’s first novel, Desperate Remedies, “so savage theby’s, 7 November 2001, lot 382). tering event” occurred: “the door was opened to that Hardy never forgot his bitterness and discour- Purdy p. 6. Hardy by a remarkably handsome woman—Lord agement on first reading it” (Purdy), Hutton there- Houghton’s sister. This ‘charming intuitive wom- £27,500 [127689] after became one of the earliest champions of Har- an’ (as Hardy described her on first meeting) was dy’s work and the two of them took up an entirely Florence Henniker, and she was to become his friendly correspondence. Hutton described Under 91 most cherished lifelong friend. Henniker was al- the Greenwood Tree as “a most picturesque portraiture HARDY, Thomas. Life’s Little Ironies. A Set ready the author of three novels, and later she and of village life embodied in a pure and simple story, of Tales with some Colloquial Sketches en- Hardy would collaborate as authors, on another— and illustrating in every line its author’s keen and titled A Few Crusted Characters. London: Os- The Spectre of the Real” (Rosemarie Morgan, Student humorous perception of the thoughts and manners good, McIlvaine and Co., 1894 Companion to Thomas Hardy, 2007, p. 194). of a rural population” (The Spectator, 28 June 1873). Presentation copies of this work are rare. Hardy’s The novel is rare in the original cloth, and this is the Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and red rules and floral design to spine and front cover. A few faint marks to bibliographer Purdy knew of four, inscribed to only example with an inscription related to the copy cloth, extremities a little bumped, else a very good copy. Gosse, the Earl of Pembroke, Sir Francis Jeune, and (as opposed to a pasted-in signature) that we can the publisher Clarence McIlvaine. We have addi- trace in auction records. first edition, first impression. presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the tionally handled copies presented to the Countess Hardy’s first Wessex novel, his second overall, Un- month of publication on the front free end- of Malmesbury and the Duchess of Manchester. der the Greenwood Tree was published in an edition paper: “To Lord Houghton: from Thomas Hardy. Purdy pp. 81–6. presumably of 500 copies. Reviews were good, but Feb 1894”. The recipient was Robert Crewe-Milnes, £8,750 [127831] the book did not sell well. It did however impress

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92 Erick Dickson, is a curator at the National Library HEANEY, Seamus. Door into the Dark. Lon- of Scotland. Human Chain was the Nobel laureate’s last published collection. don: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1969 94 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With £1,350 [129444] the dust jacket. Spine lightly rolled, contents a little own pleasure and minimize their pain” (Bristow). foxed, else a very good copy in the dust jacket, lightly 94 De l’Esprit was immediately condemned as he- foxed, minor chipping and creasing at extremities. HELVÉTIUS, Claude-Adrien. De l’Esprit: retical by the Paris parlement, the Sorbonne, the pope, and Louis XV’s son, the dauphin Louis. Cop- first edition, first impression, of the poet’s or, Essays on the Mind, and its several Fac- second major collection. Signed by the author in ies of it were ordered publicly burned by the Paris the year of publication on the title page: “Seamus ulties. Translated from the edition printed hangman, and it negatively affected Helvétius’s Heaney, October 1969”. under the author’s inspection. London: Printed contemporary philosophes: publication of Diderot’s Brandes & Durkan A5. for the translator, and sold by Mr. Dodsley and Co., Encyclopédie was suspended and works by others, Mess. Millar, Nourse, and Tonson, Mess. Hitch and including Voltaire, were also burned. £975 [129585] Hawes, Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Merril, and J. Coote, 1759 This copy is from the Lindsayan Library (with the Quarto (255 × 197 mm). Contemporary calf, later red Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate and associated 93 morocco label. Contemporary price notation to front shelfmark to pastedown), the vast library accumu- HEANEY, Seamus. Human Chain. London: endpaper. Some light marks to calf, trivial wear around lated by the 25th and 26th Earls of Crawford, one Faber and Faber, 2010 extremities, a few minor interior blemishes and light of the most impressive private collections of the creases to contents, stain to p. 129. A very good copy. Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pur- 19th century. ple endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy. first edition in english of the controver- ESTC T32121. See Natasha Gill, Educational Philosophy in sial French Enlightenment philosopher’s most first edition, first impression, presenta- the French Enlightenment: From Nature to Second Nature (2013); radical work, “On the Mind”, with annotations tion copy inscribed by heaney in the month William Bristow, “Enlightenment”, The Stanford Encyclope- transcribed from those made by Jean-Jacques dia of Philosophy (2010). of publication on the title page, “For Eric Dick- Rousseau in his own copy. In opposition to Mon- son keep scanning! Seamus Heaney September £1,500 [128873] tesquieu’s theory as set forth in Spirit of the Laws, 2010”, together with a loosely inserted auto- Helvétius (1715–71) attacks all forms of morality graphed card signed from Heaney to the same in- based on religion, arguing instead that human be- dividual, reading “Eric—Excuse the haste—I’m ings are ruled by sensation, “motivated in their ac- hurtleing [sic] to London—no end in this chain tions only by the natural desire to maximize their of events—Blessings—Seamus”. The recipient,

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95 printed work. It was reissued twice, in 1634 and slightly cropped. Light restoration to calf and enhanc- ing to gilt, discreet repairs to plates and to a few closed (HOBBES, Thomas, trans.) THUCYDIDES. 1648, and Hobbes prepared this second edition towards the end of his life. “Forty years later, in tears, corner pf p. 585 repaired with slight loss to a cou- The History of the Grecian War: in eight Vita Carmine Expressa, he said that he had written it ple of words. A very good copy. books. Faithfully Translated from the Origi- so that his contemporaries might learn from the first complete collected edition of Hob- nal. With Maps Describing the Countrey. fate of Athenian democracy how much wiser one bes’s English works. The editor shows himself The Second Edition, much Corrected and man is than the mass of men” (Macdonald & Har- to be entirely comfortable in Hobbes’s world of Amended. London: by Andrew Clark for Charles greaves). thought but is anonymous and has eluded all at- Harper, and are to be sold by him, 1676 Macdonald & Hargreaves 4. tempts at identification. It was not superseded until the 11 volumes of William Molesworth’s edition Folio (311 × 194 mm). Contemporary dark calf, red mo- £5,000 [128690] rocco label, raised bands, marbled edges. Extra engraved (1839–45). title, 2 folding maps, 3 engraved plates (1 folding); the ESTC T112688; MacDonald & Hargreaves 107. 96 view of Plataea just shaved at fore edge. From the mag- £2,500 [128876] nificent library at Eshton Hall, with the armorial book- HOBBES, Thomas. The Moral and Political plate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer on the front free endpaper, facing the armorial bookplate of Mathew Works. London: [no publisher stated], 1750 Wilson on the front pastedown. Some skilful restoration Folio (367 × 227 mm). Contemporary calf, discreetly re- to extremities, occasional surface wear to leather, occa- backed and recornered, original spine laid down with sional minor marks, a very good copy. recent red morocco label to style. Engraved portrait, engraved Leviathan frontispiece. 19th-century note of second edition of hobbes’s translation, purchase loosely inserted. A few pencilled marginalia, the first made into english directly from contemporary annotations to divisional title page of Le- the greek, originally published in 1629. Though viathan and to a couple of other pages, in one instance Hobbes was then in his early 40s, it was his first

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97 HUGHES, Ted. Birthday Letters. London: Faber and Faber, 1998 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue boards, titles to spine in gilt on black, yellow endpapers. Original receipt from Waterstones, dated 4 January 1999, loosely inserted. A fine copy. signed limited edition, number 256 of 310 copies signed by the author. Birthday Letters was Hughes’s controversial collection of poems about his rela- tionship with his deceased first wife, the poet Sylvia Plath. This signed limited edition was published simultaneously with the first trade edition. £700 [129593] 98 98 first edition, first impression, inscribed 99 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: by the author, “Jeri Mayer his book Aldous (INDIA.) A Brief Account of some of the Prin- Chatto & Windus, 1932 Huxley 1955”, on the front free endpaper, with cipal Buildings of Madura. Compiled by E. J. Octavo. Original pale blue cloth, title to spine in gilt, Mayer’s initials in pencil above the inscription. top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket This is the defining dystopian novel – a seminal Sewell, MCS, from “The Madura Country,” by to rear pastedown. Spine gently rolled, spine toned and work of fiction and a triumph of book design. J. H. Nelson, MCS, and other sources. Madras: lightly rubbed, touch of wear to spine ends and tips, edg- Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 120. Printed for private circulation on the occasion of the es lightly toned, inner front hinge cracked but holding, visit of HRH The Prince of Wales [by Higginbotham short closed tear to bottom edge of pp. 13–4, small green £15,000 [130207] pencil mark to the margin of p. 80; a very good copy in and Co.], [1875?] the completely unrestored jacket with nicks and chips Octavo (202 × 135 mm), 20 pp. Presentation binding of to spine and flap ends, short closed tear to head of rear contemporary Indian green skiver (ticket of Higgin- panel, small puncture and loss to foot of front flap fold. botham, Madras), three-line gilt panel on sides enclosing an ornamental panel of stylised lilies, all edges gilt,

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99 Nayak], the famous Nayak of Madura” (George 101 Wheeler, India in 1876–76: The Visit of the Prince of drab brown coated endpapers. Housed in a custom made (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) SHELLEY, Percy dove-grey cloth slipcase and matching chemise. Fron- Wales, London, 1876, p. 156). The fine frontispiece shows the magnificent Meenakshi Amman Tem- Bysshe. The Poetical Works. Hammersmith: tispiece and 5 original sepia-toned albumen print pho- Kelmscott Press, 1895 tographs mounted on heavy stock paper, title and let- ple with elephants and a cluster of local buildings terpress printed in lilac within a wavy-line border. Neat in the foreground. It was here that the Prince of 3 volumes, octavo. Original limp vellum, yapped edges, ownership stamp of “Emily J. Knox” at head of title (we Wales was “sprinkled with gold dust as he entered silk decorations at head and foot of joints, fore edges have traced an Emily J. Knox as being a teacher at the Na- the temple complex through an impressive gate- uncut, issued without ties. Woodcut title page, borders, and foliate initials. Vols. II and III with some rubrication. tional School, Broad Street, London, in 1891–2 and listed way, or gopura” (Royal Collections online). The in the Practical Teacher’s Art Monthly, vols. VII-VIII, located Small library bookplate of Thomas D. Murphy to each photographic plates are possibly from the cel- at the “Royal Albert Schools”, Lancaster in 1905). Some volume. A spot of foxing to edges, an exceptional set. ebrated studio of Bourne and Shepherd. wear to extremities of binding, a little loss of leather at first kelmscott edition, one of 250 paper head of rear joint, inner hinges cracked but sound, gen- £3,750 [129356] copies. The book was printed using Golden type, eral light signs of handling. A very good copy. the first of three types designed by William Morris first and only edition, printed for private cir- 100 himself; it took Edward P. Prince almost a year to culation to commemorate the visit of the Prince KEATS, John. The Poems. New York: Privately cut the punches, between January and December of Wales to Madura (present day Madurai) on 10 1890. As an experiment the usual silk ties were not December 1875. This was clearly produced in very Printed for The Scott-Thaw Company, 1904 used; this is the only Kelmscott book so issued. A small numbers and intended for presentation to 2 volumes, quarto (214 × 172 mm). Near-contemporary beautiful set, featuring “some of the loveliest lyr- high-ranking officials involved with the royal visit. blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, quadruple gilt fillet ics in English, together with longer poems unsur- Copac cites copies at BL, Oxford and SOAS only to covers, gilt turn-ins, blue endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. With engraved frontispiece to vol. I and passed in beauty and grandeur . . . from the pen among British and Irish institutional libraries; vignette titles to both volumes. Bookplate to front past- of this visionary, half-unearthly man” (Kunitz & OCLC adds just Minnesota, Wisconsin and Uni- edown of vol. I, previous owner’s inscription to front free Haycraft 559). versity of Basel. We have traced one copy in auc- endpaper in each volume. Spine faintly sunned, minute Peterson A29. tion records (1975), described as being bound in chip to top corner of first few leaves of vol. II, else a near- “contemporary blue morocco, gilt, Madras”. fine copy. £5,000 [129034] “The city of Madura lies in the route of the pilgrims limited edition, number 97 of 350 copies to the sacred island of Rameshwaram, and pos- signed by the publisher for sale in America, in a sesses several splendid temples, the most remark- highly attractive binding. able being that built by Trimal Naik [Thirumalai £650 [129883]

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102 set. The resulting work, a masterpiece of book illus- 104 (KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. tration and design, has been credited with reviving KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theo- public interest in a sublime but difficult novel. Moby Dick or The Whale. Chicago: The Lakeside ry of Employment Interest and Money. Lon- Hunter & Kelly, Fine Printed Books 1900–1999, 22. Press, 1930 don: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1936 3 volumes, large quarto. Original black cloth, bevelled £7,500 [130047] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and double- boards, titles and vignettes to spines in silver, abstract ruled in gilt, ruling continued to covers in blind. Con- design and volume numbers within simple frame to 103 temporary ownership signature, “E. G. Macfarlane, Feb front covers in silver, top edges black, others uncut. -36”, to front free endpaper, pencil annotations to the Housed in the original aluminium slipcase. Wood-en- KEYNES, John Maynard. A Treatise on Mon- text. Spine a touch rolled and ends bruised, extremities gravings throughout by Rockwell Kent. Very light sun- ey. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1930 very slightly rubbed, endpapers a little marked, else a ning to spines, some light offset from illustrations as 2 volumes, octavo. Recent dark blue morocco, titles and very good copy, the contents bright and clean with just a usual. A fine copy. centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to few creases to page tips. first rockwell kent edition, limited to 1,000 boards, marbled endpaper, gilt edges. Numerous tables first edition, first impression. “The world- sets. Kent’s rendering of Moby Dick is generally ac- and diagrams to the text. A fine copy. wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to at- cepted to be finest edition of Melville’s masterpiece, first edition, first impression. A Treatise on tempt an explanation of, and new methods for and is one of the great American illustrated books Money is the first of Keynes’s two major contribu- controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle . . . in of the 20th century. In 1926, Rockwell Kent (1882– tions to economic theory and his most compre- his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and 1971), then just beginning to establish his fame as hensive work on monetary theory. It anticipates theories of the classical school of economics to a an artist, was approached by R. R. Donnelley and many of the ideas of the General Theory, which it penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously in- Sons to illustrate a new edition of Richard Henry immediately preceded and by which it has been, adequate and inaccurate” (PMM). His conclusion, Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast. Kent demurred, sug- perhaps unfairly, overshadowed. namely that “the regulation of the trade-cycle – gesting Moby Dick instead. Kent was given complete Moggridge A7.1. that is to say the control of booms and slumps, freedom to design and illustrate the three-volume the level of employment, the wage-scale and the £1,750 [126984]

46 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 104 105 106 flow of investment - must be the responsibility of gently rolled and a little faded, slight rubbing to spine signed limited u.s. edition, number 478 of governments”, permanently altered the terms of ends and tips, a little creasing to cloth, tiny bumps to up- 525 sets, volume I signed by the author. One of economic debate and considerations of the role per tips, top edge faintly dust toned, light foxing to end- the finest editions of Kipling’s verse, handsomely of government in managing the economy (or not). matter and occasionally to margins; a very good copy. printed on handmade paper. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. first edition, first impression, in the sec- Richards A396; Stewart 575. ond issue binding, of Kipling’s famous collection £1,250 [129475] of 12 stories and 12 poems including “How the £1,350 [129039] Camel Got His Hump” and “How the Leopard Got 105 His Spots”. The white decorative blocking to the KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Lon- spine and covers famously failed to adhere on the don: Macmilllan & Co., 1894 first issue binding, with the result that most copies 107 now lack significant portions of it; the paint for- Octavo. Recent red morocco, green morocco label, flo- mula was changed for the present issue. ral centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, multiple floral pattern to boards gilt, roll to turn-ins gilt, marbled end- Richards A181; Stewart 260. papers, gilt edges. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Illus- £1,250 [130728] trated by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, P. Frenzeny. Single pin-hole to the first few leaves otherwise a fresh copy in a fine binding. 107 first edition, first impression. KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886–1929. New £1,650 [130553] York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930 3 volumes, large octavo. Original japon-backed boards, 106 red paper labels to spines printed gilt, gilt motifs to front covers, top edges gilt. Title pages printed in red KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories. London: and black, facsimile frontispiece in volume I of a holo- Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902 graph poem by Kipling (specially reproduced for this edition). Spines gently rolled and faintly toned, slight Large octavo. Original red pictorial cloth, titles to spine fading to head of spine of vol. I, slight rubbing to spine and front cover in black and white. With 22 full-page ends most notably at head of spine of vol. III, touch of illustrations by the author. Contemporary ownership wear to very tips, small mark to top edge of vol. I, a very inscription of Bristolian poet, Kipling scholar, and Uni- good, bright set. tarian Joseph W. Norgrove to front free endpaper. Spine 107

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108 gilt on the rough, other edges uncut as issued, marbled pling collector and bibliographer Lloyd H. Chan- endpapers, twin gilt and blind rules to turn-ins, printed KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works. London: Mac- dler (1869–1947), with his and his wife Agatha’s on handmade paper, the first sheet of each signature joint ownership inscription to a preliminary blank millan and Company, 1937–39 bearing a Ganesha watermark. A couple of spines a little in each volume, dated between November 1937 and scuffed, a few trivial marks to covers, else a near-fine set. 35 volumes, large octavo. Original full russet niger by February 1939 (earlier volumes undated). James Burn & Co. for Macmillan, spines lettered in gilt the sussex edition, number 75 of 525 sets signed within raised bands, double gilt rule to covers, top edges by the author, from the library of the eminent Ki-

48 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in “the great retrospective work . . . the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmil- lan as a monument to one of the firm’s most profitable authors. The idea for the edition went back to 1928 and work was begun by 1930. The selection, fuller than that of any other edition, was the work of Kipling, and he saw the proofs of at least 21 of the edition’s 35 volumes before his death. Set in Bembo type on hand-made paper, bound in Nigerian goatskin, and limited to 525 sets, the Sussex Edition did not begin publication until 1937; sales were slow in those depression years, and a large number of the unbound sheets lying in a London warehouse was destroyed by German bombs. One result of this exaggerated scarcity is that the Sussex Edition is now among the most prized and most expensive of all modern editions” (ibid., vol. 6: 1931–36, 2004, p. 231). Though the Sussex Edition was published posthumously, Kipling had signed the limitation 109 110 sheets prior to his death on 18 January 1936. Richards D23; Stewart pp. 577–80. English and German to add to his Russian and 110 £19,750 [129485] French, and began his career as a poet and transla- KUNZ, George Frederick, & Charles Hugh tor. Through translating Scott, Moore and Byron, Stevenson. The Book of the Pearl. The His- 109 he was introduced to romantic literature and fell under the sway of Byron especially. His poem The tory, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen KOZLOV, Ivan Ivanovich. Чернетс, Monk “is a Byronic confessional poem, a tale of of Gems. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1908 киевскаиа повест (The Monk, a tale of love, death, and revenge shrouded in an atmos- Large octavo. Original cream buckram, spine and front Kiev). [St Petersburg: National Education Depart- phere of mystery” (Terras, p. 234). Initially circu- cover elaborately tooled in gilt with floral designs, top ment Press,] 1825 lated in manuscript across Russia, its publication edge gilt, others untrimmed. Decorated title page print- in 1825 spawned numerous imitators. Kozlov was ed in blue and black, portrait frontispiece and 18 plates Octavo (188 × 121 mm). Contemporary quarter cloth, in colour with captioned tissue guards, 83 black and green manuscript label to spine, marbled paper-backed soon compared to Pushkin, and indeed some felt white plates, 2 of which are folding, and 5 maps. Faint sides. 19th-century shelfmark to title and bookseller’s he surpassed him: Pyotr Vyazemsky wrote to Alex- soiling to covers, tiny bumps to spine ends, another to ticket to rear pastedown, inscription dated 1830 to divi- ander Turgenev in 1825 that “there is in Chernets head of front cover, light offsetting to endpapers; a near- sional half-title and a couple of other minor contempo- more feeling, more though than in Pushkin’s po- fine copy. rary annotations and jottings. Minor rubbing to extremi- ems”. The work is highly rare: OCLC shows only first edition, first impression, of this lav- ties, discreetly reinforced at inner margin throughout, five copies, in Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia tear to pp. 13–14 repaired with slight loss to text, mar- ishly gilded and richly illustrated book, the first and the Library of Congress. Only one copy is ginal repairs to 2 other leaves not affecting text, a few work of George Kunz (1856–1932), a renowned minor nicks at page extremities, light patches of staining known to have appeared at auction, in 2009, which American mineralogist and the discoverer of the and foxing throughout, last leaf soiled. Still a good copy indeed is possibly this one. mineral spodumene (named “Kunzite” in his hon- of this rare work. Kilgour 556; Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature, Yale our). It provides a comprehensive account of the first edition of Kozlov’s Byronic poem, the University Press, 1985. creation, use, and history of pearls, and is still work that established his literary reputation and £2,250 [129707] seen as an authoritative text. spread Byronic ideals among the Russian liter- £1,250 [128725] ary scene. Kozlov (1779–1840) lost his sight in 1821 and had to forgo his successful military and civil service career. He took to writing, learning

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112 LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Blue Fairy Book. With Numerous Illustrations by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and pictorial decoration to front board in gilt, brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, vignette title page, 7 plates, and illustrations in the text throughout. 16pp. publisher’s advetisements at the rear dated August 1889. Contemporary bookplate of Bradford local historian, 111 James Norton Dickons, to front pastedown. Colour re- touched to small section of front board, professional repair to tiny snag to spine. Spine very gently rolled and 111 unaffected), short closed tear to D10. A very attractive set lightly toned, slight wear to spine ends and tips, front in a contemporary binding. [LACLOS, Choderlos de.] Les Liaisons Dan- hinge cracked, with gauze visible, but holding, couple of scratches to endpapers, faint foxing to endmatter; a very gereuses, ou Lettres recueillies dans une first edition, rare first printing. This is in Max Brun’s state “A”, with the errata leaf at the end good, uncommonly bright, copy. société, & publiées pour l’instruction de of volume IV and uncorrected errata in the text. first edition, first impression, of the first quelques autres. Amsterdam & Paris: Durand The first edition, issued in April 1782 in a print run and scarcest title in the Fairy Book series, which Neveu, 1782 of 2,000 copies, was an immediate success, with stretched to 12 varicoloured collections, effected 4 volumes bound in 2 (166 × 96 mm), duodecimo. Con- several printings following the same year. Lac- a seismic shift in the public’s taste for fairy tales, temporary mottled calf, skilfully rebacked with original los reputedly said of his controversial epistolary and was unprecedented in the international scope spines laid down, flat spines tooled in gilt with elabo- novel, “I resolved to write a book that would create of its sources. The series was highly influential rate floriate and scrollwork gilt, twin morocco labels to some stir in the world and continue to do so after not only in giving many tales their first appear- spines, marbled endpapers and edges, pink silk book I had gone from it.” marker to vol. I. Tips neatly furbished, light scattered ance in English, but, more significantly, in the foxing and a little spotting to contents, vol I: small mark Max Brun, “Bibliographie des éditions des Liaisons Dan- process of salvaging some of the cultural wealth to lower margin sig. H6, manuscript note to B8, B5 mis- gereuses portant le millésime de 1782” (Le Livre et l’Estampe, of international fairy folklore by preserving it in bound but present; vol. II: marginal loss to C5 and 8 (text no. 33, 1963, p. 43). print (albeit in a somewhat bowdlerised children’s £12,500 [129009] story format). The Blue Fairy Book contains many

50 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 112 of the best-known tales: Little Red Riding Hood, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Cinderella, Aladdin, Rumpelstiltskin, Beauty and the Beast, 113 115 Goldilocks, Dick Whittington, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Gulliver’s 114 Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, black paper-backed Travels (the Lilliput portion), Hansel and Gretel, sides, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers. With the LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Snow White, Bluebeard and Jack the Giant Killer, dust jacket. Housed in original black cloth slipcase. Il- among others. Harper Collins, 1995 lustrated title page. A near-fine copy in the dust jacket, tiny creasing at head of spine panel. £3,000 [129547] Thirty-fifth anniversary edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “Best 113 wishes to Sara Conner – Harper Lee”. LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Pink Fairy Book. £1,500 [125067] With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. London & New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897 115 Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles and illustrations to LEWIS, C. S. Prince Caspian. The Return to spine in gilt, illustration to front cover in gilt, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated frontis- Narnia. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Lon- piece with tissue guard, vignette title page, numerous don: Geoffrey Bles, [1951] vignette and full page illustrations in the text. Spine Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in silver, very gently rolled and lightly faded, minor rubbing to map front endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour fron- extremities, foxing to prelims and endmatter, very oc- tispiece, black and white illustrations throughout. Spine casionally to contents, colour of cloth uncommonly very slightly rolled, faint foxing to edges and front free bright; a very good, fresh copy. endpaper; a near-fine copy in the remarkably bright jack- first edition, first impression, of the fifth et, spine faintly sunned, very faint soiling to rear panel, instalment in Lang’s Fairy Books series. Lang nicks and a little creasing to extremities, short closed tear to head of rear panel. notes in his Preface that, “Mr Ford, as usual, has drawn the monsters and mermaids, the princes first edition, first impression, of the sec- and giants, and the beautiful princesses, who, the ond book in the Chronicles of Narnia. Editor thinks, are, if possible, prettier than ever”. £2,250 [130504] £850 [129542]

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116 ends and corners, a few minor marks of tape residue to however short-lived it may have been, nothing af- front wrapper and title, and spotting to edges and some- (LEWIS, Wyndham, ed.) Blast. London: John terwards was quite the same. In addition to Pound what within, discreet reattachment of text block to the and Lewis, contributors included Ford Madox Hu- Lane, Bodley Head; and Black Sparrow Press, 1914, wrappers, both copies still in exceptional condition and effer, Rebecca West, and T. S. Eliot (with the July 1915, & 1984 certainly the best examples that we have handled of this fragile production. Vol. 3 fine. 1915 “War Number” containing the first appear- 3 volumes, quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, vol. 2 ance of the poem “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”). with woodcut illustration by Lewis to front. Numerous first editions, sole impressions, all pub- illustrations to plates and in the text by Lewis, Wads- lished of this landmark modernist magazine, The original two volumes here have the owner- worth, Roberts, Gaudier-Brzeska, Epstein, Nevinson, supplemented by Blast 3, the Black Sparrow Press ship inscription, dated 1924 and 1925, of minor Shakespear, and others. Sunning to spine of vol. 1, and publication. Blast was the literary and artistic man- poet Martin John Howe, and the first has laid in a little creasing round the extremities, some spotting to ifesto of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, and a slip with a seven-line typed poem (presumably edges and sparsely within, vol. 2 slightly rubbed at the by Howe) entitled “Fratres Minores”, mocking

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“More than any other Wall Street writer, Edwin Lefèvre provided America with a peek at what really makes Wall Street tick—human nature . . . De- scribed as being ‘equipped with a genius for specu- lation—plus the brains not to pursue it’, Lefèvre 116 chose to educate his public about the stock market over some 40 years of financial writing, some fic- “certain poets here and in France / with minds still 117 tion and some non-fiction. One point of praise hovering about their testicles” who “complain in LEFÈVRE, Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock about Lefèvre is that it was always hard to tell fic- delicate and exhausted metres / that the twitching tion from fact. With pointed, logical views about of the abdominal nerves, / is incapable of produc- Operator. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923 how the market runs its course, he did his best to ing a lasting Nirvana.” Poems by Howe appear in Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title describe its function and technological mumbo- the Public School Verse anthologies of 1924–1925 stamped in blind to front cover, partly unopened. Housed jumbo, leaving the biggest decision—whether or in a custom brown quarter morocco solander box. Spine not to invest—up to his readers . . . Lefevre was a and 1925–1926 published by Heinemann. The first ends bumped and frayed. Cloth to covers a little bubbled, volume title page also has the discreet contempo- else a very good copy of a very fragile book, the inner hing- great source for juicy Wall Street gossip, present- rary bookseller’s stamp of “The Poetry Shop, 48 es fully intact and the contents bright and clean. ing a wonderful, insider’s account of the wild life of wild speculator Jesse Livermore in his book Remi- Pryme Street, Hull”. first edition, a well-preserved example of a niscences of a Stock Operator. This book is one of my £4,250 [130195] book that is extremely hard to find in anything like all-time favourites, and I don’t think anyone should good condition, having often been read to pieces. invest money he deems important without first Presented as fictional, the work is in fact the result having read it” (Ken Fisher, 100 Minds That Made the of a series of interviews made by Edwin Lefèvre, Market, p. 53). a Wall Street journalist, with the renowned stock broker Jesse Livermore, whose own manual of Dennistoun & Goodman 626; Larson 4857; Zerden, pp. stockbroking, How to Trade in Stocks, was not pub- 102–5. lished until 1940, the year of his suicide. £10,000 [129273]

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the end of the Seven Years’ War (1763) . . . except in Quarto. Original half japon, morocco label to spine, red editions of the collected works” (ODNB). boards, Macdonald’s crest to front board in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece Yolton 33c. and 5 plates, illustrations throughout, folding map at £1,250 [129130] rear. Wear to extremities, slight scuffs and a couple of 118 marks to sides, very occasional light foxing to contents; 119 a very good copy. 118 first edition, signed limited issue, number MACAULAY, Thomas Babington. The His- 195 of 260 copies signed by the author. Addition- LOCKE, John. Two Treatises of Government: tory of England from the Accession of James ally inscribed by the author above the limitation, in the former, the false principles and foun- the Second. London: Longman, Brown, Green, “To Donald Ryan, A promising young Golfer, I wish dation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his follow- and Longmans, 1856–56–55–55–61 him well, 20 May 1931”. This work is “one of the ers, are detected and overthrown. The latter, 5 volumes, octavo (210 × 136 mm). Contemporary calf, real masterpieces of golf literature” (Murdoch 475). is an Essay concerning the true original, ex- red and black twin morocco labels, spine gilt to compart- MacDonald was an influential champion of golf in tent, and end of Civil Government. The fifth ments with crown motif, covers bordered with double gilt the United States and laid out several well-known edition. London: A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton and rule and single blind beaded roll, marbled endpapers and edges, silk book markers. Bookplates of John C. Black. E. Symon, 1728 Bound without half-titles. A few minor rubbing and strip- Octavo (193 × 120 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, ping marks, occasional faint foxing, else a near-fine set. spine ruled gilt in compartments, red morocco label, first edition of the final three volumes; elev- speckled edges. Foot of rear joint cracked but firm, ex- enth editions of vols. I and II, first published in tremities lightly rubbed; fore margin of leaf U2 torn away, just touching a character or two; a crisp, clean copy 1848. Macaulay’s great classic of Whig history was in an attractive contemporary binding. a major influence on the Victorians’ estimation of England’s history, constitution, and monarchy. Two Treatises was first published in December 1689 (though dated 1690), conceived as a vindication of £600 [129579] the Revolution of 1688–9, which had “saved the Nation when it was on the very brink of Slavery 120 and Ruine” (Locke’s preface). This fifth edition MACDONALD, Charles Blair. Scotland’s was the only edition to appear “during the half- century from the death of Queen Anne (1714) to Gift. Golf. Reminiscences 1872–1927. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928 120

54 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 121 courses, including the National Gold Links of America, the Creek Club, Piping Rock Club, Green- brier Hotel course, and the Yale University golf club. This edition is one of the most highly valued books on American golf history and is scarce in good condition with the map intact, as here. Copies further inscribed by the author are likewise uncommon, 121 121 with just one other such copy traced. Murdoch 475. after Charles Bird King. Early 20th-century bookplate of written by Hall based on information supplied by £5,750 [129563] Edward S. Thompson to front free endpapers, partially McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies erased pencil ownership inscription to frontispiece recto of leading figures amongst the Indian nations, fol- of vol. III. A little rubbing to lightly toned spines, minor lowed by a general history of the Native Americans. “The most colourful portraits of Indians wear to spine ends and tips, a couple of small scuffs and ever executed” marks to faintly soiled covers, foxing and slight marks The work is now famous for its colour plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors and women of the various 121 to endpapers, tiny hole to rear free endpaper of vol. III, occasional foxing to contents, light offsetting to tissue tribes, faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird McKENNEY, Thomas L., & James Hall. His- guards, a couple of very minor blemishes to to plates; a King painted from life in his studio in Washington tory of the Indian Tribes of North America, very good, handsomely bound set. (McKenney commissioned him to record the visit- with biographical sketches and anecdotes of first octavo edition, following the folio edition ing Indian delegates) or worked up by King from the principal chiefs. Embellished with one of 1836–44. A magnificent record of Native Ameri- the water-colours of the young frontier artist, James hundred and twenty portraits from the In- can dignitaries — “the most colourful portraits of Otto Lewis. The lithography and hand-colouring were entrusted to the distinguished lithographer J. dian Gallery in the War Department at Wash- Indians ever executed” (Howes). McKenney, who T. Bowen, best known for his hand-coloured octavo ington. Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1848–50 was Superintendent of Indian trade from 1816 until 1822 and headed the US Bureau of Indian Affairs edition of another landmark American publication, 3 volumes, large octavo (255 × 165 mm). Contemporary from 1824 to 1830, collaborated with James Hall, the Audubon’s Birds of America (1839–44). red morocco by Altemus, spines elaborately tooled in Howes M129; Sabin 43411. gilt in compartments, floral panels in gilt to covers Illinois journalist, lawyer, state treasurer and from within French fillet frames blocked in blind, gilt roll to 1833 Cincinnati banker, to produce this famous £15,000 [129033] cover edges, all edges gilt, yellow coated endpapers, work, which includes the only known likeness of blue silk book markers. With 120 hand-coloured litho- many of the most prominent Native American lead- graph plates, with tissue guards, by J. T. Bowen, mostly ers of the early 19th century. The text, which was

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122 His government was then facing accusations of cor- (MANDELA, Nelson.) ALBERTS, Paul. Some ruption and malpractice. The whole edition was re- 123 called and the books properly signed by Mandela. Evidence of Things Seen. Children of South Desmond Tutu had also provided only signed book- of signing, the individuals were respectively Presi- Africa. Rivonia, South Africa: Open Hand Trust, plates, but added his signature once Mandela did his dent of the Republic of South Africa, Chairman of 1997 own. Both Mandela’s rubber-stamped signature, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Quarto. Original green calf, spine and front cover let- Tutu’s signed bookplate, remain on the half-title. tered in gilt, green speckled edges. Housed in the origi- Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Accompanying the book are three letters serving nal green morocco slipcase. Illustrated throughout with The edition has the stated limitation of 50 num- as certificates of authenticity, each signed by an as- black and white photographs. A few trivial rub marks, bered copies, with a further unstated ten copies sistant verifying that the named individual signed else near-fine. numbered with Roman numerals; a regular un- by the book: the first on behalf of Nelson Mandela signed limited edition, number 47 of 50 cop- signed trade edition was also issued. Due to the in May 1999, the second on behalf of Archbishop ies signed by Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Albie controversy surrounding the signing, only a small Tutu in September 2000, and the third on behalf Sachs, and Paul Alberts. A remarkable collabora- number of the copies were ever sold. Most were re- of Justice Albie Sachs in October 2000. At the point tion, this is the only limited edition signed by both tained by Paul Alberts until his death, and acquired Mandela and Tutu—Nobel peace prize winners in by Peter Harrington from his estate. The books are 1993 and 1984 respectively—alongside a third ma- consequently a great rarity in commerce, with only jor figure in the anti-apartheid movement, Albie one known auction record. Sachs, who became a judge on South Africa’s con- £3,750 [130078] stitutional court and has received numerous international awards for jurisprudence. The book gath- ers photographs of South African children taken 123 by Paul Alberts, predominantly from before the MANDELA, Nelson. The Long Walk to Free- end of apartheid, with an introduction by Man- dom. The Autobiography. London: Little, Brown dela, and text provided by Tutu and Sachs (both and Company, 1994 additionally signing the start of their section). Octavo. Original quarter black morocco, green cloth The signing of the book proved controversial, as Nel- boards, lettering to spine in gilt, gilt rules to boards, son Mandela initially rubber stamped his signature map of South Africa to pastedown and endpapers. With on the books, despite having agreed to sign them. numerous photographic illustrations. A fine copy. first uk edition, first impression, signed limited issue. Number 588 of 1,000 copies signed by Mandela. 122 122 £3,250 [129549]

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124 Octavo. Bound for the publisher by Zaehnsdorf in pink 3 volumes, octavo (225 × 150 mm). Near-contemporary morocco, titles and decoration to spine in gilt, frames to red half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. Decorations covers in gilt, vignette to front cover in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispieces and nu- by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. pink pictorial endpapers. With the slipcase, as issued. Il- merous black and white illustrations throughout. Patch Ltd, 1927 lustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Minor rubbing to of wear to rear cover of vol. III, a few scuff marks, light spine ends, else a fine copy. foxing to edges, else a very good copy. Octavo. Publisher’s deluxe red sheep, spine lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to front cover within ruled border, pink fiftieth anniversary signed limited edi- first editions, first impressions. Munnings pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in the original tion, number 31 of 300 copies signed by Christo- focused on animals and warfare in his artwork, publisher’s cardboard box. With the glassine dust jack- pher Robin Milne. The House at Pooh Corner, published and his achievements led to his appointment as et. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. Box a little in 1928, was the last of the Winnie-the-Pooh books. President of the Royal Academy in 1944. He was a toned with the label foxed, glassine dust jacket chipped. champion of fine craftsmanship and a vociferous A near-fine copy. £1,000 [128986] critic of modern art, both viewpoints given vigor- first edition, first impression, deluxe is- ous airing in his autobiography. sue. Now We Are Six was printed in an edition of 50,000 copies, of which 5,000 were bound in leath- £450 [129575] er by the Ship Binding Company: 1,500 in blue, 1,500 in green, and 2,000 in the present red. The issue is rarely found with the glassine dust jacket and the publisher’s box preserved; this copy also includes the publisher’s advertisement slip. John R. Payne, “Four Children’s Books by A. A. Milne”, Studies in Bibliography, University of Virginia Press, vol. 23 (1970), pp. 127–139.

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125 126 MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. MUNNINGS, Alfred. The Autobiography. With decorations by E. H. Shepard. London: [An Artist’s Life; The Second Burst; The Fin- Methuen Children’s Books, 1978 ish.] London: Museum Press 1950–51–52 126

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 57 Very light shelf-wear, some foxing of the endpapers and blanks, but overall a very good set indeed. first editions of the last three volumes; second editions of the first three. The first volume was published by John Murray, who did not exercise his op- tion on the next three having made a loss, Napier therefore published the rest of the history through Boone having raised the money by subscriptions. The work certainly divided opinion, “Soult considered it ‘perfect’, Sir Robert Peel ‘eloquent and faithful’, the Spanish general Alava felt it too pro-French, and a British officer in India demanded satisfaction on his return for a ‘most unfounded calumny’ about his conduct at Barossa” (ODNB). As a result most volumes are prefixed with “justificatory pieces” in answer to Napier’s critics, his controversy with Be- resford over Albuera was particularly rancourous. 127 Perhaps judgement is best left to the acknowledged master chronicler of the conflict, Sir Charles Oman, 127 who described Napier’s work as “magnificent (if NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. London: Weiden- somewhat prejudiced and biased)”. feld and Nicolson, 1959 This set in a handsome contemporary binding by Francis Bedford, “considered the leading English Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, top bookbinder of his time, surpassed only by the best edge pink. With the dust jacket designed by Eric Ayers. 128 Contemporary ownership inscription to front free end- French binders” (ODNB), and with the attractive paper. Spine very gently, minor rubbing to spine ends, engraved armorial roundel bookplates of Sir Hen- a couple of very faint marks to covers, top edge lightly The photographic studio of Daniel Georg Nyblin ry Hope Edwardes (1829–1900), of Wootton, Der- browned, edges toned as usual; a near-fine copy in the (1826–1910), established in Oslo (named Chris- byshire. Edwardes was a noted bibliophile, the sale jacket with minor creasing and nicks to extremities, tiny tiania until 1924) in 1866, was famous for its por- of whose “choice and valuable library”, auctioned mark to foot of rear flap. traiture, sitters including Henrik Ibsen and Roald by Christie’s in 1901, was reported in the New York first uk edition, first impression. Nabok- Amundsen. This is a fine, brooding portrait that Times, which noted the sale total as $55, 000 (ap- ov’s work was originally published in Paris in 1955. captures Nansen at the height of his fame. proximately $1.5 million in modern terms). £450 [129536] £1,500 [130085] Bruce 3445: “A standard source and a classic work of literature, one of the finest military histories published in England”; Sandler 295. 128 129 £1,950 [129235] NANSEN, Fridtjof. Signed cabinet photo- NAPIER, William Francis Patrick. History of graph. Christiania (Oslo): Nyblin, 1896 the War in the Peninsula and in the South of Beatty forged the myth of the dying Nelson Original silver gelatin print mounted on off-white tex- France, from the year 1807 to the Year 1814. tured heavy card stock studio mount with debossed let- London: John Murray; Thomas & William Boone, 130 tering (overall 165 × 107 mm, image 138 × 96 mm). Ton- 1832–40 (NELSON.) BEATTY, William. Authentic ing to mount otherwise in excellent condition. 6 volumes, octavo (221 × 134 mm). Contemporary full Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson: with Striking studio portrait of the great Norwegian calf by Bedford, tan lettering- and dark green number- the circumstances preceding, attending, and explorer, signed on the image “Fridtjof Nansen, ing-pieces, narrow bands with gilt dotted roll, compart- subsequent to, that event; the Professional March 2 97” – within a month of the publication of ments with central lozenge composed of acorn, flower his worldwide bestseller Farthest North, on 15 Feb- and scrolled foliate tools surmounted with a crown, ara- Report on his Lordship’s Wound; and Several ruary 1897. besque corner-pieces, double fillet panels to the boards Interesting Anecdotes. London: by T. Davison and board edges, edges stained pale yellow, foliate roll to for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 turn-ins, marbled endpapers. 55 engraved battle plans.

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Octavo (227 × 139 mm). Contemporary calf recently neat- piece: “To John Houseman Esqr. with every sen- stoicism, his request that Hardy should kiss him ly rebacked, blue morocco label, single-line gilt border timent of Regard by his friend & humble servant, as the captain took his leave, and his constantly to sides, red speckled edges. Stipple-engraved portrait the author”. Beatty (1773–1842) was ship’s surgeon repeated dying words: ‘Thank God I have done frontispiece by Scriven after A. W. Devis and a similar on the Victory at Trafalgar. He “attended Nelson my duty.’ Beatty’s narrative was the stuff of which plate of the fatal musket ball. Some wear to corners and periphery of boards, frontispiece foxed, offsetting from after he received his fatal wound, performed the legends are made, and generations of historians plates, occasional light thumbing. A very good, wide- autopsy, and published An Authentic Narrative of the have uncritically pillaged the text ever since. In an margined copy; paper watermarked “E & P 1804”. Death of Lord Nelson (1807), which included a repre- important respect, then, Beatty forged the myth of first edition, presentation copy inscribed sentation of the ball which killed Nelson, with the the dying Nelson . . . it was Nelson’s surgeon who on behalf of the author in an elegantly flourished pieces of the coat, gold lace, and silk pad which eternally placed the death of the hero in the minds secretarial hand on the blank before the frontis- remained fixed in it. The ball Beatty retained in his of the British nation” (Brockliss, Cardwell & Moss, possession in a crystal case mounted in gold; he Nelson’s Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and bequeathed this to the queen” (ODNB). In his pref- the Battle of Trafalgar, OUP 2005, p. 10). ace, Beatty notes that this account was intended to Cowie 1239; NMM II.1024; Walker, Nelson Portraits, 198 be included in Clarke and M’Arthur’s monumental (Devis’s portrait “is the only contemporary image show- Life “but from the length of time which must nec- ing Nelson wearing the green eyeshade recommended essarily elapse before so extensive and magnifi- by Thomas Trotter, shortly before Copenhagen, to pro- cent a Publication can be completed, the Author tect his eyes from the glare of the sea”). has been induced to print it in a separate form”. £2,500 [128879] “It was principally through this text that the Brit- ish public and the world learnt for the first time of 130 the mortally wounded admiral’s selflessness and

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edges untrimmed. Bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to pastedown. Spine faded to brown and professionally restored at ends, hinges discreetly repaired, final page toned. A very good copy.

131 first uk edition of the first English translation. The edition constitutes the eighth of a projected 11 volume set of Nietzsche’s writings in English, al- 131 was first published in 1828, Goethe commenting though it was in fact the second title published. Zar- (NERVAL Gérard de, trans.) GOETHE, Jo- that “this French translation all seems again fresh, athustra was originally published in German in four new, and spirited” (Oxenford, 3 January 1860). The hann Wolfgang von. Faust. Préface de M. parts between 1883 and 1885, with the first three dramatic illustrations accompanying this edition volumes written in a frenzy of creativity, each last- Frantz-Jourdain. Illustrations inédites de of the translation are by Pierre Gaston Jourdain, Gaston Jourdain. Paris: La Société de Propagation ing only ten days. In his autobiography Nietzsche an illustrator who taught at the Lycée de Versailles, stated that “In my lifework, my Zarathustra holds a des Livres d’Art, 1904 and the brother of the architect and art critic Frantz place apart. With it, I gave my fellow-men the great- Quarto (280 × 216 mm). Near-contemporary green half Jourdain. Fritz provided the preface to this edition, est gift that has ever been bestowed upon them. morocco by Maurice Trinckvel, titles and motifs to spine in which he discusses his brother’s skill and love of This book, the voice of which speaks out across the in gilt, red morocco inlay to spine, green marbled paper Goethe, describing him as “a madly enthusiastic ages, is not only the loftiest book on earth, literally sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. artist of Goethe genius” (p. 11). Text in French. Vignette title page printed in red and the book of mountain air—the whole phenome- black in two states. With 16 plates in three states (printed John Oxenford, Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann non, mankind, lies at an incalculable distance be- in black on japon, blue on papier de chine, and bistre), a (1906). neath it—but it is also the deepest book, born of the 17th plate solely in the blue state. Spine faded to brown, £1,500 [129609] inmost abundance of truth; an inexhaustible well, rubbing to spine ends, slight fading to leather on sides, into which no pitcher can be lowered without com- a couple of scuffs to sides, small bump to foot of front ing up again laden with gold and with goodness” board, neatly repaired, wear to tips, small mark to gutter 132 (Ecco Homo, T. N. Foulis, 1911, pp. 3–4). Alexander of front free endpaper and first blank; a very good copy. NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zara- Tille, the translator, served as lecturer of German limited edition, number 11 of 15 copies thustra. A book for all and none. Translated literature at the University of Glasgow from 1890 to printed on japon with the plates in three. by Alexander Tille. London: H. Henry and Co. 1900, when he returned to Germany after disputes Fifteen copies were also printed on papier de chine, Ltd, 1896 with students over the Boer War. 40 on Watham paper, and 350 in a standard trade Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover let- The edition was also published the same year by issue. Nerval’s translation of Goethe’s epic play tered in gilt with roundels in blind, black endpapers, the Macmillan Company in New York, without

60 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 133 134 established priority. The present copy is in the printing and commercial viability could be brought second issue binding of the UK edition with T. together. The Greek text is printed in parallel with Fisher Unwin’s name at the base of spine; the book the English translation of Alexander Pope, which sold poorly, and Unwin purchased the remaining was first published in 1725. With the printer Fran- sheets from Henry and Co. Some copies were re- cis Meynell’s elusive slip, “On First Looking into 134 issued by Unwin with a new title page and addi- Pope’s Homer”, providing instruction on how to tional leaves in 1899, though not here. The work open the book, loosely inserted. One of three issues published in 1569, this polemi- is surprisingly uncommon, with OCLC listing only Nonesuch bibliography, numbers 72 and 78. cal work was published at the height of the Revolt 13 known copies dated 1896 in public institutions. £2,000 [130414] of the Northern Earls, the unsuccessful attempt by Schaberg pp. 87ff; see Printing and the Mind 370 for first edi- Catholic nobles to depose Elizabeth and replace tion. The Wilson–Currer–Huth copy her with Mary, Queen of Scots. The pamphleteer £3,250 [127128] and lawyer Thomas Norton (1530×32–1584) was 134 no relation to the prominent rebel leader Richard 133 NORTON, Thomas. To the Quenes Majesties Norton (d. 1585), the staunchly Catholic sheriff of Yorkshire, who plotted to free Mary from captivity (NONESUCH PRESS.) HOMER. The Iliad Poore Deceived Subjectes of the North Coun- in York. [and] Odyssey. [London:] The Nonesuch Press, 1931 trey, Drawen into Rebellion by the Earles Northumberland and Westmoreland. London: With the bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson 2 works, tall octavo. Original orange niger, raised bands Currer (1785–1861), “England’s earliest female within blind rules to spines, twin gilt fillets to head and Imprinted by Henrie Bynneman, for Lucas Harrison, foot, second compartments gilt-lettered direct, 2-line 1569 bibliophile” (ODNB), whose famous library at Es- hton Hall, Yorkshire placed her “at the head of all gilt frame to sides, single fillet gilt to turn-ins, marbled Small octavo (133 × 89 mm), pp. [56]. 19th-century red endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in straight-grain morocco, cathedral style blind decoration, female collectors in Europe”. Eshton Hall itself the original marbled slipcases. Title pages printed in red spine lettered in gilt. Engraved bookplates of Mathew was built in 1825–7 by architect George Webster of and black with engraved hoplite vignettes, vignette chap- Wilson facing that of Frances Mary Richardson Currer Kendal in an Elizabethan revival style for Mathew ter headings printed in red and black throughout. Light on front endpapers, leather book label of Huth overlap- Wilson. The book would have been of particular marking and discolouration to covers. A very good set. ping head of Wilson’s; modern collector’s label of How- local antiquarian interest to Currer. first nonesuch editions, number 83 of 1,450 ard Knohl to rear pastedown. Closely trimmed, some ESTC S121955; Scott, Bibliography of Works relating to Mary copies and 702 of 1,300 copies respectively. The side notes and headlines cropped, generally clean, with Queen of Scots 58; STC 18682. Catalogue of the library at Es- Homer was one of the finest productions of the binder’s blanks added at end to give bulk to the volume. hton-hall, p. 201. Nonesuch Press, a shining example of how fine £7,500 [128765]

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 61 and “a multitude of historical, topographical and statistical information” (Hodson) written by the antiquarian John Owen, the whole engraved onto 273 strip-maps by the leading map maker Emanuel Bowen. Bowles puffed his edition extravagantly, claiming that “One leaf of this, contains more Ob- servations than any whole book of this Nature yet publish’d”, and evidently stirred up “a great demand as there were four editions issued from 1720 to 1724” (Chubb). Whether the result was wholly practical is questionable: the layout is cluttered, with three or four strip maps per page, in addition to the county maps, armorials, and minutely-engraved cursive text; but it is certainly lively and must have exhib- ited considerable novelty on publication. Ogilby’s survey was the first of the roads of England and Wales, was “securely based on contemporary and collaborative research” (ODNB), and “is of particular and historical importance, as it displaced the old British mile of 2,428 yards, and substituted it for the statute mile of 1,760 yards, thus effecting a revolution in customary measurements” (Chubb, p. 444). Chubb pp. 117–23; Hodson 149. 135 136 £3,500 [123422] 135 his own literal translation, and Fitzgerald’s freer 136 (OGILBY, John.) BOWEN, Emanuel. Britan- “transmogrification”, first published by Quaritch. nia Depicta; or, Ogilby Improv’d; being a Cor- OMAR KHAYYÁM. Edward Fitzgerald’s Ru- £675 [129516] rect Coppy of Mr. Ogilby’s Actual Survey of all baiyat with their original Persian sources col- ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England lated from his own MSS., and literally trans- 137 and Wales . . . London: Tho. Bowles, 1720 lated by Edward Heron-Allen. London: Bernard ORCZY, Baroness. The League of the Scarlet Quaritch; Page and Company, Inc., Boston, 1899 Octavo (218 × 155 mm). Contemporary red morocco, sides Pimpernel. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, with an elaborate double frame in gilt enclosed by double Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front [1919] gilt rules, spine richly gilt in compartments, marbled end- cover with calligraphic symbol within ornate gilt frame, papers, gilt edges. Engraved title page, 4-page table, 273 en- top edge gilt, others uncut. Engraved frontispiece. Deco- Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt and graved maps. From the library of Robert Fulke Greville, 4th rations by Ella Hallward. Spine backing loosening along blocked in blind to front cover, bottom edge untrimmed. Baron Brooke, with his bookplate and inked monogram to split at front joint, spine a little darkened, a bit of light With the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to extremities, up- head of title page. Some skilful restoration to extremities, foxing, else a very good copy. per corners of covers a little speckled, light foxing to edges, a very good, bright, copy in the professionally re- red label renewed to style, the occasional mark or blemish, first quaritch edition, presentation copy, but a handsome large paper copy in red morocco. stored, lightly soiled, jacket with paper reinforcements inscribed on the half-title “Mary Beatrice Blenner- to spine ends, folds, and head of front panel, and minor first edition, large paper copy, first issue, hassett with the constant homage of the author July creasing to edges. of this highly popular reduced version of John Ogil- 1901 Edward Heron-Allen”; one of 1,500 copies for by’s 1675 road atlas, with Bowen’s address given as UK issue; there were also 500 for the US. Heron- “next ye King of Spain”, plate 128 misnumbered 121, Allen’s version, first published the previous year by and plates 74 and 75 transposed. Bowles decided to H. S. Nichols, from the then earliest manuscript in trump Thomas Gardner and John Senex, who were the Bodleian Library, includes the Persian originals, also planning reduced-format reissues of Ogilby, by augmenting the original work with 54 county maps 136

62 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 137 first edition, first impression, presentation copy, “To Dennis Wheatley, kind thoughts from Emmuska Orczy, London 28. viii. 35”, with Wheatley’s bookplate to the front pastedown. To- gether with the book is the presentation letter from Orczy sent with the book, likewise dated 25 August 1935, after their meeting earlier that month. In the letter Orczy thanks Wheatley for the gift of some of his works, and invites him to visit her in Monte Carlo, for “a short stay in ‘the den of sin’ which is 138 really an earthly paradise”. This collection of short stories is the sixth book in the Scarlet Pimpernel se- 138 nally believed The Road to Wigan Pier would not be ries. The work itself is scarce, with just six copies ORWELL, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. included in Gollancz’s Left Book Club as “it is too traced institutionally in the UK on Copac. fragmentary and, on the surface, not very left- With a Foreword by Victor Gollancz. London: £4,500 [128848] wing” (Fenwick). By 29 December 1936, however, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937 the work was set as a choice for the March 1937 list. Octavo. Original orange limp cloth, titles to spine and By the time the book was published Orwell was in front panel in black. With 16 photographic plates. Slight Spain and did not see a copy of this edition until finger marks, a little creasing to spine, a hint of spotting late April when he was home on leave. A casebound to first two leaves and page block edges, an excellent copy. trade issue of 2,150 copies was also released. first edition, first impression, signed by Fenwick A5a. the author (“Geo. Orwell”, his customary form when signing books with his nom de plume) on the £15,000 [130355] 137 front free endpaper, very scarce thus. Orwell origi-

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sovereign state, free from the USSR and Stalin, with the youth branch founded in 1933. By the late 1930s the ODWU had a membership of over 10,000 in 70 branches. Its anti-Stalinist stand made it subject to a smear campaign by the Soviet state, and its hard- line nationalism led to targeting by the FBI. Fenwick A.10.T25; Kalyna Tatara, “George Orwell and the 139 Ukrainian Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm”, Ukrainian Institute, 31/7/2012. 139 ion and wondered if anyone ‘knew the truth’. He £1,250 [129618] ORWELL, George. Kolgosp Tvarin [Animal concluded: ‘Your book has solved that problem . . . Refugees reacted to the underlying values of the Farm]. Munich: Vidavnitstvi Prometei, 1947 book, to the tale ‘types,’ to the underlying convic- 140 Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Ink notations and tions of the author and so on. Besides, the mood (PENGUIN CLASSICS.) FLAUBERT, Gus- patch of abrasion at head of front cover, contents toned of the book seems to correspond with their own as usual, yet overall a near-fine copy of this fragile volume. tave. Madame Bovary. London: Penguin Classics, actual state of mind’. While Animal Farm had been a 2006 first ukrainian edition, the first trans- message of hope to the Ukrainian DPs, Shevchen- lation of orwell’s work, and the first Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front ko’s letter was a message of hope to Orwell, who cover in white, yellow book marker. With the dust jacket. to include a preface. A copy of the first Eng- enthusiastically agreed to a Ukrainian translation” Housed in the original printed perspex slipcase. With lish edition of 1945 fell into the hands of Ihor (Tatara). Orwell contributed a new preface, which the original cardboard packaging. A fine copy, in the Shevchenko, a son of Polish anti-Bolshevik na- was his most extensive commentary on the story publisher’s shrinkwrap. tionalists, who translated the work into Ukrain- and his motives for writing it, and which is often limited edition, number 565 of 1,000 copies, ian. “In April 1946, Shevchenko wrote to Orwell, printed in modern editions of the book to this day. with a dust jacket designed by the shoe designer a mourning widower and single parent of adopted This copy has an appropriate provenance given the Manolo Blahnik. To celebrate the 60th anniversary baby at that time, requesting authorization to motives for the translation, with the stamp to the of Penguin Classics the firm commissioned five publish his Ukrainian translation. He described to half-title of the Minnesotan youth branch of the prominent artists to design bindings for limited him how he had translated the book out loud to ODWU, the Organisation for the Rebirth of the runs of influential books previously published in a transfixed audience of Ukrainian DPs [displaced Ukraine, made up of Ukrainian nationalist refu- the series. persons] and they had always been puzzled how gees. The ODWU had been founded in America in the West could be so naïve about the Soviet Un- £550 [129748] 1931 to re-establish Ukraine as an independent and

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141 142 ever so slightly darkened, neat contemporary inscription to binder’s front blank, an excellent copy. (POGÁNY, Willy.) ROLLESTON, T. W. Par- (POGÁNY, Willy.) WAGNER, Richard. Tan- sifal, or the Legend of the Holy Grail retold nhäuser. A Dramatic Poem. Freely translated first edition. The first two printings are believed to be identical. from Antient Sources with acknowledgement in poetic narrative form by T. W. Rolleston. Linder p. 429; Quinby 18. to the “Parsifal” of Richard Wagner by T. W. London: G. G. Harrap & Co., 1911 Rollenston. London: Harrap & Co., 1912 Tall quarto (268 × 180 mm). Near-contemporary red full £875 [129638] Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), titles to spine in gilt in gilt, gilt decoration to front cover, pictorial endpapers, compartments, gilt single rule frames to covers, turn-ins top edge gilt, others uncut. Tipped-in colour plates, il- tooled in gilt, red marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Col- lustrations and decorations by Pogány. Some light soil- our frontispiece with mounted colour plate, 16 tipped-in ing to vellum, else a near-fine copy. colour plates, illustrated half-title and title page, 43 full page lithographic prints, numerous woodcuts to text, signed limited edition, number 349 of 525 all printed in orange, green, and black, on grey, heavy copies signed by Pogány. A highly attractive book stock, paper. Minor rubbing to spine ends, tiny nick to from what has been termed Pogány “golden age” foot of gutter of front endpapers, slight abrasion to gut- (Menges), this present work, alongside two other ter of frontispiece and title page; a near-fine copy. interpreted tales from Wagner’s opera, followed his first trade edition of this richly and intricate- Rime of the Ancient Mariner of 1910. These works were ly illustrated work. “designed and illustrated from head to toe, each page a visual construct. Pogány did all the lettering £950 [128817] by hand, and executed numerous colour and line illustrations. The printing was a marriage of the best 143 in early multicolour techniques on type and decora- POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittle- tive pages, and the newest four-colour separation mouse. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1910 process for scores of tipped-in plates” (ibid.). Sextodecimo. Original blue boards, titles to front board Jeff A. Menges, Willy Pogány Rediscovered, 2013. and spine in white, pictorial label to front board, picto- £1,000 [129648] rial endpapers. Colour illustrations by the author. Spine 143

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first trade edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by rackham to his brother- and sister-in-law, with an original ink drawing by him on the half-title, “To William & May, with best wishes from Arthur & Edyth, Christmas. 09”. Arthur Rackham married Edyth Starkie, a portrait painter and sculptor, in 1903. 144 William Joseph Myles Starkie (1860–1920), a Greek scholar and last Resident Commissioner of Na- 144 British Embassy in St Petersburg. Pushkin’s origi- tional Education for Ireland, was Edyth’s older PUSHKIN, Aleksandr. Eugene Onéguine. A nal was first published in book form in 1833. brother, and married May in 1893. romance of Russian life in verse translated Line–Ettlinger–Gladstone, p. 29. Latimore & Haskell pp. 34–5; Riall pp. 93–4. from the Russian by Lieut.-Col. Spalding. £7,500 [129124] £1,750 [129333] London: Macmillan and Co., 1881 Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine gilt, vignette 145 to front cover gilt, brown coated endpapers, fore edge (RACKHAM, Arthur.) LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, untrimmed. Pencilled ownership signature to half-title and title page. Spine gently rolled, hinges cracked but Friedrich Heinrich, Freiherr de. Undine. firm, tips just a touch worn, couple of spots of foxing to Adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney. outer leaves, otherwise internally clean. A very nice copy London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & in bright cloth. Co., New York, 1909 first edition in english of Pushkin’s final Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in work. “Perhaps because it was the first, Spalding’s gilt, pictorial image blocked in gilt to front cover, illustrated translation is often set down as a pioneer version, endpapers printed in green, top edge blue. Colour frontis- which we naturally expect to have all the faults of piece and 14 colour plates mounted on plain paper with a an initial attempt . . . but the remarkable fact is grey printed frame with captioned tissue guards, title page that it has not more” (Simmons, The Slavonic and printed in green and black, black and white drawings in the text. Spine faded and rubbed, minor wear to spine ends East European Review, Volume 17). Henry Spalding and tips, slight mottling to cloth, edges and margins toned, apparently learned Russian while stationed at the browning to endpapers, else a very good copy. 145

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146 not affecting illustration, small puncture and closed tear 148 to rear free endpaper with consequent abrasion to rear (RACKHAM, Arthur.) DICKENS, Charles. A pastedown; a very good copy. (RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Ken- Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann; first trade edition, first impression, pres- neth. The Wind in the Willows. Introduction J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1915 entation copy, inscribed by rackham to his by A. A. Milne. London: Methuen & Co., 1951 Octavo (197 × 145 mm). Near-contemporary green morocco brother- and sister-in-law, with an original ink Tall octavo (280 × 220 mm). Near-contemporary blue for Asprey & Co. Ltd, titles to spine in gilt in compartments, drawing (similar to the headpiece at p. 49) to the full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, titles an decoration single rule border in gilt to covers, turn-ins ruled in gilt, half-title, “To May and William, with best wishes, to spine in gilt in compartments, raised bands tooled in marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Title page printed in red gilt, frames ruled in gilt to covers, pictorial morocco on- from Edyth & Arthur Rackham. Xmas 1917”. (See and black, colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates all print- lay within inset panel ruled in black and gilt, and elabo- ed directly on plate paper with captioned tissue guards and item 145) rate floral cornerpieces in gilt, to front cover, elaborately black and white illustrations in the text. Spine very lightly £2,250 [129318] ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, blue cloth browned, faint mark to front blank, else a fine copy. pagemarkers. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. With 12 first trade edition, early issue, with the mounted plates in colour with tissue guards and numerous line drawings in the text. Spine faded to green, a frontispiece printed directly on white plate paper, near-fine copy in a beautiful binding. the date 1915 on the title verso. deluxe edition, number 456 of 500 copies. Latimore & Haskell pp. 44–5; Riall p. 124–5. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame’s £875 [129678] timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908 with just a frontispiece. This was the last 147 work Rackham illustrated before his death. It was (RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, Jakob & Wil- “a book for which he had a strong affection, and which he had longed for years to illustrate. The helm. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other resulting pictures (the edition was published post- Tales. London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1917 humously in 1940) are among his most affecting Quarto. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to works, replete with wit, invention, and carefully front board and spine in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top controlled emotion” (ODNB). edge green, others untrimmed. Spine gently rolled, cloth browned and a little soiled, slight wear to spine ends and £4,500 [130020] tips, tips bumped, foxing to prelims and endmatter, occasionally to contents, offsetting from original book marker to p. 107, small loss to fore edge of pp. 119–20 147

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149 (ROBINSON, Charles.) WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duck- worth & Co, 1913 Quarto. Original full japon, titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, line drawings and black and white vignettes throughout the text. Spine lightly browned, minor rubbing to extremities, slight offsetting to endpapers; a near-fine copy. first robinson edition, signed limited issue, number 210 of 260 copies signed by the illustrator, 250 of which were released for sale. Wilde’s collection of children’s stories, first published in 1888, includes “The Selfish Giant”, “The Night- 150 ingale and the Rose”, “The Devoted Friend”, and “The Remarkable Rocket”. Wilde’s “reputation as the innocence of childhood . . . his colouring and Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of the an author dated from the publication of the Happy fantasy are often highly original” (Houfe, p. 280). first book in the Harry Potter series, with the mis- Prince and Other Tales in London in May 1888. The print “J. A. Rowling” on the title page. This is one Athenaeum compared him to Hans Christian An- Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Il- lustrators and Caricaturists (1996). of just 200 pre-publication proof copies. Blooms- dersen, and Pater wrote to say that ‘The Selfish Gi- bury only issued proof copies for the first three ant’ was ‘perfect in its kind,’ and the whole book £3,000 [129556] Harry Potter novels: after the Prisoner of Azkaban, written in ‘pure English’—a wonderful compli- sales were so great that they did not want to give ment” (Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, p. 282). 150 subsequent story lines away until publication day. Robinson’s style perfectly fit Wilde’s tone; “very ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philos- decorative, flowing and imaginative scenes were Errington AA1(A). surrounded by elaborate borders and in the faces opher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997 £20,000 [130050] and forms of children he recaptured something of Octavo. Original white and yellow wrappers with titles printed in black. A fine copy.

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151 Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. bury issued the deluxe versions simultaneously Spine lightly rolled, some faint foxing, else a near-fine with the trade editions. ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Cham- copy in the dust jacket. Errington A1(d); 2(e); 7(c); 9(b); 12(c); 13(b); 14 (aaa). ber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic, 1999 first edition, first impression, second £3,500 [121180] Octavo. Original green half cloth, spine lettered in silver, state, inscribed by the author on the dedi- purple paper-backed sides, red endpapers. With the dust cation page: “to Ed – hope you like this one as jacket. A fine copy. 154 much! Jo (J. K. Rowling)”. first u.s. edition, first printing, signed by Errington A7(aa). [ROWLING, J. K.] Robert Galbraith. The the author on the title page, in the first state dust Cuckoo’s Calling. London: Sphere, 2013 £3,500 [129934] jacket without “year 2” on the spine panel. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Errington A2(c). With the dust jacket. A near-fine copy in the dust jacket, 153 with tiny chip at head of spine panel. £2,000 [127280] ROWLING, J. K. [Complete set of the Harry first edition, first impression, signed 152 Potter deluxe editions.] London: Bloomsbury, by the author on the title page as Robert Gal- 1999–2007 braith. The first printing of the first edition ran ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Pris- to at least 1,500 copies, the front cover featuring 7 volumes, large octavo. Original red, blue, green, pur- oner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999 ple, burgundy, blue and grey cloth with pictorial onlays, a quote from Val McDermid and the back cover titles to front covers gilt, spines lettered in gilt, all edges with quotes from Mark Billingham and Alex Gray. gilt. No dust jackets issued. Volumes IV to VII in original It is thought that Rowling signed 250 copies of the cellophane wrap. A fine set. first edition for promotional purposes before the first deluxe editions, first impressions, secret of her authorship was revealed, some four with a Bloomsbury bookplate signed by the au- months after publication. thor tipped in to Philosopher’s Stone. The deluxe edi- £3,000 [129935] tions, created for the gift market, were issued out of sequence, with the third book, Prisoner of Azka- ban, the first published in this format, published simultaneously with the first trade edition in July 1999. Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets were issued two months later, and thereafter Blooms-

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155 156 157 (RUSKIN, John.) LORD, William Barry. Crab, Shrimp, and Lobster Lore, gathered 156 faint soiling to rear panel and flaps, very minor nicks to amongst the rocks and the sea-shore, by the top edge. riverside, and in the forest. London: George SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Garden. Lon- don: Michael Joseph, 1946 first uk edition, first impression. It was Routledge and Sons, 1867 originally published in the US earlier the same Octavo. Original tan buckram, titles and illustration to Duodecimo. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover year. front board and spine gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to front cover within gilt Vignettes by James Broom-Lynne. With the ownership ruled frame. Steel-engraved frontispiece, 36 black and £1,250 [127518] label of Benjamin Fairfax Hall, founder of The Stourton white illustrations in the text. A few pencilled lines in Press, to head of front pastedown. Spine lightly faded, margins, W. H. Smith library blindstamp to front end- 158 spine ends and tips ever-so-slightly rubbed; else a fine paper. A near-fine, bright copy, with a trivial mark to rear copy. cover and light foxing to initial and final leaves. SASSOON, Siegfried. A Suppressed Poem. [Milwaukee, WI:] The Unknown Press, 1919 [but first edition, john ruskin’s copy, with his first edition, signed limited issue, number Brantwood Library bookplate to the front past- 132 of 750 copies signed by the author, published 1929] edown, and inscribed to him on the half-title, “R. the same month as the trade issue (May 1946). A Bifolium, printed on each page in black. Vignette por- Leslie to J.R., if of any use please keep—contains long poetical sequence on the author’s favourite trait of the poet to front page. Spine repaired, stain from the bottom edge, offset tanning to both internal pages, about as much as is known I think”. Robert Charles subject, “which tries to sum up her own horticul- in poor condition, but a rare survival. Leslie (1826–1901) was a friend and correspondent tural aesthetic and is in some respects superior to of Ruskin. “In love of the sea and of animals there its predecessor The Land” (ODNB). first separate edition, number 38 of 50 num- was a strong link of sympathy between them; and Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A44(b). bered copies with a portrait aside from 450 ordinary letters from Mr. Leslie, who liked to send him jot- £500 [129453] copies, of the poem by Sassoon which was included tings, cuttings, or gossip about things lovely and of in the first issue of Robert Graves’s Goodbye to all That (1929) without Sassoon’s permission, and quickly good report, formed, as it were, a contribution to 157 Ruskin’s ideal newspaper. Many of these were pre- cancelled. Only about 250 copies got out with Sas- served among Ruskin’s papers, and his letters to Mr. SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Lon- soon’s poem included, and in order to meet the Leslie . . . show how much he valued such messages don: Hamish Hamilton, 1951 demand for it the poem was pirated by the Milwau- from his friend” (The Works of John Ruskin, 1909, vol. Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine in silver. kee-based firm Casanova Booksellers, under the XXXVI, p. cviii.). The work itself, a sentimentalised With the dust jacket. Parisian bookseller’s ticket to front imprint of The Unknown Press. It constitutes the account of coastal lore regarding molluscs, is a per- pastedown. Very light browning to covers, minor rub- first separate edition of Sassoon’s poem. This ex- fect example of their common interests. bing to spine ends, light foxing to edges and endpapers; ample comes with a letter, dated 1969, to bookseller a very good, fresh copy in the unusually neat jacket with George Minkoff from the director of Casanova £875 [129705]

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Booksellers, explaining the history of the produc- tablished by 1725 and in decline by the late 1770s. first edition, first printing, with adverts on tion and offering to sell him his remaining stock of It was customary to bind Bibles in two volumes, the jacket rear panel and flap and 295/295 price. 29 numbered special copies. It is a rare survival: the as here, with the metrical psalms being added to Younger & Hirsch 41. last copy recorded at auction was in 1983. the second volume. As the psalms were used in the £375 [128929] £1,250 [127284] church services, this volume is normally found in a poorer condition than the first volume. 159 It was usual for the endleaves of these books to be of “Dutch gilt” paper, as in the present exam- (SCOTTISH BINDING.) The Holy Bible. Ed- ple. These highly patterned and coloured papers inburgh: by Alexander Kincaid, 1758 came principally from France, Germany and Italy Bound in 2 volumes, duodecimo (135 × 72 mm). Contem- and were so-called because they were imported porary Scottish binding of brown goatskin, covers tooled through the Low Countries. in gilt with a herringbone pattern panel within a frame Darlow & Moule 1124. with flower-head tools at corners, enclosed by a border with fleurons, flowers, and dots; gilt panel spines, £2,250 [125483] unlettered, with dotted-rule saltires, flower-heads and fleurons; “Dutch gilt” endpapers, gilt edges. Inscrip- 160 tions dated January 1858 and hand-coloured Edinburgh- engraved bookplates on each free endpaper of John SEUSS, Dr. I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla F. Patrick. The leather on vol. 2 darker from use, a few Sollew. New York: Random House, 1965 gatherings at the end of that volume (the Psalter) sprung, the title page of the Psalter with some loss at centre not Quarto. Original pictorial paper covered boards, picto- affecting text, overall very good. rial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. A very good copy in the dust jacket, a A pleasing and fairly typical example of the dis- little faded, extremities slightly chipped. tinctively Scottish herringbone binding style, es- 160

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The most accurate and desirable of all the editions quotes Lowndes’s summary that this was “gener- 161 ally called Steevens’s own edition” and “is by many considered the most accurate and desirable of all”. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays. With The first two volumes contain Prolegomena, extend- the Corrections and Illustrations of Various ing Malone’s 1790 grouping by the addition of Commentators. To which are added, Notes Farmer’s “Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare” by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. and Colman’s “Remarks” on it. Steevens’s new The Fourth Edition. Revised and augmented preface is his longest yet. This copy is from the (with a glossarial index) by the editor of Dod- library of Klemens von Metternich (1773–1859), with his shelf label to front pastedowns. sley’s collection of old plays [Isaac Reed]. London: T. Longman, B. Law and Son, C. Dilly [& Lowndes, p. 2261. 29 others in London], 1793 £7,500 [129711] 15 volumes, octavo (220 × 136 mm). Contemporary citron straight-grain morocco, spines lettered gilt in compart- 162 ments, single rule gilt border to covers, marbled endpapers, floral roll in gilt to turn-ins, all edges gilt, blue silk SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. Bos- book markers. With 152 plates with tissue guards (the ton: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852 majority of which are portraits in vols. 8, 9, & 10, accom- 2 volumes bound in 1, quarto (235 × 156 mm). Contem- panying the History plays) and 5 folding plates. Near- porary black morocco by Matthew and Rider, spine gilt contemporary pencil inscription to front free endpaper to compartments and lettered in gilt, covers with elabo- verso of vol. 1. Spines and board edges uniformly a little rate gilt border, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt. With 40 en- toned, slight rubbing to spine ends and tips, occasional graved plates including portrait frontispiece, with tissue foxing to contents, short closed tear to fore edge of pp. guards. Contemporary gift inscription to front free end- 19–20 of vol. 14; a superb, fresh, set. paper with the recipient’s ownership signature to recto A handsomely bound set of the variorum of 1793, of frontispiece; another ownership signature dated 1902 which was the last significant 18th-century edition to front free endpaper. Front hinge split but firm, frontispiece and title page slightly toned, some instances of and the last to involve Steevens directly. Jaggard 161 light foxing. A very good copy.

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A handsomely bound and attractively illustrated copy of Shakespeare’s collected works. £475 [129456]

163 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Merchant of 164 Venice. Venice: S. Rosen, 1906 Duodecimo (164 × 99 mm). Contemporary hand-painted metal border surrounded by a foliate design and further Large folio. Original vellum by the Wigmore Bindery in vellum by the Rosen bindery with their stamp, front cov- gilt metal onlays, variant hand-painted foliate design to London, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges er featuring a hand-painted vignette within an onlaid gilt spine and rear cover, string ties, patterned endpapers, uncut. Housed in the original grey cloth slipcase. With top edge gilt and gauffered, others untrimmed. A few sixteen lithographic illustrations by Oskar Kokoschka, minor scuff marks, contents toned and occasionally imprinted by J. E. Wolfensberger of Zurich. Text hand- faintly foxed. A highly attractive, near-fine copy. set in Fell type and printed on Crisbook handmade pa- A striking and elaborately bound copy, fittingly be- per. The lightest of soiling to spine, a bit of wear around slipcase extremities. A near-fine copy. ing both a Venetian imprint and a Venetian binding. Painted vellum bindings were popular among signed limited edition, number 42 of 275 cop- Grand Tourists at the start of the 20th century, ies signed by the artist. This edition of King Lear, with the Rosen bindery crafting bindings both illustrated by the Austrian expressionist Oskar for their own publications and the books of other Kokoschka (1886–1980), is particularly striking, publishers. The present example features two la- and no doubt one of the largest printings of Shake- dies, presumably Portia and Nerissa, conversing in speare’s great tragedy. The Lear illustrations were front of St Mark’s Basilica. the first major lithographic cycle of Kokoschka’s late period. £675 [129507] Alfred Weidinger, Kokoschka and Alma Mahler, 1996, p. 116. 164 £1,750 [129149] (KOKOSCHKA, Oskar.) SHAKESPEARE, William. King Lear. London: Ganymed Original 163 Editions Limited, 1963

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 73 At the foot are advertised six more consecutive evenings of Presumption performances before the company closed for the season. Presumption is here the third and last show of the evening, following Before Breakfast, and Jonathan in England, both musi- cal farces. Mary Shelley saw the play on her return to Eng- land in August 1823. She wrote to Leigh Hunt on 9 September, “But lo & behold! I found myself famous!—Frankenstein has prodigious success as a drama & was about to be repeated for the 23rd night at the English opera house. The play bill amused me extremely, for in the list of dramatis per- sonae came, —by Mr T. Cooke: this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good. On Fri- day Aug. 29th Jane My father William & I went to the theatre to see it . . . I was much amused & it appeared to excite a breathless eagerness in the audience . . . They continue to play it even now.” Though Peake’s production did a huge amount to spread the fame of the Frankenstein story, Shelley received no credit or remuneration for the production of her novel which in 1818 had been published anonymously. It was indeed in response to the success of Peake’s production that her father William Godwin was moved to bring out the 1823 second edition of Frankenstein, including for the first time the author’s name on the title page. £1,000 [127320]

166 SHELLEY, Mary. Frankenstein: or, The Mod- ern Prometheus. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new introduction, by the author. 165 London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831 2 volumes, octavo (165 × 101 mm). Bound with 2 other 165 of Richard Brinsley Peake’s famous theatre adap- works in contemporary green quarter calf, red morocco tation of Mary Shelley’s novel, Presumption! Or, the spine labels, marbled sides, grey endpapers. Engraved [SHELLEY, Mary, & Richard Brinsley Peake.] frontispieces and illustrated title pages by Theodor von Fate of Frankenstein. Presumption! Or, the Fate of Frankenstein. Holst. Mid-19th-century ownership signature to front London: Theatre Royal, English Opera House, The play opened at the Theatre Royal on 28 July binder’s blanks. Bound without half-titles. Front joint of 1823, with the first run consisting of 37 perfor- vol. I repaired, light rubbing to sides and spines, small Strand, 29 September 1826 mances in three months. By the end of the year chip to label of vol. II and head of front joint of vol. I, Playbill, single leaf broadside (335 × 215 mm). Printed in five different versions of the tale had appeared in a few small patches of abrasion to rear cover of vol. I, a black to recto only. Stab holes to gutter margin, lightly theatres throughout Europe. This 1826 return was few gatherings standing slightly proud, occasional fox- creased around the edges, overall in excellent condition. ing to contents, small chip at bottom corner of second eagerly anticipated and followed the return of star title page, short closed tear to vol. I E2. A very good copy. A very scarce playbill from the Theatre Royal, actor Thomas Potter Cooke (as the nameless mon- English Opera House, advertising a performance ster) from a successful run of a French translation.

74 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 166 167 first illustrated edition of Frankenstein, the 167 since my return – Tell Alfred I still dream of the third overall, and the final definitive text. It was SHELLEY, Mary. Autograph letter signed to Piramids [sic] – A friend of mine (with a wife my the first truly popular edition of the novel and the particular friend) is Chargé d’Affaires at Constan- first to contain an illustration depicting Franken- Harriet Boinville. [84 Park Street: March–May tinople – another friend is Prime Minister at Ath- stein and the Creature. In it Shelley incorporated 1841?] ens – another of my lady friends passes the winter most of the changes introduced by William God- Single sheet (113 × 90 mm), hand written across two at Palermo & wants me to join – I might make such win into the 1823 second edition, as well as nu- pages. Lacking first half of letter. Creased from folding a delightful tour! – What a grumbling wretch I am merous other revisions, including an entirely new as usual with a few small nicks to edges, in very good forgive me!” The Athenian is Alexander Mavro- condition. chapter and the famous “Introduction” in which cordato, who was, at the time of writing, travel- she elaborates the tale of the novel’s genesis at the Autograph letter signed to Harriet Boinville (at- ling from London to Athens to take up the post of nocturnal storytelling session with Shelley, Byron tributed so by Bennett), sister-in-law to the radical Greek prime minister. He arrived on 12 June and and Polidori at the Villa Diodati. Though Shelley vegan John Frank Newton. In 1813 Percy Shelley served barely nine weeks, being dismissed by the lived for twenty more years, this was the final re- had been close friends with the Boinvilles when king on 21 August 1841. married to Harriet Westbrook, and he had also vision she made in her lifetime. It was issued as Published in The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (3 vols. part of Bentley’s Standard Novels Series alongside been in love with Harriet Boinville’s daughter. ed. Betty T. Bennett). Mary’s letter to Boinville is full of interest, discuss- two other works, Johannes Schiller’s Ghost Seer and £6,750 [129798] Charles Brown’s Edgar Huntly. ing the Godwin family and Claire, then going on to fantasise (from the depths of a debilitating ill- Sadleir 3734a; Wolff 6280a. ness) about her travel prospects based upon her £6,500 [129518] European connections: “I passed happy hours among you in Paris – a dark spell has been over me

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169 STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, 1937 Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and front 168 board reverse printed on a brown ground with black rules, top edge blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Dye faded to the top edge, but an excellent copy, the jacket 168 Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered gover- tanned to spine panel, a little rubbed along the joints STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa nor of equatorial Sudan, contains some of his most and with a few small nicks to the edges. celebrated writing, especially his account of the tor- or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, first edition, first printing; first issue, with tuous 450-mile passage through the dense Ituri rain the words “and only moved because the heavy hands Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, forest. Stanley’s dealings with Emin Pasha, who Marston, Searle, and Rivington Limited, 1890 were pendula”, line 20-1, p. 9; and the bullet to the proved singularly resistant to being “rescued”, his pagination of p. 88, which were removed from subse- 2 volumes, demy quarto. Original dark brown half moroc- abandonment of his own rear column and his wider quent printings. One of 2,500 copies printed. co, japon on bevelled boards with the title, flag of Emin motives for his mission have all come under suspi- Goldstone & Payne A7a. Pasha and Stanley’s signature to the upper boards gilt, gilt cion then and since, but the book remains a classic lettered spines, top edges gilt, others uncut, dark brown of African exploration. In the course of the journey £2,000 [124367] silk page-markers still intact, and in place. Titles printed in red and black, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Stanley met Roger Casement, then in service on the Stanley on India paper mounted (printed by Lemercier Congo, discovered the great snow-capped range of 170 Ruwenzori, the Mountains of the Moon, a new lake from a photograph by Walery), similar Lemercier-printed STEINBECK, John. To A God Unknown. New frontispiece to volume II, and 44 plates, 6 of them etch- which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza and a ings printed in sepia, signed in pencil by G. Montbard, large south-western extension of Lake Victoria. York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933 the rest printed on India paper and mounted, 4 maps, Translations of In Darkest Africa appeared quickly in Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, picto- 3 of them folding, the 2 large area maps linen-backed, 1 French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch while rial endpapers, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. Spine partially faded corresponding to the light areas folding printed table, and 103 illustrations in the text, 3 of sales of the English trade editions reached 150,000 them full-page. Pencilled annotations. Faint rubbing and of the jacket spine as usual, fading to cloth along edges, soiling to sides. A very good copy, contents clean. copies. This is one of the grandest publications of an excellent copy in the jacket that is slightly rubbed and the 19th century devoted to African exploration. first edition, signed limited issue, num- nicked along the edges and joints, with very small tape Speake pp. 1132–35 . reinforcement ends of spine panel verso, and a little ber 117 of 250 copies signed by Stanley. Stanley’s tanned to the spine and rear panels. famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin £7,500 [130411]

76 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 170 first edition, first printing, in the first issue green cloth binding, one of only 598 copies bound and sold. Goldstone and Payne A3. £4,750 [129442]

171 STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952

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Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine on red 172 ground and to front cover in gilt, all edges red. Housed in the publisher’s wood-finish card slipcase. Spine rubbed, STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Ar- else a very good, fresh copy in the slipcase with split to chibald Constable and Company, 1897 foot and minor wear to extremities. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to covers and spine first edition, signed limited issue. One of in red within a one-line red rule border, lower and fore 1,500 unnumbered copies signed by the author; of edges untrimmed. Near-contemporary ownership in- these, only 750 were made available for sale. scription to head of half-title. Spine gently rolled, cloth faintly soiled, spine notably bright, front hinge cracked Goldstone & Payne A32. but firm, short closed tears to a couple of leaves due to £2,250 [130353] being clumsily opened; a very good, fresh, copy. first edition, early issue, with the Shoulder of Shasta on the verso of the final integral leaf [392], and the eight leaf advertisement catalogue inserted before the rear free endpaper. 171 £12,500 [130218]

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173 Oblong broadsheets (426 × 543 mm). Early 19th-centu- Rubbed, a few minor marks, short tears to 3 plates re- ry brown half morocco, smooth spine lettered in gilt, paired, not affecting engraved matter; a very good copy. STUBBS, George. The Anatomy of the Horse. marbled paper sides, yellow endpapers, green cloth in- first edition. A work that “has both scientific London: J. Purser for the author, 1766 [plates water- ner hinges. With 24 etched plates by and after Stubbs, and artistic importance, and . . . enjoys with the including 6 key plates bound facing the relevant plates. marked 1823] works of Vesalius and Albinus, an esteem far be-

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Nissen ZBI 4027; Norman 2032 (later issue, watermarked 1798). £12,500 [130211]

174 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustra- 173 tions on Steel and Wood by the Author. Lon- don: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 yond the special area of learning for which it was ry English farrier Andrew Snape, had produced a Octavo (215 × 134 mm). Contemporary half calf, red mo- designed” (Doherty, quoted by Norman). Stubbs’s study that compared with the ‘exhaustive descrip- rocco label, gilt floral motifs to compartments, marbled drawings for the plates were executed 1756–9, tion’ of The Anatomy of the Horse, maintained that sides, grey endpapers. Etched frontispiece, vignette ti- based on numerous dissections that the artist ‘if he [Stubbs] had never painted a picture, [this] tle page, 38 plates, 83 wood-engraved vignettes and 66 had performed himself. Once the drawings were stands as his monument’” (Lennox-Boyd). similar initials after Thackeray. Bound without half-title. finished, Stubbs unsuccessfully attempted to find The text was probably printed at the time of publi- Light rubbing to sides, some faint foxing and offsets an engraver (most felt the drawings beyond their cation, but the plates appear to have been printed from plates. A very good copy. competence), and was forced to engraved them on demand as copies were sold, and copies with first edition in book form of Thackeray’s himself, transforming himself from an engraver of plates watermarked with dates from 1798 to 1827 masterpiece, following serialization in Punch from limited ability to one of great skill. The plates were are known; Lennox-Boyd notes that “in copies January 1847 to July 1848. It is the first issue, with prepared in the following six years and, once the . . . issued in 1766, and in most of those sold in the requisite points: “Mr. Pitt” for “Sir Pitt” on p. work was published, had the important effect of Stubbs’s lifetime, both the letterpress and the 453, the woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on p. causing him “henceforth to be regarded primarily plates were printed on laid paper”, and in later 336, and the heading on p. 1 in rustic type. The as an animal painter, whereas his previous provin- copies the plates were printed on wove paper. This work was illustrated by Thackeray himself, with cial reputation had been based on portraits” (Len- copy has plates on wove paper watermarked 1823, these illustrations often omitted from modern nox-Boyd). The work itself “remained the stand- and is without the errata slip, generally found only editions of the novel. ard authority on its subject for nearly a century. in the earliest copies. Wolff 6699. It marked a major advance in the study of equine Dingley, Comben, 600 (this issue, plates watermarked £1,250 [127815] anatomy, and Gilbey, who calculated that out of 49 1823); Eales, Cole, 1840; Garrison-Morton 308.1; Lennox- authors prior to Stubbs, only one, the 17th-centu- Boyd, Stubbs, 165-88; Mellon, Horse and Horsemanship, 57;

All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 79 of the party, Ridley was appointed Secretary of State for Transport. There, he had a considerable role in preparing for and countering the 1984 coal miners’ strike, and implemented many of the policies he had outlined in his own Ridley Report. He additionally deregulated the bus industry, as a pre- cursor to privatisation. In 1987, he was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment, where he was responsible for instituting the Community Charge – better known as the Poll Tax – which was one of the key events that led to Thatcher’s fall. In 1990 he was moved to Secretary of State for Trade, but had to resign after comparing the European Community to Hitler, and calling it a German conspiracy to take over Europe. His fall, as a rigid Thatcherite, weakened Thatcher’s position in the Cabinet, and Thatcher herself resigned a few months later. Ridley was made a life peer as Baron Ridley of Liddesdale in 1992, and died the following year. On the 22 November 1996, Thatcher delivered the 175 Nicholas Ridley Memorial Lecture, where she said “Free-market economics was always Nick’s pas- 175 her death, and was subsequently acquired directly sion. And he had a longer, better pedigree in that from her estate. respect than most Thatcherites – or indeed I may (THATCHER, Margaret.) RIDLEY, Nicholas. add – than Thatcher herself. His first vote against Painting of Chequers. May 1989 The career of Nicholas Ridley was intertwined a Conservative Government bailing out national- with, and central to, the entire Thatcherite pro- Watercolour by the then-Secretary of State for the Envi- ised industries was in 1961. To be so right, so early ronment Nicholas Ridley, initialled and dated bottom ject. One of the earliest converts to the free market on, is not to have seen the light – it is to have lit it right corner, mounted in gilt frame. With a printed pres- cause, in the 1970s Ridley was one of the found- . . . He would have been a superb Chancellor”. entation message on back, together with the framer’s ers and first president of the Selsdon Group, the stamp of Geoffrey Viven Ltd of Cheltenham. Painting Conservatives’ free market lobby group. In 1977 he £10,000 [130239] size: 46 × 30 cm; frame size: 64 × 49 cm. In excellent con- drew up the Ridley Report, a secret – though sub- dition. sequently leaked – plan to counter a coal strike by 176 A painting of Chequers, the prime minister’s stockpiling coal and orchestrating a largescale po- THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep and other country retreat, executed by one of Margaret lice response, tactics which were fully implement- poems. New York: New Directions: 1952 Thatcher’s chief lieutenants, the staunch Thatch- ed in the 1984 coal miners’ strike. With Thatcher’s Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine and front cover erite Nicholas Ridley, and presented to her by the election in 1979, Ridley was made the Minister of in gilt, top edge red. Housed in the brown paper slipcase. Cabinet to mark her tenth anniversary as prime State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office re- Sepia photographic portrait to title page. A fine copy. minister. Thatcher adored Chequers, later writ- sponsible for the Falkland Islands; he was widely ing in her memoirs that “I do not think anyone criticised for failing to prepare for the coming first edition, signed limited issue, number has stayed long at Chequers without falling in love Argentine invasion, and for indicating to the Ar- 41 of 100 copies signed by the author. Addition- with it” (Downing Street Years, p. 36). Ridley was cho- gentineans that Britain would consider ceding her ally inscribed by the author on the front free end- sen as the painter due to his well-regarded artistic sovereignty. In 1981, at the height of the recession, paper, “Norman Unger from Dylan, 1952”. The abilities, being a keen amateur artist throughout Ridley was appointed Financial Secretary to the recipient, Unger, was a renowned New York book his life, with his works displayed at the annual dis- Treasury, where he aided in the ongoing policies collector “known for his generosity, good taste play of MP’s artistic efforts in the House of Com- of monetarism and aggressive fiscal tightening. and persistence”, whose extensive book collection mons. The painting was found among Thatcher’s contained many inscribed works from the authors Following the 1983 election, as Thatcher used her he befriended. “Long before anyone had ever possessions in her Chester Square home following landslide victory to tighten her ideological control

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issued in an edition of as little as 500 copies, it is an interesting work which strives to establish Tu- 176 ring’s credentials without reference to his then still-classified war work. Mrs Turing maintained that her son’s death was an accident, the result of heard of Dylan Thomas, Norman Unger was not lightly toned, minor chipping at extremities, internal careless handling of chemicals when preparing only at his poetry readings, but also waiting, book tape reinforcement to extremities and folds. “non-poisonous weed-killer, and sink-cleaner” at in hand, for an inscription. In the collection was first edition, first impression, of this biog- home, rather than the inquest’s verdict of suicide. a copy of Twenty-five Poems inscribed, ‘To Norman raphy and memorial volume written by the mother Unger, my only collector, Dylan Thomas’” (Valle- of the great computer science pioneer. Uncom- £1,500 [129493] ly). The majority of books collected by Unger are in mon, especially so in the jacket, and apparently notably fine condition due to his practice of wrap- 178 ping each work in tissue paper and placing them in WALCOTT, Derek. The Gulf. London: Jonathan sealed boxes, where they remained until his death Cape, 1969 in 1976. This volume is notable as the first appearance of “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”. Octavo. Original brown cloth-backed tan boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. A near-fine copy in Jean Vallely, “A Real Page-Turner”, Los Angeles Times, 15 the dust jacket with a hint of sunning to spine panel. November 1987. first edition, first impression, inscribed £5,750 [129544] by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Maggie Derek Walcott 96”, with a later pencilled 177 note pointing to the inscription and dating it 1969. TURING, Sara. Alan M. Turing. Cambridge: W. The recipient may have been Margaret Vyner, the Heffer & Sons, Ltd, 1959 mother of the British poet Hugo Williams, as a cutting of Williams’s review of Walcott’s In A Green Octavo. Original pale grey cloth, spine and front cover Night is loosely inserted. The Gulf was awarded the lettered in green. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Photographic portrait frontis- Cholmondeley Prize for Poetry in the year of its piece and 6 plates. Inked ownership inscription dated publication, Walcott’s first major accolade. 1960, crossed out with additional pencilled ownership £325 [127163] inscription dated 1985, to front free endpaper. A very good copy in the dust jacket, spine panel and front panel 177

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179 180 [WALPOLE, Horace.] The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshal, 180 est and most important work. Though proclaim- gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio WARE, Isaac. A Complete Body of Archi- ing itself to be a “Complete Body”, the work shows Muralto, canon of the church Of St Nicholas a distinct leaning towards the classical forms, in tecture. Adorned with Plans and Elevations, common with Ware’s own neo-classicalism, and at Otranto. The sixth edition. Parma: printed by from Original Designs in which are inter- Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London, 1791 Ware’s rival Joshua Kirby publicly slated the work spersed Some Designs of Inigo Jones, never in the Critical Review for being prescriptive rather Quarto (245 × 158 mm). Contemporary green straight- before published. London: Printed for T. Osborne than descriptive. grain morocco, spine lettered in gilt, double gilt fillet to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. and J. Shipton [& 4 others in London], 1756 ESTC T31029; Fowler 436; Harris 906. Engraved frontispiece. Bookplate of the banker Thomas Folio (412 × 251 mm). Contemporary reversed calf, red £6,500 [126969] Hammersley (1747–1812), previous catalogue description morocco spine label, covers panelled in blind. Frontis- pasted to front endpaper. With the half-title. Spine and piece and 114 engraved plates, 14 of which are folding extremities a little rubbed, some light foxing, small stain (numbering irregular), title page printed in red and black 181 at foot of frontispiece, yet overall a lovely copy. with vignette engraving, engraved headpiece. Bookplate WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and Fall. An Illus- of Roger Quirk, small initial to title page. Discreet repair first parma edition, second state with the title to spine, joints and corners, some light blemishes and trated Novelette. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, page dated 1791 (a couple of copies are known with soiling to interior, several pages with old paper repairs 1928 a title page dated 1790). With a print run of 300 to chips and tears, occasionally impinging text, small Octavo. Original red and black “snakeskin” cloth, titles copies on paper, and a further six on vellum, the chips to pp. 179, 319, 636, in one instance impinging to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom Parma edition has long been a favourite of book text. Overall a very good, handsome copy. red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece and 4 illustrations in the collectors, well-margined and attractively printed, first edition, first state, with engraving on text, all by Evelyn Waugh. Touch of light foxing to con- and often found in handsome contemporary bind- title page, plate numbers within the plate-line and tents; a very good copy in the well-preserved jacket with ings. Walpole’s work, the foundation text of the with plates 70 and 71 reading “Warwick Shire”, as bright panels, spine somewhat toned, couple of nicks to extremities, old small tape repair to verso. gothic genre in English, had first been published called for by Fowler. Isaac Ware (1704–1766) was in 1764. responsible for a number of expensive and impres- first edition, first impression, presenta- ESTC T131070; Rothschild 2492. sive works on architecture in the second quarter tion copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “with love to Maurice & Jane Marston, £1,000 [129624] of the 18th century including overviews on Inigo Jones and Palladio. Issued in parts, this “massive from Evelyn Waugh”, with Maurice’s bookplate to and compendious” book (ODNB) was Ware’s great- the front pastedown. Maurice Marston, “a modestly

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pher, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “For the Loved One Christopher Sykes in the hope of his joyful resurrection from Evelyn Waugh”; number 135 of 250 large-paper copies signed by both the author and illustrator. £3,000 [130376] 181 183 paid uncle to the world of books”, was a partner 182 WINDSOR, Edward, Duke of. A King’s Story. at the short-lived publisher Leonard Parsons, the WAUGH, Evelyn. The Loved One. An An- first secretary of the National Book Council, and The Memoirs. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951 the founder of the Mark Longman Library. Waugh glo-American Tragedy. Illustrated by Stuart Octavo. Original red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, Ed- mentions Jane Marston twice in his diaries: in 1924, Boyle. London: Chapman & Hall, [1948] ward’s arms and facsimile signatures stamped in gilt to when he visited her for tea, and 1925, when he ac- Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top front cover within gilt double fillet, gilt turn-ins, red silk companied her to the cinema. edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and illus- endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in trations throughout. Spine gently sunned, pencil mar- the original red cloth slipcase. A fine copy. This is Waugh’s first novel, with his own illustra- ginal mark (presumably Sykes’s) to the first and second signed limited edition, u.s. issue, number tions, and in the dust jacket also designed by him. page of text, else fine. 206 of 385 copies signed by the Duke of Windsor, After the book was rejected for indecency by Duck- signed limited edition, presentation copy formerly King Edward VIII, this copy with a pasted worth’s, the publisher of his earlier biography of from the author to his friend and future biogra- inscription by the author to Colonel Willard Fred- Rossetti, Waugh offered the manuscript to Chap- erick Rockwell, reading “To Bill Rockwell with best man & Hall, but he did so while his father, who wishes from Edward May 1951”. Loosely inserted is was the managing director of the firm, was away Rockwell’s receipt for the book, the packing slip, on holiday. The acting-director agreed to publish and a newspaper article on the Windsors from the novel and Arthur Waugh returned to London to 1975, all in the brown envelope which the receipts discover that his son was his firm’s newest author. came in. Rockwell (1888–1978) was founder of the Connolly, The Modern Movement, 58. Rockwell International company, and became a £25,000 [130423] major figure in the American defence industry. £1,500 [129937] 182

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184 WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1968 Octavo. Original white cloth, spine lettered in orange, pink and blue, orange endpapers, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. A very good copy in the dust jacket, with a hint of creasing and tiny chips at extremities, and a few faint marks. first edition, first printing, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This is the author’s most enduring and important work. £750 [127164]

185 185 XENOPHON. Xenophons treatise of House holde. [London: by John Allde,] 1573 ment and agriculture, one of the earliest works 186 Octavo (135 × 87 mm), 64 leaves. 20th-century ribbed on economics in its original sense of household YEATS, W. B. A Selection from the Love Po- blue cloth, spine lettered gilt. Woodcut decorative bor- management. It is also one of the very few con- der to title, woodcut initials, printed in blackletter. temporary writings to discuss the position of both etry. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1913 Ownership stamp of Rothamsted Experimental Station, women and slaves in antiquity. The text was ren- Octavo. Original white linen-backed grey paper-covered Harpenden, Herts., to front pastedown; pale damp- dered into English by Gentian Hervet (1499–1584), boards by Galwey & Co., titles in black to paper label to mark; a very good copy. spine, titles in black to front cover, grey endpapers, edg- the French humanist who spent some of his early es untrimmed. Colophon printed in red. Binder’s ticket Sixth edition in English of Xenophon’s Oeconomi- career in the 1520s and 1530s in England and was cus, first published by Thomas Berthelet in 1532, to foot of front pastedown. Lover’s gift inscription dated tutored at Oxford by Thomas Lupset. May 1925 to the third blank, quoting from “The Lover this the first edition to be published by John Allde, ESTC gives three locations only: British Library, Bodle- asks forgiveness” (p. 9) and “Adam’s Curse” (p. 12). Spine at his busy establishment at the Long Shop next to ian, and Huntington. and board edges browned, slight loss to spine label, not St Mildred Poultry, London. The text is a Socratic affecting text, a couple of small marks to covers, touch of dialogue principally about household manage- £7,500 [127728] wear to very tips, a very good copy.

84 Christmas 2018: Peter Harrington 186 first edition, first impression, one of only 300 copies printed. This collection, finely printed by Yeats’s sister Elizabeth C. Yeats, collects the 187 best of Yeats’s love poetry, including “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” and “Adam’s Curse”. good many orders from quite fresh people”, end- Elizabeth’s “clearly legible, slender volumes with Lynd, poet and founder of the Book Society, to ing the note “Aren’t you longing for peace . . . ? Is their distinctive paper labels may be seen as the her husband, critic, and journalist, “Robert Lynd it any nearer?” The Wild Swans at Coole was printed sole survivors of the handcrafted ideal established – 27.11.’17. (an unbirthday present.) from S. L.” by Elizabeth at The Cuala Press, one half of Cuala in 1900 by Walker and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson’s (Robert’s actual birthday was 20 April). Both Rob- Industries. A co-operative business run with Lily Doves Press” (ODNB). ert (1879–1949) and Sylvia (1888–1952) were central figures in contemporary Irish literary scene, Yeats, Cuala Industries was founded with the aim Wade 106. as well as being committed Irish nationalists. of reviving the craft of book printing in Ireland and £675 [129602] The couple, who married on 21 April 1909, met at “to give work to Irish girls”. In 1919 The Wild Swans Gaelic League meetings in London, and were ac- at Coole was expanded and published under the Association copy between leading Celtic Revival tive in the Celtic revival movement championed same title in both the UK and US. figures, with a letter from Elizabeth Yeats by Yeats, who would often visit their Hampstead A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage (1977); home. Lynd reviewed Yeats on a number of occa- Ransom, p. 92 and p. 240; Wade 118. 187 sions, and wrote that in “The Fisherman” (at p. 6 £2,750 [130084] YEATS, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole, Other in this collection), Yeats “has figured the pride of Verses and a Play in Verse. Dundrum: The Cuala genius and the passion of defeated love in words Press, 1917 that are beautiful in themselves, but trebly beauti- Octavo. Original buff linen-backed dark blue boards, pa- ful in their significances” (Jeffares, p. 223). per label to spine printed in black, front board lettered in Laid in is an autograph letter signed from Eliza- black, dark blue endpapers, edges untrimmed, first gath- beth Yeats to Sylvia Lynd, on Cuala Industries ering unopened. Colophon and charging unicorn device headed paper. She discusses sending this copy of by Robert Gregory printed in red. Very minor rubbing Wild Swans, the general running of the press, the to tips, edges of covers and endpaper margins faded, as health of their families, and the ongoing war, “My usual, top edge dust toned, else a near-fine copy. dear Sylvia, I have sent you the book. Please thank first and limited edition, one of 400 copies. Mr. Lynd very much for the nice little notice of A superb association copy, inscribed by Sylvia it in The Daily News . . . Since that we have got a 187

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