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CALIFORNIA 2019 Pasadena Convention Center | February 1–2 | Stand B-318 Oakland Marriott City Center | February 8–10 | Stand 716 Ashendene Press Dante Austen, Pride and Prejudice ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the World. London: printed [AUSTEN, Jane.] Pride and Prejudice. London: for T. Egerton, for the Author; by John and Paul Knapton, 1748 1813 first edition, subscriber’s copy, in the most desirable original first edition, rare in a contemporary binding. 3 vols., 12mo, con- quarto format, in contemporary calf. A wide-margined copy. temporary red half roan gilt. A very attractive copy. $6,250 [124562] $125,000 [130995] (ASHENDENE PRESS.) DANTE ALIGHIERI. [La Divina [AUSTEN, Jane.] Mansfield Park. London: for T. Egerton, 1814 Commedia.] Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1902–5 first edition. 3 vols., 12mo, contemporary marbled calf expertly first ashendene press edition, exceptionally uncommon com- rebacked to style. A very good set. plete. Inferno one of 135 copies, Purgatorio and Paradiso each one of 150. $20,000 [130061] 3 vols., small 4to, original limp vellum, with the silk ties. $30,000 [130817] Peter Harrington, 100 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6HS, UK · Tel +44 20 7591 0220 · [email protected] Brontë (BORGES, Jorge Luis.) Antologia Poetica Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, December 1941 Blake first edition, borges’s own copy of this anthology of Argentine poetry, signed by him in the year of publication. 8vo, original wrap- BECKETT, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Paris: Les Éditions de pers; the Guillermo de Torre copy. Minuit, 1952 $6,000 [130206] first edition, one of 35 copies on vélin supérieur. 8vo, original white wrappers, in the original glassine. A fine copy. (BRAZIL.) ERSKINE, Sir James Elphinstone. Personal $97,500 [129700] photograph album recording a trip to the interior of Brazil. An engrossing album of original and unpublished photographs of- (BLAKE, William.) YOUNG, Edward. The Complaint, and fering a diverse and informal view of Brazil at the end of the 19th the Consolation. London: by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, 1797 century. Folio, contemporary dun morocco-grained cloth boards re- backed in calf, with 140 albumen prints mounted on 40 card leaves, a newly rediscovered coloured copy of the first edition most captioned in pencil. Excellent condition. of blake’s designs for young’s night thoughts. Coloured cop- ies are rare; only 25 others are known. Folio, finely bound by San- $16,500 [121054] gorski and Sutcliffe in full blue morocco, 56 separate leaves, uncut, illustrated with 43 pictorial borders designed and engraved by Blake. [BRONTË, Charlotte.] Jane Eyre. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., $195,000 [125451] 1847 first edition, one of 500 copies. 3 vols., 8vo, original purple ver- BLIGH, Lieutenant William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on tical-ribbed cloth; the Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole copy, inscribed by Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty. London: George Nicol, 1790 him on the occasion of its acquisition, “When at last, after waiting so long, I possessed you as you first appeared to the world I felt as first edition. 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf skilfully rebacked though Rochester had given me a nod of recognition. Hugh Walpole, to style, with the engraved folding plan by Mackenzie and 3 engraved Brackenburn, Nov: 16 1938”. folding charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison. A well-margined copy. $9,750 [121735] $160,000 [130859] BORGES, Jorge Luis. Inquisiciones. Buenos Aires: Editorial Proa, (BRÜCKE GROUP.) Katalog zur Ausstellung der K. G. Brücke 1925 in Galerie Arnold. Dresden: Künstlergruppe Brücke, 1910 first edition, comprising 20 original woodcuts on wove paper first edition, a uniquely untrimmed, unnumbered, and by Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein, and Schmidt-Rottluff. 4to, original specially bound presentation copy, inscribed by Borges to ochre wrappers. his fellow Argentine author, and muse, Norah Lange, “a la aureolada Nora, muy cordialmente – Georgie”. 8vo, contemporary tan cloth; $45,000 [126256] one of 505 copies printed. We are unaware of any other copy thus presented. $45,000 [129496] – 2 – Carroll Cranach Press HamletCavafy BRUNEL, Isambard. The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. CHANDLER, Raymond. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1870 Mifflin Company, 1949 first edition, an interleaved and copiously annotated copy, with first u.s. edition, pre-publication presentation copy, in- two examples of I. K. Brunel’s signature, from the library of William scribed by the author two weeks prior to publication to Harry Ack- Froude, one of the major contributors to the book. 1 vol. bound in 2, erman, an executive at CBS, who worked with Chandler on several 8vo, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked to style. television projects based on Chandler’s work. 8vo, first issue binding $4,000 [130383] of original orange boards, with the dust jacket. A fine copy. $22,000 [131623] CAMOENS, Luis de. The Luciad. London: Humphrey Moseley 1655 (CHINA.) Second Opium War, “Log of a Cruise in the U.S. first edition in english of Os Lusíadas (1572). Folio, contempo- Sloop of War Cyane. 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854” [continued to rary English mottled calf. A well-margined copy. 1860]. $20,000 [128757] A keenly-observed journal of a decade at sea with the US Navy during the 1850s, recording back-to-back cruises on three sloops-of-war, CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: seeing action in three different arenas. Small folio, commercial log- Macmillan and Co., 1866 book, 70 pp. of manuscript entries. first published edition, presentation copy to one of Car- $12,500 [127365] roll’s child-friends, Ella Chlora Williams, whom the author photo- graphed between May and July 1866, together with three letters from CHURCHILL, Winston S. Arms and the Covenant. London: Carroll, dated 1878–9. 8vo, attractively bound in recent red morocco George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1938 by Bayntun-Riviere. first edition, superb presentation copy, inscribed by the au- $97,500 [127698] thor to the author and journalist Shiela Grant Duff in the year of pub- lication. Duff was Churchill’s eyes and ears in Czechoslovakia during CAVAFY, Constantine P. [In Greek:] Poiemata. 1910–1916 the 1930s, supplying valuable information during the years before [1918]. Alexandria: [privately printed by Kasimate and Iona, 1915–18] the Second World War. 8vo, original blue cloth. an exceptional example of one of cavafy’s rare, careful- $8,750 [131350] ly assembled poetry collections, comprising 54 poems, two supplied by the author in autograph, the others privately printed, (CRANACH PRESS.) SHAKESPEARE, William; CRAIG, with manuscript additions and emendations. One of the larger sam- Edward Gordon (illus.) The Tragedie of Hamlet. Weimar: ples of his work to appear on the market. Large 8vo, 62 unbound Harry Kessler at the Cranach Press, 1930 sheets inside printed card wrappers. first edition in english, one of 50 copies printed on handmade $68,000 [127252] paper and bound in full red morocco for distribution in the US. Folio. A beautiful copy of one of the most striking and imaginative works of the 20th century. $32,500 [131061] – 3 – Darwin, corrrespondence with Hildebrand Darwin, FitzRoy’s set DARWIN, Charles. Original autograph correspondence with DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Friedrich Hildebrand. Down House: 1862–79 Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 a remarkable sequence of 17 letters from darwin to the first edition in book form, a great rarity in the original german botanist friedrich hildebrand, containing all but publisher’s deluxe binding of purple morocco. Chapman two of the letters ever sent by Darwin to Hildebrand. Archives of and Hall also issued copies in cloth and half-morocco; variant de- significant correspondence between Darwin and a notable scientific luxe publisher’s bindings are known, all far scarcer than cloth-bound colleague very rarely come to market in any state approaching com- copies. 8vo. pleteness. In excellent condition. $6,000 [130554] $165,000 [125461] DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. London: published for the DARWIN, Charles. On the various contrivances by which author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846 British and Foreign Orchids are fertilised. London: John Murray, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author the 1862 day after publication to one of his oldest friends, Thomas Beard. first edition, first issue, of Darwin’s first book after the Origin Small 8vo, original blue fine-diaper cloth, rebacked with original of Species, one of no more than 2,000 copies. 8vo in twelves, original spine laid down; the Suzannet copy. purple fine-diaper cloth, with the folding engraved plate of the Orchis $110,000 [130416] mascula. $6,250 [130964] DARWIN, Charles; Robert FitzRoy; Philip Parker King. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages. London: Henry Colburn, 1839 first edition of Darwin’s first published work, this the personal set of the Beagle’s commander Captain Robert FitzRoy, inscribed on the half-title of volume I, “Robt. FitzRoy”. 4 vols., 8vo, contemporary brown half calf neatly rebacked with original spines laid down. A re- markable association set of one of the most extraordinary voyages of the 19th century. $130,000 [128443] [DEFOE, Daniel.] Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom. London: printed for T. Warner, 1727 first edition, rare first issue. It was reissued the same year with a cancel title page, more politely titled A Treatise concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed. 8vo, 19th-century sprinkled calf to style. $50,000 [124762] Dickens, Pictures from Italy – 4 – Du Halde Faulkner DOEFF, Hendrik. Herinneringen aan Japan. Harlem: François FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York: Harrison Bohn, 1833 Smith & Robert Haas, 1932 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Hendrik Fagel the younger, who served successively as commis- a close childhood friend, “For Myrtle Ramey, Oxford Miss 30 May sioner, minister, and ambassador to London during the Napoleonic 1934, William Faulkner”.