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Catalogue 228—November, 2013 LITERATURE
Established 1965 1. Adichie (Chimamanda Ngozi) PURPLE HIBISCUS. Pp. [viii]+310(last blank); dust wrapper; text block slightly browned, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Fourth Estate, 2004. First U.K. edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Adichie’s first novel, set in Nigeria, her country of birth. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The novel was also short listed ADDRESS for the Orange Prize and long listed for the Man Booker Prize. $75 156 Collins Street 2. Adiga (Aravind) THE WHITE TIGER. Pp. [iv]+522(last blank); lower fore-corners of boards bumped; dust wrapper; Atlantic, 2008. First edition. *Author’s first novel; winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. $250 Melbourne 3. Agate (James) A SHORTER EGO. The Autobiography of James Agate. Volumes One & Two [Egos 1–6]. Victoria 3000 Pp. 230+230; qr. dark blue morocco, with gilt lettered red leather title label on spines, blue cloth boards, slightly marked, corners bruised, the spines faded; t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers; neat inked Australia signature on upper free endpapers, a little light foxing; George G. Harrap, 1946. Edition limited to 110 numbered copies (100 for sale), signed by the author. *The influential theatre critic’s first six diaries, collected in two volumes. A third volume was later published separately. $125 TELEPHONE 4. Ali (Monica) BRICK LANE. Pp. 416(last blank); med. 8vo; Doubleday, 2003. First edition. *Author’s +61 3 9654 8506 first novel, signed by her on title page; shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Basis for the 2007 film of the same name. $125 9654 7530 5. Apuleius (Lucius) THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF LUCIUS otherwise known as THE GOLDEN ASS. Translated by Robert Graves. Pp. 298+[2](colophon, blank), publisher’s device in red on preliminary leaf, appendix; qr. vellum paper, spine lettered in gilt, Cockerell marbled papered boards; t.e.g.; dust wrapper, FACSIMILE edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip lightly foxed and browned; within card slipcase printed in red & black, slightly foxed; neat inked signature on upper free endpaper, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Penguin +61 3 9654 7351 Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1950[1951]. Edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies, signed by the translator. Higginson & Williams A66b. *The typography and binding were designed by Jan Tschichold. The title page is dated 1950, the colophon 1951. $125 EMAIL 6. Atkinson (Kate) CASE HISTORIES. Pp. 304; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, the back panel slightly creased; ribbon marker; Doubleday & Company, 2004. First edition. *Author’s first crime novel, introducing the character [email protected] Jackson Brodie; the basis for a BBC television series. Signed by the author at head of title page $50 7. Auden (W. H.) & Christopher Isherwood. ON THE FRONTIER. A melodrama in three acts. Pp. 124(last blank); fore and bottom edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly silverfished, the backstrip WEBSITE lightly soiled; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the upper free endpaper lightly creased, kaycraddock.com top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Faber & Faber, 1938. First edition. *With the bookplate (by Perrottet) of Australian author and book collector Marcie Collett (later Muir) on the upper free endpaper. On the Frontier was the third and final play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, produced in October 1938 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, in a production by the Group Theatre. The incidental music for the play FACEBOOK was composed by Benjamin Britten, to whom this book is dedicated. $200 facebook.com/ 8. Auden & T. C. Worsley. EDUCATION Today-and Tomorrow. Pp. 52(last blank); printed orange paper kaycraddockbooks wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; outer leaves faintly creased; The Hogarth Press, 1939. First edition. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 40. Woolmer 441. *Hogarth Press review slip loosely inserted. $150 SHOP HOURS 9. Austen (Jane) THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN. In twelve volumes, totalling approximately 4,000 Monday 10am–6pm pages; frontispiece portrait and tissue guard Volume I, all title pages printed in red & black, appendices Volume XII; rebound in half navy morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised Tuesday 10am–6pm bands, with gilt lettered red leather title labels, blue cloth boards; t.e.g., others uncut, with a few leaves Wednesday 10am–6pm carelessly opened; later endpapers; a very little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; John Grant, Thursday 10am–6pm Edinburgh, 1911[Vols I–X]; 1912. Winchester Edition. Gilson, E91, footnote (p. 274). *The first 12 volume Winchester Edition. The last two volumes contain Lady Susan and The Watsons, as well as Friday 10am–7pm Austen’s letters. $12,000 Saturday 10am–4pm 10. Bagnold (Enid) LETTERS TO FRANK HARRIS, & other friends. Edited & with an introduction by R. Sunday Closed P. Lister. Pp. xxviii+78(last blank)+[4](blank, colophon), the title page printed in red/brown & black, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece (from a watercolour portrait of Enid Bagnold by Claud Lovat Fraser), plus 4 monochrome hand-tipped plates, printed endpapers; roy. 8vo; Laura Ashley rust coloured floral patterned cloth, printed paper title label on spine, edges of boards very slightly discoloured; top edges orange, others uncut; within brown papered slipcase; a little faint foxing; The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire/William Heinemann, 1980. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies (370 thus bound), signed by the author; hand-set in 12-pt. Caslon, printed on Arches mould-made paper. Butcher 48. *A collection of letters and diary extracts from the period of the First World War. As well as Frank Harris, Enid Bagnold’s correspondents included Walter Sickert, Antoine Bibesco, Claud Lovat Fraser, and H. G. Wells. This copy with a Whittington Press publicity card loosely inserted. $200 11. Bainbridge (Beryl) ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD. Pp. 288; boards slightly soiled, the fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, several corners lightly creased, occasional slight soiling; Hutchinson, 1968. First edition. *The author’s second novel, signed by her on the title page. $200 Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 1 12. Bainbridge. THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING. Pp. 180(last blank); dust wrapper, edges lightly browned on reverse; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Duckworth, 1974. First edition. *Signed by the author on title page. Winner of the 1974 Guardian Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the 1974 Man Booker Prize. In 1991 a film adaptation was made starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. $95 13. Bates (H. E.) THE BLACK BOXER. Tales. Pp. 272+[2](advertisements, verso blank, bound between pp. 270/271); boards faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the spine slightly bruised at extremities; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split, the backstrip quite browned and top edge of front panel faintly browned; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small damp stain to top edge of leaves near spine, a little faint foxing; Pharos Editions, 1932. First trade edition. Eads A14a. $200 14. Bates. DAY’S END and Other Stories. Pp. 286; green cloth shot with yellow, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s device in blind at centre of lower board; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip browned; free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed;Jonathan Cape, 1928. First U.K. edition. Eads A6a. $275 Item 12 15. Bates. A HOUSE OF WOMEN. Pp. 324+[8](publisher’s catalogue); green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in blue, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with the Daily Mail Book of the Month wrap-around (slightly soiled and browned); bottom edges uncut; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. Eads A26a. $300 16. Bates. THE POACHER. Pp. 304(last blank); brown cloth, spine and upper board lettered in green, fore- corners faintly bruised; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, small number stamp at foot of back panel, the backstrip faded and slightly browned; last couple of pages slightly cropped, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Jonathan Cape, 1935. First edition. Eads A22a. *The author’s fifth novel. $300 17. Bates. SOMETHING SHORT AND SWEET. Stories. Duplicate Proof for Retention. Pp. 288; printed paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges lightly rubbed, tiny snag at foot of backstrip; a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, 1937. Proof copy. See Eads A28. $250 18. Bates. THE STORY WITHOUT AN END and THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. Pp. 52, decorative headpiece; Item 13 beige papered boards, spine lettered in black, the corners and spine extremities a trifle bruised; two dust wrappers, one pale green, lettered in black including a price of 3/6 at foot of backstrip, the other yellow, lettered and decorated in black, and with a price of 5s at foot of backstrip, edges and backstrip of green wrapper faded to brown, the yellow wrapper (which is price-clipped) lightly soiled and foxed, edges rubbed and split, the front panel slightly creased; a little light foxing; The White Owl Press, 1932. First trade edition? See Eads A18 (describing only a limited edition, in a different binding). *The yellow dust wrapper, which is more elaborate, corresponds to the dust wrapper described by Eads. $200 19. Bates & Carol Barker. ACHILLES THE DONKEY. Pp. [48], including the pictorial endpapers, illustrated in colour throughout (3 double page); demy 4to; pictorial cloth, with a couple of tiny spots of foxing to the lower board; matching price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled; bookseller’s faint stamp at foot of upper free endpaper; Franklin-Watts, New York, 1963. First U.S. edition. Eads A93b. *American edition of the first of the three Achilles books, illustrated by Carol Barker, who ‘painted the pictures after a visit to Greece. They were shown to H. E. Bates, who liked them so much that he agreed immediately to contribute a text’ [wrapper blurb]. $95 20. Bawden, Edward: Thomas (M. G. Lloyd) Compiler. TRAVELLERS’ VERSE. With lithographs by Edward Item 15 Bawden. Pp. viii+120, 16 coloured plates, notes, index of authors; pictorial papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, 5cm. closed tear near centre of back panel; neat inked signature on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers lightly offset, a little light foxing; Frederick Muller, 1946. First edition. New Excursions into English Poetry series. $150 21. Beddoes (Thomas Lovell) COMPLETE WORKS. Edited with a memoir by Sir Edmund Gosse and decorated by The Dance of Death of Hans Holbein. In two volumes. Pp. [ii]+xxxvi+258(last blank)+590, frontispiece portrait (lightly offset), decorated title pages & headpieces; roy. 8vo; qr. black buckram, printed label on spines (slightly discoloured, edges a trifle chipped), patterned papered boards, corners lightly worn; uncut; free endpapers offset, a little light foxing; Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Edition limited to 750 numbered sets. Arnold 23ii. Ransom 17. *Original 4pp. prospectus (slightly soiled and creased, with bookseller’s ink stamp on first page) loosely inserted. Contains Beddoes’ letters, as well as his complete poetry and plays. $600 22. Beerbohm (Max) THE DREADFUL DRAGON OF HAY HILL. Pp. [iv]+114(last colophon), coloured frontispiece; qr. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey papered boards, edges lightly rubbed, the corners slightly bruised, spine cloth a trifle frayed at extremities; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, small circular ink stain to backstrip, which is rubbed and darkened, with small pieces torn from head Item 21 and foot; bookseller’s sticker on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, some foxing; Heinemann, 1928. First separate edition. Gallatin 47. *With loosely inserted relevant newscuttings. $175 23. Behan (Brendan) THE QUARE FELLOW. A Comedy-Drama. Pp. [vi]+86, frontispiece portrait; boards slightly sprung; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, edges worn and split, a few small chips, the back panel faintly soiled; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Methuen, 1956. First edition. *The play which established Brendan Behan’s reputation, based on his own prison experiences. $175 24. Bell (Clive) POEMS. Pp. 32(last advertisement, verso blank); stiff buff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper lettered and decorated with a clover device in red, corners lightly creased, edges and backstrip slightly browned, with the original stab holes to backstrip but lacking the stitching; top edges uncut; contents loose; The Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1921. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Woolmer 12. *An early Hogarth Press item, hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. $800 25. Bellow (Saul) THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH. Pp. [vi]+536; grey & black cloth boards, lettered and decorated in orange, the top fore-corners slightly bruised, small discoloured patch at head of spine; top edges orange; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges chipped and split; text block slightly browned, faint water Item 24 stain to top fore-corner of several leaves, a few corners lightly creased; Viking Press, New York, 1953. First edition, in first state dust wrapper. $250
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26. Bennett (Arnold) THE OLD WIVES’ TALE. Reproduced in facsimile from the author’s manuscript ... Two volumes, printed on Japon vellum in black, red & blue; cr. 4to; qr. vellum, black cloth boards, very slightly marked; t.e.g.; Ernest Benn, 1927. One of 500 copies, signed by the author. $600 27. Betjeman (John) GHASTLY GOOD TASTE or, a depressing story of the rise and fall of English Architecture. Pp. xxviii+114(last blank), the title page printed in maroon & black, multi-folding panoramic plate at end, double page chart; small cr. 4to; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in silver, pink papered boards, the upper board lettered and decorated in black, tiny bruise at centre of both edges of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly faded and chipped, with 6 cm. split at foot of lower fold; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Anthony Blond, 1970. First trade edition thus. *With the author’s presentation inscription (signed ‘John B’, dated 1970) on the upper free endpaper. Originally published by Chapman & Hall in 1933. The folding illustration by Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh isThe Street of Taste, a panoramic view of English architecture throughout the ages, which pulls out to a length of nine feet, and was updated by the artist for this edition. $500 28. Blake (William) THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION. [Facsimile edition]. In two different sized Item 26 volumes, comprising: [Series a]: coloured frontispiece, black & white pictorial title page, and 7 coloured plates, plus 25 collotype states of all the plates, 7 colour progressive states of the frontispiece, plus a mounted guide sheet, and stencil at the end, no text; [Series b]: Pp. [14](text and colophon, printed in green), tinted frontispiece, pictorial title page, and 10 plates, 1 black & white plate, plus 22 collotype states of all the plates; Series a: small 8vo, Series b: med. 4to; uniformly bound in full tan morocco, spines lettered in gilt; housed together within a compartmented marbled papered slipcase, the edges of which are lightly worn; The Trianon Press (Paris) for The Blake Trust, 1971. Edition limited to 616 sets, this being one of 50 special copies in full morocco, with a set of plates showing the progressive stages of the collotype and hand-stencil process, and a guide sheet and stencil. Bentley, Blake Books, 202. $2,000 29. Bourdeille (Pierre de, Seigneur and Abbot of Brantome) THE LIVES OF GALLANT LADIES. Translated out of the French by H. M. & F. M. Embellished with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. With a Preface by Francis Macnamara. In two volumes. Pp. [ii]+262+252(last colophon), 10 plates (including frontispiece to each volume), several decorative initials printed in green, notes; cr. 4to; qr. black linen with printed paper title label on spines, pale green marbled papered boards, edges a trifle rubbed, Volume II with small mark to upper board and corners lightly worn; uncut, a couple of leaves partly unopened; hinges starting at a Item 27 couple of points, a little faint foxing and offsetting, a couple of tiny edge splits or chips; privately printed for Subscribers only, Golden Cockerel Press, [Waltham St. Lawrence], 1924. Edition limited to 720 sets; this one of 625 on rag paper. Chanticleer 18. *This was the first publication from the press under the directorship of Robert Gibbings, who took over from the ailing founder, Harold Taylor, early in 1924. With the limitation certificate, signed by Gibbings, tipped-in at upper free endpaper, and the small edition number sticker at head of upper pastedown Volume I. $300 30. Bowen (Elizabeth) JOINING CHARLES and other stories. Pp. vi+216; red cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in blue, boards with mottled fading, the top fore-corners faintly bruised, edges and spine lightly faded; red dust wrapper striped in gilt, with printed paper title label on backstrip and front panel, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip stripes slightly discoloured, early price sticker on front flap; upper free endpaper and preliminary blank faintly offset (from the dust wrapper stripes), pp. 180/1 browned (from loosely inserted publisher’s postcard, now within a mylar sleeve), a little light foxing; Constable, 1929. First edition. $450 31. Boyajian (Zabelle C.) GILGAMESH: A DREAM OF THE ETERNAL QUEST. Illustrated by the author, with an Introduction by Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Pp. 110, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 14 Item 28 plates with tissue guards, black & white decorative initials and headpieces; roy. 4to; brown buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards lightly flecked, edges slightly rubbed, corners bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; hinges starting, bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, bottom corner of 2 plates (opposite pp. 34 & 82) slightly creased, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; printed & published by George W. Jones at The Sign of the Dolphin, 1924. *Zabelle C. Boyajian was a half-Armenian poet and artist who also wrote and illustrated a volume of Armenian Legends and Poems. Printer and publisher George W. Jones (1860–1942), established his celebrated press in 1911. $600 32. Boyd (William) THE BLUE AFTERNOON. Pp. [viii]+324, patterned endpapers; med. 8vo; tiny bump to bottom edge of lower board; dust wrapper; text block browned, edges of leaves foxed; Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993. First trade edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction). $75 33. Boyd. CORK. Pp. [26], frontispiece, title and text decorations by Ian Beck; roy. 8vo; dark green cloth spine lettered in gilt, floral patterned cream papered boards, faintly foxed at a couple of points; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Ulysses, 1994. One of 150 copies thus, of a total edition of 236. $60 34. Boyd. RESTLESS. Pp. [viii]+328; med. 8vo; ribbon marker; dust wrapper; edges of leaves slightly soiled; Item 30 Bloomsbury, 2006. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. $50 35. Bronte (Anne, Charlotte, & Emily) NOVELS OF THE SISTERS BRONTE. Edited by Temple Scott. In 12 volumes, totalling approximately 5000 pages, each volume with frontispiece (most with tissue guards), all but 2 volumes with other plates (totalling 67 plates in the set), the half-title and title pages printed in red & black; dark green cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, the cloth occasionally a trifle marked, a few corners lightly bruised; t.e.g., others uncut, a couple of volumes partly unopened; dust wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges sometimes very slightly rubbed and split; free endpapers faintly offset, hinges occasionally tender, scattered light foxing; John Grant, Edinburgh, 1924. Thornton Edition, later printing. *Includes Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte, with an Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B. W. Willett. The novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Shirley and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are each in two volumes. $5,500 36. Byron (Lord) THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON: With His letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq. In seventeen volumes, totalling approximately 6,000 pages, engraved frontispiece (most with tissue guard) and title page each volume (but with the frontispiece to Volume V bound in at the centre of Volume VI), plus 2 folding facsimiles (one each in Volumes VII and IX), appendices, notes, index; Item 34
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 3 f’cap. 8vo; contemporary half green calf, spines decorated in gilt between raised bands, with gilt lettered contrasting red & green leather title and volume labels, dark green cloth boards, edges and spines lightly worn (sometimes heavily at corners), the cloth slightly scuffed and occasionally a trifle flecked, head of spine of a couple of volumes a trifle chipped; marbled edges and endpapers; Volumes I & IX without half- titles (as issued), a couple of small edge chips or splits, a little light foxing and occasional soiling; John Murray, 1832–3. First official collected edition. Lowndes p. 338. *This edition was originally intended to be in fourteen volumes (as noted on the printed title page in the first dozen volumes), but was extended to seventeen. The Irish poet Thomas Moore was a close friend of Byron. The illustrations are by E. Finder and others. $2,500 37. Calder-Marshall (Arthur) A CRIME AGAINST CANIA. Pp. [ii]+66+[2](colophon, blank), 4 wood- engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton, title page vignette; med. 8vo; qr. black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, cream cloth boards patterned in red, slightly browned and faintly foxed; t.e.g., others uncut; neat inked signature on upper pastedown, endpapers a trifle offset; Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Edition limited to Item 38 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Chanticleer 99. $200 38. Capote (Truman) BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S. A short novel and three stories. Pp. [viii]+180(last blank); bound by The Chelsea Bindery in salmon pink morocco, the spine with silver lettered black morocco title label between two raised bands, the upper board featuring a black morocco onlaid silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly from the 1961 film ofBreakfast at Tiffany’s, depicted in evening dress and tiara and brandishing a long cigarette holder, the design embellished with 6 genuine diamonds (inlaid into the tiara, earrings and necklace), dentelles with double silver rule; all edges silver; black endpapers; Random House, New York, 1958. First edition. *A striking designer binding, presented within a custom-made fully lined black velvet drawstring bag with decorative bead fastening. The three other stories areHouse of Flowers; A Diamond Guitar; and A Christmas Memory. $5,000 39. Carlyle (Thomas) SARTOR RESARTUS. The life & opinions of Herr Teufelsdroeckh. Pp. 342(last colophon), printed in red & black, decorative initials; med. 8vo; limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, the vellum slightly ‘cloudy’ and starting to warp; uncut; loose ribbon marker; Doves Bindery stamp at foot of lower pastedown, the upper free endpaper slightly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; printed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker, Doves Press, Hammersmith, 1907. One of 300 copies on paper. Tidcombe DP13; Item 39 Tomkinson 13. $1,200 40. Carroll (Lewis) THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. An agony in eight fits. Illustrated by Harold Jones. Pp. [x]+48, frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 14 full page illustrations, text decorations, the title page printed in gilt & black, marbled endpapers; impl. 8vo; black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut; within black papered slipcase; faint spot (paper flaw?) to title page; The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 1975. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the artist. *With publisher’s prospectus (not for this book) loosely inserted. $500 41. Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de) THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. The text edited by J. W. Clark. And a biographical notice of Cervantes by T. Teignmouth Shore. Pp. xxviii+738+8(publisher’s catalogue, printed in red & black), frontispiece plus 118 plates, numerous pictorial head & tailpieces, the title page printed in red & black; thick med. 4to; contemporary red morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt between raised bands, boards with triple gilt rule border, slightly soiled and rubbed, corners worn, rebacked (not recently), with original spine laid on, the joints starting; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles; hinges cracking, 2 different signatures and dates in ink on blank preliminary leaf, the outer leaves slightly silverfished, several of the darker plates offset, scattered light Item 40 foxing and soiling; Cassell, Petter & Galpin, n.d.[c. 1870?]. Early reprint. *First published in 1863, Dore’s illustrations for Don Quixote were based on pen & ink drawings he made during three months in Spain. The other titles illustrated by Dore listed in the publisher’s catalogue are mainly from the mid to late 1860s. $750 42. Charteris (Leslie) THE SAINT SEES IT THROUGH. Pp. 224(last blank); boards with light mottled fading, edges slightly rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a few small chips and a few paper repairs on reverse; fore-edges uncut; edges of leaves a trifle soiled, the pages faintly browned; The Crime Club/Doubleday & Company, New York, 1946. First edition. $250 43. Chatwin (Bruce) IN PATAGONIA. Pp. [iv]+204, 8 plates, frontispiece map plus endpaper map, sources; bottom fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper; edges of leaves foxed; Jonathan Cape, 1977. First edition. Spence 272. *Author’s first book. $900 44. Chatwin. UTZ. Pp. 154; dust wrapper, a trifle rubbed, flaps lightly foxed; a couple of very minor spots of foxing on endpapers; Jonathan Cape, 1988. First edition. *Shortlisted for the 1988 Man Booker Prize. Basis for the 1992 film which won three awards at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival. $95 Item 42 45. Cibber (Colley) AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF COLLEY CIBBER, COMEDIAN, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. Written by himself. In two volumes. Pp. xii+160+[ii]+164(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in blue & black, numerous small decorative initials; roy. 8vo; qr. white buckram, spines lettered in gilt, buff papered boards, cloth slightly soiled, boards a trifle scuffed, a couple of the corners faintly bruised; uncut; hinges tender at a couple of points, free endpapers slightly offset, a little light foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, 1925. One of 450 numbered copies. Chanticleer 29. $200 46. Coleridge (Samuel T.) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER AND OTHER POEMS BY SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE. With wood-engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. Pp. 94(last blank), title page vignette and pictorial headpieces printed in blue/grey; pictorial papered boards with printed paper title label on spine; top edges yellow; within grey card slipcase with large pictorial paper title label, the slipcase edges lightly faded and worn; endpapers faintly offset, neat inked signature on upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, n.d. $140 47. Colette. BREAK OF DAY. Translated by Enid McLeod. Illustrated by Francoise Gilot. Introduced by Robert Phelps. Pp. xiv+138+[2](colophon), 3 original multicoloured silkscreens with tissue guards, text illustrations printed in blue; wide demy 4to; gilt lettered blue cloth, a trifle marked; within grey card Item 43 slipcase, slightly soiled; Limited Editions Club, New York, 1983. Edition limited to 2,000 numbered
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copies, signed by the illustrator. Bibliography 534. *With the Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club loosely inserted, giving details of this publication. $300 48. Collins (W. J. T.) THE ROMANCE OF THE ECHOING WOOD. Introduction by Arthur Machen. Epilogue by William Henry Davies. Decorations by E. F. Powell. Pp. [viii]+44(last colophon), 3 full page illustrations, the title and all text within various decorative borders; cr. 4to; full dark green morocco over bevelled boards, the upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, a trifle rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; a little light foxing; Arca, 1937. Edition limited to 220 copies. *Author’s presentation copy, inscribed by him to the artist, and signed by all contributors, including Arthur Machen & W. H. Davies. $1,500 49. Collins (William) ODE OCCASION’D BY THE DEATH OF MR. THOMSON. Pp. [iv]+12, colophon decoration; f’cap folio; marbled paper wrappers, the printed paper title label on upper wrapper a trifle soiled, edges slightly stained, the backstrip extremities lightly split; outer leaves slightly damp marked; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1927. Edition limited to 550 copies, reprinted from T. J. Wise’s copy. $135 50. Colum (Padraic) MOYTURA. A Play for Dancers. Pp. 40(last colophon, verso blank), printed in dull Item 54 green & black, title page vignette; med. 8vo; qr. light brown buckram, spine lettered in brown, cream papered boards, upper board decorated in dull green, the corners a trifle bruised, edges lightly discoloured; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split; upper free endpaper faintly offset; Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1963. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Miller 63. *This drama about Oscar Wilde’s father was the first of Padraic Colum’s plays written in his late manner, derived from a style invented by Yeats based on Japanese Noh Theatre. $60 51. Compton-Burnett (Ivy) A FATHER AND HIS FATE. Pp. 208(last blank); corners of boards a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Victor Gollancz, 1957. First edition. $50 52. Compton-Burnet. TWO WORLDS AND THEIR WAYS. Pp. 286(last blank); light bruises to head of spine and bottom fore-corner of lower board; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled and foxed, the backstrip lightly browned, back panel slightly silverfished; light foxing; Victor Gollancz, 1949. First edition. $95 53. Connolly (Cyril) THE EVENING COLONNADE. Pp. 520; printed paper wrappers, slightly soiled and worn, title handwritten in ink on backstrip, which is creased; a little light soiling and creasing; David Bruce and Watson, 1973. Uncorrected Proof Copy. $95 Item55 54. Coppard (A. E.) THE HUNDREDTH STORY. With engravings by Robert Gibbings. Pp. [iv]+58+[2](blank, colophon), 4 wood-engravings, cockerel device at colophon; med. 8vo; bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards (paper designed by Tirzah Garwood), the spine faded at extremities and slightly snagged at crown, edges of boards faintly discoloured; t.e.g., others uncut; binder’s stamp at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly offset, a little faint foxing and occasional very slight soiling; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1931. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Chanticleer 74. *The first book in the successful ‘Guinea Series’ of illustrated modern authors; also the first to be printed in the Golden Cockerel type, which was specially designed for the press by Eric Gill. Loosely inserted in this copy is the original printed Notice to Subscribers, dated January 1931. $200 55. Coventry (Francis) THE HISTORY OF POMPEY THE LITTLE, or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap- Dog. With an Introduction by Arundell Del Re. Pp. xvi+226(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece and pictorial tailpiece by David Jones; qr. cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards, the spine faintly darkened; uncut and partly unopened; dust wrapper, foxed and lightly worn, the edges chipped and split, back panel lightly creased, small piece torn from foot of backstrip, which Item 56 is browned and slightly rubbed; bookseller’s stamp at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1926. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Chanticleer 44. $250 56. Crace (Jim) CONTINENT. Pp. [iv]+154; dust wrapper, with publisher’s publicity sticker (‘You can afford to make the Journey’) on the front panel; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; William Heinemann, 1986. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Award. $150 57. Davies (Rhys) DAISY MATTHEWS AND THREE OTHER TALES. With wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Pp. [iv]+64+[2](colophon, verso blank), 4 pictorial headpieces, cockerel device on title page; med. 8vo; qr. maize morocco, spine lettered in gilt, patterned cloth boards, corners lightly rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; outer leaves faintly offset; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1932. Edition limited to 325 numbered copies, signed by the author on contents page. Chanticleer 87. $400 58. Davies (W. H.) THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY WALKER, TRAMP. Pp. 256; boards a trifle canted, with small bruise to top edge of lower board; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges chipped and Item 57 split, the backstrip browned; free endpapers lightly offset, hinges tender at a couple of points, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Jonathan Cape, 1926. First edition thus. *A recasting of material from two earlier autobiographical volumes, Beggars and The True Traveller. Welsh poet William Henry Davies (1871–1940) spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or vagabond, and was best known as the author of The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. $60 59. Davies. THE BIRTH OF SONG. Poems, 1935–36. Pp. 32, title and text decorations; two-tone cloth, spine lettered in gilt; fore-edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges and backstrip lightly faded and rubbed, back panel a trifle soiled; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. $60 60. Davies. CHILD LOVERS and other Poems. Pp. 30(last blank)+[2](advertisements); printed brown paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Fifield, 1916. First edition. $50
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[viii]+286+[2](blank, colophon), vignette title page, pictorial head & tailpieces with tissue guards; roy. 8vo; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut; original glassine wrapper with plain paper flap folds, the glassine slightly marked, edges chipped; within orange papered slipcase which is lightly soiled and worn, the edges splitting; free endpapers slightly offset, a couple of leaves faintly creased, a little light foxing; Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition, limited to 650 numbered copies. $250 Item 62 64. De La Mare. SEVEN SHORT STORIES. Chosen from The Connoisseur and Other Stories, Broomsticks and Other Tales, The Riddle and Other Stories. With illustrations by John Nash. Pp. 196, 8 coloured plates, black & white title page vignette and tailpiece; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, corners and head of spine a trifle bruised; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges chipped and split, with a couple of short tears and a few internal tape repairs; bookplate and small tape mark on upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; Faber & Faber, 1931. First trade edition. $125 65. De La Mare. THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS. Pp. viii+312, coloured frontispiece and 1 plate; pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black, flecked and slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed; t.e.g.; text block slightly browned, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional light soiling; Duckworth, 1910. *Author’s first book for children. The illustrations are by the Irish artist J. R. Monsell (1877–1952). $90 66. Dickens (Charles) BLEAK HOUSE. With illustrations by H. K. Browne. Pp. xvi+624, frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette title, plus 38 plates; rebound in modern half black morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards; new endpapers; a few small damp stains, a little light foxing and soiling; Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition sheets, with secondary binding title pages. Smith, Part I, Item 63 10, Note 2. *According to Smith, the vignette title page for the secondary binding of Bleak House was new, with the date removed, and on both title pages the imprint of Chapman & Hall replaced that of Bradbury & Evans (as in the present copy, although the latter imprint remains on the verso of the printed title and at the foot of the final text page). The revised title pages probably date from about 1858, when Chapman & Hall resumed their association with Dickens. This copy has all but the last of the internal printing flaws listed by Smith (described by Smith as present only “in some copies”). Bleak House originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts (the last being a double number), from March 1852 to September 1853. The illustrations by Phiz include ten of the so-called dark plates. $1,800 67. Dickens. MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI. Edited by “Boz”. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. In two volumes. Pp. [iii]–xxii+288+[iii]–265(last colophon), 13 engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait Volume I); nineteenth century half calf, spines decorated in gilt around raised bands, with gilt lettered maroon leather title label and volume numbers in gilt, marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed; all edges sprinkled red; upper hinge starting Volume I, bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown same volume, the frontispiece loosening Volume II, a little light foxing, occasional slight soiling, and a couple of small edge chips; Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, first issue, with the final plate, The Last Song in the original state [ie., without the added border described by Eckel, p. 154, as ‘grotesque’ and a ‘mutilation’]. Item 67 Eckel, pp. 152–5. *Lacking the half-title pages and the advertisements at end. The frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi is by W. Greatbatch, after a painting by S. Raven. $2,500 68. Dickens. THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. With forty-three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. Pp. [iii]–xvi(bound without the half-title page, but with the directions to binder and 6 line errata present)+610(last blank), engraved frontispiece, vignette title page and 41 plates; rebound in modern half dark green morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards; new endpapers; a few short edge splits, early stamp hinge repairs to edge of two plates (opposite pp. 326 and 432), a few faint marginal water stains, small ink stains to p. 226, scattered light foxing and soiling; Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition, early (but not first) issue. Smith, Part I, 3. *Pickwick was originally published in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, from April 1836 to November 1837, then in book form on November 17, 1837. This copy contains many of the internal flaws listed by Smith (pp. 20/21), but none of the first issue points. However, the errors which occurred on pp. 25–7 in the first few issues are present. The plates, as often, are in mixed states, but all have captions and imprints at the bottom instead of page locations, and the vignette title is in the second state, with ‘Weller’ on the sign. (According to Smith, p. 25, in the later issues, the plates were entirely re-etched, without page locations, but signed, Item 68 titled, and containing the imprint of Chapman & Hall). One plate (The Trial) is incorrectly placed, and the so-called ‘suppressed’ plates by Robert Buss have been replaced with the two plates by Phiz. (Robert Seymour executed only 7 plates for Pickwick before his death on April 20, 1836. R. W. Buss was appointed as his successor, but supplied only two plates, which Dickens did not like. Hablot K. Browne [‘Phiz’] was then engaged to complete the illustrations, and the Buss plates were subsequently replaced). $2,250 69. Dickens. THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. In thirty volumes, totalling over 15,500 pages, with 444 plates (including a portrait of Dickens in The Mystery of Edwin Drood which is not called for in the list of illustrations), some volumes with pictorial extra title page, a few with text illustrations; handsomely bound in half red morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, red cloth boards, occasionally a trifle marked or rubbed, a couple of corners slightly worn; t.e.g.; later (but not recent) endpapers and binder’s blanks, dentelles browned; tiny hole to pp. 329/30 in Great Expectations, some of the plates lightly offset, occasional signs of removal of tissue guards (but most of the plates, except the frontispieces, without tissue guards, as issued), binder’s pencilled placement notes just visible on a couple of plates, a few short edge splits, occasional faint foxing and soiling; Chapman & Hall, 1874– 1876. Illustrated Library Edition. 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binder’s blank at the start of that volume, leaving a tape mark), is an autograph letter from Dickens (single sheet, folded, dated Second September 1853, and signed with his initials). The letter is headed ‘Boulogne’, where the Dickens family holidayed in the summers of 1853, 1854, and 1856, and is addressed to ‘Dear Mark’—almost certainly Mark Lemon, founding editor of Punch, who was a close friend of the Dickens family. In 1850, Lemon had dedicated his fairytale, The Enchanted Doll to Dickens’ daughters Mary and Kate, to whom he was known as ‘Uncle Mark’. A year earlier, together with John Forster, Lemon broke the news to Dickens of the sudden death of the novelist’s infant daughter Dora, and it was Lemon who stayed with Dickens that night, keeping vigil over the dead child’s body. The letter suggests that Lemon had just returned from a visit to the Dickens family in France, and proposes a meeting in London in the following week, ‘to dine and make a theatrical night of it’. ( In addition to his journalism, Lemon was the author of numerous melodramas, operettas and comedies, and frequently participated in Dickens’s amateur theatricals). Dickens then refers, briefly, to his current writing project, A Child’s History of England, which was serialized in Household Words from 1851 to December 1853: ‘I am in a prostration of laziness, only broken by the Child’s History—and enough too, for the reading takes no end of time’. The letter ends with an affectionate postscript: ‘Enclosed, an immense packet of love and regards’. $20,000 Item 71 70. Dobson (Austin) AUSTIN DOBSON CALENDAR 1925. [cover title]. Pp. 30(last blank); f’cap. 4to; printed grey papered boards with pictorial title label (which is lightly foxed) on upper board, the spine a trifle faded; uncut; the free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing, tiny ink mark to fore-edge of last couple of leaves; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, [London?], n.d.[1924?]. *The label illustration on the cover is reproduced from a picture by G. H. Boughton, illustrating Dobson’s poem Love in Winter (which is printed in this Calendar for December). From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label on the upper pastedown. $225 71. Dobson. PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN. Pp. x+210(last blank)+[4](advertisements)+32 pp. publisher’s catalogue, notes and press notices; brown cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & black, edges lightly rubbed; uncut; upper hinge cracking, contemporary handwritten ownership label of Alxander Ferrier laid on half-title page, the lower endpapers slightly silverfished, scattered light foxing; Henry S. King, 1877. First edition. Murray II. *From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label on verso of upper free endpaper, above his pencilled signature and brief provenance note, stating the book was previously from the library of Ruth Dobson. $200 Item 72 72. Dryden (John) ALL FOR LOVE or The World Well Lost. A tragedy, written in imitation of Shakespeare’s stile [sic]. Pp. xxiv+98, printed in red & black, pictorial headpieces, the colophon decoration printed in green & black; demy 4to; full vellum, lettered and decorated in gilt, the bottom edges a trifle rubbed; uncut; the free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing;The Stourton Press, 1931. Edition limited to 158 numbered copies. *The headpiece decorations are by Eliot Hodgkin, and the decoration for the preface is by Edward Le Bas. $550 73. Durrell (Lawrence) THE RED LIMBO LINGO. A poetry notebook. Pp. 48, the title page printed in red & black; small cr. 4to; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; original glassine wrapper; within black cloth slipcase; tiny spot to half-title page; Faber & Faber, 1971. First edition, U.K. issue; this one of 100 copies signed by the author for sale in Great Britain (of a total edition of 1200 worldwide). Thomas & Brigham 49. *With publisher’s broadside loosely inserted: ‘In this “Notebook” Durrell has recorded his strange thoughts, in prose or verse, in English or French, around the notion of blood—from its sacrificial aspect, one might have said, to its association with vampires...’ [publisher’s blurb]. $400 74. Eliot (T. S.) CHARLES WHIBLEY. A Memoir. Pp. 13+[3](advertisements); med. 8vo; printed paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, the lower wrapper printed on both sides, edges and backstrip browned, top fore- Item 75 corners slightly creased; outer leaves lightly browned, corners faintly creased; Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. First edition. Gallup A20. The English Association Pamphlet No. 80. *A talk given to the English Association in February 1931. It was not separately published in the United States, but is included in Eliot’s Selected Essays (1932). $95 75. Eugenides (Jeffrey) MIDDLESEX. Pp. viii+530(last blank); med. 8vo; dust wrapper; ribbon marker; text block slightly browned; Bloomsbury, 2002. First U.K. edition. *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2003. Signed by the author on the title page. $150 76. Flint (Sir William Russell) BREAKFAST IN PERIGORD. Essays on various occasions and in diverse moods. With favourite quotations. Decorated and enlivened with 60 illustrations & devices. Written and contrived by Sir William Russell Flint. Pp. 132(last colophon, verso blank), printed in red, blue, dull gilt & black, frontispiece, pictorial title page, and numerous text illustrations (several full page), pictorial endpapers, numerous decorative initials and small text ornaments; f’cap. folio; qr. black morocco, spine lettered in gilt, white canvas boards, upper board with small Flint silhouette design in black at centre, the leather a trifle rubbed, cloth faintly soiled; t.e.g.; within maroon papered slipcase, which is lightly worn; privately printed for Sir William Russell Flint by Charles Skilton, 1968. Edition limited to 525 Item 76 numbered copies, signed by the author/artist. $1,500 77. Flint. THE LISPING GODDESS. A figurehead fantasy. Comments & conversations philosophical, romantical, factual & mendacious, poetical & impertinent, by loquacious mariners. Discreetly recounted & advantageously delineated by W. R. F. Pp. 118(last blank), 2 coloured plates plus 26 tinted illustrations (mostly full page), the text printed in red, blue & black, marbled endpapers (designed by Flint); bound by Mansell in qr. blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, white canvas boards with small gilt device designed by Flint at centre of upper board, the cloth faintly soiled, spine slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; within marbled papered slipcase, edges lightly rubbed; scattered light foxing; privately printed for the author/artist (the text by the Stanbrook Abbey Press, the illustrations by the Cotswold Collotype Company), Worcester & Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, 1968. Edition limited to 275 numbered copies, signed by Sir William Russell Flint. *Inspired by the collection of ships’ figureheads in the hold of the clipper ship Cutty Sark, at Greenwich. $2,750
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See Kirkpatrick A4. *The first and last leaves are tipped-in Arnold’s Colonial Library Series inserts. Filmed by Ivory Merchant in 1992. $1,500 80. Forster. THE STORY OF THE SIREN. Pp. [16](last advertisement, verso blank); med. 8vo; blue marbled paper wrappers with triple gilt bordered printed paper title label on upper wrapper, stapled, the backstrip Item 79 faded, edges and backstrip rubbed; uncut and partly unopened; text block browned, with a couple of tiny edge chips; The Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1920. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Kirkpatrick A6; Woolmer 9, with the label in the first of three states. *Loosely inserted in this copy is a small card from the publisher, printed in black & green, advertising two new publications (Gorky’s Reminiscences of Tolstoi and Forster’s The Story of the Siren). The price (‘3s. net’) for the Forster item has been scored out and ‘2/6’ handwritten in ink. $950 81. Forster. WHAT I BELIEVE. Pp. 24(last blank, colophon); light green paper wrappers lettered in red, stabbed & tied, the backstrip browned, small hole below top edge of lower wrapper near backstrip; text block browned; tiny ink spot to bottom edge pp. 11/12; The Hogarth Press, 1939. First separate edition. Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets. Kirkpatrick A20. *This essay was originally published as Two Cheers for Democracy, in The Nation, 16 July 1938, and reprinted two months later as Credo in the London Mercury. $95 82. Fraser (George Macdonald) BLACK AJAX. Pp. [vi]+250(last blank), glossary; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; a little light foxing; HarperCollins, 1997. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Historical novel about Tom Molineaux, the celebrated black boxer in nineteeth century England. The novel is loosely linked to the Flashman series, as Sir Harry Flashman’s father, Captain Henry Buckley [‘Buck’] Flashman, Item 80 plays a minor role in the story. $150 83. Fraser. FLASHMAN. From The Flashman Papers 1839–1842. Pp. 256, endpaper map, notes, glossary; slight bruise to bottom edge of upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip faded; endpapers faintly offset, inked gift inscription (dated 1970) opposite title page, tiny ink mark to fore-edge margin p. 66, a little light foxing; Herbert Jenkins, 1969. First edition. *The first book in the Flashman series. $500 84. Fraser. FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE. From the Flashman Papers 1854–1855. Pp. 286, 1 full page map plus endpaper maps, appendices, notes; spine a trifle bruised at extremities; dust wrapper, the back panel slightly creased; edges of leaves faintly marked; Barrie & Jenkins, 1973. First edition. *The fourth Flashman book. $275 85. Friel (Brian) PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Pp. 110; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and rubbed; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, upper free endpaper faintly soiled, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Faber & Faber, 1965. First edition. *‘Philadelphia, Here I come! was widely acclaimed as the best Irish play of the year when it was first produced at the Dublin Theatre Festival in September 1964’ [wrapper blurb]. $350 86. Gallatin (A. E.) WHISTLER’S ART DICTA AND OTHER ESSAYS. Pp. [viii] +46+[4](last advertisement, Item 83 verso blank), 3 plates (2 hand-tipped, one of which is folding), 2 hand-tipped facsimile letters (one folding), facsimile title page of The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, cloth backed marbled papered boards, printed paper title label on spine, top edges of boards slightly foxed, the corners a trifle rubbed; uncut; a little light foxing; D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1904. *Two of the essays are about Aubrey Beardsley. One of the illustrations reproduces a hitherto unpublished drawing by Beardsley (an uncompleted border design for his edition of Malory’s Morte D’Arthur). $400 87. Galsworthy (John) TWO FORSYTE INTERLUDES. A Silent Wooing. Passers By. Pp. [iv]+76(last colophon); qr. black paper, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards, foot of spine and top fore- corner of lower board a trifle bruised; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip browned; half-title page and colophon offset, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Heinemann, 1927. First edition, limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by the author. *From the collection of Melbourne bookseller Elsie Belle Champion, with her pencilled initials on the upper free endpaper. Champion, a sister of the feminist Vida Goldstein, was manager of the Book Lovers’ Library & Bookshop from 1896 until it closed in 1936. She was subsequently employed at Collins Book Depot and later Roberson and Mullens. $120 Item 85 88. Gifford (William) THE BAVIAD AND MAEVIAD [and] PROCEEDINGS ON THE TRIAL OF ROBERT FAULDER, Bookseller (one of forty against whom actions were brought for selling The Baviad) for publishing a libel on John Williams, alias Anthony Pasquin, Esq. Pp. xx+188; f’cap. 8vo; early nineteenth century calf boards with decorative blind border, new spine, decorated in gilt compartments, with gilt lettered red leather title label, boards lightly worn; hinges strengthened, early ownership inscription on half-title page, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; J. Wright, 1800. Sixth edition. *The two most famous works by the controversial poet and critic William Gifford (1756–1826), who was described by Byron as the best satirist of his era. First published in 1791, The Baviad was a satire directed against the so-called Della Cruscans, a group of poets despised by Gifford as sentimental. The Maeviad(first published in 1795), was a similar attack against some minor dramatists. John Williams (alias Anthony Pasquin) was one of the writers lampooned inThe Baviad. $250 89. Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von) THE SORROWS OF WERTER: A GERMAN STORY. In two volumes. Pp. viii+168+[iv]+172; f’cap. 8vo; early tree calf, the spines ruled in gilt with gilt lettered red leather title & volume labels, the boards slightly rubbed and grazed at a couple of points, edges lightly worn; upper hinges cracking, name in ink on upper free endpapers and blank preliminary leaf each volume, small inked [shelf?] number on upper pastedowns, with signs of removal of earlier signature or owner’s mark from Item 88 pastedowns, piece torn from fore-edge of blank preliminary Volume I, erasure marks and a couple of small
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holes to upper free endpaper Volume II, with ink blot to upper endpapers same volume, the outer leaves offset at edges, a little light foxing and occasional soiling; printed for J. Dodsley, 1783. Fourth edition in English. *‘Based to some extent on Goethe’s own experiences, The Sorrows of Young Werther was the work with which “Goethe succeeded in attracting, as no German had done before him, the attention of Europe’’ [Encyclopedia Britannica]’. (Napoleon is said to have insisted on keeping the French translation of this work with him during his campaign in Egypt). $750 90. Golding (William) THE SCORPION GOD. Three Short Novels. Pp. 178; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, with tape mark on reverse at head of backstrip; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Faber & Faber, 1971. First edition. *Contains The Scorpion God; Clonk Clonk; and Envoy Extraordinary. $60 91. Goldsmith (Oliver) THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. A tale, supposed to be written by himself. Pp. [iv]+212(last colophon), printed in red & black, frontispiece portrait etching (signed in pencil by the artist, Harry George Webb), decorative initials and borders; full limp vellum, spine lettered in black (the publisher’s imprint slightly faded at foot of spine), the vellum a trifle soiled; all edges uncut; ribbon marker; a little light foxing; The Caradoc Press, Chiswick, 1903. One of 360 numbered copies on Kelmscott Item 91 paper. Tomkinson 9; Ransom 9. $1,200 92. Graves (Robert) ADIOS A TODO ESO. Pp. 420(last blank)+[4](advertisements, last blank); pictorial paper wrappers, edges lightly rubbed; edges of leaves slightly foxed; Biblioteca Breve de Bolsillo, Editorial Seix Barral, S.A., Barcelona, 1971. Spanish paperback edition of Goodbye to all that. *With a signed inscription in Spanish by Graves [probably to Bill Ellis], dated 1972, on the upper free endpaper. $250 93. Graves & William Nicholson. Editors. THE WINTER OWL. Pp. 60, 10 plates (8 coloured or tinted), black & white pictorial head and tailpiece; med. 4to; pictorial papered boards, a trifle soiled and rubbed, edges worn; bookplate on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, scattered light foxing; Cecil Palmer, 1923. Higginson & Williams, p. 261, numbers C172–175; O’Brien B0017. *Inscribed and signed by Graves on the upper free endpaper. The third (and last) issue of Robert Graves’s short-lived periodical, The Owl, which he co-edited with his then father-in-law, William Nicholson. This issue contains several contributions by Graves, including two poems under his own name; another poem (The Safe, or Erewhon Redivivus), and a caricature (Mr. Belloc) under the pseudonym ‘John Doyle’; and Interchange of Selves (‘An Indian actionless drama for three actors and a moving background’), under the pseudonym ‘B. K. Mallik’. Other contributors include Thomas Hardy, David Garnett, Max Beerbohm, Pamela Bianco, Siegfried Sassoon, Item 93 and T. E. Lawrence (Massacre, being a chapter from the history of the Arab Revolt). $2,500 94. Guterson (David) SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS. Pp. xiv+346(last blank); qr. white cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards; dust wrapper; edges of leaves foxed; Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1994. First edition. *Author’s first novel, winner of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Basis for the 1999 film of the same name. $125 95. Haddon (Mark) THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. Pp. [viii]+272, text illustrations and figures; dust wrapper; Jonathan Cape, 2003. First U.K. edition (adults) *2003 winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Overall Best First Book. A version for younger readers was also published in London in 2003 by David Fickling Books. $150 96. Hardy (Thomas) FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. In two volumes. Pp. iv+334(last blank)+iv+342, 12 plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard both volumes); rebound by Period Bookbinders in brown half calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered red and brown title & volume labels, marbled papered boards; top edges brown, others sprinkled red; later endpapers; binder’s ticket on lower free endpapers, corners of a few leaves faintly creased, a couple of minor Item 94 pencilled corrections to text, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Smith, Elder & Co., 1874. First edition. Purdy p. 13; Sadleir 1105. *Originally serialized anonymously in monthly instalments in the Cornhill Magazine from January to December 1874. Before the author’s name was disclosed (in the Spectator’s review of the February instalment), it was suggested that the author was George Eliot. Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s Wessex novels. The illustrations are by Helen Paterson (later Helen Allingham). Hardy is said to have described her as ‘the best illustrator I ever had’. $4,000 97. Hardy. JUDE THE OBSCURE. With an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex. Pp. viii+516, frontispiece with lettered guard, full page map at end; rebound in later half calf, the spine ruled in gilt compartments with gilt lettered red leather title labels, marbled papered boards, the calf a trifle scuffed; t.e.g., others uncut; later endpapers, a couple of corners lightly creased, a little light foxing, scattered slight soiling; Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896[1895]. First edition. Wessex Novels Volume VIII. Purdy p. 86– 87; Sadleir 1108; Woolf 2979. *Hardy’s last novel, originally printed in monthly instalments in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine from December 1894 to November 1895. Although the title page is dated 1896, the date of publication was actually November 1895. Purdy records two different states of Signatures A-H. In this copy, they are in the presumed first state (with pagination on the partially blank pages). $800 Item 96 # 98. Hardy. A LAODICEAN; Or, the castle of the De Stancys. A story of to-day. In three volumes. Pp. [iv]+312+[iv]+276(last blank)+[iv]+268(last blank); slate-grey sand-grain cloth, spines lettered in gilt, boards with triple blind rule border and publisher’s monogram in blind at centre, slightly soiled and rubbed, edges lightly worn, corners bruised, spine cloth slightly bubbled Volume I, the spines chipped at extremities; top edges uncut; pages browned, upper hinge starting Volumes I & III, a few leaves faintly creased, a couple of edge chips, a little light foxing and occasional soiling; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. First U.K. edition, primary binding. Purdy p. 36; Sadleir 1109. *Without the 32 page publisher’s catalogue described by Purdy as ‘occasionally bound in at the end’. Originally published in monthly instalments in the European edition of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, from December 1880 to December 1881. During the serialization, Hardy became ill after the first 13 chapters had been printed, and had to dictate the rest of the novel to his wife, from his sick bed. In book form, the novel was published in America in November 1881, about a week before the English publication. $7,000
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Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 9 99. Hardy. TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES. A Pure Woman. In three volumes. Pp. [viii]+264+[viii]+278+[vi]+278 (last colophon); rebound by Period Bookbinders in navy half calf, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered red morocco title & volume labels, navy cloth boards, t.e.g.; later endpapers; binder’s ticket tipped-in at lower free endpapers, the half-title page neatly reinforced at hinge with archival tape in Volume I, inked signature at head of title page (slightly offset onto verso of half-title) in Volume II, a few leaves faintly creased, a couple of spots of foxing and a little scattered soiling; James R. Osgood, McIlvane and Co., 1891. First edition. Purdy p. 67; Sadleir 1114. *Hardy’s most controversial novel. Three publishers rejected Tess on moral grounds before its eventual publication in weekly instalments in the Graphic from July to December 1891 (where it appeared without two episodes described by Hardy as ‘more especially addressed to adult readers’). When published in book form, the ‘offensive’ parts of the text were restored. $4,000 100. Hardy. THE TRUMPET MAJOR. A tale. In three volumes. Pp. vi+296(last blank)+vi+276+vi+260(last blank); pictorial red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & black, lower boards with double blind ruled Item 100 border, the cloth slightly soiled and rubbed, edges lightly worn, the corners bruised, spines darkened and gilt slightly dulled; top edges uncut; later endpapers, initial stamp on title pages, a few tiny edge splits or chips, a little faint foxing and creasing, slight bleeding of cloth colour onto fore-edge of Contents page Volume I, scattered soiling; Smith, Elder & Co., 1880. First edition, primary binding. Purdy p. 31; Sadleir 1115. *Novel set during the Napoleonic wars; originally published in monthly instalments in Good Words, from January to December 1880. $7,500 101. Hardy. THE TRUMPET-MAJOR. John Loveday. A Soldier in the War with Buonaparte and Robert His Brother, First Mate in the Merchant Service. A Tale. Pp. x+374, frontispiece, endpaper map; blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with gilt portrait medallion on upper board; top edges black; glassine wrapper with original price sticker on front flap; within navy card slipcase with printed label (slightly soiled), slipcase edges lightly rubbed and one side slightly faded; ribbon marker; short closed tear to bottom edge pp. 103/4, a couple of tiny spots of foxing; Macmillan, 1966. The Greenwood edition, being one of 250 copies thus. *Special issue produced for Eldridge Pope & Co., brewers, Dorchester, to commemorate the official opening of ‘The Trumpet-Major’ Inn by Harold Macmillan on July 8th, 1968, during the Thomas Hardy Festival. $175 Item 103 102. Hardy. UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the author of ‘Desperate Remedies’. In two volumes. Pp. [iv]+216(last blank)+ [iv]+216; f’cap. 8vo; later dark green half leather (roan?), spines lettered in gilt, nineteenth century marbled papered boards, rubbed, edges lightly worn; all edges sprinkled red; later endpapers; a few leaves faintly creased, a couple of small edge chips, scattered light foxing and soiling; Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Purdy p. 6; Sadleir 1117. *Lacking the half-titles. Published anonymously in an edition believed to be of 500 copies, Hardy’s second published novel contains portions of his discarded novel, The Poor Man and the Lady. $3,750 103. Hardy. WESSEX TALES. Strange, Lively and Commonplace. In two volumes. Pp. [vi]+248(last blank)+[vi]+ 212; f’cap. 8vo; rebound in twentieth century navy half morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards; all edges sprinkled red; later endpapers; a couple of pages slightly creased, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Macmillan, 1888. First edition. Purdy p. 58; Sadleir 1119. *Lacking the two advertisement leaves called for by Purdy at end of Volume II. Wessex Tales was published in an edition of 750 copies, of which only 634 were bound up. (The unbound sheets were later remaindered). $1,500 104. Hardy. THE WOODLANDERS. In three volumes. Pp. [iv]+302+[2](advertisements)+[iv]+328+[iv]+316; dark green buckram-grain cloth, upper boards with black double rule border and inner frame, lower boards Item 105 with the same design in blind, spines lettered in gilt, the cloth slightly soiled and rubbed (see footnote), edges lightly worn, corners bumped and a trifle frayed; uncut; dark brown endpapers; hinges starting at a few points, a few leaves carelessly opened, with several tiny edge splits or chips, occasional slight creasing, a little light foxing and soiling; Macmillan, 1887. First edition, primary binding (which was sold mainly to the circulating libraries). Purdy p. 54; Sadleir 1120. *Ex Circulating Library copies, with remains of the yellow Mudie’s label on upper board of Volume 1, and signs of the same label removal from the other volumes. The Woodlanders, which was originally published in monthly instalments in Macmillan’s Magazine from May 1886 to April 1887, was Hardy’s own favourite of his novels. $3,000 105. Hartley (L. P.) THE BOAT. Pp. [vi]+540; slight bruise at head of spine; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, backstrip browned, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Putnam & Co., 1949. First edition. $80 106. Hazlitt (William) LIBER AMORIS; or The New Pygmalion. Pp. [vi]+192, engraved title page vignette; demy 12mo; dark green cloth, with gilt lettered black paper title label (slightly worn) on spine, the cloth lightly rubbed, edges slightly bumped; top edges uncut; the pages cropped (with the date excised from title page), small catalogue slip laid on upper free endpaper above an early inked signature, the hinges starting Item 106 at several points, scattered light foxing and browning; printed for John Hunt by C. H. Reynell, 1823. First edition, secondary binding (described by Keynes as one of ‘a few copies’ in this format). Keynes 67. *Published anonymously, but with the author’s name added in ink by hand on the title page of this copy (in which the fly-title is correctly placed).Liber Amoris was Hazlitt’s account of his infatuation (which he describes in the Advertisement as a ‘fatal attachment’) with his landlord’s daughter, Sarah Walker, for whom he divorced his first wife in 1822. The first part of the book is based on letters he wrote during his courtship of Sarah Walker; the second and third parts are his letters to his friends, P. G. Patmore and James Sheridan Knowles, describing the unhappy outcome of the affair. $400 107. [Helps, Sir Arthur] CASIMIR MAREMMA. By The Author of “Friends in Council,” “Realmah,” etc. In two volumes; red-brown cloth, edges lightly rubbed and worn, upper boards with faded rectangle from removal of label, lower board of Volume I water stained and faded; corner of a few leaves lightly creased, hinge slightly tender at a few points; Bell & Daldy, 1870. First edition. Sadleir 1186, Wolff 3134. *From the library of the Parliament of Victoria, with their oval gilt label on spines, and deposit stamp on upper free endpapers, and half-title page Volume I and preliminary blank Volume II. $350
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108. Hemingway. THE GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Pp. [viii]+296(last blank), title page vignette, pictorial head and tailpieces; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges, turn-ins with double gilt rule; a.e.g.; green marbled endpapers; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1935. First edition. Hanneman A13A. *Hemingway’s account of his month on safari in East Africa in December 1933 was serialized in Scribner’s Magazine, from May to November, 1935. (The book was published in October). $3,000 109. Hemingway. THE SUN ALSO RISES. Pp. [vi]+260(last blank), title page vignette; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges, gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; text block faintly browned; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1926. First edition, first issue, with the misprint ‘stoppped’ at line 26 on p. 181. Hanneman A6a. *Basis for the 1956 film of the same name. $5,750 110. Hemingway. THE TORRENTS OF SPRING. A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race. Pp. [viii]+144, pictorial headpieces; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, the spine lettered Item 109 and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges, gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; text block faintly browned, the illustrations slightly offset; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1926. First edition. Hanneman A4a. $3,750 111. [Hope (Thomas)] ANASTASIUS, or, Memoirs of a Greek; written at the close of the Eighteenth Century. In three volumes. Pp. [viii]+348+[ii]+400+[ii]+440; contemporary half red morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, green papered boards, rubbed, the spines lightly rubbed and discoloured, edges slightly worn, with small chip at foot of spine Volume I; marbled edges and matching endpapers; armorial bookplate of Herbert McDougall on upper pastedowns, some scattered light foxing and soiling, a couple of leaves lightly creased; John Murray, 1820. Third edition. [See Sadleir 1217; Wolff 3264; Harris 623]. *Inscribed by the author [possibly to Lady Kinneir, wife of the British envoy to Persia, Sir John MacDonald Kinneir] on the half-title page of Volume I. This copy is perhaps lacking a folding map at end of Volume III. (No map is called for in the standard references to the prior editions, but we have seen one reference to a map in the third edition, and there is a faint vertical indentation to last leaves of Volume III, where a map might have been). Thomas Hope (c.1770–1831), author and virtuoso, originally studied architecture, but devoted himself to literature and the arts. Anastasius is his best-known work, first published anonymously Item 111 in 1819, when it was erroneously ascribed to Byron (who told the Countess of Blessington that he wept bitterly on reading it for two reasons: one that he had not written it, and the other that Hope had). $950 112. Hudson, Gwynedd M.: Barrie (J. M.) J. M. BARRIE’S PETER PAN AND WENDY. Decorated by Gwynedd M. Hudson. Pp. 272, illustrated in colour throughout; cr. 4to; rebound in later navy half morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, navy cloth boards; later endpapers and binder’s blanks; with part of the original pictorial cloth binding (upper board and backstrip) bound in, the backstrip heavily faded, occasional slight soiling; Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.[1931?]. $1,200 113. Hudson (W. H.) BIRDS IN LONDON. Illustrated by Bryan Hook, A. D. McCormick and from photographs from nature by R. B. Lodge. Pp. xvi+340(last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 16 plates (including a tinted map of London) and 15 text illustrations, bibliography, index; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges lightly rubbed, a couple of tiny bruises near centre fore-edge of boards, the spine and lower board faintly scuffed; t.e.g., others uncut; hinges tender at a couple of points, a few small edge chips or splits, scattered light foxing; Longmans, Green, 1898. First edition. Payne A16a. *With the author’s signed presentation inscription (to Dr. Tom Robinson, dated 1903) mounted on the upper pastedown. $650 114. Hudson. THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST. Pp. viii+360, title page vignette, index; green cloth, lettered Item 112 and decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed, fore-corners slightly bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; hinges starting at a couple of points, a few small edge chips or splits, scattered light foxing; Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.[1919]. First edition. Payne A37a. *With the bookplate of renowned Scottish naturalist Seton Gordon on the upper pastedown, and a 1934 manuscript letter to him from Ethel M. Williams (an acquaintance of Hudson), which is tipped onto the upper free endpaper above a photograph of Hudson. In the letter, Williams states that the photograph of Hudson, which she sent as a gift to Seton Gordon, ‘recalls him more than any other likeness—I have seen him look exactly like that when he has grieved over what I have heard him call people’s “hideousness.”’ On the verso of the upper free endpaper is the bookplate of a later owner of this book, leading Hudson authority Dennis Shrubsall. $250 115. Hudson. GREEN MANSIONS: A Romance of the Tropical Forest. Pp. [iv]+316(last colophon), title page vignette; gilt lettered green cloth over bevelled boards with publisher’s device in blind at centre of lower board, cloth slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, with a couple of faint bruises; within custom made dark green cloth wrap-around portfolio and qr. leather slipcase with gilt lettered green morocco title labels on spine (which is quite rubbed) and matching green cloth sides; text block slightly browned, inked ownership inscription (dated 1913) on upper free endpaper, a few leaves carelessly opened, a couple of spots of foxing Item 114 and occasional slight soiling; Duckworth, 1904. First edition, second issue binding. Payne A23a; Sadleir 1233. *An unknown quantity of copies were bound without the publisher’s device on the lower board, but once this oversight was discovered, all succeeding copies were stamped. Green Mansions, one of several books from that era with a ‘lost tribe’ theme, was Hudson’s best known novel, filmed in 1959, starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins. $500 116. Hudson. IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA. Illustrated by Alfred Hartley and J. Smit. Pp. viii+256+4+40 (advertisements and publisher’s catalogue, dated January 1893), frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 plates, title page vignette, text illustrations, index; maroon buckram over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, with publisher’s device in blind at centre of lower board, the cloth faded (heavily at top edges and spine) and slightly rubbed; uncut; upper hinge starting, armorial bookplate (Richard Henry Venables Kyrke) on upper pastedown and later bookplate of leading Hudson authority Dennis Shrubsall on the upper free endpaper, a couple of tiny edge splits, a little light foxing; Chapman & Hall, 1893. First edition, first issue, primary binding; limited to 1750 copies. Payne A7a. *Tipped-in at the end is a typescript letter to Dennis Shrubsall concerning available publisher’s archival material relating to this book. Heavily annotated by Colonel Shrubsall, the letter includes the following: ‘It seems that dilatory authors were not unknown in the Item 115
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 11 last century, for on July 9th 1897 the Board sent a letter to the Society of Authors stating that the company intends to take legal steps against Mr. W. H. Hudson for repayment of £25 advance to him in October 1894 on account of a book on Argentine Ornithology unless he sends us the book or refunds the money by July 31st’. $300 117. Hudson. A LITTLE BOY LOST. Illustrated by A. D. M’Cormick. Pp. viii+202(last colophon)+[2](advertisements), frontispiece, plus text illustrations, title page printed in red & black; beige canvas, lettered and decorated in gilt, green, black & blind, slightly soiled; t.e.g.; within custom made dark brown cloth wrap-around portfolio and matching cloth slipcase with gilt lettered brown leather title label, the slipcase a trifle flecked, label slightly scuffed; a couple of small edge splits, occasional faint soiling; Duckworth, 1905. First edition. Payne A25a. *Novel for children. $350 118. Hudson. NATURE IN DOWNLAND. With illustrations. Pp. xii+308(last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 11 plates, title page vignette and text illustrations, pictorial head & tailpieces, the title page printed in red & black, index; light green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly soiled and rubbed, Item 117 edges lightly worn, uncut; text block slightly browned, bookplate on upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing; Longmans, Green, 1900. First edition. Payne A19a. $125 119. Hudson. THE PURPLE LAND THAT ENGLAND LOST. Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America. Cheaper edition, in one volume. Pp. [iv]+286+266(last colophon)+32(publisher’s catalogue, dated October 1885); grey/green cloth, upper board lettered and decorated in brown, slightly worn, the corners lightly bruised, tiny scar to upper board affecting one letter of title, rebacked, with the original gilt lettered spine laid on, the spine cloth browned and gilt lettering dulled; uncut; hinges strengthened, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887. First edition, second issue. Payne A1b. *Hudson’s first book. For this ‘cheaper edition’, the remaining sheets of the original two volumes (1885) were bound into one volume and issued with a new title page. $750 120. Hudson. A SHEPHERD’S LIFE. Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs. Illustrated by Bernard C. Gotch. Pp. xii+362(last colophon)+32(publisher’s catalogue, dated April 1910), coloured frontispiece with tissue guard, black & white title page vignette and text illustrations (1 full page), index; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed, the bottom fore-corners slightly bruised; within custom made green cloth wrap-around portfolio and matching cloth slipcase with gilt lettered red leather title labels Item 118 (which are slightly worn); free endpapers lightly offset, hinges tender at a couple of points, occasional faint soiling, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Methuen, 1910. First edition, primary binding. Payne A29a. $600 121. Hudson. A TRAVELLER IN LITTLE THINGS. Pp. viii+258(last colophon)+[6](advertisements); dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind, the upper board a trifle rubbed and faded; top edges dark green; free endpapers offset, lower endpapers very slightly silverfished, outer leaves and edges foxed; J. M. Dent and Sons, 1921. First edition, primary binding. Payne A40a. *Collection of essays, several of which originally appeared in The New Statesman, Saturday Review, Nation, and Cornhill Magazine. $125 122. Hudson. W. H. HUDSON’S LETTERS To R. B. Cunninghame Graham. With a few to Cunninghame Graham’s Mother Mrs Bontine. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Curle. Drawings of Hudson and Cunninghame Graham by Sir William Rothenstein. Pp. 128(last colophon), 2 tinted portrait plates; qr. red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow cloth boards, a trifle soiled, corners slightly bruised, spine lightly faded and worn; t.e.g., others uncut; bookplate of the leading Hudson authority Dennis Shrubsall, plus binder’s stamp on the upper pastedown, some light foxing throughout; Golden Cockerel Press, 1941. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Pertelote 150. *Published in the centenary year of Item 123 Hudson’s birth. With Colonel Shrubsalls’s pencilled annotations and occasional underlining. $175 123. Hulme (T. E.) SPECULATIONS. Essays on humanism and the philosophy of art. Edited by Herbert Read. With a frontispiece and foreword by Jacob Epstein. Pp. xvi+272(last blank)+18(series catalogue), frontispiece portrait, appendices, index; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark grey morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges, gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; text block slightly browned, occasional slight soiling; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1924. First edition. International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method series. *Posthumously published, after the author’s death during the First World War. Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. $2,750 124. Jefferies (Richard) AFTER LONDON OR WILD ENGLAND. In two parts. Part I—The relapse into barbarism. Part II—Wild England. Pp. viii+442+[10](advertisements), floral patterned endpapers; variant brown/ochre cloth over bevelled boards, lightly marked and rubbed, corners and spine extremities worn; uncut; hinges starting, name in ink at head of title page, a little light foxing and occasional soiling; Cassell, Item 124 1885. First edition (with the advertisements dated 51/2 R-4.85). Miller & Matthews B22.1(b). *From the library of Australian historian J. A. La Nauze, with his signature on the half-title page. $550 125. Johnson (B. S.) THE UNFORTUNATES. Twenty-seven numbered sections contained within a printed glazed paper wrap-around band; housed within a folding laminated box, the spine of which is faded and slightly worn; the uppermost text section [numbered 4] is a trifle creased at one corner and also faintly soiled; Panther Books in association with Secker & Warburg, 1969. First edition. *Novelist, poet, literary critic and film maker Bryan Stanley Johnson (1933–1973) was one of England’s most experimental post-war writers, who has attracted a growing cult following since his suicide at the age of 40. ‘Few novelists of recent years have done as much as B. S. Johnson to demonstrate that the novel-form is still very much alive and capable of further technical development. In The Unfortunates... he has tried to solve one of the novelist’s chief problems: how to represent the random workings of the mind within the enforced consecutiveness of a book’ [wrap-around blurb]. The printed note on the inside of the box lid encourages readers to assemble the text sections, which vary in length from a single paragraph to 12 pages, in any way they like—although two sections are marked ‘First’ and ‘Last’ respectively. $400
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126. Jones (Gwyn) THE GREEN ISLAND. A novel. Engravings by John Petts. Pp. 84, frontispiece, title page vignette, and 9 text illustrations (1 full page), the title page printed in green & black; roy. 8vo; green & grey canvas, lettered and decorated in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut; number stamp at foot of lower free endpaper, a few leaves lightly creased (production fault?), a little faint foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. One of 400 numbered copies thus, of a total edition of 500. Cockalorum 169. *This copy within a handmade dust wrapper, titled by hand in ink on the backstrip, slightly soiled. $150 127. Jones, Owen: ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS; historical and romantic. Translated, with notes, by J. G. Lockhart. With numerous illustrations from drawings by William Allan, David Roberts, Henry Warren, C. E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. The borders and ornamental vignettes by Owen Jones. Pp. [250], chromolithographic illuminated title page and 3 plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and text illustrations, plus numerous decorative borders and text decorations in various colours (single or in combination); cr. 4to; dark green leather over bevelled boards, lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, the spine lightly faded to brown, edges slightly rubbed (heaviest at corners); a.e.g.; ribbon marker; marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles, upper hinge starting, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; John Murray, 1859. New [fourth] edition, revised. *First Item 127 published in 1841, this was one of the first of the illuminated gift books popular in England in the nineteenth century. Owen Jones had visited Spain in 1834, and became fascinated by the architecture, particularly the Alhambra Palace. According to Ruari McLean (Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, pp. 80–81), with this book and his earlier two volumes on The Alhambra, Owen Jones ‘popularized Moorish architectural design. This started a fashion... [and] Jones contributed much to the exploitation of Oriental art in graphic design’. $600 128. Jonson (Ben) THE MASQUE OF QUEENES. With the Designs of Inigo Jones. Pp. 40(last blank)+[4]+16 (plates)+[4]+40(facsimile of manuscript), 20 plates of Inigo Jones’s designs printed in sepia; f’cap. folio; red stained vellum, gilt, a trifle soiled, and with three light scuff marks on upper board; t.e.g., others uncut; small name label on upper free endpaper, the endpapers lightly browned, paper at upper hinge starting slightly; The King’s Printers, 1930. One of 350 numbered copies. $250 129. Joyce (James) FINNEGANS WAKE. Pp. [iv]+628; med. 8vo; red cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt; top edges yellow, others uncut and largely unopened; dust wrapper, a trifle marked, the edges rubbed and split, with a few small chips and short closed tears; endpapers and edges of leaves slightly foxed, the preliminary blank and final text page browned, tiny split at foot of title page and next two text leaves, minor 129 production fault (faint soiling) p. 375; Faber & Faber, 1939. First trade edition. Slocum & Cahoon A47; Connolly, The Modern Movement, 87. *‘When one of the very greatest of modern authors completes a work to which he has devoted sixteen years of labour—and which, hitherto described as Work in Progress, has been more talked about and written about during the period of its composition than any previous work of English literature —then the publishers feel that they should waste no words in describing the book which would be the most important event of any season in which it appeared.’ [wrapper blurb]. James Joyce’s final work, 950 copies of which (still in sheet form) were destroyed by the publishers. $4,500 130. Kent, Rockwell: Melville (Herman) MOBY DICK or the whale. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Pp. xxxii+828(last colophon, verso blank), numerous text illustrations (several full page), pictorial head & tailpieces, decorative initials; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, lettered and decorated in silver after Rockwell Kent’s design for the original binding of this edition, featuring a whale’s tail on the spine; all edges silver; burgundy endpapers with silver ruled turn-ins; Random House, New York, 1930. First trade edition with these illustrations. *Rockwell Kent’s edition of Moby Dick was one of his most successful works, and has been credited with re-popularising Melville’s novel. $2,750 131. Kerouac (Jack) ON THE ROAD. Pp. [iv]+310; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, the Item 130 spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges, gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g.; plain burgundy endpapers; text block slightly browned, p. 47 faintly soiled; The Viking Press, New York, 1957. First edition. *Filmed in 2012. $3,750 132. Kipling (Rudyard) THE JUNGLE BOOK. [and] THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. Together two volumes: THE JUNGLE BOOK With illustrations by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. Pp. viii+212, frontispiece with tissue guard, text illustrations (several full page); stamped ‘Presentation copy’ in blind at foot of title page; [Together with] THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Pp. [vi]+238+[2](advertisements), title and text illustrations and decorations; both volumes bound by The Chelsea Bindery in uniform navy morocco, spines lettered & decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, the boards featuring different gilt vignettes at centre (elephants on the first volume and a cobra on the second), with single gilt rule border and gilt edges; a.e.g.; 2 gilt rules to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers; housed within a fully lined navy cloth slipcase with leather fore-edges; a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Macmillan, 1894; 1985. First editions. Livingston 104 & 116. *The Jungle Book was the basis for a 1967 Disney animated film. $7,000 133. Laboccetta, Mario: Hoffmann (E. T. A.) TALES OF HOFFMANN. Illustrated by Mario Laboccetta. Pp. Item 132 208(last blank), illustrated in colour throughout (several full page); cr. 4to; red cloth, lettered and decorated in blue & black; top edges red; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, with small surface graze to front panel, the edges lightly rubbed and split, backstrip discoloured and slightly creased and chipped, with a closed horizontal tear near the centre and 2 higher ragged tears partly affecting the letterpress; a little faint foxing; George G. Harrap, 1932. First U.K. edition. *Mario Laboccetta was an Italian painter based in Paris during the 1920s, where he gained some notoriety for his magazine illustrations, often depicting cabaret scenes. $500 134. Lee (Laurie) CIDER WITH ROSIE. With drawings by John Ward. Pp. 282(last blank), frontispiece, text illustrations, (mostly full page); corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the back panel lightly marked; a little light foxing; The Hogarth Press, 1959. First edition, first issue. *The first volume in Lee’s autobiographical trilogy. In later issues, the reference on p. 272 to the fire at the local piano factory was removed. (‘There was a fire at the piano-works almost every year, it seemed to be a way of balancing the books’). $500 135. Leutemann, Heinrich: REYNARD THE FOX, A poem in twelve cantos. Translated from the German by E. W. Holloway. With thirty-seven engravings on steel, after designs by H. Leutemann. Pp. xiv+82(last blank), engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and 35 plates (several with tissue guards); demy 4to; nineteenth century Item 134
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 13 half calf, the spine decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered red leather title label, purple cloth boards fading to brown, slightly rubbed, the cloth occasionally a trifle creased, corners worn, the joints starting, spine slightly chipped at extremities; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, damp stain to bottom fore-corner of most leaves, one plate loosening, a few of the tissue guards lightly creased or torn, scattered foxing and occasional slight soiling; A. H. Payne/ W. French, Leipzig/ London, n.d.[1852]. First edition thus. *Heinrich Leutemann (1824–1905) was a German artist and book illustrator. During the 1850s, he produced a series of animal pictures for a zoological atlas. $200 136. Longus. LES AMOURS PASTORALES DE DAPHNIS ET CHLOE. Traduction de Messie J. Amyot, editee et corrigee par Paul-Louis Courier. [Text in French]. Pp. [iv]+iv+164(last blank), printed in red & black, text illustrations (4 full page), the decorative initials drawn in blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants, printer’s mark C in red at colophon; narrow cr. 4to; qr. vellum, lettered and ruled in gilt, turquoise papered boards with vellum corner-tips, circular gilt design by Gwen Raverat at centre of upper board, the edges of the paper very slightly chipped; uncut; within patterned papered slipcase, which is slightly worn; lower Item 137 hinge tender, a little light foxing; printed by C. H. St. John Hornby, Ashendene Press, Chelsea, 1933. Edition limited to 310 copies; this being one of 290 copies printed on paper. Franklin pp. 242–3. *The penultimate book from the Ashendene Press. The wood-engraved illustrations by Gwen Raverat are described by Colin Franklin (The Ashendene Press, p. 243), as ‘the only worthwhile original illustrations in an Ashendene book’. The Ashendene Daphnis et Chloe was intended for publication in 1931, but that edition was printed on Japanese vellum, and because the sheets were packed before the slow-drying ink had sufficiently hardened, all but 10 copies had to be destroyed. $3,500. 137. McEwan (Ian) AMSTERDAM. Pp. [viii]+178; dust wrapper; a few very light spots of foxing; Jonathan Cape, 1998. First edition. *Winner of the 1998 Man Booker Prize. $175 138. Mackay (Charles) THE SALAMANDRINE. With illustrations, drawn by John Gilbert; engraved by the brothers Dalziel. Pp. xii+140, numerous illustrations; roy. 8vo; full red morocco over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, a trifle soiled, corners slightly rubbed, with small graze to top fore-corner of upper board, the spine lightly faded; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; ribbon marker; the upper pastedown slightly grazed, neat inked signature on verso of upper free endpaper, hinges starting, scattered light foxing; Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1853. First illustrated edition. *Long narrative poem by the Scottish Item 139 journalist, novelist, poet and songwriter Charles Mackay (1812–1889), best known today as the author of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. $200 139. Machiavelli (Niccolo) THE PRINCE. The translation from the Italian by Hill Thompson, with a new preface by Irwin Edman. Pp. 186, title page printed in red & black; med. 8vo; full black Florentine morocco, the spine lettered in gilt, boards decorated with numerous gilt fleurons representing the lily device of Lorenzo de Medici, edges a trifle rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; upper hinge just starting, edges of leaves faintly browned; Limited Editions Club, New York, 1954. First edition thus, limited to 1500 numbered copies. Bibliography No. 241. $1,750 140. Mankell (Henning) FACELESS KILLERS. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pp. [vi]+280, full page map; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves a trifle foxed, p. 205 faintly soiled; Harvill Press, 2000. First U.K. edition. *Winner of the Swedish Academy of Crime Literature award; an Inspector Wallander mystery. $150 141. Mankell. THE FIFTH WOMAN. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pp. [vi]+438; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Harvill Press, 2001. First U.K. edition. *An Inspector Wallander mystery. $150 Item 142 142. Mankell. SIDETRACKED. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Pp. [viii]+422(last blank), full page map; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Harvill Press, 2000. First U.K. edition. *A Kurt Wallander mystery. Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award in 2001; Best Crime Novel of the Year award in Sweden, and the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. $120 143. Mansfield (Katherine) THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES. With coloured lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Pp. [x]+318(last colophon), 16 coloured lithographs (10 full page), the title page printed in red & black, publisher’s printed note tipped-in after title page; narrow cr. 4to; patterned paste-papered boards with gilt lettered red title label on spine, edges a trifle rubbed, slight bruise to top edge of upper board near spine, a little faint foxing; fore and bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, edges slightly split, with a couple of tiny chips, the backstrip browned; a little light foxing; The Verona Press, 1939[1947]. First edition, limited to 1200 numbered copies. Kirkpatrick D6. *A selection of 14 of Mansfield’s stories, only five of which had also been included in the earlier collection with the same title. Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed actual publication of this book until 1947, when it was distributed by William Collins. $3,500 144. Masefield (John) THE TAKING OF THE GRY. Pp. [vi]+182(last blank), coloured pictorial endpapers; gilt Item 143 lettered dark blue cloth, spine cloth a trifle flecked; top edges blue; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, backstrip browned and silverfished, with small piece torn from head, the front flap creased; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Heinemann, 1934. First trade edition. Errington A113(a). $60 145. Mercer, F. W., Calligrapher: Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, in Seven Parts. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Transcribed by F. W. Mercer. 26 calligraphic manuscript leaves with tissue guards, comprising an illuminated title page and 24 text leaves, all text beneath illuminated upper border; small cr. 4to; bound in full green morocco, the spine with 5 raised bands ruled in gilt, boards with single gilt rule border and gilt edges, the upper board lettered in gilt and decorated with 3 small gilt stars; dentelles decorated in gilt; uncut; paste papered endpapers patterned in green, dull gilt & black; 1923. *With the calligrapher’s signed presentation inscription to Vyvyan Holland on blank preliminary leaf, dated Christmas 1923. Holland was the younger son of Oscar Wilde. Later, the book was acquired by Harry and Virginia Walton, of Covington Virginia. After their deaths (in 2002 and 2007 respectively), the Waltons’ notable book collection featured in a series of auctions in New York and London. The binding is signed E.Y.W. and dated 1923. $3,000
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146. Meredith (George) THE EGOIST. A comedy in narrative. In three volumes. I: Pp. iv(the last mispaginated v)+338 (last blank)+[2](advertisements); II: Pp. iv+320+32(publisher’s catalogue, dated 8.79); III: iv+354; greenish/ochre cloth, ruled in black, spines lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed and flecked, boards a trifle marked, corners worn, the spines slightly discoloured, and chipped & frayed at extremities; uncut, a few leaves carelessly opened, with resultant small chips, splits, and occasional tears; hinges starting Volume I and cracked Volume II, a little light foxing and occasional soiling, signs of bookplate or label removed from upper pastedown Volume II; Kegan Paul, 1879. First edition. Sadleir 1692; Harris 968; not in Wolff. *George Meredith (1828–1909) trained as a solicitor before turning to writing. His unhappy marriage to Mary Ellen Nicolls, widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, presumably fuelled his interest in the relationship between the sexes, which was a recurring theme in his fiction. The Egoist is a study of refined selfishness. $950 147. Miller (Patrick) ANA THE RUNNER. A treatise for princes & generals attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul. Engravings by Clifford Webb. Pp. 110(last colophon), frontispiece plus 5 full page illustrations; gilt lettered beige cloth, the boards a trifle canted, slightly soiled and foxed, corners a trifle worn; dust wrapper, Item 146 lightly soiled and worn, the edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips and 2 paper repairs on reverse, the backstrip faded and worn, with a long split from centre of lower joint to bottom edge; hinges starting at a couple of points, a little light foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Trade edition. Pertelote 122. $75 148. Montgomery (General Sir Bernard) Foreword. POEMS FROM THE DESERT. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. Pp. 46, frontispiece by Stephen Gooden, with tissue guard; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, cream cloth boards with circular leather & gilt onlay (insignia of the Eighth Army) on the upper board; t.e.g., others uncut; original tissue wrapper, quite chipped and torn, lacking the backstrip; within the original plain card slipcase; hinges discoloured, the upper hinge starting; George G. Harrap, 1944. Edition limited to 110 numbered copies, signed on the limitation page by Montgomery & on the frontispiece by the artist, Stephen Gooden. *Twenty-seven poems, all but one of which were chosen from entries to a competition announced in the Christmas 1942 number of the Crusader, the Eighth Army’s weekly paper. Only poems actually written in the Western Desert were to be submitted. The 27th poem, written on a scrap of paper, was found by a soldier sheltering in a trench during the battle of El Agheila. The frontispiece is a copper engraved cartouche of Pegasus and 3 soldiers of the Eighth Army, signed and dated in pencil by the artist. Several copies of this edition were issued without the frontispiece. $2,000 Item 150 149. Morgan (Edwin) Translator. BEOWULF. A modern English Verse Translation. With illustrations by George Knowlton. Pp. 94+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece map and genealogies, 10 full page illustrations, the title page and colophon printed in red/brown & black, with publisher’s device on both, glossary of proper names; cr. folio; canvas boards, lettered in black, slightly discoloured and foxed; uncut; a little light foxing; Officina Pluralo, Sydney, 1980. Edition limited to l,000 copies, this being one of 100 numbered copies, printed on Velin Arches creme paper, case bound, and signed by the translator and the artist. $1,200 150. Mozley, Charles: Burnett (Frances Hodgson) THE SECRET GARDEN. Publisher’s dummy copy. With an original watercolour frontispiece, 3 plates, and pictorial endpapers, by Charles Mozley, plus printed title page decorated with a floral design in brown [ink?], 2 printed sample text leaves, and numerous binder’s blanks; cream papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, the boards decorated with an all-over pattern of gilt leaves and grasses; all edges green; contained within a cream papered solander box, the lid lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; Franklin Watts, New York, n.d. *An elaborately bound dummy for an unissued edition of the children’s classic, illustrated by British artist Charles Mozley. Loosely inserted is a handwritten note, dated 10 Feb. 2005, from renowned typographic designer, author, and book collector Ruari Mclean, stating that he received the item from the artist, ‘and it was as far as I know never published. I just kept it because I admired it!’ Mozley (1914–1994), was a prolific artist, Item 152 illustrator, and graphic designer, designing over 300 dust wrappers for books, and illustrating many books for adults and children, both in Britain and America. Between the early 1950s and late 1970s, he illustrated over 30 children’s books, many for Franklin Watts of New York, including classics such as Black Beauty, Pinocchio, Perrault’s Fairy tales, and Sleeping Beauty. $2,750 151. Murdoch (Iris) THE UNICORN. Pp. 320(last blank); boards a trifle marked, the top fore-corners bruised; top edges grey; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips, the back panel slightly soiled; name & date in ink on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, top fore-corner of several leaves lightly creased; Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. $400 152. Nielsen, Kay: Andersen (Hans Christian) FAIRY TALES. Illustrated by Kay Neilsen. Pp. 198(last blank), 12 hand-tipped coloured plates with lettered tissue guards, black & white title page vignette, text illustrations (many full page) and decorations; med. 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, the upper board lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt including a vignette bust of Andersen, with gilt rule border and edges; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers with gilt decorated dentelles; a little light foxing; Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. Edition de luxe, being one of 500 numbered copies, signed by the artist. *Includes The Tinder Box, The Snow Queen, and Item 154 The Real Princess (the story of the Princess and the pea). $7,000 153. O’Brian, Patrick: Russ (R. P.) HUSSEIN. An entertainment. Pp. [iv]+300+[2](colophon, recto blank); boards a trifle flecked; top edges grey; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, edges chipped and split, the back panel slightly soiled and foxed; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, with small piece chipped from bottom edge of lower free endpaper near gutter, the outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Oxford University Press, 1938. First edition. *Author’s second book, published under his real name, before he began using the now famous pseudonym ‘Patrick O’Brian’. $1,500 154. Ondaatje (Michael) IN THE SKIN OF A LION. Pp. [x]+244; tiny dent to upper board just below top fore- corner; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1987. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. $150 155. Pierre (DBC) Pseud. of Peter Warren Finlay. VERNON GOD LITTLE. A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death. Pp. [iv]+280(last blank); dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly browned; Faber & Faber, 2003. First edition. *Signed by the author on title page. Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, awarded the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction; the first novel award in the 2003 Whitbread Awards. $350 Item 155
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 15 156. Plath (Sylvia) ARIEL. Pp. 86; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full blue morocco, spine lettered in white, the title onlaid in white leather on upper board, turn-ins with double white rule; a.e.g.; decorative endpapers patterned in red, white & blue; a couple of faint spots of foxing; Faber & Faber, 1965. First edition. *The author’s last poems, written just before before her death in 1963. $3,000 157. Poe (Edgar Allan) THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. Illustrated by Alice Neel. Pp. 32+[2](colophon, blank), 2 full page coloured lithographs, 1 full page etching, and 2 black & white text illustrations, the title page ornament printed in red; cr. folio; qr. maroon morocco with matching fore-edges, the spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards; fore-edges uncut; within black card slipcase, one edge slightly bumped; Limited Editions Club, New York, 1985. Edition limited to 1,500 numbered copies printed by The Anthoensen Press, signed by Raphael Soyer (see footnote) and the illustrator. L.E.C. Bibliography 542. *With the Limited Editions Club Letter (Number 542) loosely inserted, giving details of this publication. The controversial New York painter Alice Neel died of cancer shortly before the official release of this book, and consequently many copies do not bear her signature. Raphel Soyer contributes a two page Artist’s Item 156 Tribute to her for this production. $1,500 158. Pope (Alexander) AN EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, 1734. Pp. viii+[iv](facsimile of the title page and Advertisement leaf)+20(the last page misnumbered 30)+[8](notes, colophon, blank), head & tailpiece decorations, small decorative initial, colophon decoration; tall f’cap. folio; marbled paper wrappers, the printed paper title label on upper wrapper a trifle soiled, edges rubbed, the backstrip chipped and split; uncut; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1926. Edition limited to 550 copies. $150 159. Porter (Katherine Anne) SHIP OF FOOLS. Pp. xiv+498(last blank); uncut; dust wrapper, small closed tear from top edge into front panel, edges lightly worn; Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, Boston, 1962. First edition. *With a typed blue card, signed by Katherine Anne Porter, giving title and author of the book and a paragraph from the text (page 351, starting ‘Herr Glocken needed not only materia medica, his soul was shattered. ...’). Basis for the 1965 film of that name, directed by Stanley Kramer, and starring Vivien Leigh (in her last film), Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin and George Segal. $950 160. Quennell (Peter) MASQUES & POEMS. Pp. 54(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), 1 full page illustration, pictorial head and tailpieces by the author; f’cap. 4to; qr. natural linen, with printed paper title label on spine, blue/grey papered boards; dust wrapper, soiled and lightly worn, the edges rubbed and split; Item 157 with a few small chips and closed tears; uncut; free endpapers offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1922. One of 550 numbered copies thus bound. Chanticleer 9. *From the library of Sir Thomas Ramsay, with his ownership stamp in blind on the upper free endpaper. The first illustrated book issued by the Golden Cockerel Press. $150 161. Rackham (Arthur) ARTHUR RACKHAM’S BOOK OF PICTURES. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Pp. 44, plus 44 coloured plates hand-tipped onto brown art paper with lettered tissue guards, black & white title and text illustrations, the title page printed in green & black; med. 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full royal blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, the upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, with single gilt rule border and edges, the lower board a trifle marked; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers with gilt decorated dentelles; frontispiece loose, a little light foxing; William Heinemann, 1913. De luxe edition, limited to 1030 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell pp. 41–42. $4,750 162. Rackham: Barrie ( J. M.) PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. (From ‘The Little White Bird’). With drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pp. xii+126, 50 coloured plates hand-tipped onto brown art paper, all but one (the frontispiece) with lettered tissue guard, black & white title page vignette and 2 text illustrations; Item 162 small cr. 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, upper board lettered in gilt and featuring a gilt illustration of Peter riding a goat (reproducing part of the title page vignette), with single rule border, gilt edges and gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g.; dark green endpapers; a couple of spots of foxing and occasional faint soiling; Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First trade edition. Latimore & Haskell p. 27. *Rackham’s most famous book, illustrating the chapters from J. M. Barrie’s The Little White Bird [1902] which had introduced the character of Peter Pan. In this copy, the coloured plates are bound in at the end. $3,500 163. Rackham: Dickens (Charles) A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Pp. xii+148(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates with lettered tissue guards, title page decorations printed in red & black, black & white text illustrations (some full page), pictorial head & tailpieces; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full purple morocco, the spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers with gilt ruled turn-ins; scattered light foxing; William Heinemann, 1915. First trade edition, later issue? Latimore & Haskell pp. 44–5. *According to Latimore & Haskell, the frontispiece to the trade edition was mounted on dark green paper and the title page verso was dated 1915, but in later issues the frontispiece was not mounted and the title page was not dated. In this copy, the title page is dated, Item 163 but the frontispiece is not mounted. $2,750 164. Rackham: Irving (Washington) THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. Pp. 104(last blank), 8 mounted coloured plates, black & white title and text illustrations, the title page printed in dull gilt & black; post 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments, boards with single rule border, gilt edges and gilt decorated turn-ins, the upper board lettered in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers; the original pictorial endpapers in half-tone & yellow bound in; outer leaves faintly offset, a little light foxing; George G. Harrap, 1928. De luxe edition, limited to 375 numbered copies signed by the illustrator (this one of 250 for the English market). Latimore & Haskell pp. 63– 4. *Together with Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was originally published in Washington Irving’s collection of essays and short stories The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. $5,750 165. Rackham: Irving. RIP VAN WINKLE. With drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pp. viii+60(last colophon), coloured frontispiece and 50 plates hand-tipped onto dark green art paper, all but one with lettered tissue guards, black & white pictorial title page, head and tailpiece, and decorative initial; small cr. 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, the upper board lettered in gilt and featuring a gilt illustration of the elderly Rip Van Winkle Item 165 tangled in vines and clutching his stick, with single rule border, gilt edges and gilt decorated turn-ins;
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a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; bottom fore-corner of one plate a trifle creased, a little light foxing; William Heinemann, 1905. First trade edition. Latimore & Haskell p. 26. *‘This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period’ [Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work, p. 57]. In this copy, the coloured plates are bound in at the end. Washington Irving’s short story was first published in 1819, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. $4,250 166. Rackham: Shakespeare (William) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Pp. [vi]+136(last colophon), 40 coloured plates hand-tipped onto brown art paper with lettered tissue guards, black & white pictorial title page and numerous text illustrations, the title page printed in gilt & black; demy 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges; marbled endpapers with gilt decorated dentelles; t.e.g., others uncut; a little light foxing; William Heinemann, 1908. De luxe edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell p. 32. $5,250 167. Rackham: Steel (Flora Annie) ENGLISH FAIRY TALES. Retold by Flora Annie Steel. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Pp. 342(last blank), l6 mounted coloured plates, lettered guards, black & white title page vignette Item 167 and numerous text illustrations; demy 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full burgundy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, the upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, with single rule border, gilt edges and gilt decorated turn-ins; t.e.g., others uncut; marbled endpapers; a little light foxing; Macmillan, 1918. De luxe edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Latimore & Haskell p. 48. *Stories include Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Dick Whittington and his Cat, Little Red Riding-Hood, a.o. $5,750 168. Reynolds (John Hamilton) THE FANCY. With a Prefatory Memoir and Notes by John Masefield and thirteen illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. Pp. [ii]+30+xxiv+88, frontispiece and 12 text or headpiece illustrations, the title page printed in red & black, glossary; f’cap. 8vo; printed grey paper wrappers with bevelled fore- edges, the backstrip slightly discoloured, edges a trifle rubbed and creased; fore and bottom edges uncut; upper hinge tender, a little light foxing; Elkin Matthews, 1905. First edition thus, first issue? (published at half-a-crown—the more common Satchel Series issue appearing in the same year at the increased price of one shilling). *From the library of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label above his pencilled signature on verso of upper wrapper. Originally published in 1820 under the pseudonym of Peter Corcoran (a famous boxer of the 1770s). John Hamilton Reynolds (1796–1852) is today best remembered Item 169 as a close friend of Keats. His first volume of verse was published in 1814, and he initially devoted most of his time to literature and sport, but from about 1818 onwards (particularly after the death of Keats in 1820) he became more committed to his legal career. John Masefield, in his Introduction to this edition, notes that The Fancy was written shortly before Reynolds’ marriage, and suggests that it can be viewed as ‘his final parting with his youth, his poetry, and the forbidden delights of youth... Instead of going with his friends to talk art, or to watch boxing, he was to sit at home and play cribbage’. The glossary at the end of this volume is of sporting (and drinking) slang of the period, and defines The Fancy as ‘Life preserved in spirit’. $800 169. Ricketts, Charles: Warren (John Leicester, Lord de Tabley) POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. [First and Second Series]. In two volumes. First Series: With illustrations by C. S. Ricketts. Pp. xiv+212+[2] (colophon, verso blank), frontispiece and 5 plates with tissue guards (one depicting the author’s bookplate, designed by William Bell Scott), the title page printed in red & black; light green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board a trifle marked, corners very slightly rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; upper hinge tender, short closed tear to first tissue guard, the pages slightly browned; Second Series: Pp. viii+160+16(publisher’s catalogue), the title page printed in red & black; uniformly bound, but in a slightly darker green cloth than the earlier volume, and with no decoration to lower board; t.e.g., others uncut; occasional faint soiling; Elkin Matthews/John Lane, 1893; 1895. First trade editions, limited to 600 Item170 and 550 copies respectively. *As well as the illustrations in the first volume (described by Calloway, p. 15, as ‘the last of Ricketts’ works where the pictures are directly inspired by Pre-Raphaelite illustration, particularly Rossetti’s, and by Durer’), Charles Ricketts designed the attractive binding for these volumes. The author, John Byrne Leicester (1835–1895), was the third (and last) Baron de Tabley, and a close friend of Theodore Watts-Dunton. $1,200 170. Robertson (W. Graham) A MASQUE OF MAY MORNING. With twelve designs in colour by the author. Pp. 62+[2](advertisements), hand coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white title page vignette, the title page printed in red & black; small demy 4to; pictorial green cloth, slightly soiled and a trifle flecked, corners slightly bruised, spine cloth faintly faded; uncut, partly unopened; hinges tender at a couple of points, occasional slight soiling; John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. First edition.*Walford Graham Robertson (1867–1948) was the original illustrator of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Robertson was a portrait, landscape and subject painter, and during the 1890s designed theatre sets, costumes, and posters. He also wrote fairy stories, children’s verse, plays and pageants, often inspired by local folklore. $350 171. Robinson (Marilynne) HOUSEKEEPING. Pp. [iv]+220(last blank), pictorial double title page; qr. blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, light blue/grey papered boards, edges slightly faded; dust wrapper, a trifle Item 171 scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1980. First edition. *The author’s first book, shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize and winner of the PEN/ Hemingway award for best first novel. Housekeeping was the basis for the 1987 film of the same name, directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Christine Lahti. In 2005 Robinson received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her second novel, Gilead. Her third novel, Home, won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. Marilynne Robinson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2012, for her ‘grace and intelligence in writing’. $350 172. Robinson, W. Heath: Andersen (Hans Christian) HANS ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES. With illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Pp. xii+290(last colophon), 16 mounted coloured plates with lettered guards, black & white pictorial title and text illustrations (several full page); med. 4to; full vellum, the spine and upper board lettered and decorated in gilt, faintly soiled, the top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; within custom made tan cloth slipcase; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, later upper free endpaper, which has been expertly replaced, the lower free endpaper slightly browned, a few of the black & white illustrations faintly offset, a couple of leaves slightly creased, a little pale foxing;Constable, 1913. Deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Beare 74b. $3,000 Item 172
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 17 173. Rochefoucault (Duke de la) MORAL MAXIMS. Pp. 134(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in blue & black, with hand coloured red & blue shield device on title page; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, blue/grey papered boads with small gilt shield device at centre of upper board, the parchment slightly soiled, and with a couple of tiny surface chips at edges, the boards a trifle scuffed, edges slightly bumped at a couple of points, the corners worn; uncut; bookseller’s small stamp at head of upper pastedown, the endpapers faintly foxed and soiled; Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, 1924. Edition limited to 325 copies on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper, this being one of 25 copies for presentation. Chanticleer 19. *This copy is also inscribed: ‘& is presented to our friend Alex Whitehead Esq. without whose help the aureate bird might have for ever ceased to crow, and this edition most assuredly never have been printed. Robert Gibbings.’ $750 174. Rojankovsky (Feodor Stepanovich) IDYLLE PRINTANIERE. 31 hand-coloured sheets, comprising a title page and 30 lithographed plates, all but the title sheet within plain paper mounts, tipped-in at fore-edge of plate with tape; the plates measuring 275 x 190 mm., the title page 300 x 210 mm.; housed within a plain card Item 174 portfolio with printed title label and colophon, the portfolio edges lightly worn, title label slightly soiled; a couple of the mounts faintly soiled; privately published, Paris, n.d.[c. 1935]. One of 300 numbered sets (of a total edition of 310). *Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky (1891–1970), better known as Rojan, was a Russian emigre artist celebrated both for children’s book illustration and for his erotica—of which this, his most celebrated work, has been described as an art deco masterpiece. After serving in the Russian Army during the First World War, he moved to France, before settling in America, where he illustrated numerous books for children, including the 1956 Caldecott Medal winning Frog Went A-Courtin. The 31 plates in Idylle Printaniere (‘Spring idyll’, also known as ‘Paris Spring’), form a story without words, depicting the amorous adventure of two travellers who meet on the metro, drive in a taxi through the streets of Paris, and end up in a hotel room. It was originally published in 1933 in an edition of 516 sets. $3,500 175. Rolfe (Frederick, Baron Corvo) DON RENATO. An Ideal Content. A historical romance. Edited and with an introduction by Cecil Woolf. Pp. [viii]+344, title page decoration, glossary; patterned papered boards, the edges slightly bruised at a couple of points; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and creased, the backstrip browned; edges of leaves faintly marked; Chatto & Windus, 1963. First trade edition. Woolf A8c. *Don Renato, Rolfe’s earliest surviving novel, was intended for publication (but suppressed) in 1909. $150 Item 178 176. Rolfe. LETTERS TO C. H. C. PIRIE-GORDON. Edited and with an Introduction by Cecil Woolf and Epilogue by CALIBAN (C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon). Pp. 146, title page decoration printed in red; qr. cream buckram spine and orange/red buckram boards, lettered in gilt, the boards quite flecked, spine lightly foxed; t.e.g., others uncut; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, endpapers faintly foxed; Nicholas Vane, 1959. One of 330 copies thus (300 of which were numbered for sale). The Centenary Edition of the Letters of Frederick William Rolfe, I. Woolf A17. *Letters and postcards written by Rolfe between 1906 and 1913, to Charles Harry Clinton Pirie-Gordon and other members of his family. $150 177. Rolfe & C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon. HUBERT’S ARTHUR. Being certain curious documents found among the literary remains of Mr. N. C., here produced by Prospero and Caliban. With an introduction by A. J. A. Symons. Pp. iv+454(last blank); red cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, with faint damp stain near centre of spine extending slightly into lower board; top edges red; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and foxed, the edges chipped and split, with a couple of small tears, ragged circular piece torn from centre of backstrip, which is also damp stained; free endpapers a trifle offset, edges foxed;Cassell, 1935. First edition, primary binding. Woolf B16. *The third collaboration between Rolfe and C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon. The novel was drafted when Rolfe (‘Prospero’) was staying with the Pirie-Gordons in Wales during 1906, but was rewritten with a new ending and many changes after Rolfe moved to Venice and quarrelled with Item 181 his English friends. $125 178. Roy (Arundhati) THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS. Pp. [xii]+340; dust wrapper; Flamingo, 1997. First U.K. edition. *The Indian author’s first novel; winner of the 1997 Man Booker Prize. $150 179. Ruiz Zafon (Carlos) THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. Pp. [vi]+488, marbled endpapers; med. 8vo; two- tone papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; Penguin Press, New York, 2004. First U.S. edition. *Signed by the author at foot of title page. Winner of the Barry Award for best first novel. The translator, Lucia Graves, is the daughter of Robert Graves. $250 180. Sackville-West (Vita) NURSERY RHYMES. Pp. [vi]+66+[4](blank, colophon), the title, one decorative initial and publisher’s device at colophon printed in red; tall cr. 4to; blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; the fore and bottom edges uncut, partly unopened; dust wrapper, the backstrip browned, edges slightly chipped; The Dropmore Press, 1947. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies. $800 181. Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) THE LITTLE PRINCE. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Pp. 94, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white; f’cap. 4to; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full terracotta Item 179 morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in black with 2 raised bands, upper board lettered and decorated in black with a vignette of the Little Prince, turn-ins with double black rule; a.e.g.; dark green endpapers; occasional slight soiling; Reynal & Hitchock, New York, 1943. First edition. *Although the original manuscript was written in French, the American edition preceded both the French and English editions. $3,600 182. Salinger (J. D.) THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Pp. [vi]+278(last blank); bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full red morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with single gilt rule border and edges, gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g.; dark green endpapers; Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1951. First edition. $5,750 183. Schiller (Friedrich) THE FIGHT WITH THE DRAGON. A romance. With a translation by J. P. Collier. Illustrated with sixteen engravings in outline by Henry Moses, from the designs of Retsch. [Text in German and English]. Pp. 32(last colophon)+16 engraved plates with blank interleaves; med. 4to; nineteenth century dark green morocco, the boards featuring a hand-painted coloured floral border incorporating leafy sprays and dragons, all within single gilt rule, gilt edges, neatly rebacked, with the original gilt lettered and ruled backstrip laid on, the boards slightly marked and rubbed, corners a trifle bruised; a.e.g.; hinges strengthened, early inscription (partially removed) on upper free endpaper, scattered light foxing and Item 183 occasional slight soiling; Septimus Prowett, 1825. *An unusual and attractive binding. $2,500
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184. [Scott (Sir Walter)] KENILWORTH; A Romance. By the author of “Waverley”, “Ivanhoe”, &c. In three volumes. Pp. [iv]+320+[iv]+340(last blank)+[iv]+348; early half dark brown calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt lettered light tan morocco title labels, original drab papered boards, slightly soiled and worn; marbled edges; hinges cracking, binder’s blind stamp at head of upper pastedowns, a few leaves faintly creased, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Constable, Edinburgh, 1821. First edition, second state (with ‘ha-ving’ split over lines 16 & 17 on p. 338 in Volume II). Todd & Bowden 149Aa. $750 185. Scott. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. A Poem. Illustrated with engravings from the designs of Richd. Westall Esq. R.A. Pp. [viii]+434(last blank), engraved vignette title page and 6 plates, notes; contemporary diced calf, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments, boards with decorative gilt border, lightly rubbed, corners a trifle worn, the joints starting; upper hinge cracking, name in ink below an earlier signature on the upper free endpaper, the plates offset, small blind indentation or scratch mark to fore-edge margin of a few leaves, occasioal slight soiling and creasing, scattered foxing; John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810[1811]. Seventh edition. Todd & Bowden 47Ak. *The first edition with these illustrations. Richard Item 184 Westall (1765–1836) was Queen Victoria’s drawing master. Best known for his portraits of Byron, Westall illustrated numerous books, including works by Scott, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Thomas Gray, Shakespeare and Milton. $250 186. Scott. QUENTIN DURWARD. Pp. xl+480, frontispiece plus 15 plates, notes, glossary; qr. vellum, a trifle soiled, decorated in gilt and blue with a floral motif, gilt lettered shield-shaped brown leather title label, brown cloth boards, corners a trifle rubbed; t.e.g.; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Henry Frowde, 1907. $175 187. Sebold (Alice) THE LOVELY BONES. Pp. [iv]+330(last blank); spine faintly creased; dust wrapper; Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 2002. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. The basis for the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, and Susan Sarandon. $250 188. Seth (Vikram) A SUITABLE BOY. Pp. [xviii]+1350(last blank); qr. tan leather, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards; leaves lightly browned, fore-edge of a few leaves lightly bruised or foxed, Sixth Chamber Press, 1993. Limited edition, being number 87 of 100 copies, signed by the author. *The limited edition was published in advance of the trade edition on 23rd March, 1993. Winner of the 1994 WH Smith Literary Award. $500 Item 186 189. Shaw (George Bernard) PRINTED CARD, with autograph annotation, initialled and dated 24 June, 1935; opposite a coloured caricature of Shaw by Bernard Partridge; both items within a single mount, glazed and framed, with authentication label on reverse. *The printed text on the card details Shaw’s reluctance to engage in public speaking, and his annotation continues the theme: ‘What on earth put it into your partner’s head that I am an authority on automobile engineering? Anyhow I am too old now for those games’. Bernard Partridge (1861–1945) worked for Punch for over 50 years, producing political and humorous cartoons and theatrical caricatures. Early in his career Partridge also worked as an actor, using the name Bernard Gould, and in 1894 he appeared in the first production of Shaw’s Arms and the Man at London’s Avenue Theatre. $750 190. Sitwell (Edith) CLOWN’S HOUSES. Pp. 40(last 3 advertisements), decorative initials and tailpiece; russet floral patterned stiff paper wrappers, printed paper title labels on backstrip and upper wrapper, label on backstrip slightly split at edges, the wrappers a trifle soiled, edges lightly creased; uncut; Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1918. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Initiate Series of Poetry by Proved Hands, No. 5. Fifoot EA3. *The author’s third book. $350 Item 188 191. Sitwell. FIVE POEMS. Pp. [viii]+22(last colophon); impl. 8vo; gilt lettered navy buckram, edges slightly flecked; uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, the edges rubbed and split, with a couple of small tears; free endpapers offset, the outer leaves faintly foxed and soiled; Duckworth, 1928. *Edition limited to 275 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper, signed by the author. Fifoot EA17. $350 192. Sitwell. FIVE VARIATIONS ON A THEME. Pp. [vi]+38; mottled grey papered boards, lettered in red, with thin 2 cm. chip to lower joint below top edge; price-clipped dust wrapper, the backstrip faintly browned; Royal Society of Literature 1933 Medal winner wrap-around, also slightly browned and a trifle split; Duckworth, 1933. First edition. Fifoot EA26. $95 193. Sitwell. THE MOTHER AND OTHER POEMS. Pp. 20(last blank); dark grey printed paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, edges a trifle creased and split; uncut; printed for the author by B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1915. First edition. Fifoot EA1; Hayward, English Poetry, #329. *Sitwell’s first book. Of the 500 copies printed, almost half are believed to have been pulped by the printers during the 1920s. $2,000 194. Sitwell. POEM FOR A CHRISTMAS CARD. [Cover title: CHRISTMAS GREETINGS]. Single quarto sheet, folded to form 4 French-folded pages, with a full page poem by Sitwell and 3 coloured illustrations (1 full page) by Albert Rutherston; a trifle soiled, the bottom fore-corner of last page lightly creased; The Item 193 Fleuron Limited, n.d.[1926]. First edition, being number 57 of 210 copies (200 for sale) on Japanese vellum, signed by the author and artist. Fifoot EA14a. *Albert Rutherston had previously illustrated Poor Young People for the Sitwell siblings. Born Albert Daniel Rothenstein (he changed his surname during the First World War), he was a friend of Augustus John, William Orpen and Claude Lovat Fraser. $500 195. Sitwell. THE SHADOW OF CAIN. Pp. 22, notes; pale green papered boards, corners a trifle bruised; price- clipped dust wrapper, lightly silverfished (slightly affecting letterpress on front panel); endpapers faintly offset; John Lehmann, 1947. First edition. Fifoot EA40. *Printed at the Caxton Press, New Zealand. $75 196. Sitwell. TROY PARK. Pp. 104(last notes); black cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in orange/red, a trifle rubbed, the lower joint starting; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, with diamond shaped price-clip towards foot of backstrip, the backstrip heavily faded and lightly creased, edges a trifle rubbed and split; free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; Duckworth, 1925. First edition. Fifoot EA9. $95
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Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 19 197. Sitwell & Osbert Sitwell. TWENTIETH CENTURY HARLEQUINADE AND OTHER POEMS. Pp. 28(last advertisement), printed pink paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, backstrip faded, edges lightly rubbed and split; uncut; Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1916. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Fifoot EA2 and OA1. *Edith Sitwell’s second publication and Osbert’s first. Contains ten poems, 7 by Edith and 3 by her brother. The final page contains reviews of Sitwell’s first book, The Mother and Other Poems. $300 198. Sitwell (Osbert) COLLECTED STORIES. Pp. xviii+542(last blank); bottom edge of boards a trifle shelf worn; top edges black; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed and soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, publisher’s Overseas Library stamp on front flap; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Duckworth/Macmillan, 1953. First edition, colonial issue. Fifoot OA51a. $80 199. Sitwell. LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND. An autobiography. In five volumes, comprising: 1. Left Hand, Right Hand; 2. The Scarlet Tree; 3. Great Morning; 4. Laughter in the Next Room. 5. Noble Essences, or courteous revelations. Totalling over 1600 pages, 115 plates, hand-print-patterned endpapers, folding family tree (Volume I), appendices, indices; red/orange cloth, spines blocked in black and lettered in gilt, occasionally Item 198 a trifle marked, a couple of corners lightly bruised; top edges black; price-clipped dust wrappers, slightly soiled, backstrips browned, edges lightly rubbed and split, small piece torn from foot of backstrip first volume, Overseas Library stamp on front or back flap of last three volumes, plus Overseas Library wrap- around (slightly torn) on the final volume; bookseller’s sticker on verso of upper free endpaper last volume, very occasional light foxing; Macmillan, 1945–1950. Volumes I–IV first U.K. editions, Volume V first edition. Fifoot OA34b, 38b, 40b, 42b, 48a. *Volumes I to IV were published first in America. $300 200. Sitwell. MIRACLE ON SINAI. A satirical novel. Pp. 382+[2]; dust wrapper; free endpapers very slightly browned, with review cutting laid on lower free endpaper, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Duckworth, 1933. First edition. Fifoot OA23a. $150 201. Skelton (John) THE TUNNING OF ELYNOUR RUMMING. With decorations from drawings in colour and line by Pearl Binder. Pp. 48, illustrated in colour and black & white; impl. 8vo; natural sacking cloth over boards, stencilled with large “XXX” and a small tankard device on the upper board, printed title label on spine (torn, and lacking the last 4 letters of the title), the cloth (as often) slightly bubbled; uncut; former owner’s small label at foot of upper pastedown, the free endpapers heavily offset, some faint offsetting from the coloured illustrations, a little light foxing; Fanfrolico Press, 1928. First edition thus, limited to Item 201 550 numbered copies. Arnold 27. *Jack Lindsay suggested publishing this poem as a first step towards a complete Skelton, after a visit from Pearl Binder, who called in one day with a portfolio of her drawings. The tankard on the upper board is a reference to the text: Elynour Rumming is an alewife. $175 202. Smith (Dodie) THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS. Illustrated by Janet and Anne Grahame- Johnstone. Pp. [vi]+192(last blank), illustrated (some full page), with the original pictorial endpapers bound in at front and back, several decorative initials; bound by The Chelsea Bindery in white morocco with onlaid black morocco patches in the style of a Dalmatian’s coat, the spine lettered in gilt; a.e.g.; a little faint foxing; Heinemann, 1956. First edition. *The novel was the basis for two popular Disney films, released in 1961 and 1996 respectively. $3,000 203. Stephens (James) COLLECTED POEMS. Pp. [ii](limitation page)+xxii+260; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, blue/grey papered boards, corners a trifle worn, the bottom fore-corner of lower board fractured; uncut; dust wrapper, soiled and worn, the edges chipped and split, with large portion missing from bottom edge of front panel; endpapers a trifle foxed, occasional slight soiling; Macmillan, 1954. First collected edition. One of 500 large paper copies, signed by the author. $350 Item 202 204. Stephens. GREEN BRANCHES. Pp. 20(last colophon); f’cap. 4to; printed brown paper wrappers, stabbed & tied, the upper wrapper lettered and decorated in dark green, edges a trifle creased; fore and bottom edges uncut; Maunsel, Dublin, 1916. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. *Three poems: Autumn 1915, Spring 1916, and Joy be with us. $180 205. Stoppard (Tom) ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Pp. 96; printed paper wrappers, lightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed; occasional slight soiling;Faber & Faber, 1967. First U.K. edition, paperback. *Originally staged at the 1966 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Stoppard’s famous play debuted in London with a National Theatre production at the Old Vic in 1967. It was later adapted into a film released in 1990, with screenplay and direction also by Stoppard. $250 206. Stuart (Francis) BLACK LIST/Section H. With a Preface and Postscript by Harry T. Moore. Pp. [x]+442; boards slightly spotted; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed, edges lightly rubbed and split; endpapers slightly faded, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1971. First edition. *Autobiographical novel, described by the author as ‘an imaginative fiction in which only real people appear, and under their actual names, where possible’ [wrapper blurb]. $150 Item 207 207. Swinburne (Algernon Charles) LAUS VENERIS. Engravings by John Buckland-Wright. Pp. 30(last colophon), frontispiece, pictorial title page, and 9 illustrations (3 full page); roy. 8vo; qr. maroon canvas, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the spine cloth slightly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; neat inked signature on upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. One of 650 numbered copies thus, of a total edition of 750. Cockalorum 178; Reid A48b. $150 208. Tan (Amy) THE JOY LUCK CLUB. Pp. 288; two-tone green papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle faded; dust wrapper, creased tear from top edge into front panel, the front flap slightly creased; text block faintly browned, tiny split or crease to top edge of a couple of pages; G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1989. First edition, with the dust wrapper in the first state, showing the Canadian price of $26.50. *The author’s first book, filmed in 1993. $150 209. Thackeray (William Makepeace) THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS. His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author. In two volumes. Pp. viii+384+xii+372, engraved vignette titles, plus a total of 46 plates, numerous text illustrations including pictorial head & tailpieces; rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown morocco, spines lettered in gilt between raised bands, light brown cloth boards; t.e.g., others uncut; later marbled endpapers and binder’s Item 208 blanks; early inked annotation (apposite to text) at foot of p. 184 Volume I, most of the illustrations lightly
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offset, scattered light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Bradbury & Evans, 1849–1850. First edition in book form. Shepherd 99; Wolff 6693. *Originally issued in 23 monthly parts (nos. 23 & 24 being a double number), from November 1848 to December 1850. $750 210. Theroux (Paul) JUNGLE LOVERS. Pp. 318; dust wrapper, the bottom edge of lower flap slightly ragged; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Bodley Head, 1971. First British edition. $350 211. Thomas (Edward) THE COUNTRY. Pp. [ii]+62(last colophon, verso blank), title and text decorations; dark blue/grey cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards a trifle warped, spine lightly faded; t.e.g.; ribbon marker; outer leaves lightly foxed, hinge tender towards centre; Batsford, 1913. First edition. Fellowship Books series. Eckert, pp. 228/9. *The Fellowship series, edited by Mary Stratton, also included Divine Discontent, by Thomas’s admirer James Guthrie, the proprietor of the Pear Tree Press. The Prance copy, with his small book label (from Malta) and pencilled signature on upper pastedown. $125 212. Thomas. AN ANNUAL OF NEW POETRY. Pp. viii+158(last colophon); brown papered boards, lettered in red, the lower joint split at head, with small closed tear starting across into spine; uncut; free endpapers Item 210 offset, a little light foxing;Constable, 1917. Eckert, p. 259. *Contains 18 poems by Thomas (under the name Edward Eastaway), several of which had not previously been published. Also includes poetry by W. H. Davies, John Drinkwater, and Robert Frost. The Prance copy, with his small Malta book label on the upper pastedown, plus his pencilled signature on upper free endpaper. $1,500 213. Thompson (Hunter S.) FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. A strange journey to the heart of the American dream. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Pp. [x]+206, pictorial double title page, text illustrations (some full or double page); bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full black morocco, spine lettered in silver, upper board illustrated in blind (based on the Ralph Steadman illustration on p. 78), with silver ruled turn- ins; all edges silver; black endpapers; Random House, New York, 1971[1972]. First edition in book form. *The prime example of gonzo journalism. Originally published in two parts in Rolling Stone magazine in November 1971, and later adapted into a 1998 film starring Johnny Depp. The copyright date on the title page verso is 1971, but the book was actually not published until 1972. $2,500 214. Thomson, Hugh: CORIDON’S SONG and other verses from various sources. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson and an Introduction by Austin Dobson. Pp. xxxii+164(last blank), frontispiece with tissue guard (which is creased and torn), numerous text illustrations (several full page) and decorations; pictorial dark Item 213 green cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt, a trifle canted, the upper board faintly marked; a.e.g.; small split near centre of upper hinge, a little light foxing; Macmillan, 1894. First edition thus, superior binding. *From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his Canberra book label on verso of upper free endpaper. This copy is stamped Presentation copy in blind at foot of title page. The illustrations had previously appeared in the English Illustrated Magazine. The text includes extracts from Walton’s Compleat Angler. $175 215. Thomson: Barrie (J. M.) QUALITY STREET. A comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Pp. [ii]+viii+198+[2](colophon, blank), 22 hand-tipped coloured plates within tinted borders and with lettered pictorial guards, black & white pictorial title page and text illustrations, pictorial endpapers; tall post 4to; purple cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, a trifle foxed, the spine slightly faded, edges lightly rubbed; hinges starting, bookplate on verso of upper free endpaper, outer leaves and edges foxed, occasional slight soiling; Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.[1913]. First trade edition. Spielmann & Jerrold 55. *This copy extra illustrated, with a full page black & white photographic portrait of J. M. Barrie by Leslie Brooke tipped-in between the half-title and frontispiece. $450 216. Thomson: Mitford (Mary Russell) OUR VILLAGE. With an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie Item 214 and one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Pp. lx+256, frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous text illustrations (several full page); dark green cloth, printed paper title label (slightly soiled and worn) on spine, the boards lightly marked and rubbed; uncut; bookplate (laid over earlier bookplate or label) on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, lower hinge starting, some light foxing; Macmillan, 1893. First edition thus, plain binding. [Spielmann & Jerrold 10]. $150 217. Thomson: Somerville (William) THE CHASE. Reprinted from the original edition of 1735, with a memoir of the author. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Pp. xxiv+88, frontispiece with tissue guard (which is lightly creased), plus 8 plates, facsimile title page, text decorations; small cr. 4to; navy pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, tiny bump to top edge centre of both boards, small ink spot near fore-edge of lower board; t.e.g.; bookplate on upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing; Redway, 1896. First edition thus. Spielmann & Jerrold 19. $250 218. Thomson (James) THE SEASONS. A new edition. Adorned with plates. Pp. xxiv+262+[2](advertisement, colophon), engraved frontispiece plus 6 plates; med. 8vo; bound by Hering in dark green straight grain morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between five raised bands, boards with decorative gilt border and edges, the boards slightly scuffed and marked, edges and corners lightly worn, with 2 small Item 215 scars to gilt border at bottom edge of upper board, rebacked, with the original spine laid on, the joints very neatly repaired; a.e.g.; dentelles decorated in gilt, pale green moire silk endpapers with decorative gilt border, and the original owner’s name (a Miss Bird) in gilt at centre of upper pastedown, binder’s ticket on verso of upper free endpaper, later owner’s bookplate on blank preliminary leaf, a little light foxing, occasional slight soiling and creasing; printed by T. Bensley for F. J. Du Roveray, 1802. Lowndes, p. 2671. *Winter, the first poem in James Thomson’s famousSeasons sequence was originally published in 1726; quickly followed by Summer (1727), Spring (1728) and finally Autumn in 1730, when the set of four was published together as The Seasons. The plates in this edition are by William Hamilton (4), H. Fuseli (2) and E. F. Burney. The binder, Charles Hering, was one of the most distinguished English bookbinders of the early nineteenth century. $750 219. Thurber (James)THURBER COUNTRY. A new collection of pieces about males and females mainly of our own species. Pp. 238, title page vignette and text illustrations by the author; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers slightly offset, some spots of foxing; Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First U.K. edition. Bowden A20b. *The text is the same as the U.S. edition, but with spelling changes to conform to British conventions, and containing one extra drawing, and a minor change to the illustration of a telephone on p. 131. $125 Item 219
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 21 220. Trollope (Anthony) CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? With illustrations. In two volumes. Pp. [viii]+320+viii+320, 39 [of 40] plates (including frontispiece both volumes—lacking the plate opposite p. 194 in Volume II); grey papered boards, with printed paper title label on spines, joints starting and corners worn both volumes; all edges sprinkled red; a little light foxing and soiling, plus a few slight damp stains to plate margins, a few of the plates with pencilled page numbers (instructions for binder), occasional small edge splits or chips; Chapman & Hall, 1864–1865. First edition, bound from the parts?, without advertisements, but with stab holes occasionally visible. Sadleir 19. *Inscribed (probably by the publisher’s clerk on Trollope’s behalf): With kind regards from the Author at head of title page. The first of the ‘Palliser’ series,Can You Forgive Her? originally appeared in twenty shilling parts, published monthly from January 1864 to August 1865, with the title pages dated differently (Volume I 1864, Volume II 1865), and the preliminary pages for subsequent book-issue included in parts X and XX. The first ten parts were illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (‘Phiz’), the others by a Miss Taylor. $1,500 221. Trollope (Mrs [Frances]) JESSIE PHILLIPS. A tale of the present day. Pp. viii+352, engraved frontispiece Item 220 portrait [by J. Browne] with tissue guard, plus 11 plates by John Leech; red cloth, boards decorated in blind, slightly soiled, corners a trifle bruised, rebacked, with all but the extremities of the original gilt lettered and decorated spine laid down; top edges uncut, a few leaves carelessly opened; hinges strengthened, bookplate of German artist Fritz Reiss (1857–1915) on upper pastedown, plus his inked signature (dated 1883) on the upper free endpaper, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling, a few small edge chips or splits; Henry Colburn, 1844. First book edition in one volume, variant cloth. Sadleir 3223b [calling for sage green cloth]; Wolff 6814a. *Lacking the sixteen pages of advertisements at end called for by Wolff. Originally published in three volumes in 1843. Wolff notes that the sub-title of the book edition differs from that of the parts edition (which was sub-titled ‘A tale of the new poor-law’). He adds that ‘There may well be some significance in this deliberate broadening of the social attack away from the enactment toward conditions generally’. $1,800 222. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de) CANDIDE, ou L’Optimisme. Aquarelles de Dubout. [Text in French]. Pp. 196(including the upper endpapers), illustrated in colour throughout; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds, faintly foxed; uncut and partly unopened; original glassine wrapper, with small chip at foot of backstrip; within card slipcase, which is slightly faded; Editions Du Demi-Jour, Paris, 1957. *The striking pochoir illustrations were hand coloured at the studio of Edmond Vairel. French cartoonist, Item 222 painter and sculptor Albert Dubout (1905–1976) illustrated many books, including works by Mérimée, Rabelais, Villon, Cervantes, Balzac, Racine, Voltaire, Rostand, and Poe. $125 223. Wells (H. G.) THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND. 1939. With engravings by Clifford Webb. Introduction by the author. Pp. 68, frontispiece, plus 2 full page illustrations, pictorial head and tailpieces, large cockerel device on title page, appendix; narrow cr. 4to; qr. orange vellum, spine lettered in gilt, brown cloth boards, the spine faintly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; ribbon marker; tiny surface chip to upper pastedown, neat inked signature on upper free endpaper, a little light foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. Edition limited to 280 numbered copies; this one of 250 thus bound. Pertelote 142. *Short story, ‘rewritten and incomparably improved by its author after twenty years’ [Pertelote]. The Appendix contains the 1904 version of the text, for comparison. $400 224. Whitfield (Christopher) LADY FROM YESTERDAY. Pp. 70+[2](colophon, blank), title page vignette and 5 full page wood-engravings by Lettice Sandford; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; t.e.g.; dust wrapper, edges and backstrip slightly faded; free endpapers faintly offset; Golden Cockerel Press, London 1939. Unlimited edition. Pertelote143. $150 Item 223 225. Whitfield.TOGETHER AND ALONE. Two short novels. With engravings by John O’Connor. Pp. 110(last colophon), title page vignette plus 9 pictorial headpieces; roy. 8vo; qr. white canvas, spine lettered in gilt, marbled cloth boards, edges a trifle faded and corners lightly bruised, the canvas slightly soiled; t.e.g., others uncut; endpapers slightly offset, occasional light foxing; Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. One of 400 numbered copies thus, of a total edition of 500. Cockalorum 165. $250 226. Whittier (John Greenleaf) IN WAR TIME AND OTHER POEMS. Pp. 152+22(advertisements, dated November 1863), head & tailpiece decorations; textured purple cloth, quite faded, the spine lettered and decorated in red & gilt, boards decorated in blind, lightly rubbed, the spine slightly chipped at extremities; t.e.g.; brown endpapers; upper hinge resewn, inscription dated Christmas 1863 on blank preliminary leaf, small ink mark to fore-edge of a couple of leaves; Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1864[1863?]. First edition. [BAL 21846]. $350 227. Williamson (Henry) A CHRONICLE OF ANCIENT SUNLIGHT. Complete in fifteen volumes, comprising: The Dark Lantern; Donkey Boy; Young Phillip Maddison; How Dear is Life; A Fox Under My Cloak; The Golden Virgin; Love and the Loveless; A Test to Destruction; The Innocent Moon; It was the Nightingale; The Power of the Dead; The Phoenix Generation; A Solitary War; Lucifer Before Item 226 Sunrise; The Gale of the World. Totalling just over 6,000 pages, all with Williamson’s owl device as tailpiece, advertisements in some volumes; mostly red cloth, 2 black, 2 green, 1 blue (boards slightly mottled), and 1 beige, all spines lettered in gilt, tiny bruise to bottom edge of lower board Volume 6; dust wrappers, all but 3 price-clipped, Volume 6 with Daily Mail Book of the Month wrap-around, occasionally a trifle soiled, edges sometimes lightly rubbed and split, Volume 6 lightly and Volume 12 heavily silverfished; minor production (trimming) fault in Volume 8 causing a long closed tear (now repaired with archival tape) from fore- edge pp. 275/6, bookseller’s sticker at foot of most upper pastedowns, several of the free endpapers faintly offset, a couple of tiny edge chips, occasional slight creasing, a little light foxing; Macdonald, 1951–1969. First editions. *Williamson’s major novel sequence; the semi-autobiographical story of the life of Phillip Maddison. $1,500 228. Williamson. A CLEAR WATER STREAM. Pp. 230(last blank), tailpiece decoration (Williamson’s owl device, which was his characteristic signature); blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in white, edges a trifle rubbed, with light bruise to bottom edge of upper board; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle foxed, edges slightly rubbed and split, the edges and backstrip faintly faded; bookseller’s sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the upper free endpaper a trifle soiled, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Faber & Faber, 1958. First Item 227 edition. $75
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229. Williamson. THE FLAX OF DREAM. A Novel in Four Books. Pp. 1416, correction slip tipped-in at front; blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the bottom fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges chipped and split, with small piece torn from front panel near third word of title; text block faintly browned, minor production (trimming) fault to fore-edge pp. 769/770, a little light foxing; Faber & Faber, 1936. First edition thus. *Originally published between 1921–1928 as four separate novels (The Beautiful Years; Dandelion Days; The Dream of Fair Women; and The Pathway), this one volume edition contains the author’s final revisions, and is considered to be the definitive edition. $60 230. Wilson (Angus) ANGLO-SAXON ATTITUDES. Pp. x+412; price-clipped dust wrapper, with Book Society imprint on front flap, worn and lightly soiled, the edges chipped and torn, with several tape repairs on reverse; bookseller’s small stamp on upper free endpaper, short closed tear to fore-edge pp. 53/4, a little light foxing, pages faintly browned; Secker & Warburg, 1956. First edition. *The dust wrapper illustration is by Ronald Searle. $45 231. Wilson. THE MIDDLE AGE OF MRS. ELIOT. Pp. 430; bottom fore-corner of upper board and top fore- corner of lower board bumped; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip browned, Item 231 outer leaves and edges foxed, pages slightly browned; Secker & Warburg, 1958. First edition. *Signed twice by the author (on upper free endpaper and title page, both dated June 1959). $250 232. Woolf (Virginia) FLUSH. A Biography. [Serialized in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 152, numbers 1–4, July to October 1933]. Pp. 512(continuously paginated), plus numerous advertisements (several pictorial), with Flush comprising pp. 1–12, 163–256, 326–337, and 439–453; med. 8vo; orange pictorial paper wrappers, with 3 holes punched near backstrips (for filing in folder?), lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips; fore-edges uncut; a couple of minor pencilled annotations, a few small edge chips or splits, occasional light foxing, soiling and creasing; The Atlantic Monthly Company, Boston, 1933. First edition, parts 1 to 3 preceding the book publication. Kirkpatrick C338. *The final installment of Flush appeared in the October issue of the magazine, and the book was published in Britain and the United States on 5 October. These issues also include work by Gertrude Stein (from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) and, D. H. Lawrence (Christs in the Tirol), plus an article about Hitler’s Mein Kampf by toxicology pioneer Alice Hamilton. In the Contributors’ Column, Virginia Woolf is described as ‘an accomplished swimmer in those deep waters that swirl and eddy in the stream of consciousness’. $750 233. Woolf. MONDAY OR TUESDAY. With woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Pp. 92(last blank)+[2](advertisement, Item 233 verso blank), 4 full page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell; cloth backed white papered boards, the upper board printed in black with a design by Vanessa Bell, spine cloth a trifle flecked, upper board slightly rubbed, the lower board faintly soiled and very slightly silverfished near top edge; free endpapers faintly browned, a couple of spots of pale foxing and a little soiling (mainly offsetting from the woodcuts); The Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1921. First edition. Kirkpatrick A5a; Woolmer 17. *Eight short stories, all but two (The Mark on the Wall and Kew Gardens) previously unpublished: A Haunted House; A Society; Monday or Tuesday; An Unwritten Novel; The String Quartet; Blue and Green; Kew Gardens; and The Mark on the Wall. $3,500 234. Wordsworth (William) THE RECLUSE. Pp. [vi]+56; f’cap. 8vo; dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the cloth a trifle marked and rubbed; uncut; armorial bookplate (of the Marquis Penderel Di Boscobel) on the upper pastedown, a little light foxing and faint offsetting; Macmillan, 1888. First edition. *From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label at head of upper pastedown, plus his pencilled signature on the upper free endpaper. The title page is stamped ‘With the publishers’ compliments’. $550 235. Wren (Percival Christopher) BEAU GESTE. With illustrations by Helen McKie. Pp. [xii]+580(last blank)+[4] (music & lyrics to Song of the Legion, dated 1926, the theme for the Paramount Pictures film of the book), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 20 hand-tipped plates (4 coloured, on brown card), lettered Item 235 guards, 9 headpiece illustrations, the title page printed in red & black; thick med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, with printed paper title label on spine, light blue buckram boards, the spine cloth slightly spotted; t.e.g., others uncut; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with a few small chips, the backstrip quite discoloured and torn; upper hinge starting, pp. 36/7 browned at upper margin near hinge, outer leaves and edges foxed; Murray, 1927. De luxe edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. *Presentation copy, with the author’s armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown; the bookplate inscribed and signed by Wren and his new wife, Isabel, ‘With love to Madge & Peter’. Isabel was P. C. Wren’s second wife, and had previously been married to Cyril Graham Smith, a civil engineer with the Indian educational service at Poona. In 1927 Smith filed for divorce, citing Wren as co-respondent. ‘Madge & Peter’ were Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Parkes. (Alfred Herbert Parkes, who disliked his baptismal name, was customarily called ‘Peter’ by family and friends). The Parkes met the Wrens on a cruise, probably in 1927, and began a long-standing friendship. This copy of Beau Geste, Wren’s most famous book, is the first of many volumes the author presented to the family over the years—usually to their son Francis Patrick, who was Wren’s godson. $1,500 236. Wren. EXPLOSION. Pp. 464+[4](advertisements); gilt lettered red cloth, tiny spot near bottom fore- corner of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a few small tears; Item 236 free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; John Murray, 1935. First edition. *Presentation copy, with the author’s armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown; the bookplate inscribed by Wren in ink ‘To Francis Patrick (Parkes) from Percival Christopher (Wren)’. $500 237. Wren. SPANISH MAINE. Pp. 320; gilt lettered red cloth, lightly bruised at head of spine, the lower board cloth slightly creased just below top edge; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and damp stained, the edges chipped and split; slight bleeding of cloth colour to top edge of lower pastedown, a little light foxing and browning; John Murray, 1935. First edition. *Presentation copy, with the author’s armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown; the bookplate inscribed by Wren in ink ‘To Francis Patrick [Parkes] from Percival Christopher with every good wish’. A sequel to Beau Ideal, telling the further history of Otis Vanbrugh. $800 238. Wren. TWO SIGNED LETTERS, an INSCRIBED FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH and a STERLING SILVER CHRISTENING MUG. Four items, comprising: 1. A four page autograph letter, dated 1.9.34, on the printed octavo letterhead of The Golfview Hotel, Nairn, Scotland, horizontally creased from folding. The letter is addressed to ‘My dear Madge’ [Mrs. A. H. Parkes], and reads in part: ‘I am so glad that “Beggars’ Horses” whiled away a few hours for you. Yes - it was a nice murder. (I knew how to do it beautifully). I have written two since that - “Sinbad the Soldier” & “Spanish Maine”, & am writing an Indian one “Explosions”. Item 237
Available items, with images, can be viewed on our website — kaycraddock.com 23 I’ll send you early copies’. Much of the letter is to do with health—of both Mrs. Parkes and Wren, including a description of the author’s ongoing heart problems: ‘I go quite unconscious & turn blue & make a lot of trouble when the attacks come’. The letter is signed affectionately ‘Bestest love, (Isabel hasn’t really got it quite all), Christopher’. 2. A typescript letter, signed and with brief handwritten annotations, on the author’s narrow cr. 4to letterhead, dated 15th June 1935, lightly creased from folding into four. This letter is also to Mrs. Parkes, thanking her for sending a portrait of her son Francis Patrick, who was Wren’s god-child. It contains mainly domestic news: mention of a recent cruise; the sale of the Wrens’ cottage at Beaconsfield, and the probable purchase of a new home at Farnham Common; plus a brief reference to Wren’s latest book, Bubble Reputation. The letter is signed ‘devotedly, P. C. Wren* (*or Christopher, of course)’, and a postscript explains ‘You will excuse the typewriting, won’t you. My right hand is out of action again’. 3. A signed photograph of Wren, mounted and framed, inscribed on the reverse ‘To Francis Patrick from his God-Pa’. (A rectangular section has been cut from the back of the frame, so that the inscription is visible). 4. A sterling silver christening mug, hallmarked [Adie Bros. Ltd., Birmingham, 1930], with the engraved inscription ‘Francis Patrick Parkes with every good wish from his godparents Isabel and P. C. Wren. Item 238 March 26th 1932’. In form, the mug is 11cm. high, and 9 cm. wide at the lip; a plain baluster shape onto a circular spreading foot, with a leaf decorated scroll handle. *All items are from the collection of [Francis] Patrick Parkes. The long-standing friendship between the Parkes family and the Wrens began when the two couples met on a cruise, probably in 1927, around the time of Wren’s second marriage. Isabel, who is also mentioned in both letters, was P. C. Wren’s second wife, and had previously been married to Cyril Graham Smith, a civil engineer with the Indian Education Service at Poona. Wren sent presentation copies of many of his books over the years, initially to Mr. & Mrs. Parkes, afterwards to their son, all signed and/ or with affectionate inscriptions from the author. P. C. Wren was quite reserved about his personal life, and few photographs of him are extant. The one he sent framed to his god-son differs very slightly from that featured in those of his books which contained an author’s portrait. Like the ‘official’ publicity photograph, the framed portrait shows him in regimental dress, with the shoulder crown denoting the rank of Major, but with the addition of a monocle over his left eye. The uniform could be that of the Poona Volunteer Rifles, which Wren joined while he was working for the Indian Education Service, although he did not rise higher in the ranks than Captain. (It is generally accepted that after he became a successful author Wren exaggerated his military experiences, particularly his unsubstantiated claim to have served in the French Foreign Legion). Together, 4 items: $5,000 Item 239 239. Yeats (W. B.) FOUR PLAYS FOR DANCERS. Pp. xii+138+[2](advertisement, verso blank), frontispiece and 6 text illustrations (3 full page), music scores; f’cap. 4to; qr. black cloth with printed paper title label on spine, pictorial papered boards (designed by T. Sturge Moore), fore-corners lightly worn, bottom edges slightly browned, the lower board faintly marked; endpapers lightly offset, the title page very faintly marked, short split to fore-edge pp. 113/4, a couple of spots of foxing; Macmillan, 1921. First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Wade 129; White 25. *Four of Yeats’s mystical chamber plays, inspired by Japanese Noh theatre, with the author’s notes on each play. The illustrations are photographs of Edmund Dulac’s scenery, masks and costume designs for the first play, At the Hawk’s Well, for which Dulac also contributed the musical score and shared the stage management and production duties with Ezra Pound. In the preface, Yeats acknowledges Dulac’s major contribution, stating that ‘[none] of these plays could have existed if Mr. Edmund Dulac had not taught me the value and beauty of the mask and rediscovered how to design and make it’ [p. vii]. The music for The Dreaming of the Bonesis by Walter Morse Rummel (1887–1953), the German pianist and composer who was a friend and leading interpreter of the piano works of Debussey. $350 240. Yeats. A PACKET FOR EZRA POUND. Pp. [iv]+38+[2](colophon, printed in red), title page vignette; qr. natural linen, with printed paper title label on spine, light blue/grey papered boards, upper board printed Item 240 in black, faintly foxed, 2 tiny bruises to bottom edge of lower board; uncut; pastedowns a trifle chipped at bottom edge, the free endpapers offset, a little light foxing; Cuala Press, Dublin, 1929. First edition, limited to 425 copies. Wade 163. *With the date misprinted as MCMXXVIV, as noted by Wade. $500 241. Yeats. THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS. Pp. viii+108; dark blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt with a design by Althea Gyles, the spine gilt dulled, boards a trifle rubbed, corners lightly bruised; uncut; endpapers lightly marked and offset, several pages carelessly opened, resulting in a few mainly small marginal chips and tears, and a long closed tear extending from bottom edge into last line of text pp. 77/8, small damp spot to top edge pp. 35/6, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Elkin Matthews, 1899. First edition. Wade 27. *This copy with no errata slip, so probably an early issue (see Wade, p. 48). $900 242. Yeats & Lionel Johnson. POETRY AND IRELAND: Essays. Pp. [ii]+54, printed in red & black, title page decoration; qr. linen, spine lettered by hand in brown, grey papered boards, corners a trifle rubbed, spine cloth slightly faded; uncut; outer blanks lightly offset, a little light foxing; Cuala Press, Dublin, 1908. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Wade 242; Tomkinson 1. *The first book to bear the Cuala imprint (preceded by 11 books published by the Yeats sisters and Evelyn Gleeson with the imprint of the Dun Emer Press). The title page decoration is a woodcut of a girl and tree, by Elinor Monsell, who also designed the Item 242 Abbey Theatre logo. $350 243. Yeats & others. THE BOOK OF THE RHYMERS’ CLUB. Pp. xvi+94, the title page printed in red & black; f’cap. 8vo; light yellow/brown cloth, with printed paper title label on spine, the label and spine both browned, boards a trifle soiled; uncut, and partly unopened; free endpapers faintly offset, pp. 38–40 creased; Elkin Matthews, 1892. First edition, being one of 450 copies thus (350 for sale). Wade 291. *The Rhymers’ Club was a group of London-based poets, founded by Yeats and Ernest Rhys in 1890. Members included Richard Le Gallienne, Ernest Rhys, and Arthur Symons. They met mainly at the Fleet Street pub Cheshire Cheese, and at the Cafe Royal. $750 CONDITIONS OF SALE
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