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1 Achebe (Chinua) Things Fall Apart. Heinemann, 1958, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY FOR FIRST EDITION, a couple of handling marks and a few faint spots occasionally, a couple of passages marked lightly in pencil to the margin, pp. [viii], 185, crown 8vo, original tan wrappers printed to front and backstrip, the front with publication date and price written in blue ink, the stamp of ‘Juta & Co Ltd’ in Cape Town and ‘21 Apr 1958’ (date of sending?) stamped at foot, a few spots to edges, pencilled ownership inscription to half-title (flyleaf not called for), proof dustjacket chipped at head of backstrip panel with spotting to rear panel and rubbing to extremities, Juta & Co stamp at foot of front flap, good $4,380 An important work of post-colonial fiction, set in Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth-century - a scarce proof, the dustjacket of which does not carry the price but otherwise matches the design of the published version. A copy with African provenance, the publisher having offices in Cape Town.

2 (Alembic Press.) Lawson-Hall (Claire) OXFORD DOORS. Illustrated by Muriel Mallows. Marcham, 1997, 38/40 COPIES signed by author and illustrator, illustrated with line drawings, etchings and lino-cuts printed in various colours with predominance of brown dictated by subject, text printed in brown, small faint spot at border of frontispiece, pp. 50, folio, original Coptic gatefold binding of a wood-grain textured Maziarczyk pastepaper boards with asymmetric pages of varying width, edges untrimmed, terracotta cloth solander box, near fine $1,060 The creative binding provides various apertures and folds that allow the nature of doors to be experienced in a tactile manner through the handling of the book, whilst the text provides an insight into their history and purpose - a rewarding sense of exploration and an innovative, and very attractive, way of accessing the city and its colleges.

3 Anderson (Poul) Three Hearts and Three Lions. New York: Doubleday, 1961, FIRST EDITION, a cluster of incredibly faint spots to prelims, pp. 191, 8vo, original red cloth with Edward Gorey lion stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt and black,minor rubbing along tail edge of cloth, faint endpaper browning, top edge red with the roughtrimmed fore-edge faintly spotted, Edward Gorey dustjacket a little nicked at head of backstrip panel, very good $380 A presentation copy: ‘Skål to John Baxter, Poul Anderson’ - the recipient a fellow Science Fiction author and bibliophile. Laid in is a typed letter to another author in the genre, the Dane Jannick Storm. Anderson’s letter, which opens with a stream of Danish, goes on to discuss the Danish translation of the present work, which Storm has related as being ‘faulty’ - a fact of ‘no surprise’ to the author, who continues with a discussion of the possible reasons for its deficiency and then a summary of the standard of translations that he has experienced (’The best [...] have been French. the worst have been German -- except for one very nice Swiss job’. An excellent double-association copy of one of the author’s key works, set partly in the Denmark of the author’s childhood - under the shadow of Nazism - before proceeding to a fantasy world informed by Medieval Romance and Norse Legend, amongst other influences.

4 Anon Deucalion et Pyrrha; ou, Le monde repeuplé, poème très court, moitié pour rire, moitié pour pleurer, à l'usage de tout le monde, et entre autres choses, assez véridique: suivi de traductions, imitations et pièces fugitives échappées à ma jeunesse. A Lanternopolis: Chez A. Parchemin, l'An XXV de mes lunettes, [1800], pp. [iv], [60], [2, engraved music], [1], 8vo, contemporary half calf, Moravian marbled paper infills, loss of surface to spine (?scorched) and slightly defective at head, joints cracked but holding, corners a bit worn, recased, but not recently, a few minor corrections to the text $2,500 This rare book is the subject of the last chapter in Walter Rex’s The Attraction of the Contrary. Essays on the literature of the French Enlightenment, CUP, 1987, in which it is averred that only one copy has come to light, in the Bibliothèque de l’Arsénal: WorldCat adds the Royal Library of Denmark. The history of Lanternopolis is considered, as also the spoof date - a parody of the

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Revolutionary calendar. The spirits of Rabelais and Villon are invoked, later, Nerval and Baudelaire. The poem ‘centers around this overwhelming event [the Terror], and indeed the most interesting way to interpret it is to see the poem as reflecting a kind of trauma, a forcible withdrawal from life which translates into sexual impotence, on the most explicit level, and also, on the other, into an inability to deal with moral issues - another kind of impotence. Naturally such a a statement teems with contradictions, short circuits, and jokes that leave everyone in the dark ... It embodies nothing less than the dissolution of the Classical way of writing poetry ... [it] can be seen as foreshadowing a turning point in the history of literature, that will eventually lead towards the kind of alienation characterising those who used to be called “les petits romantiques.”’ The corrections to the text are little more than the rectification of typos, but in one instance the substitution of ‘goutes’ for ‘moeurs’ is suggestive of authorial intervention (there are no printed errata). The only clue as to authorship comes with the music: ‘Paroles et Musique de C[itoy]en L. M...’

5 (Aragon.) CARROLL (Lewis.) La Chasse au Snark [The Hunting of the Snark.] Une Agonie en Huit Crises. Traduit pour la première fois en français par Aragon. Chapelle- Réanville: Hours Press, 1929, FIRST FRENCH EDITION, ONE OF 350 NUMBERED COPIES (from an edition of 360 copies) signed by the translator, this copy out of series, introductory material printed in red, pp. [vi], 29, 4to, original red boards printed in black, one or two very light handling marks and a little surface bubbling at head of lower board, protective tissue wrapper, very good (Cunard, ‘These Were the Hours’, pp. 40-50) $2,250 A clean, solid copy of this attractively printed book from Nancy Cunard’s Hours Press - a Surrealist take on a poem ripe for that milieu. Aragon’s input extended to the cover design and some assistance with the labour of printing.

6 [Aristotle.) Michael of Ephesus Scholia, idest, brevis sed erudita atque utilis interpretatio in IIII. libros Aristotelis De Partibus Animalium. Dominico Monthesauro Veronensi interprete. Nunc primmùm in lucem edita. Basle: Peter Perna, 1559, FIRST EDITION, woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut initials, Roman and italic letter, pp. 325, [15, including final blank], 8vo, contemporary limp vellum, title inked (twice) to spine, minor staining, tiny hole in spine, inscription to title-page of the convent of Santa Maria Inviolata, Riva del Garda, good (VD16 M 5134; USTC 604075; OCLC locates copies outside continental Europe at Oxford, Cambridge, British Library and Stanford) $3,130 First edition of a commentary by the important 12th-century Byzantine scholar Michael of Ephesus, on Aristotle's work 'On the parts of animals'. Michael was one of the principal Aristotelian scholars in a group organized in Constantinople by the Empress Anna Comnena. They represented an eastern Christian tradition of philosophical study that continued after the fall of Alexandria, its centre, to Arab conquerors in 642. Michael finished his commentaries in or after 1138. The present work was translated into Latin for by Domenico Montesauro, a physician of Verona. Michael's work is followed (201-325) by a version in Latin of book I of the original Aristotle, with facing commentary (presented here in italic), by the Padua philosophy professor Niccolo Leonico Tomeo (1456-1531). Tomeo's work had first been published in an edition of Venice, 1540, with a second edition of Paris, 1542. The printer reports (pp.4-5) that he was encouraged to add this part to his book by the great Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner (1516-1565).

7 (Astronomy.) [Bloxam (Richard Rouse) [Urania’s Mirror, or, a View of the Heavens, consisting of thirty-two cards ... on a plan perfectly original, designed by a Lady [c. 1834], 32 cards engraved by Sydney Hall, some portrait, some landscape, backed with tissue, 200 x 135 mm, contained in the original paper covered box, maroon outside, bright yellow within, slightly worn, the base giving at the corners, good $2,500 Second edition, with stars added. Each card depicts one or more of the constellations with the stars 'perforated according to their relative magnitude' so that they can be held up to the light. They were intended to render the study of astronomy 'familiar and amusing'. Jehoshaphat Aspi’s, A familiar

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treatise on astronomy was written to accompany the cards, but is seldom found with them. The box too has variations. For the authorship see P.D. Hingley, ‘Urania's mirror - a 170-year old mystery solved?', J. Br. Astron. Assoc., 1994, vol. 104, pp. 238-240. Bloxam, (1765–1840), was under-master of Rugby School for thirty-eight years.

8 [Austen (Jane)] Pride and Prejudice: a Novel in Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. Third Edition. Printed for T. Egerton, 1817, 2 vols., bound without half-titles or terminal blanks, some foxing, water-staining in the lower outer quarter of the seconf half of vol. ii, tiny hole in B8 in vol. i between lines 7 and 8 (no loss of text), pp.[ii], 289, [1]; [ii], 311, 12mo, contemporary half calf, flat spines gilt in compartments, neat repairs to joints, upper compartment of spine of vol. i renewed, new lettering pieces, early initials scrawled in a thin pen at head of title-pages, good (Gilson A5; Keynes 5) $6,250 The publishing history of this edition is not known. Jane Austen ‘was clearly not consulted (having sold the copyright) and no allusion to this edition has been traced in her surviving letters; it is not apparent whether A5 [i.e. this edition] was in fact issued before or after the author’s death [on July 18th, 1817]. Sales may not have been rapid; two copies have been seen in what appear to be later remainder cloth bindings’ (Gilson). ‘The chapters have been renumbered in this edition to suit the division into two volumes [as opposed to the three of the first two editions], and these new numbers have been reproduced in most later reprints’ (Keynes).

9 [Austen (Jane)] Sense and Sensibility: a Novel. In Three Volumes. The Second Edition. Vol. I [-III]. Printed for the Author, By C. Roworth, and Published by T. Egerton, 1813, 3 vols., bound without half-titles and terminal blanks, sporadic foxing (as usual), slight defect to inner margin of 1 leaf in vol. i, 4 leaves almost loose in vol. ii (never caught by the sewing), minor worming in the lower margin in vol. iii, pp. [ii], 306; [ii], 278; [ii], 294, 12mo, contemporary half calf, flat spines gilt in compartments, neat repairs to joints, new lettering pieces, engraved armorial bookplate inside front covers of vols. i and ii (Rumbold family), good (Gilson A2; Keynes 2) $10,000 Second edition of the author’s first book. The first edition, published in 1811, was sold out by July 1813. ‘The author introduced several alterations into the text of this edition, and one passage containing a reference to an improper subject was omitted’ (Keynes). ‘By a Lady’ on the title-page of the first edition is replaced by ‘By the author of Pride and Prejudice’, that novel having been published in January 1813.

Bound by James and Stuart Brockman 10 Beerbohm (Max) Zuleika Dobson. Or an Oxford Love Story. William Heinemann, 1911, FIRST EDITION, half-title and title printed in brown, a few spots to prelims some of which tempered with chalk by binder, pp. [viii], 350, [1], crown 8vo, new James and Stuart Brockman binding (with their ticket to box and a signed tipped-in Binder’s Note at rear), full Harmatan ‘Oxford blue’ goatskin with onlays of goatskin and calf in black and yellow, horizontal gilt rules, backstrip lettered in gilt and further decorations in gilt and silver to Sheldonian ‘Emperors’, multi-coloured end-bands incorporating both Oxford and Cambridge blues, top edge gilt, others roughtrimmed, endpapers of Louise Brockman blue and black marbled paper, in custom dropdown box with leather label lettered in gilt (Gallatin & Oliver 8) $5,000 A unique and very handsome binding on this classic Oxford novel - superbly conceived and executed by the Brockmans, basing their design on motifs from the story. The oars of Eights Week and the turned heads of the Sheldonian Emperors (including the detail of sweat on their brows) occupy the upper half, with the spire-filled Oxford skyline wrapping around the lower, the gilt rules going over this, suggestive of drowning. The heroine’s final departure for Cambridge is discreetly referred to in the presence of the other blue in the end-bands.

11 Bonnycastle (John, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.) An Introduction to Astronomy. In a Series of Letters from a Preceptor to his Pupil. In which the most useful

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and interesting Parts of the Science are clearly and familiarly explained. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. The Third Edition, Corrected and Improved. Printed for J. Johnson, 1796, with an engraved frontispiece (?after Fuseli) and 19 plates (mostly folding) pp. [vi], 437, [3, Directions to the Binder, and ads], 8vo, contemporary ?Scottish speckled calf, flat spine with gilt ruled compartments, black lettering piece, very slight wear, stamp inside front cover of Ben Damph Forest Library (seat of the earls of Lovelace, Torridon), very good (ESTC T110432) $440 A handsome copy in ‘Country House’ condition. Comprises 23 'letters', not strictly juvenile, but this 'easy and familiar account of the most interesting parts of Astronomy, being a popular introduction to the subject' would obviously attract younger readers among 'those, whose situation in life, or confined education, may have prevented them from applying to a subject, which has commonly been thought of so abstruse and difficult a nature, as to be utterly unattainable without a previous knowledge of many other branches of science ....' (Preface). The penultimate chapter is ‘Of the New Planet, and other New Discoveries’, the new planet still called Georgium Sidus. One page of the advertisements at the end is a prospectus for Bonnycastle’s establishment at Woolwich, where, besides mathematics, ‘every other polite and useful accomplishment will be taught.’

McKnight Kauffer dustjacket design 12 Bowles (Paul) Let it Come Down. New York: Random House, 1952, FIRST EDITION, pp. 311, 8vo, original quarter grey cloth, black boards with that to upper board ribbed, backstrip lettered in yellow with small sun to upper board in amber and a small inset illustration to same, some tiny speckling to lower joint, corners bumped, top edge yellow with light dustsoiling, a little sunning round the head, McKnight Kauffer dustjacket with some internal tape repair, good $180

13 Bradbury (Ray) The Silver Locusts. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 232, crown 8vo, original grey boards, faded backstrip lettered in silver, top edge grey, small Foyle’s label at foot of front pastedown, dustjacket with light dustsoiling to rear panel, the head of backstrip panel a little nicked and a short closed tear at head of front panel, very good $750 Inscribed on the flyleaf, ‘For John Baxter! Good wishes from Ray Bradbury. Aug. 12, 1980’ - the recipient an author (of Science Fiction among other genres) and renowned bibliophile. The first English edition of ‘The Martian Chronicles’, with one different story to that of the American edition.

A beautifully-bound Breviary in a scarce contemporary case 14 (Breviary.) HORÆ DIURNÆ BREVIARII ROMANI. Ad usum Fratum Minorum S. Francisci Conventialium, Monalium S. Claræ Ac Tertii Ordinis utriusque sexus in quibus festa sanctorum. Juxta novum Kalendarium accurate disponuntur ordinem regente Reverend P. Magustro Fr. Bonaventura Bartoli ... Rome: Ex Typographia Hosp. Apost. S. Michaelis. 1802, printed throughout in red and black, excepting the last two gatherings, and in two columns, pp. xxxvi, 572, clxxxiv, 12mo, contemporary russet straight-grain morocco, flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt in three compartments, one larger than the other two, with a lattice pattern, and divided by bands of a variety of rolls and rules, the sides with wide gilt borders of trailing foliage and flowers and cornerpieces, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, five silk bookmarks, a.e.g., in a contemporary pull-off slipcase of green straight grain morocco, each half with gilt border of vines and grapes, matching cornerpieces, ends and fore edge with simple rolled gilt border, backstrip elaborately gilt with repeated lattice pattern and six differently tooled patterned

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compartments and rolls, tan morocco label with gilt lettering, some light wear, otherwise a beautiful and well preserved early 19th century binding, very good $1,560 An edition of the Franciscan Breviary, luxuriously got up.

‘& ye Plantations’ 15 (Broadsides. Royal Navy, Land Forces, &c.) COLLECTION OF 6 ENGRAVED LISTS. Printed ... for J. Millan, [1740-?42], 6 engraved broadsides, some trimming within platemarks but no loss of text, the last browned in the upper half and a little below, the penultimate only a little so, folio (approx 385 x 300 mm), folded twice to fit a folio volume, disbound, remains of stitching, almost loose, good $3,130 A very rare set of engraved folio Navy and Army Lists, probably a complete series, on the eve of the War of Jenkins’ Ear. They are recorded in ESTC in 1, or 2, or 3 copies: the only location that has all 6 is the Society of the Cincinnati (although ESTC indicates that they have the first only). Together they provide an extraordinarily detailed synopsis of Britain’s military might, and, at least as far a pay goes, the cost of it. The Plantations recorded in 5) below are Anapolis Royal (Nova Scotia) Placentia and Casno (Newfoundland and Nova Scotia respectively), and South Carolina. Comprising, in the order in which they are assembled (with ESTC Nos. and locations):- 1) A List of his Majesties Royal Navy, Shewing when they were Built & Rebuilt, their Several Dimensions and Tonnage, with their highest & lowest Compliment of Men. ye Number, Nature, Length, & Weight of Guns on ye several decks of each rate. T136812 BL (bis) Soc. Cincinnati. 2) The pay of the officers & men in ye Royal Navy, together with the number in each rate, and their daily allowance of provisions. and ye number of ships. T96131 In this edition, the table in the lower right-hand corner headed: 'Number of ships .. Anno 1740' has the total: 260. 2 others in ESTC, 1 with total unspecified, 1 with total 275. Former BL only, latter BL & Huntington. 3) General list of His Majesty's land forces & marines, shewing the number of regiments, and men in each. The number of half-pay officers on ye British establishment, & amount of their pay. The names and rank of the several corps in the Army 1740. T96130 BL, Huntington. A variant, numbered III, BL and NYPL. 4) The pay of the several officers and men, in His Majesty's garrisons in Great Britain. T96128 BL, Huntington. 5) The pay of the garrisons in Ireland Gibraltar Minorca & ye Plantations. The half-pay of the officers of the navy & of the army both on ye British & Irish establishment. Pensions allow'd to the widows of officers of the army and navy. The distribution of prize money. No. V. N490068 NYPL. 6) The pay & subsistence of his Majesty's land forces on the British & Irish establishment. T96129 BL (bis), Huntington, Göttingen.

16 Buchan (William) Domestic Medicine: or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners. The eighth edition; corrected and enlarged. To which is now added, a complete and copious index Printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand ; and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1784, pp. xxxvi, 767, [37], 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, rounded spine richly gilt in compartments including a crossed trident and anchor tool, black lettering piece, board edges roll tooled in gilt, edges stained a pale yellow, slight cracking at head of upper joint, slight craquelure, and a small abrasion to the lower cover, very good (ESTC T117045; Heirs of Hippocrates 991) $560 An exceptionally nice copy of this very popular, and important, book, first published in Edinburgh in 1769. An Index was first added to the 6th edition: here it is indeed ‘copious’, being 3-times the length. All the while that the book was reprinted in London and Edinburgh (17th edition in 1800) there were further editions in Dublin and Philadelphia. ‘His remarks are of lasting value and give valuable insight into the relationship between social conditions and disease in the eighteenth century’ (Heirs of Hippocrates, this being the earleist edition in the Hardin Library).

17 Burton (Walter Henry) Dialogues on the First Principles of the Newtonian System. Oxford: at the University Press for J. Parker [and others in London and Cambridge], 1828, with 2 folding engraved plates, the plates foxy, pp. [iv], 68, 8vo, contemporary dark

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blue straight-grained morocco, French fillets on sides evolving into curlicues at the corners, initials E.H. at the centre of the upper cover (see below), spine boldly lettered longitudinally in gilt direct, gilt edges, a little rubbed at extremities, loosely inserted is the original front wrapper with a printed paper label together with the first 2 leaves of the book, the title-page inscribed ‘John Hodgkin Esq with the Author’s kind regards’, good (Wallis 54.7) $750 In effect, a presentation copy: staining from the turn-ins on the inserted wrapper indicate that it has been there for a good long time (but the duplicate leaves are harder to explain). The initials on the upper cover are presumably those of Elizabeth Hodgkin, wife of John: she, in a letter to him, included in ‘Extracts from the familiar letters of the late Elizabeth Hodgkin’, privately printed in 1842, refers to Burton as John’s ‘interesting friend.’ Burton was a Quaker (like Hodgkin), Fellow of Exeter College, and a barrister. A very scarce book.

18 Camões (Luis de) The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem: written in the Portingall Language by Luis de Camoens; and now newly put into English by Richard Fanshaw Esq. Printed [by Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Mosely, 1655, with engraved frontispiece bust portrait of Camoes, and 2 full-length engraved portraits, of Prince Henry (The Navigator) and Vasco de Gama, frontispiece just trimmed within plate-mark at upper border (no loss to image), the full-length portraits folded (as usual in ordinary paper copies), the folding plates tightly bound in, making the A of CUETA hard to see, the Vasco plate a little frayed at the edges, slight browning, mostly around the edges, a few rust spots, &c, pp. [xxii], 224, folio, late 19th-century polished calf, double gilt fillets on sides, spine gilt in compartments, brown lettering piece, a few minor bumps and scrapes, a book plate (or two) messily removed from inside back cover, inside the front cover the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden (5th Baronet), and below this the label of David Enderton Johnson, good (Wing C-397; ESTC R18836; Bibl. Anglo- Poetica 256; Grolier, Wither to Prior 349; Pforzheimer 362) $11,880 FIRST EDITION of Fanshawe’s translation, the first English translation of Portugal’s national epic. First published in Lisbon in 1572, there was a Spanish translation in 1580, and the present is the first translation into a non-Iberian language. Richard Burton, in the introduction to his own translation called Fanshawe’s ‘the best because so quaint.’ The latest translator into English, Landeg White, opines: ‘Richard Fanshawe’s version of 1655 still makes a splendid read. Though its language has dated, it retains a sweetness and a bustling, grotesque energy which conveys better than any version since that this voyage was an intellectual as well as physical adventure. He takes some liberties, usually in pursuit of rhymes, but in one respect his version is truer than any subsequent translation: the people the Portuguese encounter in Africa and Asia are, as in the original, consistently called “people” ... [Fanshawe’s] version still best captures the intellectual vitality of the original’ (preliminary matter to the Oxford World Classics edition).

Curiosa and Curiosa and Curiosa 19 (Carroll.) DODGSON (Charles L.) Curiosa Mathematica. Part I, A New Theory of Parallels. [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1888, FIRST EDITION, half- title present, integral frontispiece diagram, numerous diagrams on letterpress, end-leaves a little foxed, pp. xxiii, 63, [1, ads], 8vo, original light brown cloth, lettered in black and with a diagram on the upper cover, a little uneven fading, good [together with:] Curiosa Mathematica. Part II, Pillow-Problems Thought Out During Sleepless Nights. Second edition. [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1893, pp. [xix], 109, [1, ads], 8vo, original light brown cloth, lettered in black on the upper cover and with a diagram, upper outer corners faded and a little affected by damp. [and:] ... A New Theory of Parallels. Fourth edition. [Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford, for] Macmillan, 1895, pp. xxxi, 75, [1, ads], original cream cloth, lettered in black and with a diagram on the upper

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cover, lettering on spine a trifle rubbed (Williams, Madan and Green 210, 247 (same year as the first edition) and 210c) $4,060 Both volumes are scarce but Part II is particularly rare. This is because on publication of the second edition in August 1893 Dodgson asked Macmillan to stop supplying copies of the first edition, to recall those already in the hands of agents, and to replace them with copies of the new edition, as 'the improvements in the 2nd edition are so important, that any purchaser of the book might reasonably consider he had been very hardly dealt with, if, with the new edition on the point of appearing, he was allowed to buy a copy of the inferior edition'. The great majority of the seventy- two problems were mentally worked out by Dodgson in the night, and not committed to paper until morning. He had the ability to visualize clearly complex diagrams and mathematical problems. His method, as he explains in the 'Intoduction', was usually to write down the answer first, then the question and its solution! His purpose for publishing the work was to encourage others to use studied mental occupation as a means of banishing troublesome thoughts. Part I is a scientific attempt to improve Euclid's 12th Axiom. The large collection of mathematical papers left by Dodgson give an indication of the vast amount of time he spent on this project. Amidst the mathematical investigations (p.61) is a piece of verse beginning 'I have wandered' which had not before been printed.

The Tove Jansson ‘Alice’ 20 Carroll (Lewis) Alice I Underlandet. I Översättning av Åke Runnquist , med Illustrationer av Tove Jansson. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1966, FIRST JANSSON EDITION, illustrations throughout including 4 full-page and 11 with colour-printing, pp. 112, 8vo, original brown cloth with Jansson medallion-design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with a Jansson design, a short closed tear at either end of front panel and a single instance of internal tape repair at head of backstrip panel, very mild toning to backstrip and borders, contemporary Swedish newspaper clippings laid in at rear, very good $720 A delightful edition and a lovely copy - Jansson’s illustrations are distinctive and appropriate.

21 [Carroll (Lewis)] Doublets. A Word Puzzle. [?Oxford: ?October, 1879], pp. 8, self wrappers, Falconer Madan’s copy, with his pencilled (and a little ink) bibliographical annotations, together with further bibliographical notes by him on a half sheet of paper, and a MS copy by him of Carroll’s acrostic for Agnes Georgina Hull, good (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 134) $560 ‘For popular use’ according to Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, without apparatus. A notable features of Carroll’s version of the game, as opposed to its popularity in modern newspapers, is that the progressions are in themselves humourous, APE to MAN, for instance (there is an alternative version in pencil), CAIN to ABEL, HOOK to FISH, &c. The verso of the acrostic MS conjectures the date to 1880.

22 CARROLL (Lewis) Elisi Katika Nchi Ya Ajabu. Imetafswiriwa na E. V. St. Lo Conan- Davies. [Alice in Wonderland in Swahili] [Printed by Billing and Sons Ltd for] The Sheldon Press, 1940, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, with a frontispiece, illustrations in the text after Teniel (perhaps by the translator), pp. [x], 11-111, [1], 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in black on the upper cover, single black line border, rather faded, not quite uniformly, tidy (?juvenile) ownership inscription on fly-leaf of K. Jones, Nairobi, 20 Nov. [19]45, loosely inserted are 2 typed letters from the Manchester Guardian to K. Jones, now of Tynemouth, concerning the volume $2,750 The rare first edition of the first complete translation of Alice into an African language (if we except Afrikaans, 1934), and certainly the first to depict the heroine and all the non-royal characters as Africans, in African costume. Chapter I on its own had appeared in a translation by J.W. Murison in 1911, printed at Zanzibar, with other texts (NYU only in WorldCat). BL only in COPAC (though the WorldCat entry says the printing date is 1965), WorlCat adding only the Harry Ransom Research Center: Lindseth, Alice in a World of Wonderlands, adds his own copy to the tally. The book was

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reprinted several times in the 1950s and 60s by the Sheldon Press, an imprint of the SPCK. The translator, Ermyntrude Virginia St Lo Malet Conan-Davies was a nursing missionary. The most extensive discussion of the translation is Hadjivayanis, Ida (2011) Norms of Swahili Translations in Tanzania: An Analysis of Selected Translated Prose. PhD Thesis, SOAS (Hadjivayanis herself having undertaken a new translation into Swahil), from which we quote: ‘[the] translation portrays a socio-political and cultural environment that is completely Swahilized. The book cover contains an image of a little African girl with short kinky hair that is braided, a piece of cloth is tied on her chest, she is barefoot and stands gazing at an immense tree [actually this is the image of Alice and the Chesire cat, which does appear in this edition, and as the cover illustration in the paperback reprints]. The book opens with a poem addressed to African children which informs them that a long time ago, a certain ‘mzungu’, white man, who loved children had narrated a tale based on sweet dreams. She advances: ‘ninapenda watoto waafrika pia…’ I too love African children, therefore she wishes to tell them the story of Alice in Wonderland.’ The translation of Alice into other languages throws up a whole host of questions, linguistic, cultural, and political. The popularity of this translation suggests that it rises above the problems of colonialism. The typed letters from the Manchester Guardian do not amount to very much - acknowledging the loan of the book which was the subject of a note in the “Miscellany” section of the newspaper in 1950, and a follow-up letter conveying the interest of a New York reader. But, this reader must surely have been Warren Weaver, who wrote in ‘Alice in many tongues’ (1963): ‘the first information I had of a Swhili edition came from a news item in the Manchester Guardian ...’ Weaver corresponded with the translator in the 1960s. See Alice in a World of Wonderlands for an essay on this translation by Ida Hadjivayanis, and vol. iii p. 935.

A Latin Jabberwocky 23 [Carroll (Lewis)] Jabberwocky: Mors Iabrochii. [Oxford at the University Press:] [1881,] FIRST EDITION of this the first Latin translation, 2 leaves, 8vo, printed on rectos only, a trifle browned, minor fraying, Falconoer Madan’s copy with his bibliographical note on the verso of the English version, loose (Williams, Madan & Green141) $1,500 Not located by COPAC. OCLC locates only 5 copies institutionally worldwide. A Latin translation of the famous poem entitled “Mors Iabrochii.” in fourteen elegiac stanzas with the printed initials ‘A. A. V.’ (Augustus Arthur Vansittart) at the foot of the translation. Vansitart (d.1882), a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, first made the translation in March 1872. In keeping with its English counterpart, the poem is in seven verses (28 lines); the English version is followed by 3 numbered footnotes, the Latin by four. Vansittart’s translation was subsequently reprinted in Collingwood’s ‘Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll’, and also appeared in the ‘Parrish Catalogue’. The present work is in fact a reissue of an extremely scarce pamphlet that contains the poem and its translation headed “Trinity College Lecture Room - March 1872” and issued that same year. Dodgson may have been referring to these when he wrote in his Diaries on 3rd April 1876, “Sent Snark ... to Vansittart (in return for his Latin version of Jabberwock).” This not signed by Madan, but the notes are in identical form to those on Doublets (q.v.)

24 Carroll (Lewis) Snarkjakten. I Översättning av Lars Forssell och Åke Runnquist. Illustrerad av Tove Jansson. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1959, FIRST SWEDISH EDITION, frontispiece and 8 full-page illustrations by Tove Jansson as well as numerous tail-piece decorations, pp. 52, crown 8vo, original wrappers with Jansson illustrations to both covers (that to front colour-printed), a hint of creasing to bottom corners and lightest of handling, untrimmed and partially uncut, near fine $750 A wonderful edition of Carroll’s poem, with Jansson’s illustrations - full of her characteristically sombre and quizzical expressions - capturing its mood perfectly. A sparkling copy, and scarce thus - the illustrations were used for an English language version by the Tate Gallery in 2012, but this is their original publication.

25 Carroll (Lewis [i.e. C. L. Dodgson]) A Fascinating Mental Recreation for the Young. Symbolic Logic. [Macmillan, November 1895], FIRST EDITION, pp. 4, [3, ads],

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Christamas corrected to January in the author’s hand, stitched as issued, 8vo, (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 270, 271 and 267) $250 ‘An advertisement, pure and simple, or Prospectus, to promote the sale of “Symbolic Logic, Part I shortly to be published.” Dodgson claims a high place for Symbolic Logic as a recreation; it is a cricket-ground compared to the treadmill of ordinary Formal Logic’ (Willaims et al.) (It could be said that, for some, a cricket-ground holds out a prospect as gruesome as a treadmill.)

Presentation copy 26 Carroll (Lewis [i.e. C. L. Dodgson]) Symbolic Logic. Part I Elementary [all published]. [With the separate card and 9 counters to be used with the book, contained in the original printed envelope (slightly soiled)]. [And:] A Fascinating Mental Recreation for the Young. Symbolic Logic. Macmillan, 1896, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece showing the working out of a syllogism, title with the publisher’s blindstamp ‘presentation copy’ at the foot, publishers’ catalogue at the end, errata slip dated Feb. 24, 1896 loosely inserted, pp. xxxi, 188, [4]: card (measuring 178 x 95 mm.) and 9 circular counters: pp. 4, [3, ads], Christamas corrected to January in the author’s hand, stitched as issued, 8vo, Symbolic Logic in the original brown cloth lettered in black on the upper cover, the card and the prospectus preserved in a cloth folder, very good (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 270, 271 and 267) $1,500 Dodgson attached ‘special value’ to ‘Symbolic Logic’ (Letters) because he hoped it would lead to clearer judgements and, and, at the time, there was considerable vogue for the book. With it were issued a card, a pamphlet and nine counters, four red/pink and five grey. The bibliography (op.cit) describes all the latter as rare. It seems in fact that the accompanying pamphlet of eight pages is even rarer, possibly because it was so slight. ‘There are plenty of quaint examples’ (Williams et al) in Symbolic Logic: one example will suffice, from the errata slip - Page 109, line 2, should be “No banker is imprudent.” Originally intended to consist of three parts, ‘Symbolic Logic’, in which Dodgson sought to popularize Formal Logic and accuracy, was only published in Part I. The second edition has some corrections and a new Preface dated 11 May 1896.

27 [Carroll (Lewis, i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] An Elementary Treatise on Determinants with their application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry. Macmillan, 1867, FIRST EDITION, title-page a trifle soiled, pp. viii, 143, 4to, original reddish dark brown cloth by Burn, black (or very dark green) endpapers (as opposed to white, as called for by Williams et al), the front fly-leaf adhering to the paste- down and with a couple of tears, a little worn, short tear at foot of spine, various corrections and additions to the text in an unidentified hand (Collingwood pp.110, 432: Williams [et al] 57) $2,810 ‘Determinants belong to higher mathematics, and are the sums of the products (of a particular kind) of a square block of quantities. Their condensation, or reduction to simpler forms, facilitates the solution of simultaneous linear equations, and other similar problems.' (Williams, pp.39-40) In his Diaries on February 27th, 1865, Dodgson wrote that he had 'discovered a process for evaluating arithmetical Determinants, by a sort of condensation, and proved it up to 4 [2  ] terms.' His paper on the subject was read to the Royal Society on May 17th, and it appeared in the Proceedings, no.84, 1866. Dodgson continued to work on his paper with a view to publication. This involved a great deal of revision, re-writing, and expansion. He recorded in his Diary that this 'little book ... has given me more trouble than anything I have ever written: it is such entirely new ground to explore.' In a letter dated February 11th, 1867, he informed Macmillan, his publisher, that Elements of Determinants (the title was later changed) was near completion, and asked Macmillan's advice about how many he should ask the University Press to print. In his reply of the following day, Macmillan suggested a printing of 750 copies, although the eventual number is not known. It appeared, bound in brown cloth, early in December 1867. The book was well received, but there is no evidence that sales were heavy (see Morton Cohen and Amanda Gandolfo. Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan. C.U.P., 1987). Collingwood (The

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Lives and Letters of Lewis Carroll), with all the uncomprehending scepticism of the non- mathematician, says that the work 'is largely original, and its arrangement and style are, perhaps, as attractive as the nature of the subject will allow.' It is usually thought to be the book which features in the apocryphal story about Queen Victoria, who, having enjoyed Alice, asked to be sent Mr. Dodgson's next book, and was sadly disappointed to receive An Elementary Treatise on Determinants. The MS corrections are fairly substantive, but in a hand quite unlike Dodgson’s - except for 5 words in pencil (all the rest in ink) at the end of the first definition -’or an inversion, by Laplace’ - which does resemble Dodgson’s hand, albeit a little shaky.

28 Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Workes of ... newly printed, with dyvers workes whiche were never in print before ... [colophon:] Imprinted at London by Thomas Petit, [1550?], Black Letter, double column, general title within four-piece architectural compartment, two heads in architrave (McKerrow and Ferguson 38) repeated on section title for the Romaunt of the Rose, woodcut portraits of the Knyght (before castle) and richly attired squire, ornate white on black woodcut initials, 15 leaves (Aiii-iv, and 3O-3Q1) supplied from another copy, and the first 2 heavily water-stained, the others moderately so, title- page mounted on a stub and slightly soiled, intermittent water-staining, mainly at end, fraying of the fore-edges of first 6 leaves with the loss of 2 letters on Aiiiv and the headlines on this and the subsequent leaf (these being the supplied ones), Di-iii also a little frayed at extreme fore-edge, a few small holes in first 3 leaves with minor loss, some worming, some marginal, and some, especially from 3F on, in the text with the loss of individual letters, rust outline of an early pair of scissors on G5v and G6r, ff. [viii], 354, lacking final blank, folio, modern calf, lettered in gilt direct on spine, marbled edges from an early 19th-century binding, cloth folding box, early inscriptions inscriptions on title- page , one by Ed. Combe, and and another by a later member of the Combe family, good (STC 5073; Grolier 41; Pforzheimer I 174) $17,500 On the whole a good copy of the third edition of the collected works of Chaucer, the last publication of William Thynne's original version of the 'Workes' (1st 1532). It was published jointly by four London booksellers: Bonham, Kele, Petit, and Toye, any one of whose names may appear on the colophon, which was adjusted in the course of printing. Included with The Canterbury Tales is ‘The Plowman's Tale’, a Lollard work, falsely attributed to Chaucer, that attacks Roman Catholicism. For an overview of Thynne’s editorial aims, practices, and constraints, see ‘Chaucer’s presence and absence, 1400-1550’ by James Simpson, the penultimate chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. A few early marginalia: e.g. on Fol. xxxv, at the line ‘Swere and lye, as a woman can’, the word ‘woman’ underlined and ‘credo’ written in the margin.

29 (Chess.) PHILIDOR (François André Danican) Analysis of the Game of Chess ... Illustrated by Diagrams ... With Critical Remarks and Notes by the Author of The Stratgems of Chess. Translated from the last French Edition, and further illustrated with Notes, by W.S. Kenny. Printed by T. and J. Allman ... 1819, title printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 engraved plate, and copious woodcuts in the text, pp. xvi, 264, small 8vo, contemporary half calf, corners slightly worn, very good $500 William Stopford Kenny (1787/8–1867) was a schoolmaster and educational writer (his History of England, 1850, was written in collaboration with William Godwin), and a noted chess player.

30 Darwin (Charles) [in Russian:] O proiskhozhdenii vidov ... Saint Petersburg: A.I. Glazunov, 1864, with 1 engraved plate, some foxing, most at the ends and around the plate (less than might be expected), pp. x, 339, [4, ads], 8vo, contemporary Russian half green calf, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt direct, good (Freeman 748; for the first edition see Dibner 199; Freeman 373; Garrison–Morton 220; Horblit 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b, &c) $8,750

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First Russian translation of On the Origin of Species, very rare in the West, translated by Sergiei Aleksandrovich Rachinskii, professor of botany at Moscow University. ‘The reaction of Russian intellectuals to Darwin’s theory was, of course, uneven, but generally quite favourable. For the great majority Darwin became a highly prestigious figure - the embodiment of modern natural science ... As A.O. Kovalevskii recalled in 1909: Darwin’s theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had first to overcome, in Russia its appearance coincided with the awakening of our society after the Crimean War and here it immediately received the status of full citizenship and ever since has enjoyed widespread popularity’ (Daniel P. Todes, Darwin without Malthus, p. 23). ‘In 1864 Rachinskii produced the first Russian translation of the Origin. Although not a masterwork of translation, the book sold out so quickly that in 1865 it went through a second printing. By this time Darwin's ideas had reached not only scientists and popularizers but also persons eager to integrate evolutionary thought into ideologically oriented writings. M. A. Antonovich in Contemporary greeted Darwin primarily as a master of scientific thought destined to cause drastic changes in the world outlook of the new generation. He viewed the Origin as a major victory for the democratic spirit of the scientific method over the authoritarian sway of metaphysical speculation. He left no doubt about his firm belief in the close interdependence of science and democracy. The strengths of the Origin, as he saw them, were not only in the emphasis on the natural causation of organic evolution but also in the lucidity of its prose and the power of empirical documentation on which it rested. In Darwin's evolutionary idea and the current triumph of the experimental method in physiology he saw the beginning of a new phase in the growth of biology’ (Alexander Vucinich, Darwin in Russian Thought, p. 19).

31 De Staël-Holstein (Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Staël) Corinne ou Italie. Paris: H. Nicole, 1807, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., occasional minor browning and a few spots, slight marginal staining in the fore-margins of the first few leaves in vol. ii, last leaf in gathering 3 in vol. I a little defective in the fore-margin, not affecting text, some pencil underlining, pp. [iv], 425, [1]; [iv], 511, [1], 8 (ads), 8vo, contemporary half red imitation morocco, red boards, flat spines with gilt tooled compartments, lettered direct, good $4,060 An attractive copy of this famous and extremely influential novel. Corrine is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. The advertisements are a happensatnce, and were probably inserted by the binder.

32 Didion (Joan) Telling Stories. [Keepsake 26.] Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1978, FIRST EDITION, 2 photograph portraits with one as frontispiece, title and initials printed in red, facsimile page printed in black and red, pp. [x], 51, 8vo, original yapp-edged stiff blue wrappers, lettering to front and backstrip in white, very good $120 Three stories, introduced by the author. With a letter laid in from Library Director Jim Hart presenting the book to John Dodds - literary agent and editor, the husband of actress Vivian Vance.

Alan Ross’s copy 33 Dos Passos (John) USA. The 42nd Parallel; Nineteen-Nineteen; The Big Money. John Lehmann, 1950, FIRST EDITION THUS, a little loss to surface of half-title where it has adhered to verso of facing flyleaf, pp. xvi, 1163, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt against a black ground with decorations in same, the extremities lightly rubbed and a couple of tiny spots to backstrip, Biro designed dustjacket with light rubbing to extremities, very good $110 The copy of poet Alan Ross, with his ownership inscription to the flyleaf.

34 Duval (Vincent) Traité pratique du pied-bot. J.-B. Baillière, 1839, FIRST EDITION, with 9 wood-engraved and 1 lithographed plates, woodcut illustrations in the text, a few leaves browned, pp. xiv, 336, 8vo, contemporary dark green roan backed boards, spine gilt, a trifle rubbed, very good (Heirs of Hippocrates 1560) $630

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This scarce work is the first of Duval’s on orthopaedics, and is an important contribution to the literature on club foot. WorldCat records only 4 copies in America, and not many elsewhere - not in Wellcome. Quite apart from its importance in the history of medicine, the work has a significant niche in literary history. It was the text Flaubert studied (a copy in his father’s library) for the crucial Chapter XI in Madame Bovary, in which Charles Bovary orders a copy of the book from Rouen. The novel contains this memorable passage: ‘Ni Ambroise Paré, appliquant pour la première fois depuis Celse, après quinze siècles d’intervalle, la ligature immédiate d’une artère; ni Dupuytren allant ouvrir un abcès à travers une couche épaisse d’encéphale; ni Gensoul, quand il fit la première ablation de maxillaire supérieur, n’avaient certes le cœur si palpitant, la main si frémissante, l’intellect aussi tendu que M. Bovary quand il approcha Hippolyte, son ténotome entre les doigts.’

Inscribed to the epigrapher, Walter de la Mare 35 Eddison (E.R., Translator) Egil's Saga. Done into English out of the Icelandic, with an Introduction, Notes and an Essay on Some Principles of Translation. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1930, FIRST EDDISON EDITION, 2 double-spread maps at rear, a few tiny spots to page-heads of opening leaves, pp. xxxiv, 346, [7, maps], 8vo, original red cloth with single fillet gilt border to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, a couple of tiny spots to edges, bookplate of Walter de la Mare to front pastedown with some very fine and faint spotting to the free endpapers, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel, a couple of faint spots and small marks, very good $1,880 With a lengthy inscription by the author on the flyleaf to Walter de la Mare, whose bookplate is on the facing pastedown: ‘Dear Mr. de la Mare, I hope that you will honour me by accepting, as from one frequenter of desert islands to another, this book. I speak of my share in it: for the great Saga itself, whose portrait I have rashly tried to paint, & to frame, can only confer honour upon anybody connected with it, living or dead. So at least it seems to me, after five years’ living at close quarters with it. Yours very truly, E. R. Eddison'. The inscription refers obliquely to the quotation from de la Mare’s ‘Desert Islands’ that Eddison has used as the epigraph to the book - marking this as a very significant presentation (the other epigraph, from Sappho, eliminates the possibility of there being more than one such copy). Praised by Lewis and Tolkien for his own creative work (the latter referring to him as the ‘greatest and most convincing writer of invented worlds that I have read’), and exhibiting the same ‘Norse complex’ as a background to the fantasy world of his fiction - Eddison here undertakes, like Tolkien and earlier William Morris (a sure influence on both), a translation of the source material. An important and accomplished contribution to the field - and an excellent Fantasy association copy.

‘Ulysses’ in preparation 36 (Egoist Press.) PUBLICATIONS List. circa 1920, single sheet printed on both sides, manuscript note relating to ‘Ulysses’ at foot, pp. [2], crown 8vo, very good condition (Gallup E6) $410 An important prospectus in the life of the press, and in the history of Modernism generally - indeed, it is difficult to imagine a better distillation of a literary moment, in terms of the significance of the texts and authors involved, than is here represented. One side advertises the Poets Translation series, the Egoist magazine, and Wyndham Lewis’s Tyro, whilst the other lists Lewis's ‘Tarr’ and ‘The Caliph’s Design’, Joyce’s ‘Portrait’ (the price corrected by hand from ‘6-’ to ‘7/6’, Eliot’s ‘Prufrock’, Pound’s ‘Quia Pauper Amavi’ and ‘Dialogues of Fontenelle’, along with works by Aldington et al. Of greatest significance are the titles listed as ‘In Preparation’ - these being Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, the price for which (’10/6’) is crossed through and a note added in manuscript at the foot to clarify its availability ‘after Paris edition is subscribed’, and Eliot’s never-published ‘Art of Poetry’ (a group of essays based around his lecture of the same name). The manuscript material is possibly in the hand of Harriet Shaw Weaver.

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37 Eliot (T.S.) Ødemarken og andre Digte. Paa Dansk ved Kai Friis Møller og Tom Kristensen. Copenhagen: Westermann, 1948, FIRST DANISH EDITION, 78/235 COPIES signed by the author and translators (from an edition of 885 copies, title-page and fly- titles printed in blue, a small amount of annotation in pencil largely restricted to ‘Waste Land’ notes, pp. 86, crown 8vo, unbound as issued in original blue paste paper boards with printed label to upper board, backstrip faded as often found, matching slipcase a little faded and rubbed with printed label, very good (Gallup D49) $440 Translations of ‘The Waste Land’, ‘Journey of the Magi’, ‘Ash Wednesday’, ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales, ‘Gerontion’, ‘The Hippopotamus’, and ‘Morning at the Window’.

The first foreign Quartet, inscribed by the translator 38 Eliot (T.S.) Tam Domov Más [East Coker]. Evergreen Series 1 [translated by Libuse Pánková.] [P.E.N. Clubs,] 1941, FIRST CZECH EDITION, tipped-in frontispiece by John Piper, one or two instances of pencil annotation to margins, pp. 22, 1, foolscap 8vo, original stapled printed wrappers a trifle dustsoiled, slip advertising Evergreen Series laid in at front, very good (Gallup D33) $380 One of 750 copies. The first translation of Eliot’s work into Czech and the first translation in full of any of the ‘Four Quartets’, this publication is also notable as being the only work of Eliot to be illustrated by John Piper. Inscribed to the flyleaf by the translator, Libuse Pánková - the small amount of pencil annotation, which glosses the translation, appears to be in the same hand.

39 (Elston Press.) MORRIS (William) Five Arthurian Poems. The Defence of Guenevere; King Arthur’s Tomb; Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery; The Chapel in Lyoness; A Good Knight in Prison. New Rochelle, NY, 1902, ONE OF 178 COPIES, printed in red and black with 5 decorated initials by H.M. O’Kane, one or two light handling marks, pp. [ii], 45, 8vo, original navy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, gentle knock to bottom corner of upper board, very good (Ransom 260 (13); Walsdorf 95) $440 A nice piece of printing, slightly less in thrall to the Kelmscott model than earlier books from the Press of Clarke Conwell.

40 Epictetus. Enchiridion. Parma: In aedibus Palatinis, typis Bodonianis, 1793, two pages with light offsetting from ribbon bookmark, pp. [iv], 85, [5], 97, [1], 8vo, contemporary Italian sheep, strikingly marbled in shades of brown and green, boards bordered with a triple gilt fillet, gilt flower cornerpieces, spine divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces in second and third compartments, the rest with central and corner gilt tools, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, the merest touch of rubbing to extremities, modern booklabel to front pastedown, near fine (Brooks 490; Dibdin I 518) $1,500 A striking binding, marbled in a very bold shade of green. The edition is ‘printed in the usual beautiful style of the works from Bodoni’s press... The Italian translation is considered accurate and elegant’ (Dibdin). There were two Bodoni editions of this year, this small-format printing and a larger setting in quarto (of which only 100 copies were reportedly produced, one of them on silk).

41 Euclid. [Elements. Book 1-6. Latin and Greek] Eukleidou Stoicheio Biblia [13] (first four words in Greek characters). Elementorum Euclidis libri tredecim. Secundum vetera exemplaria restituti. Ex versione Latina Federici Commandini aliquam multis in locis castigata [edited by Henry Briggs]. Excudebat Gulielmus Iones, 1620, woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials and tailpieces, Greek and Latin in parallel columns, 2 sidenotes shaved, a little mild damp-staining at the beginning, a few leaves slightly browned, pp. [iv, including initial blank], 254, [2, blank], folio, contemporary calf, blind ruled borders on sides, with a pair of double rules near the spine, hatching in top and bottom compartments, dark blue edges, rather rubbed, corners (especially top front) worn, crack

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at foot of upper joint and top of lower one, contemporary signature on front fly-leaf of Will. Whitmore, good (ESTC S121362) $3,440 The first edition of Euclid to be printed in England in either Latin or Greek (having first apeared in Billingsley’s translation Elements of Geometrie, 1570, with Dee’s famous Preface). It was edited by Henry Briggs, who in 1619 had been appointed to the professorship of geometry in Oxford, newly established by Henry Savile. ‘Tactfully Briggs began his lecture course where Savile had left off, at the ninth propostion of Euclid’ (DSB). The binding on this copy is quite likely Oxford work, with the hatching at the spine ends, and the double stubs before the fly-leaves.

42 [Fitzgerald (Edward, translator)] The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer Poet of Persia. Translated into English Verse. Bernard Quaritch, 1859, pp. xiii, 21, large square 8vo, original printed wrappers, slight staining to fore-edge of wrappers and fly-leaves (possibly from some former protective wrapper), traces of an old bookseller’s catalogue description inside front cover, preserved in a chemise and cloth folding box, excellent (Potter 1; Grolier/English 97; Tinker 1038) $43,750 First edition of Fitzgerald’s remarkable, and latterly remarkably popular, translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, one of only 250 copies printed, very scarce in any state and rare in the wrappers. The story of its ‘publication’ is well known. How Fitzgerald, a regular customer of Quaritch’s, got Quaritch to put his name on the title-page as publisher. Of the 250 copies Fitzgerald kept 40 for himself, he paid for the printing and expected no payment. The booklet singularly failed to sell, and copies were apparently lost when Quaritch moved from Castle Street to Piccadilly. In the Piccadilly shop the price was reduced, such that it eventually found its place in the penny box outside. Here it was discovered in July 1861 by two young Irish barristers with literary leanings, and one of them bought a copy for D.G. Rossetti. The rest, as they say, is history.

43 (Fleece Press.) RAVILIOUS (Eric) Ravilious for Curwen. A glimpse of Joy from 1933. Upper Denby, 2015, ONE OF 120 COPIES, the frontispiece printed from the original Curwen electrotype and hand-coloured in blue to match the original, loose print inserted in corner-pocket facing text-page printed from the wood, title-page printed in black and blue, pp. [5], 8vo, original marbled paper wrappers by Jemma Lewis, printed label to front, fine $130 Originally made for the Curwen Press News-Letter No. 6 (1934) - a striking geometric astral design, editioned for the first time here.

44 Ford (Charles [Henri]) & Parker Tyler. The Young and Evil. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1933, FIRST TRADE EDITION, a few fine spots to the fore-margin of a couple of leaves, pp. 215, crown 8vo, original wrappers with integral brown paper dustjacket printed in red, the over-hanging edges a little nicked and creased, small numerical stamps at foot of rear cover (prices, presumably), the edges untrimmed, very good (Pearson A-25b) $2,000 An important book, and a scarce one - this edition following one of fifty signed copies, but either issue is scarce on the market and institutionally (the BL, Bodleian, and National Trust only on COPAC; WorldCat locates no copies in the US). A landmark novel, described by Neil Pearson in his bibliography of the Obelisk Press as the beginning of the genre of ‘gay literature’, at least in any overt form: the book is ‘neither a plea for understanding, nor a cry for help, nor a call to arms. For all its modernist trappings the novel is a conventional one, building a picture of homosexual life in New York at the beginning of the 1930s through a series of loosely connected scenes: lovers’ fights and reconciliations, open assignations with poets and drag queens, secret assignations with married men, cruisings, beatings, arrests, and wild Harlem parties where gay men of all races come together to celebrate rather that hide their status as outsiders.’ Its authors were American expatriates, who had worked (and played) together in New York at the beginning of the decade, before departing for Paris where Ford - having ingratiated himself with Gertrude Stein - quickly established himself as part of the literary scene; he lived with Djuna Barnes and paid the rent by helping to type up ‘Nightwood’ - both Stein and Barnes contribute blurbs to the dustjacket flap, emphasising the novel’s innovation and its generation-defining quality.

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The print-run may have been in excess of a couple of thousand, but is more likely - Pearson considers - to have been in line with Press’s usual allocation of half that; its scarcity was compounded by the fact that the ‘book suffered the usual casualties in transit: five hundred copies were destroyed by British customs, and shipments to the United States were intercepted and turned back’ (Pearson, pp. 383-7).

45 Fowler Wright (S.) The New Gods Lead. Jarrolds, 1932, FIRST EDITION, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with very slight lean to spine, dustjacket designed by Rees with faint dustsoiling to white areas notably absent around price to backstrip panel (where there was presumably at one point a repricing sticker), the odd nick or very short closed tear with a tiny scrape to rear panel, very good $2,310 The dustjacket, in excellent shape and carrying a marvellous round-table design, is scarce. This was the author’s first collection of short fiction, ten scientific romances on a par with H.G. Wells and W. Olaf Stapledon - though with a far more pessimistic vision of mankind’s progress than either. The ‘new gods’ posited by the author are Comfort and Cowardice, the guiding principles of humanity’s misdirection, whilst specific developments such as birth-control and the automobile receive sustained vitriol in relation to their effect on human behaviour.

46 Franklin (Benjamin) Bowles's Moral Pictures or Poor Richard Illustrated: Being Lessons for the Young and the Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality, &c. Printed and Sold bt Bowles and Carver, [1795], single sheet hand-coloured engraving, 480 x 585mm, comprising 24 oval vignettes illustrating the maxims, plus a portrait of Franklin, rather browned and/or stained, a few splits at the divisions and other tears but without significant loss, laid down on acid-free paper $6,880 An extremely rare, large, ‘exquisite’ (Hannas) engraving, being vignettes illustrating the maxims (’Early to be, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise’, &c.) from Poor Richard’s Almanack, which appeared yearly from 1732 to 1757. The hand-colouring here is not the most accurate, but undeniably adds charm to the whole. It was published in 1795 as a Bowles and Carter puzzle, cf. L. Hannas's The English jigsaw puzzle, 1760-1890, fig. 10. COPAC and WorldCat between them record only a handful of copies of the Manchester edition of 1793, and the latter locates 4 copies of this (Huntington, Wisconsin, Princeton, and Yale).

Rex Whistler’s copy 47 (Gaudier-Brzeska.) EDE (H.S.) Savage Messiah. Heinemann, 1931, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph of Gaudier and 10 further plates, 7 Gaudier drawings within text, occasional light handling marks, pp. [xii], 272, 8vo, original red cloth with facsimile of Gaudier’s signature stamped in gilt to upper board and publisher’s device blind- stamped to lower, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few light marks, small bookseller’s sticker at foot of front pastedown, dustjacket with some gentle fading to borders and backstrip panel, very good $440 Rex Whistler’s copy, with his signature at the head of the title-page; subsequently, according to a pencilled note on the flyleaf, from the library of John Arlott. A very nice copy of the book that began the cult of Gaudier in earnest.

48 Gay (John) The Beggar’s Opera. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields ... The third edition: with the Ouverture in Score, the Songs, and the Basses, (the Ouverture and Basses compos’d by Dr. Pepusch) Curiously Engrav’d on Copper Plates. Printed for John Watts, 1729, title printed in red and black, a marked up copy (see below), a little thumbing, last leaf and fly-leaves a bit water-stained, pp. [viii], 60, 46 (engraved music), 4to, contemporary ?Irish red morocco, elaborate wide gilt tooled borders on sides, black lettering piece at the centre of the upper cover with the name Lucy Keily, spine gilt in compartments, black lettering piece, gilt edges, a bit rubbed, good (ESTC T13773) $4,380

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Third, first 4to, edition. ‘What led [the publishers] to issue the quarto Third Edition in 1729 was their publication of Polly in that year. The banning of Polly from the stage aroused widespread curiosity in this sequel to the Beggar’s Opera, and the publishers made the most of the opportunity by issuing the play in a large, handsome and expensive volume ... TE [i.e. the third edition] is musically superior to FE and SE, the text is another matter. Instead of giving only the basic tunes for the songs like FE and SE, TE provides a musical score showing how each syllable is related to each note of music and how the tunes are slightly modified at times to fit the words. he bass lines ... are also given. This invaluable score, which shows exactly how the Airs were sung in early performances and is therefore very useful to modern producers’ (Lewis, P. E. (ed.). John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera. Edinburgh, 1973, pp. 35-39). ‘The Beggar's Opera in particular has kept Gay's memory green. It was performed nearly every year until the 1880s. Revived in 1920 by Nigel Playfair at the Lyric, Hammersmith, it ran without a break for 1463 performances, the longest run of any opera. More famously, it supplied the plot for Brecht's and Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), first performed in Berlin in 1928. Post-war versions of The Beggar's Opera include those by Benjamin Britten (1948) and Arthur Bliss (for a 1953 film); another film version, by Jiri Menzel, from a play by Václav Havel, appeared in 1991. Gay's text continues to be performed worldwide’ (David Nokes in ODNB). This is a very nice copy in a lavish contemporary binding, and with an intriguing, but so far inelucidatable provenance. In the first place it is marked up for performance, both in ink and pencil: mainly cuts, but with some stage directions, and on occasion the identity of the singer added to the music. The first owner, perhaps, was Robert Dobby, who signed the title page with a date - unfortunately the last 2 digits have been cropped, so we can only surmise that it was close to the date of publication (it does begin 17, and the binding is probably contemporary, or nearly so). Then there are various inscriptions, more or less legible, and one (no doubt the potentially most informative) crossed out. The latter is on a fly-leaf at the end. The words ‘Arthur Keily scripsit’ remain legible. Lucy Keily (label on the upper cover) was perhaps Arthur’s wife. The other inscription are, in the order in which they appear: WEA MacDonnel (this is later, probably 19th- century; tipped in above it is a newspaper clipping regarding Victorian actors by the name of Keeley); My Dr. Lucy ?Sheridan/ Thomas Meads; given to Fanny Musgrave by her [4 illegible words, one of which might be Lucy] 1785 [the date is altered from 1775). There are also various pen trials, and at the end, childish scribbling.

The original issue, signed ‘Blair H.S.’ 49 (Gemini Press.) GRAVES (Ida) Epithalamion. A Poem with Associate Wood-Engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Colchester, 1934, 76/280 COPIES (from an edition of 330 copies) printed on Basingwerk Parchment paper and signed by the artist ‘Blair H.S.’, 23 full-page wood-engravings, pp.51, sm.folio, original pale green boards, printed label, untrimmed, remnants of tissue jacket laid in, board slipcase $1,000 The first book from the press founded by Graves and Hughes-Stanton, and a celebration of their relationship. The declared intention of the press was to ‘make books in which there is a real fusion between contemporary writer and artist’. This is in the original issue binding (a number of unbound sheets were bound and issued by the Basilisk Press in 1980). The original tissue jacket here present, still in one piece although with most of the backstrip panel missing, is scarce.

50 Gilbert (Jack) Views of Jeopardy. Foreword by Dudley Fitts [Yale Series of Younger Poets.] New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1962, FIRST EDITION, pp. xiv, 43, [2], crown 8vo, original wrappers, faint toning along head and around backstrip, pencil squiggle to front, bookseller sticker at foot of rear, good $130 The poet’s first collection, a striking debut that saw him nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

51 Gill (Eric) Original pencil drawing. [1929,] pencil sketch on thin paper, a couple of small spots to border and one at head of image, signed by the artist at foot ‘EG, T.S.D. [Tertiary Saint Dominic], 24.5.29’, image size 15 x 14 cm approx, very light edge creasing, good condition $1,000 A sketch demonstrating Gill’s masterful ability to convey form and movement with only a few lines.

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An additional note by Gill beneath his signature states ‘originals sold to C. Zigrosser’ - suggesting that it replicates a more finished piece. Though the shape of the foliage (with a single eye peeking out) and the figure of the girl looking back bear similarity with some of his work on ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ (1927), and ‘Art and Prudence’ (1928), it does not directly correspond to any of the images therein. Carl Zigrosser was an influential American art critic, curator, and collector, who had visited Gill earlier that year whilst in England and ‘came away with prints and drawings’ (’A World of Art and Museums’, p. 75).

From the press of Will Ransom 52 (Golden Cockerel Press.) HUGHES (Richard) Gipsy-Night and Other Poems. Chicago: Will Ransom, 1922, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 6/63 COPIES signed by the author and the printer (at front and rear respectively), lithograph portrait by Pamela Bianco as frontispiece with her signature in pencil, slight offsetting from portrait to both half title and title-page, pp. [ii], 66, 8vo, original quarter yellow cloth with brown boards, printed label to backstrip gently sunned with a small pen mark carrying round to front joint, blue page-marker detached with offsetting to pp. 26-7, bookplate to front pastedown, top edge lightly dustsoiled, browning to outermost of untrimmed edges, very good (Ransom 9) $450 The English edition of Hughes’ first book was printed by the Golden Cockerel Press, but contained several errors (considerably more, as Hughes complained, than the two that were acknowledged in the errata slip) as a result of the formes of type having been dropped after final proof corrections had been made. Those errors are corrected in this very handsome, and considerably scarcer, US edition from the same year. This copy has the bookplate of the publisher Robert Ballou and his wife, Vera.

53 Gorey (Edward) The Willowdale Handcar, or the Return of the Black Doll. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979, FIRST HARDBACK EDITION, 30 illustrations by Gorey, pp. [64], small 4to, original pale pink boards with an overall design by Gorey printed in black and grey, very gentle knock to top corner of upper board, a touch of rubbing at extremities and some fine edge-spotting, dustjacket, very good $160 Signed by Edward Gorey beneath his crossed-through printed name on the title-page.

Early work by Antony Gormley 54 (Gormley.) Sieveking (Paul-René, edits) ORIGO 3. Cambridge: Cambridge Black Cross, n.d. [but circa 1970,] SOLE EDITION, illustrations (unsigned) by Antony Gormley, Marta Lombard, John Fullerton, Peter John Freeman, Paul-René Sieveking, pp. 24, tall 8vo, original stapled orange wrappers printed in claret with Gormley illustration to front, lightly handled with a few nicks and a little corner creasing, good (Miller & Price, ‘British Poetry Magazines’, 329) $3,100 Early work, perhaps the earliest published artistic work - preceding as it does his career in that field - of Antony Gormley, one of the most important artists of his generation. The illustrations here - the cover credited to him directly, and with the images on p.6, 8, and the vignette recurring on the title- page, constituting his other probable contributions - were produced whilst Gormley was a student in Archaeology, Anthropology & Art History at Trinity College, Cambridge. Following this degree he travelled to India, and on his return took up a place at St. Martin’s College; his own website puts the ‘year zero’ of his artistic career as 1981. Though in an alternative medium to that in which he was to gain renown, there are early indicators of the sculptor's eye and elements that are characteristic of his subsequent work - fulfilling his stated aim to tackle the ‘fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relationship to nature and the cosmos’ (Artist’s website). His updating of classical examples and the interest in the anatomical characteristic of his mature work are both prefigured here in the cover design, where he offers a striking rendering of Leda and the Swan . Though it has a very modern, insouciant look in Gormley's version of this classical encounter, the combination of violent obscenity with apparent boredom is very much in the long tradition of the scene’s depiction.

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BL and Cambridge only on COPAC, no further copies in WorldCat.

55 [Gray (Thomas)] An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard. Printed for R. Dodsley; And sold by M. Cooper, 1751, FIRST EDITION, small repair to inner margin of title and last leaf, short closed tear in for-margin of second leaf, pp. 11, 4to (240 x 185 mm), early twentieth-century full black crushed morocco by Riviere and Son, sides elaborately gilt to a varied floral design including inlays, spine gilt and lettered direct, gilt inner dentelles, dark blue silk doublures and endleaves, gilt edges, preserved in a very dark green straight grained morocco pull off box, bookplate of Roderick Terry on fly-leaf, modern bookplate opposite, very good (Northup 492; Hayward 173; Rothschild 1056; Grolier, Hundred 49) $25,000 First edition of Gray’s much-loved masterpiece, containing some of the most famous (and most often parodied) lines in English literature, in a very handsome Riviere binding.

56 Greene (Graham) Stamboul Train. Heinemann, 1932, FIRST EDITION, second state, pp. [x], 307, 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip gilt lettered within a gilt stamped design and slight lean to spine, a little rubbing to leading edge and upper joint, top edge lightly dustsoiled, single small spot to fore-edge, dustjacket (designed by Youngman Carter) with central crease to backstrip panel and internal tape repair to same, a single instance of tape repair at head of front panel with some professional repair to backstrip ends and corners delta shaped piece (30x25mm.) missing from head of front panel adjacent to the backstrip panel, good (Wobbe A5a) $3,500 A few changes to the first state had been necessitated when J.B. Priestley, who had seen a review copy, threatened libel action under the impression that the the character of Mr Savory was based on him. The offending passages, and resulting amendments, are on pp. 78-80 and largely involved (as Greene recounted in A Sort of Life) removing any reference to Dickens, whom it seemed ‘Mr Priestley [was] defending... rather than himself’.

The true first edition 57 Greene (Graham) Utbränd [A Burnt-Out Case.] Översättning av Torsten Blomkvist. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners, 1960, FIRST EDITION, pp. 274, 8vo, original burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine, corners gently bumped, dustjacket with very light rubbing to extremities, very good $310 Published the year before the English first edition, in a move interpreted by some (’The Daily Mail’, most explicitly) as a brazen attempt to curry favour with the Nobel Prize committee - an accusation that baffled Greene, who had simply cultivated an excellent relationship with his Swedish publisher and found a very good readership there. Issued simultaneously in cloth and wrappers, the hardback is the less common.

58 (Gregynog Press.) WILLIAMS (Kyffin, Illustrator) Pryderi. Newtown, Powys, 1998, 53/350 COPIES signed by the artist, printed on Velin Arches mould-made paper, title- page and initial letters printed in claret, 8 full-page lino-cuts by Kyffin Williams printed in black with grey or brown, pp. 40, tall royal 8vo, original oatmeal linen with Kyffin Williams lino-cut illustration inset to upper board, backstrip lettered in black, edges untrimmed, Press compliments slip laid in, fine $470

59 [Griffith (Elizabeth)] The Delicate Distress. A novel, in letters, by Frances. In two volumes. A new edition. Printed for T. Vernor, 1788, 2 vols., tear in fore-margin of B9 in vol. i without loss, 2 small paper flaws in the fore-margin of F9 in vol. ii, a few gathering slightly sprung, pp. [ii], 274; [ii], 264, 12mo, contemporary tree calf, rounded spines richly gilt in compartments, each compartment gilt with a possibly masonic emblem,

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contrasting lettering pieces, gilt hatching at either end of spines, slight cracking to upper joint of vol. i, corners a little worn, Fasque (Gladstone) bookplates (ESTC T225580) $2,810 A very handsome copy of a rare novel: not in Garside, Raven and Schöwerling; BL and the Clark only in ESTC. Two earlier Dublin editions of 1775 and 1787 are both very rare. Given the provenance, the binding is likely to be Scottish, and conceivably Scott of Edinburgh: however we have not been able to identify any of the tools, though the hatching at the ends of the spine is characteristic. ‘Griffith undoubtedly believed that literature was a useful moral tool. Her dramatic works reveal a didactic streak that she pursued in other genres. Her epistolary novels, The Delicate Distress (1769), The History of Lady Barton (1771), and The Story of Lady Juliana Harley (1776), can be seen to extend the themes of her earlier courtship letters but develop a greater psychological insight into female suffering. In all three of these complex yet artful plots, Griffith's heroines are shown to be morally superior after enduring unreasonable amounts of mental and physical torment. In the preface to The History of Lady Barton, Griffith confesses to having drawn her characters from ‘the living drama’ rather than the ‘mimic scene’, having had ‘a good deal of acquaintance with the world’ (p. x). She declares she will be happy if she can ‘contribute towards forming, or informing, the young and innocent’ (p. xi). Griffith was interested in her female predecessors in this genre, editing A Collection of Novels (1777) by Aphra Behn, Penelope Aubin, and Eliza Haywood. Here she argues that ‘good Romances’ are ‘silent Instructors’, more capable of moral instruction than ‘the most able philosophers’ (p. 4, editor's preface). This was an unusual attempt to reassess novelists who were at that time synonymous with sexual immorality’ (Elizabeth Eger in ODNB).

60 Hale (Kathleen) Orlando and the Three Graces. John Murray, 1965, FIRST EDITION, numerous lithographic illustrations in colour and black and white by the author, a few faint spots to first and last text-pages, pp. 30, oblong 8vo, original pictorial boards with a few faint spots to edges, dustjacket clipped but still showing price (as issued) with a few faint spots, the odd nick and short closed tear, very good $220 Signed by the author. The bookplate to the front pastedown is that of Camilla Bryden Brown, an artist and illustrator contemporary with Hale.

61 Hansberry (Lorraine) A Raisin in the Sun. A Drama in Three Acts. Methuen, 1960, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, a little creasing at bottom corner of final quarter of textblock, pp. 107, foolscap 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, one or two faint spots to endpapers, dustjacket rubbed to extremities with a little waterstaining around head of backstrip panel, good $190 Notable as the first play by an African American woman to be performed on Broadway.

62 (Harrison of Paris.) AESOP Fables of Aesop, according to Sir Roger L'Estrange [from the Edition of 1692]. With Fifty Drawings by Alexander Calder. Paris, 1931, 150/595 COPIES (from an edition of 680 copies) printed on Auvergne handmade paper, 50 line- drawings, some half-page, by Alexander Calder, pp. [v], 127, 4to, original pale blue-grey handmade paper over boards, the upper board lettered and with a design by Calder all in dark blue, a few faint spots overall, untrimmed, red cloth and board chemise with matching board slipcase, both with printed labels, the slipcase lacking top and a little rubbed with top left corner of label missing, very good $630 The high point of the Press, exquisitely designed by Monroe Wheeler using the finest materials and with some of Calder’s most celebrated illustration work.

63 Harvey (William) Exercitationes anatomicæ, De motu Cordis & Sanguinis Circulatione. Cum duplici Indice Capitum & Rerum. Accessit Dissertatio de Corde Doct. Jacobi de Back. Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1660 [1661], with additional engraved title-page (included in the pagination), and 2 full-page engravings in the text, minute worm-hole in top outer corner through half of the volume (not affecting text), small faint stain in fore- margin of first few leaves, tear in lower fore-corner of C6, without loss, pp. [xxxii], 252,

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[24], 12mo, [bound with:] Langley [or Langly] (Wilhelm) Observationes et historiae omnes & singulae è Guiljelmi Harvei libello De generatione animalium excerpta ... Item Wilhelmi Langly De generatione animalium observationes quaedam ... Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1674, FIRST EDITION, with an engraved allegorical frontispiece and 8 engraved plates, pp. [xxxvi, including engraved frontispiece and terminal blank], 240, 12mo, (1. Keynes 9; see PMM 127 for the first edition of 1628. 2. Keynes 41; see Heirs 442) $3,500 The ninth, first posthumous, edition of De motu cordis, which Keynes places before the London edition with the same dates, the latter being the first edition published in England. ‘Harvey’s treatise is, in fact, more important as a demonstration of scientific method in biological research than as an annunciation of the fact of the circulation of the blood. From this beginning has flowed all subsequent biological knowledge in an ever widening stream. Harvey’s De motu cordis is therefore justly considered to be one of the most fruitfull and important books ever published’ (Keynes). ‘Wilhelm Langley's (1616-1668) excerpts and comments on Harvey's De generatione animalium along with his own observations and experiments. The first six plates, depicting various stages in the development of the chick embryo, are the first illustrations of Harvey's text to be published’ (Heirs of Hippocrates). Keynes flatly denies the last assertion, but others support it. Keynes however has this to say in his biography of Harvey: ‘[De generatione] was soon appraised at its true value by a few later workers in the field of embryology, notably Willaim Langley, physician of Dordrecht’ (Keynes p. 360).

Scarce early Heaney 64 Heaney (Seamus) The Island People. An Irish sequence of music and poetry. Music by Gerard Victory [Music Workshop Stage 1, BBC Radio for Schools.] British Broadcasting Corporation, [Summer 1968,] FIRST EDITION, first issue, printed in black, blue and brown, with musical notation throughout and illustrations by Doreen Roberts, a few faint spots to pp. 16 & 31, pp. 32, 4to, original stapled self wrappers with overall illustration by Doreen Roberts, a couple of tiny spots at foot of covers with some faint creasing to front, very good (Brandes & Durkan A3) $2,500 The scarce first issue of this early work by Heaney - the V&A only in COPAC and four more in the US. This is a much better copy than normally found of a fragile publication intended for school use. With the exception of ‘Inisheer’ and ‘The dealing man’, all of Heaney’s text has been set to music. Three of the twelve short poems were included in a subsequent educational work on the Aran Islands, but the remainder receive their only appearance here.

65 Heaney (Seamus) Verses for a Fordham Commencement. New York: Nadja, 1984, 84/200 COPIES (from an edition of 226 copies) signed by the author, printed on Whatman paper, pp. [14], 4to, original printed wrappers, fine (Brandes & Durkan A30c) $340 A poem read by Heaney on the occasion of the Fordham University Commencement in New York City on 23rd May 1982, where he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

66 Herodotus Herodotou Logoi ennea hoiper epikalountai Mousai [in Greek]. Basle: Johann Herwagen, [1541], woodcut printer’s device on verso of final leaf (otherwise blank), numerous woodcut initials, text in Greek, section at the lower outer corner of title-page neatly excised and renewed, title slightly soiled, pp. [xx], 310, [2], folio, [bound with:] Thoukydide meta scholio palaio kai panu op¯helimo [in Greek] ... Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarij, in castigando tum textu, tum commentarijs unà cum annotationibus eius. Basle: Johann Herwagen, 1540, text in Greek, numerous woodcut initials, title-page with same excision and renewal as Herodotus, lacking the final leaf (as sometimes) blank except for printer’s device, pp. [xxiv], 225, [3], 177 [i.e. 127], folio. 2 vols bound in 1, contemporary elaborately blind-stamped pigskin, original

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twirled brass clasps, later ink lettering on spine, small ink stamp on verso of first title of the Donaueschingen library, a choice copy (Adams H395 and T664) $6,250 These two editions, published a year apart, are often found together, probably as intended. The last leaf is sometimes missing from the Thucydides (e.g. 2 of the 3 copies in Adams, the copy in Harvard). That the two title-pages have the same excision and repair (not at all recent) it is probably no coincidence, but the significance is not apparent. These are the first Herwagen editions of these historians, the Herodotus being the second Greek edition, and the Thucydides the third.

67 Hippocrates. Aphorismi, Hippocratis et Celsi locis parallelis illustrati, studio et cura Jansonii ab Almeloveen. Quibus accessit L. Verhoofd Index ... Loca parallela ex Boerhavii commentariis, notulas addidit, editionem curavit Anna Car. Lorry. Paris: Theophilus Barrois, 1784, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, parallel Greek and Latin texts, a few leaves a trifle browned, pp. xx (though lacking half-title), 353, 24mo, contemporary French red morocco, wide gilt fillet border on sides with a dot at each corner, spine gilt in compartments, dark green lettering piece, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges, very slight rubbing to corners, very good $1,500 A choice copy of a scarce edition. Lorry published the bilingual text in 1759, and, in the year after his death, the same year as this re-issue, was published his own translation into French. This edition not in Bruni Celli. Anne-Charles Lorry, a disciple of Astruc, was the founder of French dermatology. He was one of the most eminent medical men of his day: but he did not make a fortune, devoting himself rather to study.

68 Homer. The Iliads of Homer prince of poets. Never before in any languag truely translated. With a coment uppon some of his chiefe places; donne according to the Greeke by Geo: Chapman. Printed [by Richard Field] for Nathaniel Butter, [1611,] FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH, title-page engraved (with some expert repair work around the outer edges, and the inner edge just disappearing into the gutter), initial blank discarded but final blank present, variant additional leaves of sonnets bound in prelims instead of at end, some dustsoiling and marks, pp. [xxviii], 341, [11], [with:] Homer. Homer’s Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke. By Geo: Chapman. Imprinted at London by Rich: Field, for Nathaniell Butter, [1615,] FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH, title-page engraved (with some expert repair work around the edges), initial and final blanks discarded, leaf Y2 slightly shorter and probably supplied, a little marginal worming in second half expertly repaired (occasionally touching a letter with no significant loss), pp. [x], 376, [2], [with:] Homer. The Crowne of all Homers Worckes Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise. His Hymn’s - and - Epigrams translated according to ye originall by George Chapman. Printed by Iohn Bill, his Maiesties Printer, [1624,] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, title-page engraved (and in the earlier state with ‘Worckes’ instead of ‘Workes’), initial blank discarded, pp. [x], 143, 148-179, [1], 201-207, [5], folio, the three volumes washed and pressed in uniform nineteenth-century red morocco by Riviere, boards with central lozenge shape made of wreaths and flowers and containing a circular frame, blocked in gilt, spines elabroately gilt in compartments, apart from the second and third which are lettered in gilt direct, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, turn-ins also elaborately gilt, armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford, leather booklabel of ‘Terry’ and small booklabel of J.O. Edwards to front pastedowns, modern bookplate to flyleaf, very good (ESTC S119234, S118235, S119240; Pforzheimer 169, 170, 165; Palmer p. 56-8; see also Bibliotheca Homerica Langiana B1) $43,750 The first complete editions of Chapman’s translations of each of the major works attributed to Homer, in a uniform set finely bound, probably for Thomas Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church. Parts

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of the Iliad had been published before, but the whole work first appeared around 1611 (ESTC adds question marks to all the dates) in this form; the Odyssey similarly saw publication of the first half only in around 1614 before the version here appeared a year later, containing a reissue of the sheets plus the newly-printed second half; the Batrachomyomachia and Hymns are a simpler matter, with this being their first appearance (of around 1624) full stop. The Iliad contains the unsigned bifolium with sonnets to Viscounts Cranborne and Rochester and Sir Edward Philips, which Pforzheimer describes as ‘a great rarity, only about six copies having it can be traced’. The bindings are signed ‘Bound by Riviere’ and were probably produced somewhere around 1840- 1850, which matches with the ownership of Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), classical scholar and dean of Christ Church, Oxford. In the fashion of the time the leaves have been washed and pressed, and repairs performed with consumate skill. Later owners include an unidentified ‘Terry’ and noted collector of English verse J.O. Edwards.

69 (Hours Press.) CROWDER (Henry, Composer) Henry-Music. Paris, 1930, ONE OF 100 COPIES (this unnumbered) signed by the composer, faint foxing to prelims and poems but notational pages clean, pp. [ii], [6, poems], 20, 4to, original illustrated boards with Man Ray photomontage of Cunard’s own collection, lightly toned with gentle rubbing to extremities and two small strips of surface removal to lower board, a small amount of faint foxing to endpapers with small Australian bookseller’s stamp at foot of front pastedown, promo info for a modern recording of these songs laid in, good (Ritchie B4; Federman & Fletcher 6) $6,250 Formerly the copy of Acton’s bibliographer Neil Ritchie, with his sales notes loosely inserted. Poems by Samuel Beckett, Richard Aldington, Nancy Cunard, Harold Acton, Nancy Cunard, and Walter Lowenfels set to music by Crowder, an African-American jazz pianist based in Paris who was Cunard’s lover at the time and assisted her at the Press. Beckett’s contribution ‘From the only Poet to a shining Whore’ was written expressly for Crowder and is uncollected elsewhere. A very well preserved copy of what is - like many Hours Press publications - a fragile book.

An early translation 70 Huxley (Aldous) Du sköna nya värld [Brave New World.] Översättning från Engelskan av Greta Tiselius. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1932, FIRST SWEDISH EDITION, small water-spot at foot of prelims, pp. 255, crown 8vo, original wrappers with geometric design in black, red, and grey, lightly toned overall with lean to spine and rubbing to extremities, good $380 Amongst the first translations of Huxley’s classic dystopian tale - German, Polish, and French editions all appeared, like this, in the same year as the English first edition.

71 (Inky Parrot Press.) HARRISON (Michael) A Choice of Churches. With literary connections from Cornwall and Devon. Words written and selected by Michael Harrison with illustrations by Alan Richards. Church Hanborough, 2000, 21/36 COPIES (from an edition of 326 copies), signed by Harrison and Richards with two additional prints signed and dated by Richards in a card folder, scraperboard illustrations throughout with many full and double page, hand-coloured under the direction of the artist, pp. 48, 4to, original quarter black leather, tan boards with Richards design printed in black and white, backstrip gilt lettered, fore and tail edges untrimmed, board slipcase, near fine $440 A wonderfully conceived and executed work, and scarce - the ‘literary connections’ range from Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence to Charles Causley and John Betjeman.

G.W. Curtis’s copy 72 James (Henry) Washington Square. Illustrated by George du Maurier. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 5 further full-page illustrations all tissue-guarded with additional chapter head-pieces, pp. 266, 6 [ads], foolscap 8vo,

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original green cloth, lettering to upper board and backstrip in brown and partially against a gilt ground, with pictorial border design to same stamped in gilt and brown, very slight lean to spine with gentle rubbing to extremities and the corners lightly pushed, brown endpapers with a small area of colour-loss at head of flyleaf, very good (Edel and Laurence A15a) $880 An excellent copy of James’s New York-set short novel, further enhanced by a superb association - bearing the pencilled ownership inscription of author and journalist G.W. Curtis at the head of its title-page. George William Curtis was a correspondent of James, and they had a shared background that blended New England and New York elements – he a generation older than James, they were among the foremost American literary figures of their day, with Curtis editing Harper’s Weekly for the same publisher from 1863 until his death in 1892.

73 (James VI & 1). CASAUBON (Isaac, attributed to), [recte BREDA (Corneille de)] Corona regia. Id est panegyrici cvivs. Dam vere avrei, Quem Iacobo I Magnæ Britaniæ &c. Regi, fidei defensori: delinearat, fragmenta, Ab Evphormione inter schedas [Greek] inuenta, collecta, & in lucem edita. London [i.e. Louvain]: Pro officina regia Io. Bill [i.e. J. C. Flavius], 1615, FIRST EDITION, complete with final blank leaf, cut close, a few letters touched, but no material loss, small rust spot on H5, no loss, ink stamp to verso of title, ‘DOUBL’ (i.e. a duplicate from a Francophone library?), pp. 129, [3, blank], small 8vo, modern parchment backed blue paper boards, good (ESTC S91365) $7,500 A rare and important book, immersed in intrigue, of scholarly fascination, and of book trade history interest. ‘Corona [regia] posed a real threat to the king’s reputation. It was hawked by the chapmen of Louvain and Brussels, and packets of the book made their way to the 1615 Frankfurt book fair. Only a few copies circulated in England, but they were read and anxiously discussed ... The libel adopted satirical masks to conceal its origins and heighten its effects. Its central conceit was that at his death in 1614 the Huguenot scholar Isaac Casaubon had left unfinished a panegyric to James I, now edited by “Euphormio” and published by the royal printer John Bill. Readers quickly saw through these claims, as the book mixed comically exaggerated flattery with patently libellous accusations ... linking his vile manners and unnatural sexual tastes to systematic moral, political and religious corruption. It depicted James as a Machiavellian tyrant, mocked his intellectual pretensions, and claimed he was a changeling - the son, not of Mary, Queen of Scots, but of a Calvinist preacher ... [it] also ridiculed the Church of England as the bastard offspring of the “incestuous” and “prodigious lust” of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn ... Most notoriously, it portrayed James as a physically deformed sodomite, linking his disorderly rule to his disorderly bodily desires’ (Bellany and Cogswell, The Murder of King James I, pp. 146-47). When the Flemish authorities did not pursue the Brussels printer and the suspected author vigourously enough for the English Crown, the little book nearly became a casus belli. An English translation by Tyler Fyotek, with an Introduction by Winifred Schleiner, was published by Droz in 2010. The sub-heading to the Introduction is ‘The most intense early modern detective story involving a book: Trumbull’s attempts to find the author of Corona regia.’ ESTC records 3 variants: 2 of 127 pp. only (one with ‘PANEGYRICUS’ in the title, the other with ‘PANEGYRICI ... Britan-/niæ’), and the present of 129 pp. (’PANEGYRICI ... Brita-/niæ’). The respective holdings are: BL, C, Durham, NLS, Rylands, Westminter Abbey, Yale; Bodleian, TCD; Bodleian, TCD, Marsh’s, V&A, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Harvard, Barbados archives (!). Extremely rare in commerce: perhaps the last copies to be offered for sale were those (or that?) in the Bibliotheca Heberiana, one of 13 in Lot 1006 in part III (1834), and one of 2 books in Lot 1354, part XII (1836).

74 Jansson (Tove) Trollvinter. Helsingfors: AWE, Gebers, 1957, FIRST EDITION, vignette to half-title, frontispiece map and illustrated throughout by the author, pp. 146, [1], crown 8vo, original quarter red cloth with illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, top corners lightly bumped with light rubbing to extremities, some fine and faint spotting to leading edges, very good $250 The sixth of the author’s Moomin books.

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One of 25 subscriber copies 75 Joyce (James) Ulysse [Ulysses.] Traduit de l’anglais par M. Auguste Morel, assiste par M. Stuart Gilbert. Traduction entièrement revue par M. Valery Larbaud avec la collaboration de l’Auteur. Paris: La Maison des Amis des Livres, 1929, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, 6/25 COPIES printed on Hollande Van Gelder paper (from an edition of 1,000 copies), with a printed statement designating this copy for ‘Mademoiselle Elvira de Alvear’, pp. [viii], 870, 4to, original cream wrappers printed in blue, light dustsoiling with a few tiny spots, nick at foot of front panel and a slope to bottom corner of text-block (a natural effect of the variable page size), edges untrimmed with a few spots, original prospectus for this edition with tipped-in photograph of Joyce to front laid in along with various clippings relating to Joyce, Monnier and the present copy or edition, also laid in a manuscript transcription of an article on ‘Ulysses’ by Adrienne Monnier and an accompanying translation in pencil, preserved in cloth chemise and morocco and marbled paper slipcase, very good (Slocum & Cahoon D17) $12,500 The subscriber in receipt of this copy is a notable personage: a wealthy Argentine and patron of the arts, the subject of a poem by her close friend Jorge Luis Borges, she lived in Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s where she founded the literary magazine Imán and struck friendships with authors such as Fargue, Valéry, as well as James Joyce - with Adrienne Monnier’s bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres at the centre of her cultural interactions. Monnier is the publisher here, as her friend Sylvia Beach - whose Shakespeare and Co. was across the Rue de l’Odéon from Monnier’s bookshop - had been for the first edition in 1922. The article by Monnier included here is signed in her name with a flourish, but conspicuously - contrary to the enclosed original catalogue description for this copy - not by her; it was perhaps made by Elvira de Alvear, who has real significance as a bridge between the European and Latin American modernist scenes.

76 Joyce (James) Ulysses. John Rodker for the Egoist Press, 1922, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 243/2,000 COPIES a few spots to borders of final pages, pp. [vii, errata], [viii], 732, 8vo, original blue wrappers printed in white, a small amount of creasing with some tiny spots of rubbing to extremities, hint of splitting at head of front joint, edges untrimmed and partially unopened, attractive custom cloth dropdown box and chemise, very good (Slocum & Cahoon 18) $10,600 An exceptional copy of a fragilely constructed book, with the 4-leaf Errata list compiled by Joyce, Rodker and Harriet Shaw Weaver tipped in at the front. The second printing of the novel, printed using the plates of the first Paris edition from the same year.

77 Kafka (Franz) The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913. Edited by Max Brod [Translated by Joseph Kresh.] Secker & Warburg, 1948, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, facsimile manuscript page, a few spots at head of prelims receding into opening pages, a couple of leaves at rear with a very short closed tear at foot, pp. 345, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, a couple of faint spots, top edge yellow, a few spots running down fore-edge, endpapers with a few small spots, dustjacket with a few spots of internal tissue repair, very good $250 [With:] Kafka (Franz) The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1914-1923. Edited by Max Brod [Translated by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt.] Secker & Warburg, 1949, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 343, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and gently faded, a couple of faint spots, top edge yellow, a few spots running down fore-edge, endpapers with a few small spots, dustjacket with a few spots of internal tissue repair, very good

78 Keith (Thomas) An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and the Stereographic Projection of The Sphere; Including the Theory of Navigation... The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved. Printed for the author; and

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810, with 5 folding engraved plates, the first 2 spotted and the first offset, a few diagrams in the text, slightly browned in places, pp. xxviii, 420, 8vo, contemporary very dark blue straight-grained morocco, single gilt fillet to sided enclosing a roll tooled border, ‘Miss Whitbread’ in gilt letters within a frame at the centre of the upper cover, spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt direct, gilt edges, minor wear to extremities, joints touched up, good, bookplate removed from inside front cover, inscribed on the title-page ‘Elizabeth Whitbread from her friend and admirer Thomas Keith’ $690 Loosely inserted is a slip of paper identifying the recipient as probably Elizabeth Whitbread, the elder daughter of Samuel Whitbread II, of brewing fame, born in 1791, married 1812 William Waldegrave, afterwards the 8th Earl Waldegrave. A number of pencil annotations testify to close, not uncritical, study. The year 1810 marked the pinnacle of Keith’s career when he became geography tutor to Charlotte Augusta, daughter of the prince of Wales, and he also taught Princess Sophia Matilda.

With a letter [to Theodore Watts-Dunton?] 79 (Kelmscott Press.) SPARLING (H. Halliday) The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-craftsman. Macmillan, 1924, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece with tissue- guard, 16 plates, pp. ix+, 177, [2, ads], 8vo, original quarter beige cloth with blue boards, backstrip darkened with printed label a little dry and flaked, wear to corners, untrimmed, small bookseller ticket at foot of rear pastedown and initial stamp at head of facing free endpaper, good $500 With an interesting one-page ALs from Sparling, headed ‘Kelmscott, 4.9.88’ to a ‘Mr Watts’ - the nature of the content suggests that this was Theodore Watts-Dunton (the latter part of his name only added in 1897). Sparling describes his whereabouts for the coming weeks and, having the advice of Mrs Morris that ‘you are gone into the country for a few days’, states that ‘if you return in time and your engagements happen to leave you free for a few hours [...] I should be glad to be allowed to come along for a chat’; he ends by expressing the desire of May Morris (to whom Sparling was then engaged, and married in 1890) ‘to be very kindly remembered’. The attribution of the recipient seems sound when one considers that Morris had not long before been labouring on behalf of his ‘future son-in-law Sparling’ to secure just such a meeting (’to talk about his chances’) - see letter to Watts of December 16, 1886. An eminent critic, and later a poet, Watts-Dunton is also notable for his friendships with Rossetti and Swinburne - but it is in the former capacity that he is being pressed here.

80 Keynes (John Maynard) Essays in Persuasion. Macmillan, 1931, FIRST EDITION, a few spots to prelims with occasional recurrence to borders of text, pp. xiii, 376, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges a little spotted, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, dustjacket with chipping at head of backstrip panel with a little cracking to centre of same, short closed tear at head of rear flap fold with attendant creasing at head of rear panel, very good $750 Keynes’s first collection of essays, covering work from 1919 to the year of publication, grouped thematically with the opening section concentrating on the aftermath of the Great War.

Presentation copy to Thom Yorke of Radiohead 81 Klein (Naomi) No Logo. Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2000, FIRST EDITION, half-title and title-page printed in red, white and grey on black paper, photographic illustration throughout with some use of red tint, pp. xxi, 490, 8vo, original grey boards, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket, fine $2,500 An important presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf to Thom Yorke of Radiohead, and thereby encapsulating one of the key relationships of modern counter-culture. Klein’s inscription reads: ‘To Thom, Thanks for reclaiming a little piece of the culture with me. More to come! Love + respect, Naomi Klein, Oct 2000’. The book was a seminal text for the band,

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and its title was reportedly at one stage considered for their ‘Kid A’ album. Championing the book’s anti-globalisation message, Radiohead banned corporate advertising from their tours.

With illustrations by Picasso and Cocteau 82 Laporte (Geneviève) Les Cavaliers d'Ombre / Sous Le Manteau de feu. Illustrations de Pablo Picasso. Préface de Jacques Audiberti / Illustrations de Jean Cocteau. Préface de Armand Lanoux. Paris: Joseph Foret, 1956, FIRST EDITION THUS, ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES, this copy out of series and marked ‘EXEMPLAIRE D’ARTISTE’, frontispiece and one further full-page drawing by Picasso to first title, with frontispiece and full-page drawing by Cocteau to the second, one or two faint foxspots and very light handling marks, pp. [28]; [30], 8vo, original wrappers with Cocteau lithographs to both covers printed in black, red and green, dos à dos binding, loose-bound as issued, a little browning at backstrip ends, light foxing to textblock edges and endpapers of first title, very good $1,880 Inscribed by the author to the title-page of ‘Les Cavaliers d’Ombre’: ‘A Norbert toujours fidèle à lui- même, Geneviève, le 5.3.58’ - above the inscription Laporte has written three lines of [unpublished?] verse. Laporte is best known for her association with Cocteau and Picasso, who illustrate her work here - particularly the latter, for whom she was mistress and model during the 1950s.

83 Lawrence (Peter) Wood-engraving of Kelmscott Manor. ONE OF 75 COPIES, 12.8 x 10.8 cm (image size), mounted, new $100 A new engraving of Kelmscott Manor by one of the best modern wood-engravers - and Morris fanatic - Peter Lawrence, commissioned especially for our 2016 catalogue of the Jack Walsdorf collection.

Signed for Christina Foyle 84 Lennon (John) In his Own Write. Jonathan Cape, 1964, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by the author throughout, with these and the text printed in blue or brown, pp. 79, small 4to, original boards illustrated with a photograph of the author to front, a little rubbing to extremities, tiny spot to gutter of front endpapers, very good $6,250 Signed by the author on the flyleaf . This was formerly the copy of Christina Foyle, of Foyle’s Bookshop, who had hosted a literary lunch to mark the book’s publication in April 1964 - though the signature is undated, it is likely to have been signed at this event.

Proof Copy 85 Lennon (John) A Spaniard in the Works. Jonathan Cape, 1965, PROOF COPY, printed in brown, illustrated with line-drawings by the author in the text, some full-page and with sparing colour in green, pp. 95, crown 8vo, original plain wrappers with coverless spine (as issued), a few very fine and faint spots to top edge, pictorial proof dustjacket a trifle rubbed at extremities, very good $1,880 A scarce proof, the rear flap containing the printed statement: ‘PROOF ONLY’ PROVISIONAL PUBLICATION DATE June 24th 1965’. The first edition was issued without a dustjacket, and omits one of the drawings featured here as well as varying slightly in the use of colour.

Geoffrey Faber’s copy, via T.S. Eliot[?] 86 Lewis (C.S.) Out of the Silent Planet. Bodley Head, 1938, FIRST EDITION, occasional light foxing to borders with a couple of pages more heavily spotted, pp. xi, 264, [4, ads], crown 8vo, original burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with slight lean to spine, very slight bowing to boards, edges a little rubbed, top edge dustsoiled with colour faded,

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a few spots to other edges, pencilled numerals (some dates) to rear pastedown which has a bookseller label at foot, ownership inscription of ‘G.C. Faber’ to flyleaf, good $2,500 Geoffrey Faber’s copy of the scarce first volume in Lewis’s ‘Space Trilogy’, with the ownership inscription appearing to be in the hand of his eminent colleague, T.S. Eliot - why this should be the case is not easy to deduce, but the terminal ‘r’ and the angle of the underline are most characteristic. Aside from this curious aspect, this is an interesting association copy with an Oxford core (the two were near-contemporaries there) - though perhaps of more moment is the influence of Charles Williams on Lewis’s Ransom books. Faber had begun publishing Williams the year before, with ‘Descent into Hell’, a book received in rapturous terms by Lewis; the appreciation was mutual, and ‘Out of the Silent Planet’ was the book that coincided with Williams’s induction into the Inklings. The present copy shows that Williams’s publisher was also reading the work of his new friend and literary ally.

87 (Lhote.) COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) Le dit de l'Ancien Marinier, en sept parties, nouvellement mis en Français par Odette & Guy Lavaud & embelli de dessins par André Lhote. Paris: Chez Émile-Paul Frères, 1920, 368/729 COPIES (from an edition of 766 copies) printed on Hollande paper, frontispiece and then headpieces and typographic tail-pieces throughout, title-page printed in red and black, a spot to fore-margin of a couple of pages, pp. 42, [1], 4to, original stiff wrappers covered with hessian mesh, this offset to create a net-effect on the free endpapers, printed label to front, edges untrimmed, tissue wrapper frayed in one spot at foot of front panel, very good $150 The presence of the tissue wrapper has prevented the thread from fraying, which is a common defect of what is - and here remains - a very attractive edition.

88 Lucian of Samosata. Dialogorum selectorum libri duo graecolatini. Ingolstadt: Ex typographeo Adami Sartori, 1605, old stamp to front pastedown, pp. [iii], 410, [3, blank], 8vo, contemporary calf, boards ruled with a double black fillet, floral cornerpieces and central Jesuit devices, spine with four raised bands, central sunburst tool in compartments, old manuscript paper label to top compartment, edges gilt and gauffered, ties removed, slight cracking to front joint, tiny repairs to two corners, very good (VD17 23:629687D) $750 A scarce edition of selected dialogues by Lucian of Samosata, with the poems of Theognis of Megara appended, in an attractive contemporary binding. The stamp on the front pastedown, ‘ES’ within a plain border in purple, is found on some books from the important Donaueschingen Court Library of the Prince of Fürstenberg, parts of which were sold at various auctions in the 1980s and 90s (although another stamp containing the name of the library is usually also found in books from that source. COPAC lists only a copy in Birmingham, although there is also one in St John’s College, Oxford; VD17 gives just three locations in Germany.

89 Lundborg (H.) & F.J. Linders (Eds) The Racial Characters of the Swedish Nation. Anthropologia Suecica MCMXXVI. With the Collaboration of the Staff of the Institute and other Scientists. Uppsala: The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1926, FIRST EDITION, various tables, charts, maps and other illustrations throughout including plate showing conference group photo with printed key to tissue-guard, 4 colour-printed full- page maps, section of 44 plates showing the various types at rear, pp. xiv, 182, 108 (Supplement) + Plates, folio, original green cloth, lettered in brown to upper board with Institute crest in same, backstrip lettered in gilt against a dark green ground, a little minor soiling with top corner of upper board slightly knocked, red sprinkling to edges, creasing to free endpapers with front endpapers showing the shadow of a folder sometime laid in, very good $3,750 The first large work of the Institute, founded at the beginning of the decade by Herman Lundborg who conducted this survey, and a fascinating document of a time when eugenic programmes were a state concern among European nations. The study looks to record, describe and classify

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according to physical characteristics (size and colouring), migration and settlement - with its underlying intention being to promote and propagate the Nordic type. Whilst ideas of eugenics and race biology gained momentum in the wake of the First World War, their implication in Nazi ideology leading up to and during the Second World War led to what Kildal and Kuhnle refer to as their ‘total separation’ from ‘social democratic welfare politics’ (’Normative Foundations of the Welfare State: The Nordic Experience’) - Lundborg himself was removed as Head of the Institute (and replaced by Gunnar Dahlberg) because of his anti-Semitic beliefs and Germanophile tendencies. An important book, richly illustrated and the text entirely in English (the title-page refers to its distribution in Jena, London, Paris, and New York, as well as for the domestic market) - it is scarce on the market, and unusual to find copies outside libraries and free of library markings, such as this one.

90 Mann (Thomas) Der Tod in Venedig. Novelle. Berlin: S. Fischer, 1913, FIRST TRADE EDITION, pp. 145, [2, ads], foolscap 8vo, original grey wrappers printed in black, a small amount chipping and creasing to edges, textblock edges untrimmed and partly unopened, bookplate of Lucie Ceconi to flyleaf, very good $3,100 A very well-preserved copy of the first trade edition, this formerly belonging to Lucie Ceconi (née Oberwarth) - the first wife of German art dealer Paul Cassirer, who played an important role in bringing to a wider audience the work of the Berlin Secession, and then the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, particularly in his promotion of the work of Paul Cézanne and Vincent Van Gogh. There was a deluxe, signed issue of 60 copies, as well as an issue in cloth - but it is much less common to find the wrappered issue in such a state as this.

91 Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems. Printed for Robert Boulter, 1681, FIRST EDITION, with a strong impression of the portarit frontispiece, without the Cromwellian verses as usual, lower and fore-edge of frontispiece repaired to plate mark, small hole in I1 repaired without loss, small hole in Q1 affecting 2 letters, ink or soot stain to Q2 recto, rust mark 2L1, pp. [iv], 116, 131-39, folio, nineteenth-century polished tan calf by Bedford, spine gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges, minimal wear to corners, the Huth, Herring, Peddie School copy, good (Allison 9; Hatward 126; Pfrorzheimer 671; Wing M872) $22,500 A good, wide-margined, copy of one of the great collections of English poetry. Miscellaneous Poems was sent to the press by ‘Mary Marvell’ (Mary Palmer, Marvell’s housekeeper) who claimed that she was Marvell’s widow. The volume ‘includes religio-philosophical dialogues; verses on the pleasures (both sensuous and spiritual) of the retired life in pastoral surroundings; poems that depict innocence on the verge of sexual maturity; love lyrics, from the classic persuasion of ‘To his Coy Mistress’ to the dark complaint of ‘The Unfortunate Lover’; and some Latin epigrams and epitaphs. Almost the only public response to such late-appearing metaphysical poems is Wood's grudging statement that the volume was ‘cried up as excellent’ by those of the author's own persuasion (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 4.232)’ (W. H. Kelliher in ODNB). In all but two known copies, (Dobell-Thorn Drury- British Library and Huntington) three long poems in praise of Cromwell are suppressed by the cancellation of 13 leave, R2-T1 and U2-X2, which were replaced by cancels, S1 and X1, reprinting the non-Cromwellian parts of the excised leaves.

92 [Massialot (François)] Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs et les fruits. Avec la maniere de bien ordonner un dessert ... Suite du Cuisinier royal et bourgeois ... Nouvelle Edition, revue, corigée, & beaucoup augmentée. Paris: Prudhomme, 1712, with 1 woodcut illustration in text, woodcut tailpieces, and a folding woodcut plate, 2 openings with mysterious rust stains (?from cookery implements), small burn hole in X4 touching a few letters, paperflaw in lower fore-margin on T2, some foxing, pp. [xx], 480, [24], 12mo, original calf (’Le prix de ce Livre est de trente-six sols, relié en veau’), spine

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gilt, rubbed, head and tail of spine slightly defective, split in lower half of upper joint, sound (Vicaire 454) $880 First published in 1692, this is the fourth edition.

93 Mayow (John) Tractatus quinque medico-physici. Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro, et spiritu nitro-aereo. Secundus de respiratione. Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalibus. Ultimus de rhachitide. Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674, FIRST EDITION, with a fine engraved portrait frontispiece and 6 folding engraved plates, minor staining of one sort or another here and there, pp. [xl], 335, [1], 152, 8vo, contemporary (?Dutch) vellum over soft boards, lettered in ink on the spine (only 4 of the tracts listed), vellum strip catches, one missing, the text block drooping within the binding, end-papers lifted, but still firm, slightly soiled and a couple of patches of wear, good (Fulton, Lower and Mayow, 108; Partington, Mayow (Isis, 47, No. 3, September 1956), pp. 220 et seq.; GM 578; Heirs 631; Norman 1474; Madan III 3015; ESTC R10053) $8,130 ‘This historically important and rare book "is one of the best English medical classics" according to Garrison and Morton and is "one of the world's greatest masterpieces" according to John Ruhräh (Pediatrics of the past. New York, 1925. p. 344). In addition to the two treatises in Tractatus duo, it includes his tracts on respiration in which he accurately describes the role of the intercostal muscles in breathing, a tract on respiration of the fetus in utero, and De motu musculari in which he gives what may be the first description of mitral stenosis. His work shows that he was much in advance of his time and that he was a conscientious researcher who based his results on close attention to detail in the manner of his contemporaries, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke’ (Heirs of Hippocrates). Mayow ‘must be classed with Hooke and Boyle, possessing the scientific imagination of the one, the tenacity of the other. Mayow was a major figure in the Restoration school of Oxford experimentalists who took Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood as the basis for further experimental investigations. Mayow had the genius to perceive exactly the problems that had to be solved before any great advance in chemistry or physiology could be made; to guess at and partly to discover their solutions; and he showed a critical faculty in theory and experiment that was not to be met with in these two sciences until the time of Lavoisier’ (W.H. Brock in ODNB). The 3rd and 5th tracts had been published in 1668, but are here much revised.

Falsely ‘unforbidden’ 94 Morris (William) The Pilgrims of Hope. [Privately printed by H. Buxton Forman,] 1886 [but circa 1897,] FIRST BOOKFORM EDITION, pp. 69, crown 8vo, later brown morocco binding (signed EH and dated 1915) with original wrappers bound in, single fillet gilt border to both boards and lettering in gilt to upper board and backstrip, a couple of spots to fore-edge, bookplate of William Arnold to front pastedown, very good (Buxton Forman 93; Barker & Collins pp. 207-8) $2,500 Inscribed by the printer to the flyleaf: ‘R.A. Potts from H. Buxton Forman’. That the latter’s agency in the publication of this group of poems, which appeared originally in ‘The Commonweal’ magazine, transgressed - indeed bypassed - the normal terms of permission is well established by Barker & Collins in their Sequel to the seminal exposé of T.J. Wise and H. Buxton Forman in Carter & Pollard’s Enquiry. There Forman’s Note preceding the text is identified as betraying an ‘uneasy conscience’ (Sequel, p. 192), hinging as it does on his personal acquaintance with Morris - on the basis of which, allied with his persuasive blandishments, Morris relented from his original stance that the poem ‘might want much revision’ before seeing the light of day. The possibility of Morris having removed his veto is eliminated by the recognition that the date on the title-page is entirely false (if it is taken to be a publication date), with the BL receiving their copy in April 1897 - i.e., following Morris’s death - and no evidence for it having existed before that date. Forman’s deception here is artful, not least in being reinforced by his own bibliography, but it was not so successful as to avoid contemporary suspicion from such as Sydney Cockerell, who queried whether it was ‘an unauthorised reprint’ on learning of it in 1897, and subsequent detection when held up to scrutiny by the Enquiry. Significantly, Forman amends the terminal statement of the sequence in its original printed version from ‘To be concluded...’ to ‘The End’, fore-closing (and as

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such somewhat at variance with the terms of its publication set out in his Note) the expectation of it being revised and added to - apparently prematurely, but in this betraying the true state of things. Robert Alfred Potts was a wealthy bibliophile who was part of the inner circle of Wise and Forman, providing them with a ready audience and conferring respectability on their output.

95 Murakami (Haruki) Kafka on the Shore. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Harvill, 2005, 93/100 COPIES signed and stamped by the author on a tipped in bookplate, pp. 505, 8vo, original white leather with inlaid black cat to front, backstrip lettered in black, tiny speck to lower board, black page-marker, wave-patterned endpapers, slipcase, near fine $1,190

For ‘dear Father & Mother’, with a sketch for a pattern-design 96 (Nash.) Rutherston (Albert, General Editor) PAUL NASH. [Contemporary British Artists] Ernest Benn, 1923, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece wood-engraved self-portrait with tissue-guard and 34 further plates, foxing to half-title, pp. 32 + plates, small 4to, original quarter blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, a few marks to boards with light rubbing to extremities and a little wear, free endpapers browned, good $1,000 A very special copy of a fairly run-of-the-mill book, inscribed by the artist in pencil on the flyleaf: ‘For our dear Father & Mother, from their Paul and Margaret, 1923’. [With:] An ALs from Nash to a Mrs Phillips laid in at the front, dated April 1928, presenting ‘a pretty dull selection from my engravings’ [And:] A seemingly unused sketch - in pencil with a little ink, and partly coloured - for a piece of pattern-design, signed in pencil with the initials ‘PN’, with ‘8 wide’ and ‘18 x 11’ also in Nash’s hand at the foot of the image.

97 North (William) The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls. A Romance of the “Golden” Age. With four highly finished etchings, by F.H.T. Bellew. H.J. Gibbs, 1850, FIRST EDITION, plates as per title-page, uniformly slightly browned, plates offset, frontispiece slightly foxed, bound without the advertisements, inscription at top of title- page cropped, pp. xii, 250, 8vo, contemporary half black calf, worn at extremities, spine chipped, lacking label, small hole in upper board at fore-edge penetrating into the first 20 pages (no more than a nick by the time it reaches the paper), sound $3,750 Rare. ‘In his own time, William North (1825?-1854) was widely published (he wrote at least eleven books) and well-known, first in London and Paris, and in the early eighteen-fifties in New York, yet there is no modern biography, and there is no entry for him in such standard works as the Oxford Companion to English Literature, the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, or the Dictionary of National Biography. ‘North’s The City of the Jugglers or, Free Trade in Souls, a satire and fantasia on the stockmarket frenzies of Britain in the late 1840s with a side-trip to the 1848 Revolution in Hungary, is one of the most original novels of the mid-Victorian period, but it is also the most elusive book by one of the nineteenth-century’s most elusive authors. Frederick Bellew’s frontispiece engraving is apparently the only known portrait of the book’s author’ (from the University of South Carolina’s website: the University has made the text available both as an e-book and POD). It is possible to believe that the cropped inscription are the vestiges of ‘With the author’s compliments.’

Inscribed by the Borrowers (and the author) 98 Norton (Mary) The Borrowers Aloft. With illustrations by Diana Stanley. J.M. Dent, 1961, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece with further line-drawings to the text (a couple of these full-page), a little foxing to borders of prelims and a couple of spots at head of final pages, pp. [vi], 154, crown 8vo, original blue boards, Stanley illustration printed in red to upper board, backstrip lettered in red with slight lean to spine, a touch of fading to extremities and a spot to lower board, a few faint spots to edges, endpapers

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illustrated in blue and spotted, dustjacket with very light dustsoiling to rear panel and rubbing to extremities, good $1,560 With a charming inscription from the author on the title-page: ‘Pod, Homily, Arrietty (AND Spiller) send their love and thanks to the Carmelite Sisters - and so does Mary Norton (this is the first copy off the presses)’. Inscribed copies of the series are far from common, and this is a very special copy of its fourth installment.

99 O’Hara (Frank) A City Winter and Other Poems. New York: (Printed by Ruthven Todd for) Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951, FIRST EDITION, 28/130 COPIES (of an edition of 150 copies) printed on French Arches paper with the 2 inserted illustrations by Larry Rivers printed on Japanese Shogun paper, the title printed in blue, unbound as issued, pp. [iv], 16, crown 8vo, original plain white wrappers, untrimmed, fine $2,000 Scarce. Frank O’Hara’s first book. O’Hara took up residence in New York where he worked as Assistant to the Curator at the Museum of Modern Art. Whilst there he met and befriended several of the artists of the American Abstract Expressionists group, especially Jackson Pollock and Willem DeKooning. He was also a member of the New York School of Poets, other members of whom included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Barbara Guest. The Tibor de Nagy Gallery was founded in 1949 by de Nagy and J.B. Myers. Although initially a financial failure, funding from Dwight Ripley placed it on a more firm financial footing. ‘A City Winter and Other Poems’ was the first in a series of books issued by this gallery.

100 Olivier (Edith) Without Knowing Mr. Walkley. Personal Memories. Faber and Faber, 1938, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece by Rex Whistler and 15 further monochrome plates including a photograph by Lewis Carroll of Dante Gabriel Rossetti playing chess, title- page border in red, very occasional spot to borders, pp. 320, 8vo, original turquoise cloth, backstrip lettered in turquoise against a pink ground with gilt border with publisher lettering in pink, lean to spine, top edge pink, extremities a little rubbed, dustjacket with the backstrip panel a touch sunned and a little grazing to the pink of front panel, very good $310 A scarce book, this copy excellently preserved and inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, for ‘Margaret Edwards, my old friend, with many thanks, Edith Olivier, May 1938’. Various related clippings are laid in, along with a short ALs to the same from the end of that year - the letter begins ‘I agree that my hat is good, but I think my crown is better’, a reference to the mayoral head-dress that she was entitled to since becoming the first Lady Mayor of Wilton (where both she and Edwards were resident). Both pieces are depicted, the hat by a newspaper clipping, whilst a mounted official portrait by Cecil Beaton depicts the superior crown (designed and given by Rex Whistler, a pencil note to the reverse records). A letter to Margaret Edwards from Faber director Morely Kennerley is tipped to the front pastedown (her small ticket partially covered by it at head of same) - it thanks her for notice of reviews of the book in various Wiltshire papers, and for her contribution to the success of the book, which has already (the letter dated May 1938) reached a second edition. Olivier attended St Hugh’s College, though illness curtailed her time there; she subsequently became closely involved with the life of her native Wiltshire and as a hostess there to artists and writers such as Beaton, Whistler, Stephen Tennant, and Siegfried Sassoon. All of these experiences are covered, in a frank, engaging manner by this memoir.

101 (Oxford. University.) [ACKERMANN (R.)] A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. Text by William Combe.] R. Ackermann, 1814, 2 vols., bound without the half-titles, Advertisment slip in vol. i, aquatinted frontispieces and 62 plates, and 17 line and stipple plates of University costume, all hand coloured, uncoloured stipple engraved portrait, some offsetting of plates to text (as usual), 2 plates bound not according to the Arrangement but in more logical places, small flaw in the colouring on (the half-page) Magdalen College Entrance plate, the first 2 plates (after the frontispiece) creased, title to Magdalen College Entrance (the full-page plate) supplied in

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MS, pp. [iii-] xiv, xxv, 275, [6, Index]; [iii-iv], 26, [6, Index], 4to, contemporary half Russia, rebacked in a closely matching calf, spine gilt, repairs to corners and head of spine of vol. ii, good (Abbey Scenery 280: Clary 113: Cordeaux and Merry University 25: Tooley 5) $4,380 The plates are good and clean, albeit many are offset onto the text, sometimes quite heavily. A subscriber’s copy, that of James Ingram, (1774–1850), Old English scholar and antiquary, ‘best known for his admirable Memorials of Oxford’ (ODNB). This Ackermann was among a large quantity of books bequeathed to Trinity College, Oxford.

Presentation copy 102 Parker (Dorothy) Not so Deep as a Well: the Collected Poems. Decorated by Valenti Angelo. New York: Viking Press, 1936, FIRST EDITION, 416/485 COPIES signed by the author, decorations by Valenti Angelo printed in pink, p. xii, 210, 8vo, original quarter black cloth with a design in cream incorporating the author’s initials, pink boards decorated by Angelo, a small amount of rubbing, top edge black, cinnamon-yellow silk- marker, small bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, gold slipcase rubbed, very good (Bruccoli & Clark 4, p.291) $880 Additionally inscribed by the author on the half-title: ‘To Hugh Mills - with love, admiration, and envy, Dorothy Parker, Paris - unexpectedly - August, 1939’. The recipient was a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.

103 (Parker.) MOORE (Marianne) Eight Poems. With drawings by Robert Andrew Parker, hand-colored by the artist. New York: MoMA, [1962,] FIRST EDITION, 7/195 COPIES signed by author and artist, printed on Brentwood vellum all-rag paper, title-page in black and green, 10 drawings with all but one full-page, all hand-coloured using water- colour by the artist, text in facsimile of Moore’s holograph, a little crinkling to pages from effect of hand-colouring, pp. [32], 4to, original quarter grey cloth and boards, lettered in gilt to backstrip, top corners slightly bumped, slipcase with printed label a little knocked in a couple of places, in envelope with address of Monroe Wheeler and with a pasted note by him, very good (Abbott A20) $1,500 This the copy of the publisher Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at MoMA, who had earlier had a notable publishing venture with his Harrison of Paris imprint. As Wheeler’s note to the envelope records, this is the first state of the book (without the addendum slip providing the last two stanzas of ‘The Fish’). [With:] A separate envelope (with a note of contents in Wheeler’s hand) containing 8 preliminary sketches for Parker’s drawings, a few of them signed and one hand-coloured.

104 Patmore (Brigit) This Impassioned Onlooker. Robert Holden, 1926, FIRST EDITION, one or two faint foxspots to prelims with the occasional spot further in, a few faint handling marks, pp. [viii], 187, crown 8vo, original red and black patterned cloth, backstrip very gently faded with printed label, a small amount of creasing to cloth of upper board, a little bleed from red of cloth to top edge and dustjacket interior (a single spot showing to front panel), dustjacket with light overall dustsoiling and a small amount of chipping at corners, good $750 Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: ‘To Kathleen Byass, from Brigit Patmore, Jan 17 1927’. The recipient is probably Kathleen Byass of East Riding, Yorkshire - a farmer’s daughter whose family were acquainted with that of Winifred Holtby, and who continued the acquaintance at Somerville College, Oxford, where she also knew Vera Brittain. An already scarce group of stories, the presence of the dustjacket and the inscription makes this a very special copy. The dustjacket has a notable error on the front flap with regard to its description of the binding, which it expects to be quarter cloth with paper sides - both copies seen by this cataloguer are full cloth and the finer points of the jacket’s condition corroborate the expectation that it is original to this copy.

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D.H. Lawrence told Patmore, referring to the present work, ‘You have a curious sixth sense I like, an awareness which takes on to the fine edge of things into another world. The book is very like you’. As well as Lawrence, Patmore (née Morrison-Scott and married to a descendant of Coventry Patmore) was part of the literary and social circles of Alice Meynell, Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt, and Ezra Pound; it was she who introduced H.D. and Richard Aldington as well as undertaking a long affair with the latter. This scarce group of stories bears an effusive dedication to H.D., as ‘Belgarda’.

105 (Pleomorphic Parrot Press.) Writers and Artists of the Dorset Coast. With an Introduction and Observations by Michael Harrison and Linocuts and Scraperboard Drawings by Alan Richards, and sections on Sidmouth (just in Devon), Lyme Regis, Wymouth, Chesil Beach & Portland Bill, Swanage, Poole & Studland, and Bournemouth. Church Hanborough, 2006, X/24 COPIES (from an edition of 152 copies), signed by compiler and illustrator, the two-colour linocuts printed by John Grice on Zerkall paper and forming the head of each section (each with a double-page spread), the text printed litho on Hähnemuhle Bugrapapier, copiously illustrated, pp. 71, folio, original quarter black leather with illustrated boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, separate folder of prints also enclosing original prospectus, cloth and illustrated board slipcase, fine $380 The special issue, with a separate folder of prints - each signed and numbered. The writers and artists featured include Enid Blyton, John Betjeman, Virginia Woolf, Paul Nash, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, P.D. James, et al. - a rich selection. Harrison and Richards had previously collaborated on ‘A Choice of Churches’ with the same Press.

106 Porney (Lewis, translator) The New Weekly Novelist; or, Entertaining companion. Containing a new and complete collection of interesting romances and novels. A work designed for instruction as well as entertainment, being calculated to convey a general knowledge of the world; and consisting of the most valuable and important, humourous and pleasant, entertaining and instructive romances, novels, fables, allegories, memoirs, adventures, histories, anecdotes, &c. Not to be found in any other work of the kind in English. The whole newly translated from the French, by Lewis Porney, Esq. late teacher of the French language at Richmond, Surry. Embellished with an elegant set of copper- plate prints, designed by the celebrated Mr. Dodd and the ingenious Mr. Dighton; and engraved in a superior style of excellence by those eminent artists, Messrs. Wells, How, and Mears. Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold by Alex. Hogg, [c. 1780], FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 10 engraved plates, occasional slight browning and offsetting, pp. 392, [2, Contents], 8vo, bound up from the weekly parts (stab holes in evidence) in contemporary reversed calf, elegant red lettering piece on spine, spine slightly sunned, foot of spine darkened (possibly from the removal of a label), very good (ESTC T203366) $3,440 A pleasing copy of an exceedingly rare collection, with only the Bodleian copy recorded (and that apparently lacking the last leaf). There was a successful French grammar published under the name Lewis Porney, but there is some doubt as to his actuality, and he was perhaps the invention of the booksellers. Certainly the name is suggestive, and some of the stories, and plates, here are a little risqué. Though translated from the French, not all of the stories are French, e.g. the first story by Athenagoras. Included are the Arthurian ‘History of Claris and Laris,’ and the ‘History of Tristran.’ ESTC T107271 (Raven 1780:22) is a variant, the title similar, but with differences including the identification of the translator as ‘Mr. Porney’, and the plates are dated 1780. In our version the frontispiece (which is not numbered) and Plate X (the other plates being numbered in Arabic numerals) are not dated, while the others, curiously, have had their dates erased, after the stock phrase, ‘Published as the Act directs’. T107271 is less rare - BL, Cambridge, Bodley; Ohio, Rice, UCLA, Illinois, Yale. ESTC also records Hogg’s New novelist’s magazine, consisting of ... . The supplement. Being a new collection of novels and romances, and containing elegant translations of a variety of French, Spanish, and other foreign romances, ... anecdotes, &c. written by eminent authors, and translated by Lewis Porney, esq. [Porney has gone up in the world], 1794, said to be Nos. 85-94. The last number here is Vol. I, No. 10.

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107 (Primrose Academy.) OMAR KHAYYAM Rubaiyat. Twenty-four wood engravings by Anatolii Ivanovich Kalashnikov. With an introduction by W. E. Butler. 1995, 47/135 COPIES signed by the artist and the author of the introduction, frontispiece and two further plates printed in colour, half-title and title page printed in black and grey, pp. [61], 8vo, original quarter blue cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, blue patterned boards, fore and tail edges untrimmed, bookplate of Tony Clark to front flyleaf, Rampant Lions Press order form laid in at front, matching slipcase, near fine Carter 251 $250 A textless rendering of the Quatrains, replacing the words with a series of wood engravings.

Printer’s copy of this pirated text 108 (Prokosch.) ELIOT (T.S.) A Duck in the Park. Paris: [Privately Printed by Frederic Prokosch at the Imprimerie du Trocadero,] 1969, ONE OF THREE COPIES signed by the printer (this additional to the limitation and marked ‘iota (Printer’s copy on Ingres)’, tipped in frontispiece coloured drawing signed by Prokosch, light foxing to title-page with two faint spots to first text-page, light surface abrasion at foot of title-page (see note below) pp. [3], 12mo, original marbled wrappers, printed label to front (additional label tipped in at rear), Prokosch’s signed bookplate (a little foxed) to inside cover, acetate jacket, marbled chemise and slipcase of green morocco and marbled paper with backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt between nine raised bands, very good (Barker, 22) $2,000 Prokosch’s own copy of his ‘Butterfly Book’ printing of one of Eliot’s ‘Five-finger Exercises’, with his manuscript ‘Bibliographical Note’ laid in to the chemise recording sale of the work at Sotheby’s in 1972 and other copies held at King’s College, Cambridge and by Nicolas Barker. The abrasion to the title-page is likely to correct the fictitious printing date originally supplied, because copy ‘Eta’ recorded by Barker purports (and herein lies the rub) to have been printed in Ghent in 1936 - the slightly off-centre printing of ‘Paris, 1969’ here would seem to corroborate this. As with previous printings of Eliot’s poems, Prokosch’s piracy permits some small textual inaccuracies (likely errors in transcription): here line 7 reads ‘I have seen the Bread and Wine’ rather than ‘I have had the Bread and Wine’. The specious nature of the printing means that the variance is quite understandably not granted any textual authority by Ricks and McCue in their recent edition of Eliot’s poetry. Despite the dubious qualities of his work, Eliot during his lifetime admired and supported Prokosch in his efforts. The absurdly small limitations of Prokosch’s printings and the gentle layers of deception in which they are shrouded allowed Nicolas Barker, with the co-operation of Arthur Freeman, to elevate them from the simple ‘prank’ that Prokosch had excused them as when the manner of the deceit was exposed to a paradigm that brought into question the nature of forgery and the set of values underlying the book trade.

In the dustjacket 109 (Rackham.) CARROLL (Lewis) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson. William Heinemann, [1907,] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, 13 colour plates including frontispiece all with captioned tissue guards, further drawings to text, a few pages with some very light spotting to borders but the plates and text in very clean state, pp. xi, 162, [2], 8vo, original green cloth with Rackham design stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip and boards otherwise with lettering and decoration in dark green, some small patches of dryness and discolouration to cloth with a couple of light marks and a few tiny holes to upper joint, top edge green with all edges spotted, Rackham design in green repeated to front and rear endpapers with very faint spotting to free endpapers, dustjacket repeating frontispiece illustration with some loss, heaviest at foot of rear panel but with nicks and chips elsewhere, a few

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closed tears, some creasing, with overall soiling and rubbing including a dark streak across the front panel, good (Riall p. 77) $3,750 The dustjacket is uncommon and original to this copy which, though it is far from being without flaw, remains an attractive, unrestored example.

With a portrait of Brooke signed by Joan Hassall 110 (Rampant Lions Press.) Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts by Rupert Brooke, Edward Marsh & Christopher Hassall. Collected, compiled and annotated by John Schroder. With a frontispiece by Joan Hassall. Cambridge, 1970, ONE OF 50 (from an edition of 450) signed by the author and artist, this copy out of series and marked ‘hors commerce’, printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper, with the extra proof of the frontispiece signed by the artist, numerous photographic plates and reproductions, title page printed in black and green, pp. 134, [1], 4to, original quarter green morocco, backstrip gilt lettered, green cloth sides, t.e.g., others untrimmed, order form inserted at front, near fine $310 With a Rampant Lions order form dated 13/1/04.

111 (Rampant Lions Press.) BALZAC (Honoré de) The Unknown Masterpiece Six etchings and aquatints by Thomas Newbolt with a new translation made by Peter Raby. 1997, 14/40 COPIES (from an edition of 300 copies), printed on Zerkall Antique mould-made paper and signed by artist and translator, six original aquatints tipped in, title page printed in black and brown, pp. 49, [2], 4to, original quarter white longstitched tawed goatskin, plain oak boards, fore and tail edges untrimmed, spare white lettering piece laid in at front, cloth slipcase, fine $500 Described by Carter in his descriptive catalogue of the Press’s work as ‘a personal enthusiasm’, and it shows in the quality of the edition.

112 Rutherford (Sir Ernest), James Chadwick, and C.D. Ellis Radiations from Radioactive Substances. Cambridge: University Press, 1930, FIRST EDITION, with 12 photographic plates and numerous diagrams in the text, a modicum of foxing to the text, fore-edges spotted, some larger spots on the verso of the plates (not affecting the images), pp. [xii], 588, 8vo, original green cloth, and dust jacket, signature of Jacob Daid Roberts on the front free endpaper, repeated at the head of p. 273, very good $940 Rare in the dust jacket. ‘This new work will take the place of Radiocative Substances and their Radiations which was first published in 1913, and has been out of print for some years’ (Blurb on front of dust jacket).

Signed by Eric Gill 113 (Saint Dominic's Press.) The Spoil Bank Association Limited. FIRST DEBENTURE. Issue of First Mortgage Debenture, To secure an aggregate amount of One Thousand Pounds [£1000] carrying interest at the rate of six per cent per annum under Clause 3 (II) of the Memorandum of Association and in pursuance of a Resolution passed on the 24th day of January 1922. Ditchling, February 23 1922, printed in red and black with SBA blind-stamp at foot and ‘three pence’ red ink stamp at head, manuscript additions in red and black including a cancellation statement by Edgar Holloway of the Guild dated 29.ix.1976, pp. [4], folio, single folded sheet, untrimmed, tipped-in SBA slips to front completed in manuscript by John V.D. Kilbride (Secretary) recording transfer of interest in this Debenture and one printed slip for the same purpose laid down and signed by Charles L. Waters, very good (Taylor & Sewell A103) $190 Signed by Eric Gill & Douglas Pepler (each adding ‘O.S.D.’), in their capacity as Directors of the Association - also signed, as Secretary, by Charles L. Waters.

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An interesting and unusual financial document from the early years of the Guild, which had established the SBA in order to manage its land and property.

Signed by Eric Gill, unrecorded 114 (Saint Dominic's Press.) The Spoil Bank Association Limited. SECOND DEBENTURE. Issue of Second Mortgage Debenture, To secure an aggregate amount of One Thousand Pounds [£1000] carrying interest at the rate of six per cent per annum under Clause 3 (II) of the Memorandum of Association and in pursuance of a Resolution passed on the 24th day of January 1922. Ditchling, February 23 [in manuscript,] 1922, printed in red and black with SBA blind-stamp at foot and ‘three pence’ red ink stamp at head, manuscript additions in red and black including a cancellation statement by Edgar Holloway of the Guild dated 29.ix.1976, pp. [4], folio, single folded sheet, untrimmed, tipped-in SBA card to front completed in manuscript by John V.D. Kilbride (Secretary) recording transfer of interest in this Debenture on September 14th 1937, very good $190 Signed by Eric Gill (adding ‘O.S.D.’), in his capacity as Director of the SBA, and signed in the same manner by H.J. (Joseph) Cribb - Gill’s former apprentice. Also signed, as Secretary, by Charles L. Waters. The date written in manuscript to the rear also appears to be in Gill's hand. An interesting and unusual financial document from the early years of the Guild, which had established the SBA in order to manage its land and property - Taylor & Sewell record only the First Debenture, issued on the same date but with some small variants in content and in the setting, and in the signatories (the first was signed by Pepler along with Gill).

115 Semmelweis (Ignaz Philipp) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth ... und an ... Dr. F. W. Scanzoni. Pest: Gustav Emich, 1861, FIRST EDITION, tiny piece torn from lower outer corner of first leaf, pp. 21, [1], 2, blank], 8vo original green printed wrappers, front wrapper partly faded and a little frayed at fore-edge $940 ‘Rebuffed, maligned, and depressed by the criticism and rejection of his great work Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers, 1861, Semmelweis almost immediately began to attack his antagonists in a series of open letters. The first publication appeared in 1861 and contained letters to Joseph Späth (1823-1896), professor of midwifery at the Joseph's Academy in Vienna, and Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni (1821-1891), professor of midwifery at Würzburg’ (Heirs of Hippocrates).

The Fourth Folio 116 Shakespeare (William) Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio ... Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685, magnificent engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout above the verses To the Reader on verso of the first leaf, title with fleur-de-lis device (McKerrow 263), double column text within typographical rules, woodcut initials, frontispiece skilfully repaired at inner margin, a tear (repaired) in the top inner corner just passing through the engraved surface for about 1 cm (hatched area), title-page with tears repaired, 2 small lacunae filled in, some of the repaired tears passing through letters but without loss, paperflaw in *Bbb1 with the loss of 7 letters on the recto and several more on the verso (failure to print), water-staining in the inner margins at the beginning, diminishing until absent in gathering E, intermittant water- staining in the lower margins, last leaf mounted and defective at head and foot without loss of text, minor worming strictly in the fore-margin in the third pagination, a few ink splashes here and there, and the odd small rust hole, tears in lower margin of *Bbb6 with loss to blank margin (not affecting text), another to Kkk4 entering the text but without loss, [xii], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.e. 253]-272, [2], 328, 303, [1], folio (362 x 235 mm), modern panelled calf over old boards (by James Brockman), spine richly gilt,

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contrasting lettering pieces (‘Shakespear’ as per the title-page), black-velvet-lined maroon buckram folding box with a black lettering piece (‘Shakespeare’), good (Bartlett 123; Gregg III, p. 1119; Jaggard p. 497; Pforzheimer 910; Wing S2915; see PMM for the First Folio - a remarkably succinct entry). $106,250 In general a good copy of the Fourth Folio, the last of the 17th-century editions of Shakespeare’s works, edited by John Heminge (d. 1630) and Henry Condell (d. 1627), the seven plays added by Philip Chetwin (d. 1680), publisher of the Third Folio: the title variant here (no priority) omits Chetwin’s name. A tall copy at 14½ inches (cf. the 2 Pforzheimer copies: 910 at 14, and 911 at 13¼). Of the seven added plays only Pericles is now seriously considered to have any Shakespearian connection. In spite of the ‘Never before Printed’ of the title-page the seven extra plays were in fact included in the second issue of the third edition (1664). A previous owner has had pasted on to the front pastedown another portrait of Shakespeare, the only other example from the seventeenth-century, taken from a copy of the 1640 Poems. A propos the First Folio the Pforzheimer catalogue emphatically states that ‘it is incomparably the most important work in the English language and will always be valued and revered accordingly’. The meed of veneration due the Fourth Folio, if not so empyrean, is still substantial.

Simon to Simon 117 Simon (Oliver) Introduction to Typography. Faber and Faber, 1945, FIRST EDITION, 77 illustrations (many full-page and one a folding type-specimen), several printed in two colours, pp. xiii, 137, crown 8vo, original buff cloth with a typographic border design stamped in blue to upper board, the edges a little dusty, backstrip with matching border and lettered in red, light spotting to edges, dustjacket a little frayed at head of darkened backstrip panel, very good $190 Inscribed by the author ’To my friend’, the wine writer André L. Simon - the inscription dated 20th October, 1945.

118 Sperling (Johannes) Anthropologia physica. Wittenberg: Johannes Berger, 1647, FIRST EDITION, uniformly very slightly browned, pp. [xxxii], 780, [34, Index plus 2 blank leaves, small 8vo, contemporary vellum over wooden boards, later ink lettering to spine, 19th-century allegorical Swedish bookplate, very good $1,060 The very scarce first edition of this teaching manual, in question and answer form. The work is in two books: the first, and longer, one is on the soul, the second on the body. The human counterpart to Sperling’s better-known Zoologia physica. Sperling was a student of Sennert’s.

119 Steinbeck (John) The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939, FIRST EDITION, one leaf not trimmed to size at creased lower corner, ownership inscription of Helen Murphy Martin at head of title-page, pp. [vi], 619, 8vo, original buff cloth with Elmer Hader illustration stamped in brown and wrapping around, top edge yellow, pictorial endpapers, dustjacket with Hader design, a touch of rubbing to extremities and a small chip at head of slightly sunned backstrip panel, custom quarter morocco dropdown box, very good (Goldstone-Payne A12.a) $21,880 First edition of Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression - this a presentation copy, inscribed warmly by the author on the flyleaf ‘Again for Helen Murphy, affectionately John Steinbeck’. The recipient (later Helen Murphy Martin) was the sister of Steinbeck’s Salinas friend John Murphy - the form of the inscription implies that he was in the habit of presenting his books to her, and indeed there is a later record of her positive response to ‘East of Eden’ shortly after its publication.

120 Sterne Laurence) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. A New Edition. Vol. I [-II]. Basle: Printed and sold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1796, 2 vols., with 2 black pages but no marbled one (as issued), with general title-pages (Vols. I-II) and sectional titles to the various volumes but continuously paginated, a few spots here and there and a modicum of browning, pp. [vi, including half-title], 424; viii, 398, 8vo, contemporary half red

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morocco, spine gilt, lettered direct, a crowned crest in the central compartments, marbled boards with matching edges, trifling wear, bookplate of E. G. Graham Little (not his crest on the spine), very good (ESTC T14733) $1,380 A very attractive copy of a rare edition. ESTC records 4 copies: BL only in the UK (badly worm eaten), Clark, and a copy apiece in Switzerland and Australia. The Laurence Sterne Trust have a copy of the 9th edition, 1773, with Graham Little’s bookplate.

121 Stewart (Donald Ogden) A Parody Outline of History. Wherein May be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events, Imagining Them As They Would Be Narrated by America’s Contemporary Authors, Together with Divers Delightful Droll Drawings Pencilled by Herb Roth. New York: George H. Doran, 1921, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 20 further illustrations, pp. 230, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, printed labels to upper board and backstrip, top edge a trifle dusty with others roughtrimmed, dustjacket with backstrip panel a shade darkened, very good $230 A parody of Wells’s ‘Outline of History’, skilfully done ‘in the manner of’ what are classified in the Preface as ‘our most characteristic literary figures’: so we have Edith Wharton narrating Custer’s Last Stand, F. Scott Fitzgerald taking on Miles Standish, James Branch Cabell re-telling the continent’s discovery, Eugene O’Neill on the First World War, and others in a similar vein 0 including Ring Lardner and Sinclair Lewis. The author was awarded an Oscar for his screenplay for The Philadelphia Story and featured, in the guise of Bill Gorton, in Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’.

122 Stout (Rex) Double for Death. The Crime Club by Collins, 1940, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 252, [3, ads], crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, some sunning through jacket faintly visible to upper board, some light corner-bumping, a handful of spots to edges, dustjacket price-clipped with gently faded backstrip panel, a few nicks and some light soiling, diagonal crease at foot of front panel, very good $1,880 A Tecumseh Fox mystery, an excellent copy in the uncommon dustjacket.

123 Strange (Edward F.) Alphabets. A Handbook of Lettering with Historical, Critical & Practical Descriptions. George Bell, 1895, 36/75 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, frontispiece in red and black and 194 illustrations (94 full-page including a sample of William Morris's Golden, Chaucer and Troy types printed at the Kelmscott Press), pp. xix, 294, 8vo, original plain wrappers faintly spotted, edges roughtrimmed, printed dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel and some light soiling, very good (Peterson D12:9) $340 The Kelmscott Press leaf is printed on William Morris handmade paper. Peterson (A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press) records that 2000 copies of this leaf were printed and 50 on large paper, in February or March 1895 -its inclusion is in some sense reciprocal, as Strange gives precedence to the output of the Kelmscott Press in his discussion of modern practitioners of the art of lettering.

124 Sturgeon (Theodore) The Dreaming Jewels. New York: Greenberg, 1950, FIRST EDITION, a couple of light handling marks, dried adhesive residue to gutter of title-page, pp. [iv], 217, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, lilac and silver dots to upper board, lettering to backstrip in same (with title in black), the cloth grubby overall with a few marks,corners of upper board bumped with that at top affecting textblock also, contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf with a few spots to endpapers, contemporary review laid in, dustjacket a little rubbed and creased, good $230 Inscribed by the author in red ink to the title-page, with a symbol beside his name; a pencil note at foot of same partly clarifies - the book was signed for fellow author John Baxter at the inaugural World SF meeting in Dublin, the symbol ‘represents a crucial human drive - “ask the next question”’. This was a credo of critical thinking developed by Sturgeon - the symbol of a Q with an arrow running through it accompanied his signature from around 1970, and corresponded to a pendant he wore round his neck.

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A presentation copy with a holograph correction 125 Thomas (Edward) Horae Solitariae. Duckworth, 1902, FIRST EDITION, pp. viii, 187, [4, ads], foolscap 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gilt to upper board within a blind- stamped single-fillet border, publisher’s device blind-stamped to lower board, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly faded, one or two faint stains and light rubbing to extremities, corners slightly bumped, t.e.g. now dulled, light spotting and browning to endpapers, good (Eckert, p. 187-8) $2,000 Inscribed by the author on the verso of the flyleaf: ‘To E.S.P. Haynes from Edward Thomas, May 1902’; Thomas has also made a manuscript correction to the prior printings listed facing the first text-page. Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes was an author and lawyer, and among Thomas’s closest friends - the two had met at Oxford in 1898, and Haynes was the dedicatee of Thomas’s book on George Borrow. Haynes also has a paratextual presence in the current work, where a quotation from him (a line from a poem submitted, unsuccessfully, for the Newdigate Prize) is used as the book’s epigraph on the verso of the half-title - both a tribute and an expression of gratitude, as it was through Haynes’s generous offer to bear some of the production cost that the book was accepted for publication. Pinned to the flyleaf of this copy is a glowing review from the August 30 issue of ‘The Speaker’ - written under the pseudonym ‘Pollux’, Haynes has written his initials below to confirm his authorship; pinned to the verso of the half-title (beneath the quotation from Haynes) is an obituary clipping from ‘The Times’, 14 April 1917 (its origin clarified by a pencilled note by Haynes); the ‘correspondent’ referred to herein is conceivably also Haynes. Within the book there are further marginal markings by Haynes, some simply highlighting passages in pencil but others more substantial and intriguing: on p. 11, next to a quotation from a letter, Haynes notes that this was ‘invented by ET’; in the margins of Thomas’s essay on Epitaphs, Haynes provides the amusing example ‘Eliza sorrowing reared this marble slab/ To her dear John who died of eating crab’; at the head of the seventh essay, Haynes notes that it was ‘written in Atherley Road, Earlsfield’, whilst at the head of the chapter on Caryatids, Haynes provides a definition thereof and notes the location of the opening scene surveyed by the author as ‘St Mary’s’; beside the author’s description of a young girl in ‘On the Evenlode’, his reader supplies the intriguing suggestion ‘probably an impression of CLS’ - the further identity of the person intended remaining, however, obscure to my research. A few further notes by Haynes, of varying clarity, occupy the rear free endpaper. A superb copy of this important early work by Thomas.

126 (Tolkien.) SIR GAWAIN & the Green Knight. Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925, FIRST EDITION, 2 plates both tissue-guarded, errata-slip present before the Introduction, the poem neatly glossed throughout in black ink with modern paraphrase and a few instances of section-marking in red or blue pencil, some light foxing, pp. xxviii, 212, crown 8vo, original green cloth, axe vignette and single fillet border to upper board stamped in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded, light rubbing to extremities, edges untrimmed and a little browned, good (Hammond & Anderson B7a) $380 Tolkien was responsible for the text and Glossary and Gordon for the Notes - in our experience, finding this text unmarked is nigh-on impossible.

The Tove Jansson Hobbit 127 Tolkien (J.R.R.) Bilbo. En Hobbits Äventyr [The Hobbit.] I Översättning av Britt G. Hallqvist och med Illustrationer av Tove Jansson. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1962, FIRST JANSSON EDITION, 10 full-page drawings with numerous smaller drawings throughout text, pp. 308, 8vo, original quarter green cloth with colour-printed Jansson illustration to upper board, a touch of fading almost exclusively to lower board and none affecting Jansson image, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch faded with gentle rubbing at ends, very good (Hammond & Anderson Swedish C4) $2,500 An attractive edition - this is an excellent copy of a book whose scarcity can be attributed to both author and illustrator being immensely collectable separately.

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Given the importance of the Nordic influence on Tolkien’s work, there is something reciprocal about the foremost illustrator of the region turning her hand to one of his most enduring works - and the results are delightful.

128 Turner (Richard) A View of the Heavens: Being a Short, but Comprehensive System of Modern Astronomy ... To which is added, The Use of the Cælestial Globe ... Printed for S. Crowder, 1765, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, with 2 full-page engravings, and numerous engravings in the text including 1 with a volvelle, a little browning and offsetting, pp. [iv], 59, [1, ads], folio, [bound with:] A View of the Earth: Being a Short, but Comprehensive System of Modern Geography ... The Second Edition, Printed for S. Crowder, and S. Gamidge in Worcester, 1766, title printed in red and black, with 7 engraved plates (6 of them maps), numerous engravings in the text, 1 with a volvelle, some spotting, pp. [iv], 45, [3, ads], [and:] Plain Trigonometry Readered Easy and Familiar ... S. Crowder, and S. Gamidge in Worcester, 1765, title printed in red and black, woodcut diagrams in the text, a few spots and a little browning, [pp. [iv], 39, [1, ads], contemporary calf backed boards, worn, spine a little defective at head and tail, joints cracked but stout cords holding, signature at end of M. Peacock, and inside the front cover an elegantly printed book label for William Peacock dated 1769 (ESTC T106733 (4 copies in the UK and Ireland, not Oxford); T10654 (as previous item); T117908) $5,000 First editions of the first and last titles. The first is dedicated to the Chancellor and other officers of the University of Oxford and is: ‘Drawn up with a View to render the first Rudiments of so illustrious and useful a Science more easy and practicable to the Minds of Youth, and particularly of those who receive their Education in that ancient and venerable Seat of Learning.’ Although strictly modern as regarding the state of astronomy, Turner is a stickler for the Creation story, as per John Kennedy's A Complete System of Astronomical Chronology, 1762 (which contains a dedication to George III written by Samuel Johnson). He also takes it for granted that all the planets are inhabited. The engraving with the volvelle in the second work is a Geographical Clock, which allows one to tell the time of day in any part of the globe. It gets a bit vague when it comes to the Pacific, with 4 of the zones simply designated Great South Sea: however New Zealand appears before the last of them, and that is followed by Unknown Land. Those engravings that are signed are by John Gibson.

129 Vossius (Isaac) De lucis natura et proprietate. Amsterdam: L. & D. Elzevier, 1662, FIRST EDITION, woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut illustrations in the text (1 full-page), a little staining and browning at the beginning, pp. [viii], 85, [2], 4to, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, a bit worn at extremities, fly-leaves damp- stained, good (Bierns de Haan 5153; Willems1296) $5,000 The work which brought about the final acceptance of the law of sines, and a scarce book. This is Vossius’ discussion of Snel’s account of the law of refraction, the law itself having in fact apeared in Descartes ‘Dioptrique’ (appended to the Discours de la methode, 1637), but without proof. Vossius here accuses him of plagiarism (from Snel’s MS), a charge now known to be undeserved, though it was adopted by many - both Fermat and Huygens repeated this accusation (see Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (2004). Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century, p. 135). See also the same author’s chapter The Development of Isaac Vossius’ Optics in ‘Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) Between Science and Scholarship’, Brill, 2012. There are 4 marginal annotations, 1, contemporary, in Latin, and 3, relatively recent, in French. The last of these marks the point at which Vossius makes a mistake (‘se trompe’) on the nature of moon halos.

130 Wakefield (Priscilla) An Introduction to Botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. Printed for E. Newberry; Darton and Harvey; and Vernor and Hood, 1796, FIRST EDITION, with 12 engraved plates (plate IV being in 2 parts, bound separately), and a folding table, pp. [ii, half-title), xiii, 184, [8, ads, dated June 1797], 8vo,

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uncut in the original boards, rebacked preserving printed label, boards rubbed and soiled, good (Roscoe J375.1; ESTC T97962) $500 ‘The first botany book to be written by a woman to provide a systematic introduction to the subject’ (Ann B. Shteir, Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science, p. 83: the book is discussed at length, pp. 83-89). ‘Wakefield wrote expository natural history books that are part of the Enlightenment history of disseminating science to new audiences. An Introduction to Botany (1796) is an account of Linnaean botany in the form of letters between sisters; in print until 1841 it was adapted for the American market and translated into French’ (ODNB).

131 [Warner (Richard)] Netley Abbey: A Gothic Story. In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Printed for T. Dobson, W. Young, H. & P. Rice, and J. Ormrod, 1796, 2 vols. in 1, complete with both half-titles, slightly browned, slight water-staining, short strips cut from first 2 leaves, pp. [iv], 108; [iv], 104, 12mo, original sheep, upper joint cracked, cords holding,head of spine chipped, corners slightly worn, mottled sheep folding box with a richly gilt spine, good (ESTC W24309; Garside, Raven, & Schöwerling 1795: 47) $3,750 First American edition, the year after the first in Southampton, re-issued by the Minerva Press in London the same year. Both the English and American editions are passably rare. Of the former, only the BL copy is recorded in ESTC in the UK, 5 in the US and one in Poland (plus 4 of the Minerva Press edition in the US); 4 copies in the US only of this edition. Garside, Raven, & Schöwerling mention also a Baltimore edition of 1796 as listed in WorldCat, but we can find no trace of it. The book's condition problems are of course itemised, but, all things considered, this is a remarkably good copy. Netley Abbey itself is a locus classicus of the Gothic, though this is not its first appearance in literature. Warner was essentially an antiquary, publishing several notable antiquarian works, but here his imagination runs riot in a novel set in mediaeval times. The Abbey itself was visited by Jane Austen, an experience which contributed to ‘Northanger Abbey.’

132 Webster (Noah) Sentimental and Humourous Essays, conducive to economy and happiness. Drawn from common sayings and subjects, which are full of Common Sense, the best Sense in the World. By Noah Webster, Author Of The Effects Of Slavery, &c. In the Manner of Dr. Franklin. Printed for W. West; And sold by E. Langley; and Champante & Whitrow. 1799, woodcut vignette on title, title-page and succeeding leaf a trifle browned, pp. [viii], 64, 16mo, original boards, spine defective, rubbed (see ESTCT178195 and Sabin 102397) $630 An unrecorded variant of the work originally published anonymously as The Prompter, in Hartford, CT, in 1791, and frequently reprinted, including as ‘according to Act of Congress.’ ESTC records 2 London editions, both rare, one 1798, with pagination as here, another of 1799 of 72 pages. The title-page here is a cancel. Champante & Whitrow were wholesale stationers rather than booksellers, but clearly a marketing opportunity was perceived. The imprint of the 1799 edition reads ‘Printed [by W. Dyole, Tewkesbury,] for W. West, No. 40, Paternoster-Row; E. Harding, Juvenile Library, Pall-Mall: sold also at the juvenile libraries of Crowder, Ripley, and West, Croydon.’

133 West (Charles) Lectures on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848, FIRST EDITION, pp. xxiii, 488, 8vo, contemporary calf, borders on sides of triple blind fillets, spine with a blind ornament in each compartment and a row of gilt dots on the raised bands, burgundy lettering piece, marbled edges, extremities slightly rubbed and some scratching on the covers, contemporary signature at head of title of Joshua Haurson MD, very good (G-M 6334) $1,130 West’s ‘lectures on the diseases of children were published in the Medical Gazette in 1847 and later as a book which saw seven English editions and was translated into several European languages and Arabic. This work made West famous as the father of British paediatrics’ (ODNB). He was one of the founders of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. This is a good copy of the book, in a good, solid Victorian binding. Scarce.

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134 White (Patrick) The Aunt's Story. A Novel. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948, FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to leading edge of half-title, title-page and last couple of leaves, pp. [vi], 346, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, minor bump to bottom corner of upper board, some patches of discolouration to lower board, a few spots to endpapers with faint red mark at foot of flyleaf and a small ownership inscription at head of the same, Roy de Maistre dustjacket in excellent shape with a few nicks, a couple of short closed tears and minor chipping to corners, a small area of loss next to a tear at foot of front panel, light spotting to margin of rear flap, very good (Hubber & Smith E2) $5,000 The author's third novel, signed by him to the flyleaf - signed copies of White’s earlier books are decidedly uncommon and this is made all the more so by the presence of the dustjacket in this sort of condition. This was the first of the author’s books to feature a dustjacket design by Roy de Maistre, and in this sense marked the beginning of an important association between writer and artist - though the two had been lovers and friends for some years already, with White’s first novel, ‘Happy Valley’, dedicated to de Maistre.

135 White (Theodore H.) Making of the President, 1964. New York: Atheneum, 1965, FIRST EDITION, pp. xi, 431, [1], 8vo, original red cloth with author’s monogram stamped in blind to upper board, backstrip lettered ingilt, top edge blue, bookplate of ‘Bruce, Staunton Hill’ (see below) to front pastedown, dustjacket just a little rubbed to extremities, near fine $440 An account of the presidential election that saw Lyndon B. Johnson win out convincingly over the Republican Barry Goldwater, following the assassination of President Kennedy the year before. This is an important presentation copy, inscribed by the author to David K. E. Bruce, who served as UK Ambassador for the duration of Johnson’s administration (as he had for Kennedy before him), and his wife: ‘To David and Evangeline - with fond and glowing memories - Teddy White’. Bruce had earlier been the Ambassador to France and Germany, and remains the only man to serve as all three in US history.

136 (Whitman.) Cox (George Collins, Photographer) Photogravure portrait of WALT WHITMAN. [New York,] [Photo-Gravure & Color Co.,] [1887,] photogravure in sepia, laid down on backing within mount, preserving text (with portions of a few letters lacking) from borders of original sheet (’Copyright, 1887, by G.C. Cox’; Cox, Photo’; ‘Photo-Gravure & Color Co., N.Y.), 24 x 18 cm (image size, framed 37 x 31.5 cm), framed and glazed (using ‘Conservation Clear), excellent condition $1,250 An apparently unique, as far as records convey, photogravure rendering of a well-known photograph, taken on the morning of April 15th, 1887 - Whitman was fresh from delivering his New York lecture on Lincoln, and sat for several photographs in a session with Cox; following a brief dispute over royalties, Cox copyrighted two of the photos from this sitting, one of these being the present image - ‘the only time he ever did so, apparently to protect Whitman's financial interest in them’ (Walt Whitman Archive, online).

137 (Whittington Press.) BUTCHER (David) Pages from Presses. Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Vales, Eragny & Essex House. With a Commentary. Risbury, 2006, XXXIV/50 COPIES (from an edition of 185 copies) signed by the commentator, printed in red and black on Czech Losin hand-made paper, tipped-in folding sheet of type samples as frontispiece, 14 original leaves from each press tipped-in to stubs including a Doves Press leaf on vellum, a further 5 leaves in separate cloth and boards portfolio along with the Whittington ‘Types from Presses’ poster, the leaf from Doves bible with annotation for lectern-reading, pp. 102, folio, original scarlet Nigerian goatskin, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers, cloth slipcase with matching goatskin gilt- lettered label, fine $3,100 A quite stunning production - superbly made and worthwhile in every aspect.

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138 (Whittington Press.) CRAIG (John) Venice. Risbury, 2016, xxxviii/40 DE LUXE COPIES bound thus and signed by the illustrator with an additional portfolio of prints (from an edition of 285 copies), wood-engraved illustrations throughout with 10 linocuts, some printed in colours, some on coloured paper, some on tipped-in fold-outs, the text printed in cinnamon, pp. [256], 4to, original John Craig binding of full black leather with inlays of red, pale blue and dark green, the backstrip lettered in blind, edges untrimmed, together with cloth and board portfolio in leather-backed grey cloth solander box, fine $1,800 The artist’s own designer binding is a simple and striking geometric design. The accompanying portfolio features prints of almost all of the seventy-odd engravings in the book itself. With the prospectus.

139 Wilde (Oscar) The Sphinx. With Decorations by Charles Ricketts. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES (from an edition of 250 copies) printed in black, with 9 full-page illustrations and a half- page design by Charles Ricketts printed in red, as is the running-head, a large decorative initial letter and 12 other initials also designed by Ricketts and printed in green, usual fine foxing to a couple of illustrated pages and to verso of terminal blank, pp. [34], 4to, original stiff white vellum with overall design by Charles Ricketts, the covers very clean and bright but with a tiny light surface abrasion at the foot of upper board, edges untrimmed, usual fine foxing to verso of flyleaf and to rear pastedown, custom dropdown box of brown morocco and marbled paper, very good (Mason 361) $7,500 An attractive copy of a beautiful book, printed under the supervision of its designer Charles Ricketts at the Ballantyne Press and from the collection of a descendant of the printers there (Charles McCall and his son Charles Home McCall).

140 (X-ray.) HALL-EDWARDS (John) X-ray photograph of a woman's hand with two rings and a bracelet. [Birmingham:] c.1900, gelatin silver print photograph from an x-ray, signed in ink 'J. Hall-Edwards' diagonally lower right, 22 x 20 cm, mounted on thick card, one small puncture and a few barely perceptible scratches (plus VAT in the EU) $1,250 Major Dr John Hall-Edwards was the British pioneer of x-ray treatment. For several years before the announcement of Roentgen's discovery, he had been engaged on experiments in the application of electricity to surgery. When the Roentgen rays were known, he devoted himself to experiments, but in 1908 he had to have his left arm amputated owing to the spread of x-ray dermatitis (now preserved by the Chamberlain Museum of Pathology at the University of Birmingham). He also had to have several fingers on his right hand amputated before his death in 1926. He was one of the earliest investigators of the rays in the country, and the first radiograph for the purposes of an operation in the United Kingdom, was taken by him on 14th February 1896. Among his many interests were art and photography, for which he won many medals. This striking image, probably from around 1900, seems more in the nature of an art photograph than a medical one.

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