DECEMBER 2016 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016 Contents: Children’s Books . p.4 Literary Classics & Autograph Letters . p.10 - Charles Dickens . p.18 Modern Literature . p.22 - Poetry . p.31 Continental Books & Illuminations . p.34 Early British Printing & History . p.37 Travel & Voyages . p.39 - Polar Exploration . p.46 - Travels by Women . p.52 Natural History & Science . p.56 Games & Sport . p.59 Something Unusual . p.61 Art & Architecture . p.68 Music & Theatre . p.70 Gastronomy . p.75 Maggs Bros. Ltd. 46 Curzon Street, London W1J 7UH Telephone: ++44 (0)20 7493 7160 (10am - 6pm Mon-Fri; 10am - 5pm Sat) Email: [email protected] Bank Account: Allied Irish (GB), 10 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6AA Sort code: 23-83-97 Account Number: 47777070 IBAN: GB94AIBK23839747777070 BIC: AIBKGB2L VAT number: GB239381347 Access/Mastercard and Visa: Please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number by mail or telephone. EU members: please quote your VAT/TVA number when ordering. The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until the price has been discharged in full. 2 Contact: [email protected] In 2015 Maggs Bros left 50 Berkeley Square, their home of nearly 80 years, and since then have been operating from a capacious but plain warehouse in the Home Counties, and a tiny but elegant shop at 46 Curzon Street, just round the corner form Berkeley Square. The last six months have seen a fairly intense programme of restoration of their new home, completion of which is now distinctly within sight. No. 48 is a fine Grade One listed terraced house completed in 1776, on the South side of Bedford Square, one of London’s finest and least spoilt townscapes. Previous residents of the house include Britain’s first establishment for the higher education of women, Bedford College, and the late 19th Century connoisseur of English watercolours, James Orrock. We expect to be fully installed early in the New Year, and hope that No. 48 will become as well known a location for the world’s rare book trade as was number 50. We particularly look forward to all being on one site again, and to welcoming old and new customers to our new home. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this selection of offerings from across all of our departments, arranged into useful categories for your perusal. If you have any questions about the items in this list please contact us, or drop by our Curzon Street shop. Ed Maggs 3 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016 Children’s Books The first edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s 2. BURTON (Tim). The Melancholy fairy tales in English Death of Oyster Boy. 1. ANDERSEN (Hans Christian)., HOWITT 1 of 310 copies signed by the author, this being number 92. (Mary) translator. Wonderful Stories for With coloured and uncoloured illustrations throughout. First Children. English edition. 8vo. Very good in original black cloth, and 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates, First English edition, purple and silver label, with the slip case. London, Faber and small 8vo., original blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt, Faber. 1998. £150 a.e.g., London, Chapman and Hall. 1846. £4,000 Signed by Tim Burton on the title page. (221030) The first issue, with the author’s name misspelt ‘Ander- son’ on the front cover and the title page. Near contem- porary inscription on the verso of the front free endpa- per, rubbed and worn at the spine, otherwise an excellent copy. Andersen’s fairy tales were first published in Denmark in 1837, and were favourably received, although their success was initially limited to Scandinavia. 1846 was the year his writing achieved wider fame: four translations of his tales into English were published, of which this was the first. The impact his writing had on British children’s literature was seismic: where previously tales focussed on moral or instructive lessons, Andersen sparked the realisation that fantasy and imagination, rather than being morally dangerous could be enjoyable and engag- ing. Andersen helped transform the genre of children’s literature, paving the way for inventive writers such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. (125969) 4 Contact: [email protected] 3. CADEAUX (LES) DE NOËL suivi de 4. CRUIKSHANK (George). George Moustache ou l’enfant vole, Main ouverte, Cruikshank’s Fairy Library. Hop-O’-My-Thumb. Coeur d’or; Le petit turbulent Par Mme C.G. Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Cinderella. Puss in Nouvelle édition. Boots. 12mo (140 x 80mm.) 142, [2]p., coloured frontispiece, origi- Pictorial title page and 24 etched plates by Cruikshank. nal decorated cloth with central picture on upper cover, edges Reprint. 8vo., original red pictorial cloth gilt, ruled in black. gilt, top edges with bevelled indent for a band, spine skilfully London, Bell and Daldy. [1870]. £350 repaired. Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1866. £85 A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper ‘To Mrs William H. Budgett with the kindest First published in 1852 and a popular title in the ‘Bibli- regards of Mr. and Mrs. George Cruikshank in the hope othèque de jeunesse chrétienne’. There is a copy of the that the “Fairy Tales” will amuse her dear children, May 1852 edition in the Opie collection in the Bodleian. 5th 1873’. Re-backed in new red cloth, the old spine laid down, new There are four charming stories with a strong Chris- endpapers, the old spine with considerable loss at the tian and moral content, but who Madame C. G. was we tail, corners bumped, covers spotted, some small foxing do not know. The firm of Alfred Mame (1811-1893) in to some of the plates. ‘Cinderella’ and ’Puss in Boots’ Tours was well known for the publication of such little lack the list of illustrations leaf. (217399) books which were printed in huge numbers; in 1863 they turned out 6 million books. Mame was also a philanthro- pist organising schools for children and financing for his workers a pension fund. Provenance: Lucie Helène Andrews, le 18 février 1870. At the end of Moustache (the name of a dog) she has added ‘Finished Translated it’ in pencil. (221051) 5 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016 “The best present of all is books” 5. DAHL (Roald). Charlie and the 6. MILNE (A.A.) By Way of Introduc- Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Faith Jacques. tion. First UK edition. Small 4to., original illustrated boards. First edition. 8vo., original light brown cloth spine, patterned London, George Allen and Unwin. 1967. £500 boards. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. [1929]. £300 Slightly nicked at head and tail of spine, otherwise a near Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Goolden with fine copy. (222543) the gratitude of A.A. Milne. Christmas 1930”. Goolden played the Mole in Milne’s stage adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall, first produced at the Lyric Theatre in December 1929. In the introduction Milne explains this collection of essays thus: “Its title should be the only title for any book of essays - Myself. But since book-sellers demand something more distinctive, I have called it By Way of Introduction; for when I am not introducing myself or than myself, I am but introducing a subject on which there is more to be said than I have said, or doubtless can ever say.” Contents include: ‘Introducing Fairyland’, ‘Introducing Shepard’, ‘Introducing The King’s Breakfast’, ‘First Thoughts on Spiritualism’ and ‘Children’s Books’. In his short essay ”The Art of Giving” Milne wisely (in the view of this cataloguer) writes that “the best present of all is item 6. inscription books.” A sentiment we heartily agree with! A very good copy, cloth a little soiled and some wear to the board edges. (131983) 6 Contact: [email protected] 7. MILNE (A.A.) SHEPARD (Ernest H.) Now We Are Six; Winnie the Pooh; When We Were Very Young; The House at Pooh Corner. Four volumes. Illustrated throughout by Shepard. All first editions. 8vo., respectively in original red, green, blue and orange cloth, all with dust jackets. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1924, 1926, 1927 & 1928. £9,250 A very good set with some very slight wear to the jackets, with two attractive ALS to “Betty”, both with small drawings. One shows him playing golf enthusiastically, if crudely (“about your golf. Try and imagine yourself at your very worst, well, I am worse than that”, next to an image of a golfer mishitting a ball that soars towards a boat in the Bristol Channel). The other shows a Scotsman in a kilt dancing a Highland fling to an audience of three birds. (221507) 7 Maggs Bros Ltd. Winter Miscellany 2016 8. PULLMAN (Philip). The Subtle Knife. 9. SEARLE (Ronald). SHY (Timothy). First edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, The Terror of St Trinians, or Angela’s Prince Scholastic Books. 1997. £450 Charming. Black and white illustrations by Searle. First edition. 8vo., cloth, pictorial dust jacket. London, Max Par- A fine copy in dust jacket, with the tiniest nick on one rish. 1952. £400 upper corner. (116446) Timothy Shy is a pseudonym for D.B. Wyndham Lewis. Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper ‘Ronald Searle’, above an original pen and ink drawing of the head of a St. Trinians schoolgirl, with hat and unruly hair, looking glumly up at the signature. Lettering on the spine faded, the dust jacket with a few small tears on the margins top and bottom. (217455) 10. SENDAK (Maurice). Where the Wild Things Are. First U.K. edition. Illustrated in colour throughout. Oblong 4to., original illustrated boards, pictorial dust jacket.