BOW WINDOWS BOOKSHOP 175 High Street Lewes, Sussex, BN7 1YE CATALOGUE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT Literature, Biography, Bibliography, Classics, First Editions 1 - 122 Children's and Illustrated Books 123 - 158 Natural History, Geology, Science, Sport and Pastimes 159 - 199 Travel and Topography 200 - 261 The Arts, Architecture, Collecting 262 - 286 General Subjects, History, Theology, Militaria. 287 - 331 Telephone - +44 (0)1273 480 780 Fax - +44 (0)1273 486 686 Email - [email protected] Website - www.bowwindows.com You will find a large selection of our stock on our website, from where the catalogue can also be downloaded. We are always interested in buying books, from single volumes to large collections. Upper cover image - item 294 Lower cover image - item 17 NOTES ON BUYING FROM BOW WINDOWS BOOKSHOP Please contact us if any of the cataloguing points are unclear or if you would like more information or pictures by email. All books are collated and described as carefully as possible. Payment may be made by following methods: Cheque, drawn on a sterling account. Visa, MasterCard or debit card. Direct transfer to Account No. 40009652 at HSBC Bank, Eastbourne, sort code of 40-20-69. Our IBAN code is GB66 MIDL40206990010176; SWIFTBIC is MIDL GB22. Postage will be charged at cost. Orders from abroad will be sent by airmail unless specified otherwise. Orders may be placed by telephone, email, fax or letter. Our normal shop hours are 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday inclusive, and an answerphone operates outside of these times. Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes LITERATURE FIRST EDITIONS, CLASSICS, BIOGRAPHY 1. A‟BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England. The Comic History of Rome. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. [c.1880]. Three volumes, 4to. 30 hand coloured plates plus illustrations in the text, a few spots, marbled endpapers and sides, armorial bookplates of Ivor A.B. Ferguson. Contemporary red half morocco, a.e.g., top of one spine with slight loss, spines and extremities with some mostly light wear. £200 2. AESOP. Fables of Aesop, And other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections. By Sir Roger L‟Estrange, Kt. [bound with] Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop... London: Printed for R. Sare [et al] 1699. Two works in one volume, first work third edition, second work first edition, folio, (xviii), 476, (xvi), 238, (2 advertisement) pp. Portrait and frontispiece plates, some occasional browning, some bumping of corners. Contemporary panelled calf, some wear to edges and corners, rebacked in a lighter calf retaining the original spine label. £750 A furiously prolific journalist and pamphleteer, L‟Estrange‟s edition of Aesop first appeared in 1692 and is described by DNB as “the most extensive collection of fables in existence”. Wing A709, L1247. 3. ALMANACK: A Chatto & Windus Almanack 1926. Limited edition, no. 138 of 250 copies, 8vo, (x), 151, (1) pp. 6 black and white plates, plus decorative borders and a full page coloured illustration to Albert Rutherston‟s Calendar. Original buckram backed printed boards, some light marking, spine a little faded. £75 Collecting extracts from Chatto and Windus‟ books, including pieces on Lytton Strachey and Aldous Huxley and by Roger Fry, Chekov, Proust and Clive Bell. 4. AUSTEN, Jane. [Works]. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Emma. Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. Lady Susan and the Watsons. London: Martin Secker [c.1920]. Adelphi edition, seven volumes, 8vo. Recent red half morocco, gilt decorated spines, a fine set. See inside upper cover. £700 5. BARNES, William. Poems from... Selected and Edited by Walter Partridge with a preface by Mark Franklin. Sutton Mandeville: Perdix Press 1981. Limited edition, no. 56 of 100 copies, signed by both the Printer and Illustrator, tall 8vo, 34, (2) pp. Frontispiece and one other wood engraving by Robert Tilleard, plus a signed copy of the frontispiece engraving loosely inserted. Printed wrappers, fine. £60 A 19th century poet best known for his verse written in Dorset dialect. SIGNED COPY 6. BELLOW, Saul. More Die of Heartbreak. New York: William Morrow and Company (1987). First edition, 8vo, 335, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on the half title. Cloth backed boards, d.w., not price clipped but with the edges of the flaps slightly browned, a near fine copy. £100 7. BLAKE, William. Songs of Experience. (London: Ernest Benn 1927). Large 8vo, (28) leaves. 27 coloured illustrations, the leaves printed on rectos only. Gilt decorated cloth, a couple of marks otherwise fine. £50 An elegant edition printed on Japanese vellum. 8. (BRONTË, Anne). Agnes Grey. A Novel by Acton Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (viii), 220 pp. Frontispiece and one plate by Jack Hewer plus a drawing by the Author. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a couple of very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £75 9. (BRONTË, Anne). The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By Acton Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 5 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, fine. £125 10. BRONTË, Charlotte. Villette. Oxford University Press, Henry Frowde (1906). Small 8vo, vi, 573, (3), (8 advertisement) pp. Portrait frontispiece and decorative title, later inscription to fly leaf. Contemporary quarter vellum with gilt leaves and a black label to spine, t.e.g., a very good copy. £40 11. (BRONTË, Charlotte). The Professor. By Currer Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (x), 283, (1) pp. Frontispiece by Jack Hewer and a view of Brussels by Colonel Batty. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a fine copy. £75 12. (BRONTË, Charlotte). Villette. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes 8vo. 6 plates including 2 by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a few very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £125 13. (BRONTË, Emily). Wuthering Heights. A Novel by Ellis Bell. Oxford: The Shakespeare Head Press 1931. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, (xii), 385, (1), 9, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 3 plates by Jack Hewer. Original gilt titled orange cloth, a couple of very minor marks otherwise a fine copy. £95 14. BRONTË, Charlotte, Anne & Emily. Novels of the Sisters Brontë. Jane Eyre. Shirley. Villette. The Professor. Wuthering Heights. Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. [with] GASKELL, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Temple Scott. Edinburgh: John Grant 1924. Thornton Edition, 12 volumes, 8vo. 67 plates. Original gilt decorated green cloth, an excellent bright set still protected by their original d.w.‟s, these with some browning and marks and minor loss to the spine ends. £525 15. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Last Poems. London: Chapman and Hall 1862. First edition, 8vo, (xii), 142, (2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary signature to half title, sellotape marks to paste downs. Original blind stamped purple cloth, spine and edges a little sunned, some light marks. Wise 19. £150 16. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. The Poetical Works of... London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1897. 8vo, xxi, (i), 667, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers and sides, a little foxing to blanks and half title, contemporary inscription “As a souvenir of the [Glasgow] exhibition of 1901...”. Contemporary brown half morocco, period style gilt decoration to spine, t.e.g., some light wear to extremities otherwise good. £50 17. BURROUGHS, William. The Naked Lunch. Paris: The Olympia Press (1959). First edition, first issue, 8vo, 225, (3) pp. Original paper wrappers, d.w. with only the faintest of rubbing to the top of the spine. A near fine copy. £1,850 The first issue with the green title border, but with the price crossed out and the new price stamped on the lower cover, and the price blacked out to the lower wrapper. See lower cover. 18. CHILDE, Wilfred Roland. Selected Poems. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons (1936). First edition, 8vo, 60, (2) pp. Some light spotting, marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Bayntun‟s in full blue calf, a.e.g., gilt rules, gilt spine with brown and red labels, a fine copy. £75 19. CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. London: W. Collins, Sons & Co. (1926). First edition, 8vo, viii, 312 pp. Marbled endpapers and sides. Recent dark blue half morocco, a.e.g., a fine copy. £400 20. CHRISTIE, Agatha. A Pocket Full of Rye. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1953). First American edition, 8vo, (viii), 211, (1) pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. Cloth, light rubbing to extremities, d.w., not price clipped, some light browning and soiling, minor loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. See inside upper cover. £950 21. CICERO, M. Tullius. Of the Nature of the Gods; in three books. With critical, philosophical, and explanatory Notes. To which is added, An Enquiry into the Astronomy and Anatomy of the Antients. London: Printed for R. Franklin 1741. 8vo, (iv), 283, (9 Index) pp. Some foxing, contemporary signature to front blank with two library references in the same hand to the other side of the leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in a lighter calf with new endpapers, corners a little worn. £150 ERIC GILL 22. CLAY, Enid. Sonnets and Verses. (Waltham St. Lawrence): The Golden Cockerel Press 1925. Limited edition, no. 317 of 450 copies, 8vo, (viii), 35, (3) pp. 8 wood engravings by Eric Gill and a gilt Cockerel below the colophon by Desmond Chute. Original linen backed boards, slight fading to edges, a few marks otherwise a very good copy. £275 The Author was Gill‟s older sister.