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Children’s & Illustrated Books Modern First Editions THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 2013

Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS


Lot 30 • Cover: Lot 218


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CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS BEATRIX POTTER, RICHARD JEFFERIES PLAYING CARDS & POP MEMORABILIA

Thursday 12 December 2013 Lots 1-378 commencing at 11am

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E. T. Booth, Rough Notes on the Birds observed during 20 years’ shooting and collecting in the British Islands, fifteen original parts, 1881-1887. Estimate £2000-3000

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CONTENTS Antiquarian Juvenile Books Antique Toys & Games Playing Cards from the Ortiz-Patino Collection Playing Cards – Other Vendors Children’s & Illustrated Books Beatrix Potter Richard Jefferies Original Art British Comics Rock, Pop & Film Memorabilia Modern First Editions

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JUVENILE BOOKS & 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE To commence at 11am

1 Aesop. An Intire New and Beautiful Edition of Aesop’s Fables, with Instructive Morals. Adapted to the Capacities of Children; and Design’d for promoting of Virtue, and discouraging of Vice; the former of which is ever rewarded, and the latter always punish’d; the true End, and Design of Fable. In Two Neat Pocket Volumes. Adorn’d with A great Variety of beautiful Cuts, as well to help explain the Fables as please the little curious gentle Readers, To which is prefix’d The Life of Aesop, 2 vols. in one, printed in London, by the King’s Authority; and sold by R. Baldwin, 1757, wood eng. frontis. and numerous woodcuts on letterpress, title-page close-trimmed to lower margin, clipping imprint date, final few leaves torn, with loss and neat repairs to blank margins, early ms. ownership inscriptions on prelim. blank and verso of title, early 20th c. mottled calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, signed on front turn-in, red leather spine label, sm. 8vo (9.5 x 6.5cm) A rare early edition of Aesop’s fables for children; apparently unrecorded, apart from a copy which sold at auction in 2011. It was published in the same year as John Newbery’s first edition of Aesop ‘Fables in Verse for the Improvement of the Young and Old’ [Roscoe J7A(1)]. (1) £1000-1500

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3 Bassam (Robert, printer). A Concise History of all the Kings and Queens of England; from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of George the Second’s Reign. Adorned with Cuts of all the Kings and Queens since the Norman Conquest, c.1790, wood eng. frontis. (forming front pastedown) and numerous letterpress woodcuts, some curling to corners, contemp. ms. ownership inscriptions on recto and verso of title-page and rear pastedown, penultimate leaf with sl. loss to blank fore-margin, orig. Dutch floral wrappers, sl. loss at foot of spine, 10 x 6cm (4 x 2.5ins) A rare and early little chapbook, preserving the original wrappers. (1)

£70-100

4 Edgeworth (Maria). The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for Children, 6 vols., 3rd ed., printed for J. Johnson, 1800, eng. frontis. to each, some general toning, sprinkled edges, near contemp. half calf, gilt dec. spines sl. faded, extrems. a trifle rubbed, sm. 8vo An early edition and attractive set of Edgeworth’s classic work. (6)

5 Gissing (George). The Whirlpool, 1st ed., 1897, portrait frontis. (adhered to front pastedown), 32 pp. pubs. list at end, a few spots, original red cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed, 8vo, together with The Private Papers of Henry Ryecraft, 1st ed., 1903, half title, 6 pp. ads. at end, a few spots, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original green cloth gilt, spine and edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, with others by Gissing including By the Ionian Sea, 1st ed., 1901 (rebound) and Will Warburton. A Romance of Real Life, 1903

2 Baldwin (Mrs. Alfred). The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories, 1st ed., 1895, half title, b & w illustrations, one or two spots, t.e.g., unique full blindstamped calf by Edith Macdonald, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “With love from Edith, 1909”, with her note opposite stating the binding was decorated by her (Louisa Baldwin, nee Macdonald, was the mother of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and with her sister Edith, aunts to Rudyard Kipling), together with The Haunted Room. A Phantasmal Phantasy, by George Humphery, 1st ed., 1900, b & w illustrations, a few spots, endpapers browned, original pictorial green cloth, spine faded, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo (2)

£150-200

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£100-150

6 Paper Doll Book. Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper: Beautifully Versified, and Illustrated with Figures, 1st ed., printed for S. and J. Fuller, 1819, six cut-out hand-col. figures and a cut-out hand-col. folding coach and horses in aquatint loosely inserted (latter split at fold and neatly repaired with archive tape on verso), lacking the four head plumes, and interchangeable head supplied in facsimile, text with scattered light foxing, orig. printed wrappers with orig. ribbon tie (upper cover with short tear and sl. loss to lower edge), in matching printed slipcase (dusty and split along one side), 16mo, together with A New Hieroglyphic Bible, Edinburgh, [1818], orig. pictorial boards, extrems. worn, plus a small chapbook entitled The Little Sisters; or Emma and Caroline, New Haven, c.1820

£200-300

See Osborne p.1051 for the first edition of 1814 (with no mention of headpieces). No edition in Gumuchian. (3) £150-250

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7 Saillet (Alexandre de). Les Feeries Industrielles, illust. H. Telory, Paris, [1862], sixteen hand-col. litho. plts., some spotting, first few leaves water-stained at blank gutter, front free endpaper, half-title, and frontis. detached, lacking rear free endpaper, a.e.g., orig. red cloth gilt, stained and sl. edge rubbed, oblong 4to, contained in custom-made cloth solander box Rare. (1)

£150-200

9 Verne (Jules). Five Weeks in a Balloon. A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa. From the French... with sixty-four Illustrations by Riou, Sampson Low, 2nd UK ed., 1874, thirty-three wood eng. plts., letterpress illusts., some full-page, 48pp. pubs. cat. dated October 1873 at rear, some foxing and light marks, hinges split, early ms. ownership name on front pastedown, orig. pictorial red cloth gilt, shaken, spine sl. faded, and frayed at ends, 8vo First Sampson Low edition, and second UK edition, of Verne’s first book (first published in French in 1863), a fantasy of balloon travel over the African continent and a satire on English books on African travel. The first UK edition was published in 1870 by Chapman & Hall and is now virtually impossible to find. This Sampson Low edition is also scarce (unlisted in Myers), and considerably more difficult to find than either Appleton’s first edition in English (New York, 1869), and James Osgood’s fully illustrated edition (Boston, 1873). (1) £500-800

8 Verne (Jules). Around the World in Eighty Days... Translated by Geo. M. Towle, 1st UK ed., 1873, fifty-four wood eng. plts. (one detached and sl. frayed to upper edge), 48pp. pubs. cat. dated October 1873 at rear, hinges split, ms. ownership names on front pastedown, W.H. Smith oval embossed stamp on front free endpaper, a.e.g., contents shaken in orig. pictorial green cloth gilt, rubbed, some wear to extrems., with spine ends frayed and corners showing, 8vo Myers 54. Rare. First issued in English in the United States as an unillustrated edition entitled ‘The Tour of the World in Eighty Days’ in 1873 (the same year as the first French edition). This first UK edition, and first illustrated edition in English, was published in London in 1873, but only a few copies bear that date on the title-page, the vast majority being dated 1874. (1) £1500-2000

10 Verne (Jules). Dr. Ox’s Experiment, and Other Stories, 1st UK ed., 1874, forty-seven wood eng. plts. (correct as list), letterpress illusts., 40pp. pubs. cat. at rear dated August 1874, some light spotting, stitching partially broken, W.H. Smith oval embossed stamp on front free endpaper, lower hinge split, a.e.g., orig. pictorial green cloth gilt, cocked, spine ends and corners sl. frayed, 8vo Myers 16. (1)

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£150-200


ANTIQUE TOYS & GAMES 11* Alphabet tiles. Jeu Alphabétique, late 19th c., a set of wooden square alphabet tiles, with upper case letters in black, each with penciled digit in upper right-hand corner, 17 x 17mm, contained in orig. wooden box, titled on sliding lid, sl. rubbed, together with a Bezique set, Thomas de la Rue, 1930, comprising two decks of cards, two score cards, and rule booklet, contained in a decorative wooden box with hinged lid, plus a mid. 19th c. painted and lacquered oriental-style wooden playing card box, heightened with gold, with four compartments, pull-off lid lettered ‘cards’ and with illust. of four court cards, sides of box illust. with card suits, 16 x 23.5 x 5cm (6.25 x 9.25 x 2ins), plus two boxed decks of playing cards (Alice in Wonderland and Little Grey Rabbit), and thirteen large picture cards illust. by Willy Schermelé (four designs) (6)

14* Gardner (James). Zoo Zag, Abbatt Toys, c.1950s, plywood puzzle with approx. thirty-five pieces, 32.5 x 45cm (13 x 17.75ins) Scarce puzzle produced by toy company Abbatt Toys and designed by famous exhibition and museum designer, James Gardner (1907-1995), who was perhaps best known for his work relating to the Festival of Britain. Paul and Marjorie Abbatt began producing toys in 1932 and were interested in designs that aided development through play. The Modernist architect Erno Goldfinger designed their shop and children were encouraged to touch and play with the toys on display. (1) £100-150

£100-200

12* Farm animals. A large quantity of early 20th century lead toy farm animals and farmyard items, incl. farm animals, workers, fences, hay stack, carts, beehives, pond, dovecotes, sundials, feeding troughs, chicken house, bench, stooks, kennel, milk churns, pump, etc., some stamped Britians Ltd, incl. six complete boxed sets of tiny figures and animals ‘Lilliput World Models’, plus a complete boxed set ‘Dorset Products Farmyard Series’, manufactured by F. Clarke & Son, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent, plus a smaller quantity of lead zoo animals, varying sizes and condition (a carton)

15* Meccano - Aerial Carousel. A factory-made shop display model of a fairground attraction aerial roundabout, c. 1960s, mainselectric powered, constructed from standard component Meccano pieces in blue, yellow and silver livery with proprietor’s advertising panel to two lifting-arms, with electrically illuminated upper surfaces, mounted upon a wooden baseboard with mains transformer controls etc., 26ins (66cm)

£100-150

(1)

£150-250

13* Games. A varied collection of toys, games, and pastimes, Edwardian and later, incl. a box entitled Coronation Procession of His Majesty King Edward VII containing numerous cut-out chromo. cardboard figures, mounted soldiers, carriages, buildings, coronation coach, etc., with metal slotted stands, box sl. broken and with Hamley’s ink stamp inside lid, a printed folder entitled Pleasant Pastimes 6 Novel Relief Scraps, Easily Made to Stand Up, Forming Perfectly Life-Like Pictures, containing six sheets of unused scraps intact (some edge-creasing), a box entitled The “Aurora” Jewelling Outfit, For Ornamenting Picture Post Cards, Xmas & Show-Cards, Fire Screens, Photo Frames, etc., containing phials of glitter, a glass pen, and a bottle of glue (with leakage), Race Game (with board and metal horse and jockey tokens), boxed Shoc game (Chad Valley), a wooden bagatelle board, a wooden chess set, a boxed set of dominoes, approx. twenty-three ball-bearing puzzles and similar, a collection of eleven Robertson pottery golliwog figures (some duplicates), and various sets of playing cards, incl. Jaques’ Snap, boxed and with rules, some wear, various sizes

17* Porcelain Dolls. A Franklin Mint Heirloom collectors doll, modelled as a bride, finely detailed features, handmade dress with foliate tiara and bouquet, 59cm (23ins) high, together with another modelled as an Egyptian female, finely detailed costume, 59cm (23ins), plus a House of Berkley doll modelled as a bride, 60cm (23.75ins) with certificate of authenticity and two Soul Journeys Masai tribes figural groups, all boxed and in good condition

(a carton)

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16* Outcault (R.F.). Buster Brown Necktie Party, New York, Selchow & Righter, c.1905, large colour-printed illust. on linen, of Buster Brown and his dog, eleven fabric neckties cut from the sheet as usual, overall size 750 x 610mm (29.5 x 24ins), contained in orig. printed cardboard folder, rubbed and worn (in three pieces), together with four other items: The Hole Book by Peter Newell; 10 Happy Books contained in orig. pictorial folder; Living Picture Book with the Wonder Spectacles; and Pop-Up Train Book (5)

£200-300

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£80-120

£200-300


18* Puzzle Blocks. Hawthorn Farm. With Horses, Cows, Sheep, Pigs, Geese, Ducks, Fowls, mid. 19th c., thirty-six col. litho. oblong wooden blocks, forming a pastoral scene with manor house and farm buildings, animals, labourers, children playing, carts, etc., brick pattern on versos, overall size 26 x 45cm (10.25 x 17.75ins), together with orig. col. litho. guide sheet (in six pieces, with loss), contained in orig. wooden box with sliding pictorial lid (with several horizontal breaks, reinforced with thick card on verso), together with a Jacques wooden bagatelle board, late 19th/early 20th c., with metal balls present, and The Ernest Sewell “Tiddlytennis” game, 1930s, reboxed, with part of orig. box mounted on lid (3)

£150-200

Lot 20 19* Schuco “Purzelbar” Teddy-bear Gymnast. A scarce clockwork novelty toy, c.1920s, plush over tinplate with somersaulting action, together with a Steiff “Zotty” plush-covered teddy-bear, signature to foot c.1950s (growler inoperative), also with a tinplate clockwork bear reading a book (3)

£100-150

20* Scraps. A Victorian scrap globe, 20th c., sphere covered with chromo. scraps, incl. flower, costume, Christmas, animal, military, and flag scraps, encased in glass, diameter approx. 25cm (10ins), with dark wood turned stand (1)

£70-100

21* Tinplate Toys. An early 20th c. Lehmann lithographed tinplate clockwork toy The Balky Mule, with a clown (with painted features and fabric tunic) seated in a colourful trap being pulled by a flockcovered bucking donkey, some minor wear, mechanism in working order, length 19cm (7.5ins), height 15cm (6ins), together with an early 20th c. Lehmann lithographed tinplate toy The Climbing Monkey, wearing a red fez marked ‘TOM 385’, red and yellow waistcoat with Lehmann trademark, red breeches, and green flock tailcoat, orig. string with metal loop at either end, mechanism in working order, length of monkey 23.5cm (9.25ins) (2)

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£150-250

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EARLY PLAYING CARDS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE JAIME ORTIZ-PATINO Jaime Ortiz-Patino (1930–2013) created one of the greatest collections of playing cards ever held in private hands. His lifelong fascination with cards and card games eventually led to his appointment as President Emeritus of the World Bridge Federation, an office he held at the time of his death. He had previously served as President of the same organisation no less than three times during the 1970s and 1980s. His vast collection contains many extremely rare and remarkable sets of cards from all over the world, and includes early 18th & 19th century manuscript, hand-coloured and printed playing cards, depicting European costume, historical figures, heraldry and tarot symbols, including one set previously in the renowned Schreiber Collection. Transformation cards, often relating to a specific theme, such as the story of Beatrice, the French Second Empire, Munchner Bilderbogen, nursery rhymes, etc., are especially well-represented in a variety of examples from the early 19th century onwards. Unusual editions from the late Victorian era include fine advertising, anthropomorphic, circus and American harlequin sets.

23* American playing cards. Illuminated Great Moguls, New York, USA: A. Dougherty, 1865, fifty-two chromo. cards heightened with gold (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards, some sl. rubbing and marks, seven of diamonds partially stained, versos with US flag design, square corners, 91 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) Most of Andrew Dougherty’s output was of rather crude workmanship, manufactured in somewhat primitive conditions in his Brooklyn based workshop. However this more sumptuously printed deck has been said to represent the pinnacle of Dougherty’s career. (1) £100-150

24* American playing cards. Splendid Plug Tobacco advertising deck, New York, USA: American Playing Card Company, c.1870s, fifty-three colour-printed playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, plus joker, versos with US flag design, rounded corners, 89 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with orig. printed cardboard box with flaps (browned and some sl. wear)

22* American playing cards. Trumps Long Cut Advertising Deck, New York, USA, 1890, fifty-three col. litho. cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, plus a joker, all with portraits of women in various costume, versos printed in brown with an illust. of a man holding a deck of cards and lettered ‘Smoke and Chew, Trumps Long Cut’, 98 x 59mm (4 x 2.25ins) (1)

(1)

£150-200

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£100-150


27* Costume playing cards. A pack of playing cards showing Swiss views and costumes, Frankfurt, Germany: Bernhard Dondorf, c.1870, fifty-two colour litho. playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with scenic aces, pip cards 2-10, and three double-faced court cards showing regional costumes, pink pictorial versos, 93 x 64mm (3.5 x 2.5ins)

25* Anti-Papal playing cards. Nieuwe Constitutie Kaart van’s Paussen gewaande onfeilbaarheid gestigt opdolheid en blindheid, Holland: Pieter Waanregt, 1719, fifty-four finely eng. cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising title card, imprint and rule card, and four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with allegorical illust. and 2-line rhyme below, edges a little rubbed, versos with blue sunburst and trellis pattern, square corners, 82 x 47mm (3.25 x 1.75ins)

(1)

£80-120

Rare. Illustrated in Hargrave, p.163, who lists a set in the Bodleian Library and another in the Schreiber Collection at the British Museum: ‘All of the papal scandals are raked up and pictured, so that the use of the cards was forbidden to all good Catholics, and all possible copies were burned by the command of Rome.’ Featuring Luther, Calvin, Pope Joan and Clement XI, amongst others. (1) £1500-2000

26* Austrian playing cards. A deck of standard playing cards, Vienna, Austria: Josef Glanz, c.1865, thirty-two colour-printed woodblock cards, of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (French suits), each with ace, pip cards 7-10, and three double-faced court cards, versos with pink dotted pattern of irregular circles, 86 x 58mm (3.25 x 2.25ins) (1)

28* Costume playing cards. A pack of playing cards showing Swiss views and costumes, Frankfurt, Germany: C.L. Wust, c.1865, fiftytwo etched playing cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with scenic aces, pip cards 2-10, and three double-faced court cards showing regional costumes, versos with pattern of pink dots, 91 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.25ins)

£100-150

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£80-120


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29* Costume playing cards. A deck of playing cards, Paris, France: O. Gibert, c.1850, fifty-two cards (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (printed in black and red), and three hand-col. court cards featuring French historical nobility, a trifle dusty, versos pale blue, square corners, 86 x 57mm (3.25 x 2.35ins) For similar by Gibert see: Hoffmann, p.35 [illust. 52(b)]; Tilley, p.161. (1) £150-200

30* Costume playing cards. A deck of playing cards, Nuremberg, Germany, c.1700, thirty-six (complete?) hand-col. eng. cards, of which fourteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (French suits), all full-length figures with captions below, each with early ms. numeral 1-36 in top right-hand corner, some sl. toned and dusty, plain versos, square corners, 97 x 54mm (3.75 x 2ins) Rare set of German cards showing costumes for different pastimes and events. (1) £500-800

31* English playing cards. A standard English deck of playing cards, Reynolds, c.1840, fifty-two colour woodblock cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen, each with pip cards 110 and three full-length court cards, ‘one shilling’ on duty ace, pink versos with sunburst pattern, square corners, 94 x 66mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with a standard English deck of playing cards, Hall and Son, between 1804 and c.1828, 49/52 cards, lacking three aces (diamonds, hearts, clubs), ‘one shilling and sixpence’ on duty ace, thirteen mounted as a group and framed and glazed (2)

Lot 29

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£80-120


32* Fashion playing cards. A deck of French playing cards by Migeon, Paris, c.1860, fifty-two eng. cards (complete), of which sixteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each with ten pip cards, and three hand-col. court cards featuring full-length ports., versos blue, square corners, 85 x 56mm (3.25 x 2.25ins) See Tilley, p.125. (1)

£150-200

33* French playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, by Mongez, Paris, France: Didot, 1810, thirty-two cards wood eng. by Andrieu (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 7-10, and three full-length court cards with stencilled colours, occn. light foxing, plain versos, square corners, 84 x 54mm (3.25 x 2ins) Rare. (1)

£700-1000

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34* French playing cards. A standard deck of playing cards, Burgundy pattern, by Madenie, Dijon, France, c.1742, thirty-two cards wood eng. by Andrieu (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 7-10, and three fulllength court cards with stencilled colours, plain versos, square corners, 84 x 55mm (3.25 x 2ins) See Mann, All Cards on the Table, 171, for a very similar deck by Thiboult. The Burgundy pattern is distinguished by the plumed helmet worn by the jack of clubs, seen nowhere else in the French card world. (1) £400-600

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35* German playing cards. A deck of tarot playing cards, Munich, Germany: Andreas Benedictus Gobl, c.1750, fifty-six hand-coloured etched cards, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and court cards showing king, queen, jack, and knight, versos with star and dotted trellis pattern in pink, rounded corners, 113 x 58mm (4.5 x 2.25ins) Illustrated in Hargrave, A History of Playing Cards, New York, 1966, p.131. French-suited tarot packs most commonly comprise seventy-eight, fifty-four, or fifty-two cards, although there are examples of 56-card packs in the British Museum. Sylvia Mann says that she is not wholly convinced that the latter are not simply tarot packs which lack the twenty-two trump cards, although she does concede that ‘the many versions of tarot games in southern Germany may well account for the absence of the trump cards and the presence of the knight’. (Sylvia Mann, Collecting Playing Cards, 1966, p.93) (1) £1000-1500

Lot 37 36* German playing cards. A deck of oval playing cards illustrating professions, by Friedrich Gunthel, Leipzig, Germany: A. Twietmeyer, c.1860s, thirty-six colour litho. oval cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 6-10, and three court cards, all double-faced, versos with flower and dotted trellis pattern in pink, 102 x 66mm (4 x 2.5ins) (1)

£100-150

37* German playing cards. The Four Corners of the World, Frankfurt, Germany: Bernhard Dondorf, c.1880, fifty-two colour litho. cards, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 showing scenes relating to a particular continent (Africa, Asia, Europe, America) and three full-length court cards, patterned versos, rounded corners, 94 x 65mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) Wowk, pp.38/9: ‘One of Dondorf’s most celebrated packs... beautifully produced and coloured’. (1) £150-200

38* German playing cards. Early Ansbach or Nurnberg pattern, Germany: Backofen, c.1780, thirty-two woodcut playing cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (national suits), each with pip cards 2, 7-10, and three full-length court cards, two of hearts with small oval duty ink stamp, versos with black pattern of leaping antelopes, each with oval ink stamp of the Schreiber Collection (‘dupl.’) on verso and most with remnants of paper hinge, square corners, 89 x 73mm (3.5 x 2.75ins) Mann 87 (illustrated). (1)

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£400-600

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39* Manuscript playing cards. The Glorious Revolution of 1688, c.1800, fifty-two pen, ink, and grisaille watercolour playing cards (complete), of which eight are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen, each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards (knave, queen, king), each with an illustration, captioned beneath image, upper margin with suit mark on a gilt background, and with numeral within a wreath in black ink and number or name additionally written in red ink in a gothic script, king and queen cards also with a crown in watercolour, plain versos, square corners, a.e.g., 90 x 60mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) Copied from a printed pack which was published in 1689 and has been attributed to John Barlow (see Whiting, pp.116-124), with the addition of the decorative numbers, names and crowns in the upper margin. The pack details the main events of James II’s reign, with the build up towards the Revolution, and goes on to illlustrate William of Orange’s arrival, and the events that followed. There are a number of gory depictions of murdered and dismembered bodies, and titles include: The Midwife cutting her husband to pieces; The Popish Midwife putting his quarters in ye privey; Doing of Penance up a high hill with peas in his shoes; Hanging Protestants in ye West; Magdalen College Scholars turned out; The Seaven Bishops going to the Tower; The Earl of Essex’s Throat cut; A jesuit Preaching against our Bible; The Popish Midwife burning. A beautifully drawn deck of cards, which has survived in remarkable condition. (1) £1500-2000

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40* Musical cards. Musikalisches Kartenspiel, Frankfurt, Germany: Bernhard Dondorf, c.1865, fifty-two colour litho. cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, French suited, two cards sl. stained, pictorial blue versos, square corners, 96 x 64mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) The firm of B. Dondorf was founded in 1833, and had a reputation for producing cards, games and stationery of high quality; when the firm went into liquidation in 1929 it was said that the firm had run into difficulties partly because of the expense incurred through using so many different colour separations on their cards. (Wowk, Playing Cards of the World, Guildford, 1982, p.38) (1) £150-200

41* Spanish playing cards. Four Empires deck of playing cards, Madrid, Spain: Clemente Roxas, c.1805, forty-eight hand-coloured copper-engraved cards (complete), of which nine are framed as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of twelve (national suits), each with ace, pip cards 2-9, and three full-length court cards (king, knight, jack), versos with terracotta foliate and star pattern (old glue stains top and bottom), square corners, 89 x 56mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) A fine pack whose suits recall important aspects of Spanish history by illustrating the American Indians, the Arabs, the Roman Empire and the Spanish colonists of America. (1) £150-250

Lot 40

42* Heraldry playing cards. A part set of heraldic playing cards issued by La Academia y Juego de Armerias, Madrid, Spain: Francisco Gazan, 1748, forty-five (of 52) etched cards, of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, toned, one card with horizontal crease, plain versos (a number laid down on card), corners sl. rounded, 91 x 59mm (3.5 x 2.25ins) Hargrave, p.255 (illustrated p.253). (1)

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£200-300


43* Marseille tarot cards. A deck of tarot cards, Geneva, Switzerland: Francois Gassman, c.1870, seventy-eight woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (Italian suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (two of coins with imprint), four full-length court cards, and twenty-two trump cards, courts and trumps with French titles, some cards with Roman numerals, orange versos with diagonal wavy line and dot pattern in black, square corners, 115 x 61mm (4.5 x 2.5ins)

44* Belgian Animal Tarot. A deck of animal tarot cards, Brussels, Belgium: F.I. Van Den Borre, c.1760, seventy-eight woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and four court cards, plus twenty-two trump cards, comprising twenty animal trumps and Fool card (bearing double-ended Roman numerals I-XXI) and musician card (unnumbered), some cards sl. dusty, versos with orange sunburst pattern, square corners, 112 x 59mm (4.5 x 2.25ins)

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ÂŁ300-500

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ÂŁ700-1000


46* Theatre playing cards. A pack of playing cards, Frankfurt, Germany: C.L. Wust, c.1840, thirty-two colour-printed woodblock cards (complete), of which fourteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (French suits), each with captioned scenic ace, pip cards 7-10, and three captioned double-faced court cards entitled ‘Roi’, ‘Dame’, and ‘Valet’, a few light marks, eight of clubs partially rubbed, versos printed in pink with pattern of dotted circles and diamonds, square corners, 89 x 62mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) The court cards show various actors and actresses, each in a particular theatre or opera role, for example, the jack of clubs is captioned ‘Schmezer, Rôle de Tamino dans la flûte enchantée’. Three of the aces have Frankfurt views - of the theatre, the library, and the Bethmann Museum - and the other has a depiction of Dannecker’s Ariadne. (1) £200-300

45* Lombardy Tarot Cards. A deck of Lombardy tarot cards, Milan, Italy: Ferdinand Gumppenberg, c.1830, seventy-eight woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of fourteen (Italian suits), each with pip cards 1-10, four full-length court cards, and twenty-two trump cards comprising 21 numbered I-XXI and Fool card, courts and trumps with Italian captions, king of clubs with circular tax stamp, sl. dusty, versos with yellow and blue circular pattern and lettered ‘Milano’, square corners, 108 x 55mm (4.25 x 2.25ins) (1)

£500-800

47* Transformation cards. A deck of transformation playing cards, Paris, France: Baron Louis Athalin, 1832, fifty-two etched cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), with hand-colouring in red and black, each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, sl. toned and dusty, plain versos, sl. rounded corners, 96 x 66mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) A rare deck of transformation cards in remarkably good condition. Field 31: ‘The cards of Baron Louis Athalin... show a high level of artistic ability. The face cards, like the pip cards, are line drawings with considerable detail. The artist himself is shown designing playing cards on the jack of clubs.’ (1) £700-1000

Lot 46

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48* Transformation cards. A deck of transformation playing cards, designed and printed by Karl Gerich, Bath, for the English Playing Card Society, 1993, fifty-four hand-coloured playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, French suited, red versos, square corners, 95 x 66mm (3.75 x 2.5ins)

50* Transformation cards. A deck of humorous transformation cards, Bruges, Belgian: Daveluy, 1873, thirty-two colour litho cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of eight (French suits), all printed on a pale blue background, each with ace and pip cards 7-10, with indices, and three full-length court cards entitled ‘Roi’, ‘Dame’, and ‘Valet’, heart and diamond court cards featuring anthropomorphic animals and birds, tartan versos (with sl. surface loss where mounted formerly), square corners, 93 x 64mm (3.25 x 2.5ins)

Limited edition, 64/72 packs signed by the artist. Produced to mark the 1Oth Anniversary of the English Playing Card Society. The pack is based on the theme of English nursery rhymes and was immediately hailed as Karl’s masterpiece for the ingenuity employed in the designs. (1) £100-150

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49* Transformation cards. Pictorial Cards - Beatrice or the Fracas, 1st ed., Ackermann, 1818, fifty-two aquatint cards (complete), of which seventeen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 with figures and architectural motifs (red suits with hand-col.) and three hand-col. full-length court cards, some lightly toned, plain versos, square corners, 89 x 61mm (3.5 x 2.25ins)

£150-200

51* Transformation cards. Munchner Bilderbogen, Munich, Germany: Braun & Schneider, c.1852, fifty-two hand-col. wood eng. cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards, several with printed monogram ‘JB’, some foxing and marks, marbled versos, square corners, 95 x 65mm (3.75 x 2.5ins)

Rare. Field 22: ‘One of the most artistic and imaginative transformation packs’. (1) £1000-1500

Field 33-34. (1)

Lot 51

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£300-500


Lot 49

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52* Transformation cards. Harlequin Playing Cards, by C.E. Carryl, New York, United States: Tiffany & Co., 1879, fifty-two colour litho cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (with captions) and three full-length court cards, pink versos printed in black and gold with a jester mounted on a unicorn, holding a lance which has pierced the four aces, square corners (one or two corners sl. creased), 96 x 66mm (3.75 x 2.5ins) Field 51: ‘Witty captions make each of the unusually well-drawn cards a sort of cartoon. The face cards are humorously modified’. Sold exclusively by Tiffany at their outlets in New York, Paris and London. (1) £200-300

53* Transformation cards. Eclipse Comic Playing Cards, New York, United States: F.H. Lowerre, 1876, fifty-one (of 53) colour litho cards, of which twelve are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (except lacking the six of hearts) and three full-length court cards, lacking the joker, lightly toned and marked, each with blue patterned versos, rounded corners, 92 x 65mm (3 x 2.5ins) Field 49: the first original American transformation pack, and the first transformation pack to have a joker (sadly lacking here) which was just beginning to be included in American and British packs. (1) £80-120

Lot 52

54* Transformation cards. Kinney Harlequin II Playing Cards, New York, United States: Kinney Bros., 1889, fifty-three colour litho cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (with captions) and three full-length court cards, all with indices, sl. dusty, pink patterned versos, rounded corners, one card with short closed edge-tear, two cards with top right corner lacking (one with sl. loss of caption), 88 x 63mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) Field 53. (1)

Lot 53

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£150-200


55* Transformation cards. The Second Empire Pack, Paris, France, c.1859, fifty-two hand-col. eng. cards, of which ten are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (six and seven of diamonds initialled E.C. and T.F. respectively) and three full-length court cards representing historical costumes, some cards sl. dusty and toned, pink versos, square corners, 121 x 84mm (4.75 x 3.25ins) Field 41: the six of hearts bears the date 1859 and the names of two of the battles fought in that year by the French and Sardinians against the Austrians; the five of spades bears the motto ‘L’union fait la force’, which refers to the 1830 fight of Belgium for its independence; and the three of diamonds has ‘Guerre de Crimée’ and the names of three of its battles. (1) £500-800

56* Transformation cards. Cartes a Rire: Jeu des Journaux, Paris, France: Grandebes, c.1819, fifty-two hand-col. etched cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards, all with printed caption, sl. toned and dusty, plain versos, sl. rounded corners, 90 x 62mm (3.5 x 2.5ins) Field 27: ‘The caricatures are of the highest artistic quality.’ The nave of spades features the Vicomte de Chateaubriand, and Charles Maurice de Tallyrand appears as the knave of clubs. At around the same time a similar deck was published, with a different set of face cards relating to the major theatres in Paris, as opposed to the important newspapers, as here. (1) £300-500

Lot 55

57* Transformation cards. Cascade, by E.M. Lewis, Bradford, 1996, fifty-five hand-col. playing cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, three court cards, joker, title card, and ad. card for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, plain gold versos, square corners, 97 x 69mm (3.75 x 2.75ins), (limited edition 35/50 cards, signed by Lewis), together with two other hand-col. limited ed. decks designed by E.M. Lewis, comprising Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass Playing Cards, 54 (of 55) cards (lacking the eight of spades), and Nursery Rhymes, 53 (of 54) cards (lacking the two of hearts), both with a selection mounted, framed and glazed (3)

Lot 56

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£150-200


58* Transformation cards. Circus Transformation Playing Card Deck, by Frank Robert Schick, Turnhout, Belgium: Carta Mundi, 1988, fifty-five colour-printed cards (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising pip cards 110, three court cards, two jokers, and a title card, plus explanatory booklet, versos with abstract clown design, round corners, a.e.g., 100 x 65mm (4 x 2.5ins), (limited edition of 1000 decks), together with two transformation decks designed by Andrew Jones - The Teddy Bear Pack of Playing Cards, 1994, 55/55 cards, and Art for the Earth, 1992, 55/55 cards, both with a selection mounted, framed and glazed (3)

£100-150

59* Trapolla cards. A deck of trapolla cards, Prague, Czechoslovakia: Jacob Wokaun, c.1820, thirty-six woodblock cards with stencilled colour (complete), of which thirteen are mounted as a group and framed and glazed, comprising four suits of nine (Italian suits), each with ace, pip cards 2, 7-10 and four double-faced court cards, nine of batons creased, orange paste-paper versos, square corners, 106 x 54mm (4.25 x 2ins)

Lot 58

Mann 16 (illustrated). (1)

£300-500

PLAYING CARDS FROM OTHER VENDORS 60* Costume playing cards. Cartes Parisiennes, Paris, France: O. Gibert, [1850], fifty-two cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen (national suits), each with ten pip cards in gilt (dulled), and three hand-col. court cards featuring French historical nobility, sl. dusty and toned, versos pink, square corners, a.e.g., 84 x 55mm (3.25 x 2.25ins), contained in part of orig. pastepaper box, rubbed For similar by Gibert see: Hoffmann, p.35 [illust. 52(b)]; Tilley, p.161. (1) £150-250

Lot 61

Lot 59

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63* Racing car game. An early racing car game, c.1910, twenty chromo. pictorial cards, each with an illust. above numbered counter squares along lower margin, numbered 1-96 (lacking final card?), first card dusty, 5 x 9cm (2 x 3.5ins), together with five (of 6) orig. chromo. cardboard counters shaped like a car (one rubbed and creased), each on a metal stand, 3 x 6cm (1 x 2.25ins)

61* German playing cards. A deck of German playing cards, c.1870, fifty-two hand-col. eng. cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10, and doublefaced court cards showing king, queen, and jack, some faint foxing, pink patterned versos, cards sl. bowed, 9 x 6cm (3.5 x 2.25ins), together with eight other complete decks of standard playing cards, incl. two by Reynolds & Sons, and three by De La Rue, and one incomplete deck (10)

Rare: we have been unable to trace another set. With such scenes as filling up with petrol, colliding with a fence, a flat tyre, running over a pig, crossing a railway track in front of a steam train and a car on fire. (1) £80-120

£150-200

62* Playing cards. The New Game of Picture Proverbs, Sandle Brothers, c.1890, fifty-six col. printed pictorial cards (i.e. 28 pairs), plain yellow versos, one with 1” closed tear, 8.5 x 5.5cm (3.5 x 2.25ins), together with folded Rules sheet (sl. edge-frayed), contained in orig. cardboard box, with pull-off lid, some loss and repairs, together with Scientific Conversation Cards, by B.H. Draper, c.1835, fifty-two printed pink cards, a.e.g., 5.5 x 8.5cm (2.25 x 3.25ins), together with 8pp. Questions booklet (browned and stitching broken), contained in orig. slipcase with gilt lettered label, plus twenty-five other sets of non-standard playing cards, incl. Happy Families, Transport, flower and animal cards, Old Maid, handcol. pictorial eng. scripture cards, alphabet cards, Charles Dickens game, Change for a Sovereign, The Counties of England, The Kingdoms of Europe, some incomplete (27)

64* Transformation cards. A deck of transformation playing cards, 1st ed., Darmstadt, Germany: Frommann & Bunte, c.1870, fifty-two chromo. cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen (French suits), each with pip cards 1-10 (printed in sepia and eight of diamonds with the letters M and F) and three full-length court cards, lightly toned (a couple browned), versos with blue dotted hexagonal pattern, square corners, 90 x 65mm (3.5 x 2.5ins), together with an incomplete 19th c. deck of playing cards (lacking five cards), with colour-stencilled double-faced courts and scenic aces with German views Field 35. (2)

£150-200

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£300-500


CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 67 Bell (Robert Anning, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington and His Cat, J.M. Dent, 1894, frontis. and numerous letterpress illusts., some full-page, pictorial endpapers (partially browned), t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. olive green cloth with red silk ribbon ties, faded spine with gilt dulled, rear cover sl. bowed, sm. 8vo, together with two others similar (Jack the GiantKiller and Beauty and the Beast, Illustrated by R. Anning Bell, 1894, and The History of Cinderella, 1894, former lacking ties), plus Le Mair (H. Willebeek), Grannie’s Little Rhyme Book, No. I of Old Nursery Rhymes, Augener, c.1920, full-page col. illusts., orig. glazed floral boards with circular illust. on upper cover, spine a trifle sunned and rubbed at ends, oblong 12mo, plus two unused Le Mair postcards depicting Georgy Porgy and Simple Simon, plus Aldin (Cecil, illust.), Bachelors and a Bachelor’s Confessions, by Washington Irving, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1909, three tipped-in col. plts., letterpress illusts., some full-page, endpapers foxed, t.e.g., orig. boards with col. illust. mounted on upper cover, sq. 8vo, plus three others similar illust. by Aldin, plus eight other small format children’s books, incl. Bluebell in the Wood, pub. Henry Frowde, unopened in orig. glassine wrapper with seal intact on verso (16)

£100-150

65 Ainslie (Kathleen). Catharine Susan and Me Goes Abroad, c.1905; “Catharine Susan and Me’s Coming Out”, [1907]; Catherine Susan’s Calendar, 1906, [1905]; Catharine Susan’s Calendar, 1907, [1906], all 1st eds., Castell Brothers, together 4 vols., col. illusts. throughout, some foxing and offsetting, first vol. with juvenile pencil scribbles on one text leaf, all orig. col. pictorial wrappers with silk tasselled cord, three vols. with orig. spine cords, some minor rubbing and marks, all sm. 4to, together with five others by Ainslie, comprising Sammy Goes a’Hunting, Lady Tabitha and Us, “Why Was He Late?”, At Great-Aunt Martha’s, Mops Versus Tails, all orig. pictorial boards/wrappers (9)

£200-300

66 Barrie (J.M.). Peter Pan, Or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, Folio Society, 1992, colour illustrations by Paula Rego, t.e.g., original blue goatskin-backed boards (spine faded to green), slipcase, small folio Limited edition, 37/100 signed by the artist. (1)

£200-300

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68 Blyton (Enid). Two Years in the Infant School, Topics 1-84, George Newnes, c.1940s, seventy-seven (of 84) col. plts., incl. nature and countryside scenes, travel, children’s pastimes, shops and industry, etc., by various artists, incl. Ernest Aris, Fytte, Raymond Sheppard, D. Newsome, K. Nixon, most with pin-holes and one with adhesive tape to blank margins, some marginal fraying and tears (occn. encroaching on image), one plt. with two folds, sheet size 52 x 41cm (20.5 x 16ins), contained in orig. blue cloth folder, with printed list mounted on inside of flap, accompanied by approx. 1200 loose text leaves (some lacking), with letterpress illusts. and musical notation, ring binder holes to left-hand margin, contained in four orig. blue cloth boxes (some splits and fraying at corners), lettered in white on lids, 4to (5)

70 Brunhoff (Jean de). Histoire de Babar le Petit Elephant, 1st ed., 1st issue, Paris, 1931, 1st issue without list of titles and without elephant on copyright page, col. illusts. throughout, occn. spotting and finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers, contemp. ms. inscription on verso of front free endpaper, stitching sl. strained, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, spine faded and sl. frayed in places, folio, together with Babar and Father Christmas, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1940, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed and soiled in places, folio, together with Babar’s Friend Zephir, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1937, col. illusts. throughout, light foxing to first few leaves, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed, corners showing, folio, plus another copy similar, plus Le Voyage de Baber, and Les Vacances de Zephir, 1st eds., Paris, 1932 and 1936 respectively, both orig. cloth-backed boards, folio

£150-200

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£200-300

69 Brunhoff (Jean de). Babar and Father Christmas, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1940, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, spine sl. faded and edges a trifle rubbed, in remains of orig. glassine wrapper, folio, together with Babar’s Friend Zephir, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1937, col. illusts. throughout, scattered foxing, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, spine sl. spotted and edges a trifle rubbed, folio, plus Babar et Coquin d’Arthur, 1st ed., Hachette, 1946, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, folio, plus four other later edition Babar books all in orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards (Babar the King, 2nd ed., Babar’s Travels, 3rd ed., The Story of Babar, 4th ed., all in remains of orig. glassine wrappers, and Babar at Home, 3rd ed.)

71 Brunhoff (Jean de). Babar the King, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1936, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, some sl. dust-soiling, slim folio, together with Babar’s Friend Zephir, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1937, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, a trifle rubbed and marked in places, remains of glassine wrapper, slim folio, plus The Story of Babar the Little Elephant, with a preface by A.A. Milne, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1934, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, edge rubbed, slim folio, plus Brunhoff (Laurent de), Babar and that Rascal Arthur, 1st UK ed., Methuen, 1948, col. illusts. throughout, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, sl. rubbed to extrems. in places, slim folio

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£150-250

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£150-200


72 Congreve (William). The Complete Works of William Congreve, edited by Montague Summers, 4 vols., Nonesuch Press, 1923, light browning to endpapers, original vellum-backed boards, a little soiled or discoloured, 4to, limited edition, 21/75 on English hand-made paper, together with The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, 2 vols., Limited Editions Club, 1934, portrait frontis. to vol. I, original cloth-backed boards, folio, limited edition, 882/1500 signed by the printed, with two others: Troilus and Cressida, by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1939 (882/1500 copies) and Sixe Idyllia, Chosen out of the Sicillian Poet Theocritis, Clover Hill Editions, New York, 1971, one of 270 copies (8)

£150-200

73 Craig (Edward Gordon). A small early 20th century Italian publication on the history of stage design, previously owned by Edward Gordon Craig, without title page (text begins with chapter 4), interleaved with blanks, containing some notes in ink by Gordon Craig to the front blank and one or two other marks to the text, with Edward Gordon Craig’s monogram dated 1915 to front pastedown, contemp. limp calf, rubbed and some marks, small 8vo, together with a copy of Mrs Alfred Gatty’s Parables from Nature, 4th series, 2nd ed., 1864, formerly belonging to Edy Craig, with her bookplate (designed by Edward Gordon Craig) to front pastedown, and handwritten note in ink by Ellen Terry to head of title and first page of main text ‘Edy: from Mother: Boulogne, 1876’, original blue cloth, rubbed and marked, 12mo, plus two other titles each with a circular bookplate designed by Edward Gordon Craig (dated 1929) and four others related (8)

75 Detmold (Edward J., illust.). Twenty-Four Nature Pictures, Produced in Facsimile, [1919], twenty-four mounted col. plts. of British birds and mammals, each 37.5 x 24cm and similar, captioned tissue-guards, loosely contained as issued in orig. half cloth portfolio with ties, large folio

£100-150

Signed limited edition set of first proofs, 51/500. An unusually good condition set, often found incomplete. (1) £300-500

76* Detmold (Maurice & Edward). [Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling’s “Jungle Book”, Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1903], eleven (of 16) fine col. plts., without text or portfolio, two trimmed (one a duplicate), some marginal marks and tears, folio Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (11)

74 Dahl (Roald). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 1967; James and the Giant Peach, 1967, 1st UK eds., b & w illustrations by Faith Jaques and Michel Simeon, slight marginal toning, a few light spots to James and the Giant Peach, original pictorial laminated boards, 8vo (2)

£300-400

Lot 77

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£300-500


77 Detmold (Maurice & Edward J., illust.). Pictures from Birdland, with rhymes by E. B. S[huldham], 1st ed., 1899, twenty-four colour plates, signed by the illustrators on Preface page, orig. pictorial boards, rubbed and sl. soiled, 4to (1)

80 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, 1886, b & w illustrations by the author, pubs. ads. at end, one or two spots, previous owner signature to title, a.e.g., original red cloth gilt, spine darkened and a little rubbed at ends, a few light mottled stains, 8vo

£300-500

(1)

£150-200

81 Essex House Press. The Prayer Book of King Edward VII. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments & Other Rites & Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Essex House Press, Campden, Gloucestershire, 1903, woodcut illustrations by C.R. Ashbee, printed in red and black, a few light spots, original quarter pigskin over oak boards by A. Power, metal and leather clasps, a few light stains, folio Limited edition, 202/400. (1)

£300-400

78 Disney (Walt). Donald & Pluto Movie Book in 10 Reels, Collins, [1940], ten flicker books contained in orig. pictorial card wallet, extrems. sl. rubbed and spine lightly faded, but generally a good copy, 23 x 10.5cm (9 x 4ins), together with a sl. defective copy of Donald & Pluto Movie Book in 5 Reels, Collins, [1939] (2)

£200-300

82 The Felix Annual, Picture Stories of the Famous Film Cat, pub. Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic, 6 vols., 1924-29, col. plts., b&w illusts., occ. spotting, covers and spine near-detached from text block of second vol., all orig. cloth-backed col. pict. boards, rubbed, 8vo, together with two Felix the Cat, Big Little Books, 1936 & 1943, thick 12mo (8)

£150-250

83 Hankey (W. Lee, illust.). The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith, Constable, 1909, half-title, forty tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards (one or two torn, and one deficient), b & w illusts., some full-page, endpapers and edges foxed, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. japanese vellum, dust-soiled, sl. chipped at head of spine, lacking ties, 4to Limited edition, 134/250 copies, signed by the artist. (1)

£150-200

84 Herge. The Adventures of Tintin. Flight 714, 1st UK ed., 1968, colour illustrations, light spotting, original boards, light edgewear, 4to Signed by the author to front endpaper. (1)

£100-150

85 Kipling (Rudyard). Just So Stories For Little Children, 1st ed., 1902, b & w illustrations by the author, a few light spots, original red pictorial cloth, spine and covers partially faded, 4to

79 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Le Avventure d’Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, 1st Italian ed., 1st issue, Macmillan, 1872, first issue with the London (rather than Turin) imprint, half-title, frontis. and numerous letterpress illusts. by John Tenniel, t.e.g., orig. red cloth gilt, 8vo

(1)

Williams, Madan, Green 85. A bright and almost unblemished copy. (1) £300-400

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£100-150


86 Le Cain (Errol, illust.). The Cabbage Princess, 1st ed., Faber and Faber, 1969, inscribed by Le Cain on the half-title, col. illusts., orig. pictorial boards in price-clipped d.j., 4to, together with The Child in the Bamboo Grove, by Rosemary Harris, 1st ed., Faber and Faber, 1971, signed by Le Cain on the title-page, col. illusts., orig. pictorial boards in price-clipped d.j., spine sl. rubbed, large 8vo, plus Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper, 1st ed., Faber and Faber, 1972, col. and b & w illusts., orig. pictorial boards in d.j., plus three others illust. by Le Cain (6)

£100-150

87 Le Cain (Errol, illust.). King Arthur’s Sword, 1st ed., 1968, colour illustrations, original pictorial boards, slight edgewear, d.j., price crossed-through, a little rubbed with minor nicks at spine ends, 4to (1)

£100-150

88 Lindsay (Norman, illust.). The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius done into English by Jack Lindsay with one hundred illustrations by Norman Lindsay, Fanfrolico Press, [1927], b&w plts. and illusts., a few minor marks, bookplate of Francis E. Bliss to front pastedown, t.e.g., orig. purple-stained half vellum, rubbed and some marks, with spine faded, folio Limited edition 245/650, signed by Jack Lindsay. (1)

£100-150

90 Meggendorfer (Lothar). Aus dem Leben, Lustiges Ziehbilderbuch, 5th ed., Munich, Verlag von Braun & Schneider, c. 1887, eight full-page hand-coloured moveable plates with tab mechanisms, all in working order, some marks and soiling, and minor repairs, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and some soiling, light edge wear, spine renewed, folio (1)

£400-600

91 Milne (A.A.). Now We Are Six, illust. Ernest H. Shepard, 2nd ed., 1927, b&w illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. maroon cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed to extremes, and spine a little faded to head and foot, in rubbed and frayed d.j., spine darkened and chipped with loss to head and foot, together with Winnie-The-Pooh, illust. Ernest H. Shepard, 1st ed., 1926, b&w illusts., some light soiling and handling marks, pictorial endpapers, orig. dark green cloth gilt, rubbed and frayed with minor wear to extreme corners, plus Now We Are Six, 2nd ed., 1927, When We Were Very Young, 2nd ed., 1924, & 3rd ed., 1924, all orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and with the second edition of When We Were Very Young with some wear to extremities and hinges near-det., and other related titles, including The Christopher Robin Story Book, 1st ed., 1929, The King’s Breakfast, 2nd ed., 1926 (in d.j.), etc. (12)

89 Mansfield (Katherine). The Garden Party and Other Stories, with Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin, pub. Verona Press, 1939, sixteen coloured lithographs, light spotting to one or two leaves and endpapers, original patterned boards with gilt cloth label to spine, in d.j., somewhat marked, and frayed with a little loss to head of the spine and extreme edges, large 8vo Limited edition 798/1200. (1)

£200-300

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Lot 95

Lot 92 92 Milne (A.A.). Now We Are Six, 1st ed., Methuen, 1927, numerous illusts. and decs. by E.H. Shepard, half-title and final (imprint) page browned, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, pictorial endpapers, orig. red cloth gilt, spine a trifle rubbed at ends, but a bright copy, 8vo, together with The House At Pooh Corner, 1st deluxe ed., Methuen, 1928, numerous illusts. and decs. by E.H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. pale blue roan, rubbed, spine lightly faded and frayed at ends, blue silk marker detached, plus a 2nd ed. of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926, and a 6th ed. of When We Were Very Young, 1924, both in orig. cloth in bright condition

95 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, t.e.g., original salmon cloth gilt, spine and margins faded, d.j., spine and folds darkened with small chips, 8vo

96 Milne (A.A.). The House At Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, a few light spots, previous owner name to half title, t.e.g., original salmon cloth, spine and margins faded, 8vo, with a loose folded 1 pp. TLS, signed the author, dated March 1945, regarding income tax

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£200-300

93 Milne (A.A.). Toad of Toad Hall, A Play from Kenneth Grahame’s Book ‘The Wind in the Willows’, Methuen, 1929, untrimmed and partly unopened, orig. blue cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover (spare tipped-in at rear), in d.j., with darkened spine sl. frayed at ends, large square 8vo

£400-600

£150-200

97 Milne (A.A.). The House At Pooh Corner, 1st ed., 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, bookplate, t.e.g., original salmon cloth, spine and margins faded, d.j., looses at spine ends, a few chips and light stains, 8vo, together with Edmund Dulac’s Fairy-Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, [1916], 15 tipped-in colour plates, a few spots, presentation inscription, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and torn at spine ends, 4to, with Winnie-The-Pooh, 7th ed., 1928 (in torn d.j.), When We Were Very Young, 12th ed., 1925, Now We Are Six, 3rd ed., 1927 and The Wind in the Willows, 7th ed., 1913

Limited edition, 120/200 copies on handmade paper, signed by Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne. (1) £700-1000

94 Milne (A.A.). Now We Are Six, 1st ed., Methuen, 1927, numerous illusts. and decs. by E.H. Shepard, half-title and final (imprint) page browned, former with contemp. ms. name at head, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, pictorial endpapers, orig. red cloth gilt, spine a trifle rubbed to extrems. and faint mark on upper cover, but a bright copy, 8vo, together with The House At Pooh Corner, 1st ed., Methuen, 1928, numerous illusts. and decs. by E.H. Shepard, half-title with contemp. ms. name at head, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt dec. salmon pink cloth, some light marks, spine faded, plus a 3rd ed. of Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926, and two later eds. of When We Were Very Young, 6th and 14th eds., 1924 & 1926 respectively, all in orig. cloth in bright condition

99 Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, 12 colour woodblocks, light marginal toning, one or two small marginal inkstains, endpapers spotted, original boards, a little warped and soiled, 4to

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£150-200

98 Milne (A.A.). Winnie The Pooh, 1st deluxe ed., Methuen, 1926, numerous illusts. and pictorial endpapers by E.H. Shepard, a.e.g., orig. gilt dec. crimson limp morocco, lightly rubbed, spine a little faded and a trifle frayed at head, rear cover with water-stain to top inner corner, 8vo (1)

£200-300

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£200-300


105 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, Translated by Margaret Armour, 2nd impression, 1910, 34 tipped-in colour plates, scattered spotting, original cloth gilt, spine and edges a little rubbed, light stains, 4to, together with Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, by Richard Wagner, new impression, 1924, 30 tipped-in colour plates, a few spots, original cloth, spine a trifle faded, 4to, with three others illustrated: The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, 1917, A Song of the English, by Rudyard Kipling, c. 1920 and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1928 (5)

£100-150

100 Pop-up book. Alice in Wonderland [cover title], Bancroft & Co., c.1950s, col. illusts., incl. two double-page pop-up plts. (one with sl. damage, but no loss), orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, upper cover with transparent oval cut-out, some faint staining, edges rubbed and corners worn, slim folio Scarce. (1)

£70-100

101 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st ed., 1907, colour illustrations, one or two light stains, front endpaper with small piece torn away at top corner, original boards, upper cover with picture inset, spine and margins a little faded, 12mo, together with The Peter Rabbit Music Books for Pianoforte, 2 vols., 1935, b & w illustrations by Beatrix Potter, marginal sellotape repair and marks to a few leaves of Book 2, presentation inscription, original pictorial boards, light spotting and stains, 4to (3)

£100-150

102 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Aesop’s Fables, A New Translation by V. . Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton, 1st ed., pub. William Heinemann, 1912, thirteen tipped-in col. plts., with captioned tissue guards, b&w illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, some light marginal spotting, original cream cloth gilt, some minor marks, and spine with some light discolouration and browning, 4to, together with a single-page printed advertisement for an exhibition of Rackham’s watercolours for Aesop’s Fables at the Leicester Galleries October 19th to November 16th, 1912, loosely inserted Riall, 111. Limited edition 20/1450, signed by Arthur Rackham. (1)

£200-300

106 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C.S. Evans, Heinemann, [1920], tipped-in col. frontis., col. and b & w illusts. in silhouette, occn. light spotting (mostly to edges), orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, in pictorial pink d.j., a few minor marks, spine and upper return faded, 4to

103 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Jonathan Swift, 1909, 12 colour illustrations, a few spots, original red cloth gilt, 8vo, together with The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton, 1931, 12 colour plates, t.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, spine a little faded, slight bowing, 4to, plus Tales of Mystery & Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe, 1935, 12 colour plates, a few light spots, original black cloth gilt, edges a trifle rubbed, 4to, with two others: Comus, [1921] and The Vicar of Wakefield, 1929 (5)

Riall, p.141. An unusually good copy in the dust jacket. (1)

107 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in col. plts. mounted on brown paper (some offsetting to text), with captioned tissue guards, letterpress illusts., front blank excised, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. vellum, some rubbing to gilt, upper joint neatly repaired, ties renewed, 4to

£200-300

104 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Undine, by De la Motte Fouque, Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney, 1909, 15 tipped-in colour plates, a few light spots, original blue cloth gilt, edges lightly rubbed, 4to, together with Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Heinemann, c. 1925, 40 colour plates (one loose), light spotting, presentation inscription, original pink cloth gilt, spine faded, 4to, plus Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, 1917, 12 tipped-in colour plates, light spots, original green cloth gilt, closed tear at head of spine, a little rubbed, 4to, with two others illustrated by Rackham: The Springtide of Life, 1918 and Fairy Tales, by Hans Andersen, 1932 (5)

£100-150

Limited edition of thirty presentation copies, numbered 1010/1030. See Riall, p.87, for the deluxe edition. (1) £400-600

£200-300

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108 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, With a Poem by Austin Dobson, Heinemann, [1907], thirteen col. plts. tipped-in on brown paper (some offsetting to text), captioned tissue guards, a few minor spots, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers browned, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed (foxed), orig. buckram gilt, vign. on upper cover sl. rubbed, some light dust-soiling and one or two minor marks, 4to Limited edition, 170/1130 copies. Riall, p.77. (1)

Lot 111

£500-800

109 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Fairy Tales, by Hans Andersen, 1932, 12 colour plates, original cloth gilt, 4to, together with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, 1928 reprint, 8 colour plates, original cloth gilt, d.j., tears and repairs, 4to (2)

£100-150

110 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Aesop’s Fables, 1912, 13 tipped-in colour plates, a few minor spots, t.e.g., original cream cloth gilt, spine darkened, light soiling, 4to Limited edition, 436/1450 signed by the artist. (1)

£200-300

111 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Introduction by A.A. Milne, 1st ed., 1951, twelve tippedin col. plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. off-white full pig skin gilt, worn at head and foot of spine, some marks, 4to Limited edition 213/500. Riall, p.200. (1)

£300-500

112 Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). An original pen & ink drawing by Arthur Rackham beneath the limitation statement on the verso of the half-title of The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, Harrap, 1929, pen & ink sketch of the Vicar of Wakefield writing at a table, signed by Arthur Rackham and dated ‘23 Oct 29’, twelve col. plts., letterpress illusts., occn. foxing, pictorial endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. vellum gilt, 1cm split at foot of spine, some surface rubbing to board edges, 4to in 8s Limited edition, 17/575 copies, signed by Rackham. Riall, p.170. (1)

Lot 112

£400-600

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113 Richards (J.M. & Ravilious, Eric). High Street, 1st ed., Country Life, 1938, 24 colour lithograph plates, light spots to endpapers, presentation inscription, original pictorial boards, loss at head of spine, small splits at foot, light edge wear, 8vo (1)

115 Timlin (William M.). The Ship that Sailed to Mars, A Fantasy, 1st ed., Harrap, [1923], forty-eight text leaves and forty-eight col. plts., all mounted on grey paper (one mount with short closed tear in lower margin), free endpapers with adhesive tape marks, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, some rubbing and stains, corners showing, in facsmile d.j., 4to

£800-1200

114 Sendak (Maurice). In the Night Kitchen, 1st UK ed., 1971, colour illustrations, original boards, d.j., spine and edges a little rubbed, 4to, together with Outside Over There, 1st US ed., 1981, colour illustrations, original red boards, faded patches, d.j., spine faded, oblong 4to, signed by the author, with two others by Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are, 1963 and Dear Mili, 1988 (4)

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£300-400

116 Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Golliwogg’s Fox-Hunt, Longman, Green & Co., 1st ed., [1905], col. illusts. throughout, two leaves and rear free endpaper with neatly repaired closed tear, stitching strained, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, some minor rubbing and staining, oblong 4to, together with six other books by the Uptons, generally in poor condition

£100-150

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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

Lot 117 117* Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943). A miniature autograph letter signed “Peter Rabbit”, early 1900s, written in a tiny hand ‘Dear Madam, The last little girl that wrote was Miss Joan Perkins of Leeds & she wanted a Teddy Bear! I want spring cabbages. I am turned into a gardener myself. Peter Rabbit’, rectangular, with two folds and a triangular flap at the top, to form an envelope when folded, the verso addressed to ‘Miss M.E. Lockhart, The Hewk’, and with a hand-drawn ‘postage stamp’ in red, overall size 61 x 20mm (approx. 2.5 x 1ins)

written between March 1892 and August 1912; miniature letters written between the early 1900s and her marriage in 1913; and more conventional letters written between 1906 and 1942. Her miniature letters were written on a narrow slip of paper that either folded into the shape of an envelope, or fitted into its own tiny envelope, and they were all written as if from one of her characters: ‘They mark a change of gear in her letter-writing to children, almost as if, conscious of her young friends getting older, she felt she should provide them with more than just news. A full appreciation of the miniature letters is enhanced by a knowledge of the books.’ One family who were recipients of such letters - though few now survive - were the Moores. Annie Carter, Beatrix’s last governess, and close friend, married Edwin Moore and had eight children. Beatrix made a small cloth post bag lettered in ink ‘G.P.O.’ in which she sent her letters to the Moore children. Similarly, Lucie and Kathleen Carr, the daughters of a Lake District clergyman received their miniature letters posted in tiny red tin letter boxes. Lucie Carr said: ‘“As we played postmen with them for hours, it is wonderful that any of them have survived”‘. Indeed, such letters rarely come onto the market and of those which have been preserved, the majority are in institutions. The two letters offered here have been kept for over a century by the family of the original recipient, and therefore have never before been on the open market. (Judy Taylor, Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne, 1992) (1) £2000-3000

Provenance: from the daughter of Margaret Elliot-Lockhart, the recipient of the letter. Margaret, born in 1894, was the daughter of Colonel Robert ElliotLockhart, who served with the Indian Army and lived at The Hewke, near Lockerbie. As a child Margaret wrote to Beatrix Potter and this was one of two miniature letters she had in reply. Margaret later married and had two children. In 1947 the family left their Gloucestershire home and emigrated to Kenya. The letters went into storage where they stayed until their daughter returned to live in England in 1965. For nearly fifty years the letters have been kept by her and shown only to family, appearing here in public for the first time. Beatrix Potter wrote to children who were known to her as well as those who were not, but who wrote simply because they loved her books. She received letters from children all over the world, and she appeared always to write back. Her letters fall into three categories: picture letters which were

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Lot 118

M.E. Lockhart, The Hewk’, and with a hand-drawn ‘postage stamp’ in red ink, overall size 65 x 29mm (approx. 2.5 x 1.25ins)

118* Potter (Beatrix, 1855-1943). A miniature autograph letter signed “Ginger”, c.1909, written in a tiny hand ‘Dear Miss Margaret, I am in the next book but one, I am a yellow tom cat belonging to the village school mistress, lent “with compliments”.The way people want to lend cats is overpowering! I am a very fine one yrs truly, Ginger’, rectangular, with two folds and a triangular flap at the top, to form an envelope when folded, the verso addressed to ‘Miss

Provenance: from the daughter of Margaret Elliot-Lockhart, the recipient of the letter. Margaret, born in 1894, was the daughter of Colonel Robert ElliotLockhart, who was a member of the Indian Army and lived at The Hewke, near Lockerbie. (1) £2000-3000

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119* Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943). A real photo postcard of Benjamin Bunny, showing a large rabbit sitting on the edge of a coir doormat beside a pottery urn, inscribed by Beatrix Potter on the verso ‘For Mr. Motts children - This is a photograph of the real old original Mr Benjamin Bunny - he was a Belgian rabbit, very tame & clever.’, 9 x 14cm (3.5 x 5.5ins) Provenance: the collection of Helena Mott (b.1900), inherited by the current vendor. Helena Mott’s father was Joseph Mott, the art director at Royal Doulton from 1897. Around 1908 Beatrix Potter began modelling the characters from her tales in clay, and her friend, Katherine Smallfield, a director at the Lambeth Studio of Royal Doulton, recommended that she contact Joseph Mott to determine if Royal Doulton would like to produce her beautiful tiny clay figures, and so Beatrix came to know the Mott family. Beatrix Potter wrote of the real Benjamin Bunny that he was ‘extremely fond of hot buttered toast... [and] used to hurry into the drawing-room when he heard the tea-bell!’ (Elizabth Buchan, Beatrix Potter, The Story of the Creator of Peter Rabbit, Warne, 1998). (1) £500-800

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Lot 120

120 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, [Strangeways], December 1902, col. frontis and fifteen col. plts., three plts. detached and one plt. reattached with adhesive tape (erroneously placed), generally finger-soiled, free endpapers browned, upper hinge partially split, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, orig. pink boards, rubbed and soiled, edge-worn with spine deficient, upper cover with printed lettering and vignette of three mice sewing, 12mo Linder, p.420; Quinby 3. Rare: only 500 copies printed. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘To Nellie Wilkinson Christmas Day 1902 With best wishes from Beatrix Potter’. Nellie was the niece of the two sisters, Hannah and Elizabeth Harper, whom Beatrix’s mother brought from her childhood home in Stalybridge to work at the Potter family house in Bolton Gardens, Kensington. Beatrix was very fond of Nellie and apparently gave her a copy of each new book as it was published (Judy Taylor, The Beatrix Potter Society Newsletter No. 61, p.18). The story of the Tailor of Gloucester was first told in a letter from Beatrix to Freda Moore, daughter of her former governess, Annie Carter. Although Frederick Warne had taken up Beatrix’s ‘Bunny Book’, as they referred to ‘Peter Rabbit’, and published it in October 1902, the author felt that they might not wish to publish a second book so soon, or that they might want to alter it too much. So she returned to Strangeways, the original printers of ‘Peter Rabbit’, and herself paid for a private edition of 500 copies to be printed. The book differs considerably in both text and illustration from Warne’s later edition of 1903. Of all her books ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’ remained Beatrix Potter’s own favourite. (1) £2500-3500

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122 Potter (Beatrix). The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, 1st ed., Warne, 1906, fourteen col. illusts. with corresponding text leaves bound concertina-style, one illust. with faint vertical crease, orig. wallet-style olive green cloth binding with dark blue lettering, upper cover with mounted col. illust. and tab fastening, 16mo Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.426; Quinby 12. An unusually good copy. (1) £400-600

123 Potter (Beatrix). The Story of Miss Moppet, 1st ed., 1st issue, Warne, 1906, first issue with ‘London & New York’ on rear cover (November printing), fourteen col. illusts. with corresponding text leaves bound concertina-style, orig. wallet-style grey cloth binding with dark blue lettering, upper cover with mounted oval col. illust. and tab fastening, 16mo

121 Potter (Beatrix). Ginger & Pickles, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, halftitle, col. frontis. and nine full-page col. illusts., finger-soiled and some short edge tears, pictorial endpapers, upper hinge split, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, orig. pale olive green boards with pictorial label on upper cover, rubbed and soiled, lacking spine, 8vo

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.426; Quinby 11. An unusually good copy. (1) £400-600

Linder, p.428; Quinby 17. Inscribed ‘For Nellie Wilkinson from Miss Potter Dec 21st 09 Wishing her Many Happy Returns of the Day’. (1) £500-800

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124 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 1st ed., Warne, 1909, half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. brown boards lettered in white, upper cover with inset col. illust., 12mo

126 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st ed., Warne, 1908, half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. grey boards with inset col. pictorial panel to upper cover, sl. cocked, a few faint marks to lower cover and spine a trifle rubbed at ends, but overall a good copy, 12mo

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.428; Quinby 16. A clean and bright copy. (1) £300-400

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.427; Quinby 14. (1) £300-400

125 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, 1st ed., Warne, 1905, half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. brown boards with inset col. pictorial panel to upper cover, latter very sl. bowed and lower cover a little rubbed to upper outer corner, but a good copy, 12mo

127 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st ed., Warne, 1906, half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. grey-green boards lettered in white, upper cover with inset col. illust., one or two very minor marks, 12mo

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, 425; Quinby 8. (1) £300-400

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.426; Quinby 10. A clean and bright copy. (1) £300-400

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130 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, 1st ed., Warne, 1910, half-title, col. illusts. (frontis. with faint crease), pictorial endpapers, orig. cream boards lettered in dark green, with hexagonal pictorial panel inset to upper cover, 12mo

128 Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st ed., Warne, 1903, half-title, col. illusts., stitching sl. strained, pictorial endpapers, orig. maroon boards lettered in white, upper cover with inset col. illust., spine sl. darkened and rubbed, 12mo

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.429; Quinby 18. An unusually clean and bright copy. (1) £300-400

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.423; Quinby 4. (1) £200-300

131 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st ed., Warne, 1904, half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. tan boards with inset oval panel to upper cover, sl. rubbed to head of spine and upper outer corner of lower cover, but a good copy, 12mo

129 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1st ed., Warne, 1907, half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. brown boards lettered in white, upper cover with inset col. illust., spine a trifle sunned and rubbed at ends, very small indentation on lower cover, but overall a good copy, 12mo

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.424; Quinby 6. (1) £300-400

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.427; Quinby 13. (1) £300-400

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132 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st ed., Warne, 1903, early issue, without ‘Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ on title-page, half-title, col. illusts., stitching sl. strained, pictorial endpapers, orig. grey boards, with circular pictorial label inset to upper cover, spine with closed tear at foot, upper cover with small mark at head, 12mo Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.423; Quinby 5. (1) £200-300

133 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Two Bad Mice, 1st ed., Warne, 1904, half-title, col. illusts., frontis. sl. creased and with short closed tear in fore-edge, pictorial endpapers, orig. red boards lettered in white, upper cover with inset col. illust., spine a little darkened and extrems. sl. rubbed, 12mo Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.424; Quinby 7. (1) £150-200

134 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 6th printing, Warne, [1903], half-title, col. illusts., stitching strained (hinge split between front free endpaper and half-title), pictorial endpapers, orig. green boards lettered in white, upper cover with inset col. illust., 12mo, together with an old small circular photograph of a clothed toy rabbit with someone’s arm around it loosely inserted, diameter 3.5cm (1.25ins) Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.422. (1)

£150-200

136 Potter (Beatrix). Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, 1st ed., Warne, [1922], half-title, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. red boards with pictorial panel to upper cover, spine faded, 12mo, with single leaf ad. for Peter Rabbit’s Race Game loosely inserted Linder, p.430; Quinby 26. (1)

135 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, 1st ed., 2nd issue, Warne, 1930, 2nd issue with ‘reprinted’ on verso of title, halftitle present, six col. plts., full-page letterpress illusts., pictorial endpapers (sl. toned and foxed), orig. blue boards gilt, in d.j. with mounted illust. on front panel, lightly rubbed and toned in places, 4to

£150-200

137 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, 1st ed., later issue, Warne, [1918], with ‘London’ printed correctly on the titlepage, col. illusts., pictorial endpapers, orig. green boards with mounted col. illust. to upper cover, spine with vertical crease, but a good copy, 12mo

Provenance: from the collection of Helena Mott. Linder, p.430; Quinby 30. A good copy. (1) £150-200

Linder, p.430; Quinby 25. (1)

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Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) The Hugoe Matthews Collection An eminent and pioneering thoracic surgeon who specialised in diseases of the oesophagus, Hugoe Matthews (1938-2011) was also an authority on the Victorian novelist and nature writer Richard Jefferies, of whose works he created probably the finest collection in private hands. In collaboration with George Miller, Matthews wrote the definitive bibliography of Jefferies’ works, published by Scolar Press in 1993 and served for many years as President of the Richard Jefferies Society. Despite his full-time work as a consultant surgeon at East Birmingham Hospital, and as a Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Warwick, he was still able to write a number of books on his favourite author, including The Forward Life of Richard Jefferies (1994), Richard Jefferies: An Index of Themes, Thoughts and Observations (2008), Richard Jefferies: An Anthology (2010, with Rebecca Welshman), as well as a bibliography of the early 20th century nature writer Henry Williamson (2004). All of the major works of Richard Jefferies are represented by first editions in the original cloth, often in remarkably fine condition. Also present are many scarce pamphlets or tracts issued by Jefferies in his early years, rare photographs of the author and documentation covering his life and family, including eighteen original letters in his hand.

138 Jefferies (Richard). Reporting; Editing & Authorship. Practical Hints for Beginners in Literature, 1st ed., John Snow, [1873], 33 pp., original morocco-backed printed boards, a little toned, 12mo, together with a Saint Guido reprint, both contained in a later morocco-backed slipcase Miller & Matthews B1.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “For my dear Aunt Ellen, with her affectionate nephew’s love”. As stated in Miller & Matthew: “To Ellen Harrild... Jefferies promised his aunt the first copy of his first book”. (1) £700-1000

139 Jefferies (Richard). A Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts. Compiled from Ancient Records, Registers, and Family Papers, 1st ed., Coate, Swindon, [1873], 56 pp., light overall toning and a few spots, original blue cloth, a little rubbed with light stains, later cloth portfolio with red calf label, small square 4to

140 Jefferies (Richard). Jack Brass, Emperor of England, 1st ed., 1873, 12 pp., one or two spots, original buff printed wrapper, light soiling, 8vo

Miller & Matthews B2.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper “C.A. Wheeler, with the author’s complts”, with an additional presentation inscription to title. Noted in Miller & Matthews: “The recipient, a Swindonian of note, was responsible for the removal of Swindon’s deplorable old gaol”. (1) £400-600

Miller & Matthews B3.1. (1)

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£200-300


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Lot 143

Lot 145

141 Jefferies (Richard). The Scarlet Shawl. A Novel, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1874, single advert. leaf at front, half title, single advert. leaf at end unopened, light spotting W.H. Smith blindstamp to front endpaper, small previous owner name crossed-through, original red cloth, upper cover with elaborate border design in black, spine rubbed, a few stains, 8vo Miller & Matthews B4.1a. The first issue with the uncancelled dedication. (1) £200-300

142 Jefferies (Richard). The Scarlet Shawl, a Novel, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1874, half title, 4 pp. pubs. list at end, a few spots, bookplate of Harry Lawrence, original red cloth, spine ends rubbed with tears, one corner bumped, a few stains, 8vo Miller & Matthews B4.2a. Second issue with the corrected cancel dedication. (1) £100-150

143 Jefferies (Richard). Restless Human Hearts. A Novel, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1875, half titles, scattered light spotting, small burnhole to vol. III front endpaper, bookplates of Harry Lawrence and Rowland Cobbold, contemporary presentation inscription to a Florence Casswell from F.C.D. to vol. III half title, original red cloth, edges a little rubbed, one or two light stains, 8vo Miller & Matthews B5.1a. (3)

£400-600

144 Jefferies (Richard). Suez-Cide!! Or, How Miss Britannia Bought a Dirty Puddle and Lost Her Sugar-Plums, John Snow, 1876 [1893], 20 pp., p.7 with light marginal stain, original pink wrapper, a little faded, spine rubbed, 8vo Miller & Matthews B6.3. Forgery edition of 1893, with “Anthony” for “Antony” (p.8, line 11), now as scarce as the original first edition of 1876. (1) £300-400

Lot 144

145 Jefferies (Richard). World’s End. A Story in Three Books, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1877, half titles, single ad. leaf at end of vol. I, one or two light spots, original decorative brown cloth, 8vo

146 Jefferies (Richard). The Gamekeeper at Home. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, 1st ed., 1878, one or two minor spots, original green decorative cloth gilt, in bright condition, 8vo

Miller & Matthews B7.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to vol. I half title: “Mr & Mrs R.T. Billing, with the author’s complts. July 6th, 1877”. (3) £400-600

Miller & Matthews B8.1a. (1)

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£100-150


Lot 147

Lot 150

Lot 151

147 Jefferies (Richard). The Gamekeeper at Home. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, 1st illustrated ed. 1880 [1879], numerous wood-engraved illustrations by Charles Whymper, some light spots, green foliate endpapers, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, bevelled edges, spine ends and corners rubbed, 8vo

Lot 152

152 Jefferies (Richard). Hodge and His Masters, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1880, half titles, 4 pp. ads. at end of vol. II, one or two light spots, original brown decorative cloth gilt, small tear at head of vol. II spine, a little rubbed, 8vo Miller & Matthews B12.1a. Presentation copy, inscribed to volume I front blank: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s love, March 26th, 1880”. (2) £200-300

Miller & Matthews B8.8a. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “E. Jefferies, with the Author’s Best Love, Dec 9th, 1879”. (1) £200-300

148 Jefferies (Richard). The GameKeeper at Home. Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life, 1st illustrated ed., 1880 [1879], numerous wood-engraved illustrations by Charles Whymper, one or two foredge tears from rough opening, a few spots, green folliate endpapers, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo Miller & Matthews B8.8a. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “Horton Harrild junr. Esq, from the author, Dec 11th, 1879”. Horton Harrild, a cousin of the author. (1) £200-300

149 Jefferies (Richard). Wild Life in a Southern County, 1st ed., 1879, half title, a few light spots, press cutting to front endpaper, hinges cracking, original green cloth, spine and edges rubbed, 8vo Miller & Matthews B9.1a. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s Best Love, Feb 11th, 1879”. (1) £150-200

150 Jefferies (Richard). The Amateur Poacher, 1st ed., 1879, half title, a few leaves loosening at front, light spots, original brown cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo Miller & Matthews B10.1c. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s best love, October 13th, 1879”. (1) £150-200

151 Jefferies (Richard). Greene Ferne Farm, 1st ed., 1880, 3 ad. leaves at end, scattered light spotting, original green cloth, spine toned, one or two light stains, 8vo

153 Jefferies (Richard). Hodge and His Masters, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1880, half titles, a few light spots, small W.H. Smith blindstamps to front endpapers, original brown decorative cloth, upper covers with gilt vignettes, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo

Miller & Matthews B11.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s best love, Feb 3rd, 1880”. (1) £200-300

Miller & Matthews B12.1a. Presentation copy, each front blank inscribed: “To Sarah Billing, with her Fathers Love, James Luckett Jefferies, Bath, April 5th, 1880”. (2) £150-200

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Lot 154

Lot 155

Lot 156

Lot 157

154 Jefferies (Richard). Round About A Great Estate, 1st ed., 1880, half title, 4 pp. ads. at end, a few light spots, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo Miller & Matthews B13.1a. Presentation copy, inscribed to front blank: “E. Jefferies, with the Author’s Best Love, Aug 6th, 1880”. (1) £150-200

155 Jefferies (Richard). Wood Magic; A Fable, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1881, half titles (unopened in vol. II), 8 pp. pubs. list at end of each vol., a few light spots, signature of R.L. Billing to vol. II half title, original green decorative cloth, edges lightly rubbed, a few small light stains to vol. II, 8vo Miller & Matthews B14.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to volume I half title verso: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s love, May 23rd, 81”. (2) £300-400

156 Jefferies (Richard). Wood Magic; A Fable, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1881, half titles, 8 pp. pubs. list at end of each vol., a few spots, original green cloth, small abrasion at head of vol. II spine, a little rubbed with light marks, 8vo Miller & Matthews B14.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to volume I title verso: “Mrs Rbt. Billing, with her Fathers best Love, Jas. L. Jefferies, June 8th, 1881”. (2) £100-150

158 Jefferies (Richard). Bevis. The Story of a Boy, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1882, half title to vol. I, 32 pp. pubs. ads. at end of vol. III, a few light spots, bookplates of Harry Lawrence, original brown decorative cloth, in bright condition, a trifle rubbed at spine ends, 8vo, with a loose typed letter from Constable and Co., dated 1947, to a S.J. Looker of Billericay, discussing the variant green and brown issues of the work, and stating that copies in the green cloth are less common

157 Jefferies (Richard). Bevis. The Story of a Boy, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1882, half title to vol. I, a few light spots, patterned endpapers, a couple detaching at gutter, lightly toned, original green decorative cloth gilt, in bright condition, one or two light marks, 8vo Miller & Matthews B15.1a. (3)

Miller & Matthews B15.1b. (3)

£400-600

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£400-600


Lot 159

Lot 164

Lot 165

Lot 166

163 Jefferies (Richard). Red Deer, 1st ed., 1884, light spotting front and rear, front hinge cracking, original pictorial cloth, spine faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo

159 Jefferies (Richard). Nature Near London, 1st ed., 1883, 32 pp. pubs. list at end, dated December 1882, light spots front and rear, original pictorial cloth, spine a little darkened, 8vo Miller & Matthews B17.1. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s best love, April 6th, 1883”. (1) £200-300

Miller & Matthews B19.2b. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “J. Comyns Carr Esq, From the author, Jan 7th, 1884”. The recipient was editor of the English Illustrated Magazine. (1) £100-150

160 Jefferies (Richard). The Story of My Heart. My Autobiography, 1st ed., 1883, 12 pp. pubs. list at end (dated July 1884), a few spots and one or two chipped foredges at end, original green cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo

164 Jefferies (Richard). The Dewy Morn. A Novel, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1884, scattered light spotting, patterned endpapers toned and repaired, original green cloth, a little rubbed with marks to upper covers, signature of C. Jefferies to each title, 8vo

Miller & Matthews B18.1b (noting advertisements dated April 1883). Pencil signature of “C. Jefferies” to half title. (1) £100-150

Miller & Matthews B21.1. (2)

161 Jefferies (Richard). Red Deer, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1883, some light spotting, previous owner inscription, original pictorial cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo

165 Jefferies (Richard). After London; Or, Wild England, 1st ed., 1885, half title, pubs. ad. and list at end, floral endpapers, hinges a little tender, original brown cloth, a trifle rubbed at spine ends, later cloth slipcase, 8vo

Miller & Matthews B19.1. Scarce, only two copies noted with the uncancelled title. (1) £150-200

£200-300

Miller & Matthews B22.1b. Presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “John & Alice Brook, from the author, May 10th, 1885”. (1) £200-300

162 Jefferies (Richard). Red Deer, 1st ed., 1884, a few spots, hinges cracking, original pictorial cloth, spine faded and a little rubbed, 8vo

166 Jefferies (Richard). After London; Or, Wild England, 1st ed., 1885, half title, pubs. ad. and list at end, a few spots, floral endpapers, original brown cloth, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo

Miller & Matthews B19.2. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “E. Jefferies, with the author’s best love, January 14th, 1884”. (1) £150-200

Miller & Matthews B22.1b. Presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “Ellen Harrild, April, 1885”. (1) £200-300

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Lot 168

Lot 169

167 Jefferies (Richard). The Open Air, 1st ed., 1885, half title, 32 pp. pubs. list at end dated October 1885, original light brown pictorial cloth, spine a little darkened at rubbed at ends, 8vo

171 Jefferies (Richard). Restless Human Hearts, 1st one volume ed., 1875, three titles and half titles, one or two spots, hinges weakening, original green blindstamped cloth, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo (Miller & Matthews B5.2a), together with Round About a Great Estate, 1st ed., 1880, half title, 4 pp. ads. at end, a few light spots, original blue cloth gilt, spine a little darkened and rubbed, 8vo, with pencil ownership inscription of Jas. L. Jefferies to half title, plus Red Deer, 1st ed., 1884, partly unopened, light spotting, original pictorial cloth, spine a trifle faded and rubbed, 8vo, with eight others including Field and Hedgerow, 1889, Bevis. The Story of a Boy, 1891 and The Toilers of the Field, 1892

Miller & Matthews B23.1b. Presentation copy, inscribed to half title: “Ellen Harrild, with the author’s love, Jun? 23rd, 1885”., with additional inscription beneath. (1) £150-200

168 Jefferies (Richard). Amaryllis at the Fair. A Novel, 1st ed., 1887, half title, two blank leaves at end, scattered spotting, pencil signature of R.H. Billing, hinges strengthened, original green cloth, upper cover with daffodil design in yellow, spine ends repaired, edges a little rubbed, 8vo

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Miller & Matthews B24.1a. Presentation inscription to front endpaper: “Sally, with love, March 22nd, ‘87”. (1) £150-200

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£150-200

173 Jefferies (Richard). Round About a Great Estate, 1st ed., 1880, half title, 4 pp. ads. at end, a few spots, original blue cloth, a little rubbed with light stains, 8vo, inscribed to front endpaper: “Mrs Billing, with Fathers Love, J.L. Jefferies, Oct 6/80”, together with Wood Magic, 1st one vol. ed., 1881, one or two spots, previous owner inscription of Henry Lappin to title, foliate endpapers, original terracotta pictorial cloth gilt, spine ends rubbed with small tears, 8vo, plus Nature Near London, 1887, a few spots, reinforcement at front, original green pictorial cloth, 8vo, inscribed to half title: “S.E. Billing, In memory of the dear author, from his only sisiter, Oct, 1887, with others, some inscribed by Jefferies family members

£150-200

170 Jefferies (Richard). T.T.T., 1st ed., Arthur Young, Wells, 1896, 26 pp., a few light spots front and rear, original printed wrapper, spine splitting, 8vo Miller & Matthews B30.1. 100 copies printed. (1)

£200-300

172 Jefferies (Richard). Wild Life in a Southern County, 1st US ed., Roberts, Boston, 1879, pubs. list at end, previous owner signature and bookplate of Dr. R.L. Walker, original green cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Round About A Great Estate, 1st US ed., Boston, 1880, pubs. ads. at end, a few spots, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, with three other US eds: The Amateur Poacher, 1879, The GameKeeper at Home (with illustrations by Charles Whymper), 1880 & The Gamekeeper at Home, 3rd ed., 1879

169 Jefferies (Richard). Field and Hedgerow. Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies, Collected by his Widow, 1st ed., 2nd impression, 1889, half title, 16 pp. pubs. list at end dated June 1888, occasional spotting, previous owner inscription to title, bookplate of Henry Frederick, 6th Marquess of Bath, original olive pictorial cloth, in bright condition, d.j., laid down with losses, 8vo Miller & Matthews B26.3a. (1)

Lot 170

£150-200

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£200-300


174 Jefferies (Richard). Nature Near London, 1st ed., 1883, 32 pp. pubs. list at end, a few spots, rear hinge tender, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, inscribed “Jessie Jefferies, April 6th, 1883”, together with The Life of the Fields, 1st ed., 1884, 32 pp. pubs. ads. at end (dated April 1887), a few spots, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, with previous owner inscription of Carrie Smith Miller & Matthews B17.1 & B20.1c. (2)

179 Jefferies (Richard). Bevis. The Story of a Boy, 1st US ed., New York, 1905, frontis. by David Garnett, occasional spotting, original blue pictorial cloth in bright condition, 8vo, together with An English Village. A New Edition of Wild Life in a Southern County, Boston, 1903, half-tone illustrations by by Clifton Johnson, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 8vo, plus After London, or Wild England, 1st US ed., New York, 1906, half title, scattered spotting, original green pictorial cloth, 8vo, with six other mostly illustrated editions, including Amaryllis at the Fair, 1904, The Life of the Fields, 1907, and The Story of My Heart, 1913

£100-150

175 Jefferies (Richard). Jefferies’ Land. A History of Swindon and its Environs, Edited with Notes by Grace Toplis, 1896, folding map, b & w illustrations, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. ochre cloth gilt, 8vo, limited edition, 11/50, together with The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies, Edited by Grace Toplis, 1896, portrait frontis., a few spots, hinges strengthened, t.e.g., original black buckram, 8vo, limited edition, 40/50, plus Richard Jefferies. A Study, by H.S. Salt, 1894, portrait frontis., b & w illustrations, t.e.g., original brown buckram, 8vo, large paper copy, 193/250, with five others including The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies, 1888 and Richard Jefferies. His Life and Work, by Edward Thomas, 1909 (8)

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180 Jefferies (Richard). Jefferies’ England... Edited with an Introduction, Notes and Check Lists by Samuel J. Looker, 1st US ed., Harper, New York, 1938, 24 half-tone illustrations by Will F. Taylor, a few stains, previous owner signature, original green cloth, a little faded and stained, d.j., 8vo, together with Richard Jefferies. Selections of his Work, with Details of his Life and Circumstance, his Death and Immortality, by Henry Williamson, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illustrations, a few spots front and rear, original green cloth, d.j., spine faded, 8vo, plus Richard Jefferies. Chronicles of the Hedges and Other Essays, ed. Samuel J. Looker, 1948, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, with others by and on Jefferies

£150-200

176 Jefferies (Richard). Jefferies’ Land. A History of Swindon and its Environs, by the Late Richard Jefferies, Edited with Notes by Grace Toplis, 1st ed., 1896, folding map at end, b & w plates, some spotting, original blue cloth, edges a little rubbed, 8vo, with a presentation inscription to Dilys Jones from Grace Toplis, dated May 1897, limited edition of 350 copies, together with Life in a Railway Factory, by Alfred Williams, 1st ed., 1915, pubs. ads. and list at end, original blue cloth, 8vo, signed by the author to title, plus A Swindon Retrospect 1855-1930, by Frederick Large, 3rd ed., Swindon, 1932, b & w illustrations, light spotting, original cloth, spine faded, light stains, 8vo, author’s presentation copy (3)

£150-200

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£100-150

181 Jefferies (Richard). The Nature Diaries and Note-Books of Richard Jefferies, with an Essay A Tangle of Autumn, now printed for the first time. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel J. Looker, Grey Walls Press, Billericay, 1941, original green full morocco over boards, a little bowed, tall 8vo, limited edition, 3/5 signed by the editor, together with The Story of My Heart, Duckworth, 1912, colour illustrations by E.W. Waite, t.e.g., original Japanese vellum gilt, a few minor stains, 4to, limited edition, 73/160, plus The Toilers of the Field, 1892, portrait frontis., light toning to endpapers, t.e.g., original half vellum, light stains, large 8vo, limited large paper edition, 53/105, with five others including The Worthing Cavalcade. Concerning Richard Jefferies by Various Writers, 1944 and The Worthing Cavalcade. Beauty is Immortal, 1948

£100-150

177 Jefferies (Richard). Jefferies’ Land. A History of Swindon and its Environs, Edited with Notes by Grace Toplis, 1896, folding map., b & w illustrations, together with The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies, Edited by Grace Toplis, 1896, portrait frontis., a few minor spots, both t.e.g., contemporary uniform green full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine faded to brown, large 8vo

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£150-200

178 Jefferies (Richard). Bevis. The Story of a Boy, new ed., 1904, frontis. illustration, light spotting, presentation inscription, original blue pictorial cloth, 8vo, together with After London or Wild England, new ed., 1905, half title, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, plus The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies, by Walter Besant, 1st ed., 1888, portrait frontis., 32 pp. pubs. list at end dated October 1888, original blue cloth, spine a little faded and rubbed, 8vo, Abel Chapman’s copy, with his bookplate, pencil annotations, and one page manuscript critique of Richard Jefferies to front endpaper (Abel Chapman, 18511929, hunter and naturalist), with others including Jefferies’ Land, 1896, limited edition of 50 copies, The Story of My Heart, 1912, illustrated by E.W. Waite, some small format reprints, duplicates etc

182 Jefferies (Richard). The Nature Diaries and Note-Books of Richard Jefferies, with an Essay A Tangle of Autumn now printed for the first time. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel J. Looker, Grey Walls Press, Billericay, 1941, original cream cloth, one or two light marks, tall 8vo, limited edition, 60/105 signed by the editor, together with Field and Farm. Essays Now First Collected, with Some from MSS. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel L. Looker, 1st ed., 1957, press cutting pasted at front, original green cloth (spine a little faded). d.j., 8vo, with 2 pp. typed letter from Looker to Henry Williamson, dated August 1957, thanking him for the review of the book in Time and Tide, plus The Old House at Coate and other hitherto unpublished essays, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel J. Looker, 1st ed., Lutterworth Press, 1948, wood-engraved illustrations by Agness Miller Parker, light spots to endpapers, original cloth, d.j., small chip, 8vo, with a presentation inscription to E.J. Rogers from Looker and note from Rogers, with other Lutterworth Press editions etc

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Limited editions 24/50. (2)

£70-100

£150-200

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£100-150


183 Jefferies (Richard). Meadow Thoughts. A Essay, pub. L.C.C. Central School of Arts and Crafts, July 1950, wood-engraved illustrations by Jenefer Peter, t.e.g., original morocco-backed boards, light edgewear, 4to, together with Meadow Thoughts, Tern Press, 1977, five engraved illustrations by Nicholas Parry, original calf-backed boards, 8vo, limited edition, 18/80 signed by the engraver, plus Summer in the Woods. A Selection from the Works of Richard Jefferies, Amsterdam, 14 September 1947, four b & w drawings by S.H. de Roos, original wrapper, 4to, inscribed to Harold Seers from Samuel J. Looker, 1948, with a loose manuscript letter from Looker to Seers, limited edition, 470/700, with four others including The Bryanston Miscellany, ed. Victor Bonham Carter, 1958 (limited edition of 350 copies), and Red Deer, Signet Press, 1989 (7)

185* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to an unknown publisher, written from Coate, dated June 23rd 1871, 4 pp., folded sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, offering a new work ‘Fortune’, “I have a work on hand which I have the honour of offering to you. The title is “Fortune: How to Obtain.” As expressed in the introduction there and hundreds of works upon almost every subject it is possible to think of but not one upon that which lies nearest everyone’s heart - Fortune & success in life... Should that succeed I propose to follow it up with a munual devoted entirely to the acquisition: & I cannot but think that both subjects would be found very popular”, small adhesive marks Important letter containing most of the known information on ‘Fortune’, which was unpublished and is now lost. (1) £300-500

£100-150

186* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Two autograph letters regarding reviews, one written to George Bentley from Sydenham Park, dated July 14th [1876], 3 pp. on single folded sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, enclosing reviews in the Pall Mall Gazette and other publications and asking him to reconsider publishing a manuscript, “You have in possession a m.s. of mine ‘In Summer Time’ 2 vols. Is it not just possible that this m.s. may be fit for publication - do not readers occasionally overlook m.s. too quickly? May I ask you to reconsider the matter? And to just glance at the m.s. yourself?”, pencil annotation, together with another autograph letter, 1 pp., written from Eltham to W.T. Stead, Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, signed Richard Jefferies, dated Aug 14th [1884], “I enclose the review of Sport in the Highlands. The different handwriting is because I dictated it”, centre fold and adhesive marks to verso

184 Jefferies (Richard). Wood Magic, Introduction by Richard Adams, Third Press, New York, 1974, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., 8vo, together with Chronicles of the Hedges and Other Essays, Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel L. Looker, 1st ed., 1948, 4 pp. manuscript letter from S.J. Looker to a A.C. Holliday, dated August 1948 tipped-in at front, with pasted press cutting, original blue cloth, 8vo, plus Richard Jefferies. A Critical Study, by W.J. Keith, University of Toronto Press, 1965, original cloth, d.j., a few creases, 8vo, signed by the author, with other biography, modern reprints, some duplicates, by Hugoe Matthews, W.J. Keith etc (25)

£100-150

The first letter refers to a manuscript ‘In Summer Time’, rejected by Bentley and never published. (2) £200-300

187* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to the publisher W. Tinsley, written from Surbiton, dated May 23rd [?1877], 2 pp. on folded sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, offering The Dewey Morn for publication, “I have recently completed in 2 volumes, titled “The Dewy Morn: A Summer Story.” I deals with country life, & is full of odd characters, anecdotes & sayings &c. such as I have picked up in a long experience of country people... There is no murder in it & no immorality. Will you publish it? I have never written anything of the kind before - it is totally different from my other novels.”, light soiling, together with another 1 pp. autograph letter to Tinsley, written from Coate, dated Jan 12th ‘75, concerning the proofs of Restless Human Hearts (2)

£200-300

188* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to the editor of Chambers Journal, written from West Brighton, dated August 1st [1883], 2 pp. on folded sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, offering another article (for ‘A King of Acres’), “I have sufficient material to furnish it & I think myself that it would complete if published & make a better, more thorough contribution then as it extends. I did not add ‘to be continued’ as I was not aware whether you would prefer my papers to end in one number or not. The paper is complete as it stands, yet it would be more complete (if you will excuse the awkwardness of the expression) if one more paper were added”, pencil annotation from the recipient (1)

Lot 185

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£150-200


189* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to the writer William Sharp, written from West Brighton, dated June 12th [1884], 2 pp. on single sheet, thanking him for his comments, “I have just received your kind present & letter through Messrs. Chatto & Windus & hasten to return my sincere thanks for the many pleasant observations you have made. A letter like this from one who thoroughly understands & sympathises is worth more to the worker than the vague applause of hundreds. You have done me the honour to quote A Pageant of Summer on your front page, will you therefore accept my new volume just published The Life of the Fields, in which that paper is reprinted... Opening, the poems are haphazard I lighted on a verse describing the wasp - “A yellow flame he seems to be’ these lines are roughly a transcript from nature; so to, the next ‘In a garden’ - ‘the brown bee hums - o’er wild thyme out...”, marginal light soiling from prior mounting (1)

£200-300

190* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to Robert Chambers (editor of Chamber’s Journal), written from Eltham, dated Dec 6th [1884], 2 pp. on single folded sheet, regarding alterations, “I shall be pleased for you to make any alteration you wish in the paper; I have never heard a peacock utter any sound approaching to “Pa-on.” I have not fixed upon the number of papers for “Fields of London” - I intended to leave that to you to decide”, light soiling, adhesive marks from prior mounting to integral leaf verso (1)

£100-150

191* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to his mother, written from The Downs, Crowborough, dated Sept 16th [1885], 2 pp. on a single sheet, signed Richard, discussing family matters and a possible German translation of one of his books, “How is the governor? Never hear of him. People seem to think nothing of him. But I do. I hope he is well and strong at all events... I had a letter from Germany the other day - they talk of translating one of my books into German... I am so tired I cannot sit up to write any more. With much love always, your affectionate son Richard”, fold marks (1)

Lot 191

£200-300

192* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to Miss Rose Kingsley, written from The Downs, Crowborough, dated Nov 26th [1885], 1p. on single folded sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, referring to artist Alfred Parsons (1847-1920, illustrator of ‘Saint Guido’), “Mr. Parsons is a most excellent draughtsman - his beautiful pencil sketches require very gentle printing, not too much pressure or too much ink else the details are lost & his details are truthfull[?].” (1)

£150-200

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193* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to his mother, written from The Downs [Crowborough], dated Feb 8th [1886], 4 pp. on single folded sheet, signed Richard, discussing his deteriorating health and family, “... I am so fearfully weak I can with difficulty sit & the torture I go through every day & often all night long is indescribable... the doctor here says he has no idea what is the matter & has given me up sometime. I am now trying to get a physician down from London but the expense is very great... Phyllis has grown such a big girl & is very busy & happy, she knows her letters now. Toby is all go & much like a wild March wind... I have managed to write a letter somehow but it causes me much distress & pain to do anything. With much love to yourself & the governor always, your affectionate son Richard”

195* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to his publisher Sampson Low & Co., written from Goring, Sussex, dated Nov 21st [1886], 1 p. on a single folded sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, accepting an advance for Amaryllis, “I am glad to find that you think so highly of “Amaryllis” as to consider it too good for the multitude, I should fancy it must be rare for a book to be too good. I will accept 0 paid in advance + 10. p.cent royalty on sales after the first edition.” (1)

196* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Two incomplete autograph letters, one to his father from Woodside, Surbiton, dated May 31st, 2 pp., on a single sheet, incomplete and unsigned, discussing a picture in the Grosvenor Gallery, “The picture is called The Wise Woman’s Briar, & is painted by Louisa Marchioness of Waterford. The catalogue quotes the book to explain it - see page 198 of Wild Life at the top. It represents the wise woman passing a child under a briar. The book has been re-printed in the United States: but I am afraid that I shall not get any of the dollars on account of the copyright laws there”; the other letter 4 pp. on folded sheet, to his parents, incomplete, discussing a family holiday in Cornwall

A poignant and moving letter, written a year and a half before his death, and one of only two known letters written to his mother. (1) £400-600

194* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to [?]Nutt or North, written from Montague Place, Worthing, dated Nov 19th [1886], 2 pp., on single sheet, signed Richard Jefferies, regarding the move to Goring, “We go into our new home - Sea View, Goring - tomorrow Saturday afternoon. You wished me not to press you to come & see us so I will not do so, but of your stay a day or two longer in London than you at first intended remember that Goring is easily accessible from Victoria... I am much jumbled and strained by yesterday’s journey. I am afraid if you do not come down I shall not see you till the spring”, centre fold parially split, glue residue from prior mounting (1)

£200-300

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197* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to his father, dated Dec 10th (no year or address), 1 p. on a single sheet, signed Richard, “There is a text in the Bible which runs thus - “Surely the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird”. I think you will understand what I mean: I thought that I must just remind you of it”, old fold marks

£100-150

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£100-150


200 Jefferies (Richard). Richard Jefferies. The Man and His Work, by J.L. Veitch, A Lecture Given at the Salisbury Museum... , reprinted from Salisbury and Winchester Journal... , Salisbury, [1894], 20 pp., inscribed by the author to title verso, some spotting and dust-soiling, stitched as issued, 12mo, together with thirteen other items of mostly printed Jefferies ephemera, including alphabetical indexes to ‘The Open Air’ and ‘Nature Near London’ by an unidentified author, c. 1900, ‘The Liddington-Barbury Memorial’, various offprints and two dust wrappers, plus ‘The Chaffinch on the Bough’ and ‘The Sun and the Earth’, both Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithology publications, mostly VG (14)

£80-120

Lot 197 198* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). Autograph letter to unknown recipient, written from Coate, undated, 1 p. on single sheet, signed Rich. Jefferies, “Please send me 25 more forms of Instruction to Conservative Voters (not the cards) - I have not enough”, together with a single leaf of manuscript annotation by Jefferies, with a later note by Samuel Looker, a few spots and staple rust, plus a typed 2 pp. letter from Looker to a Mr. A.P Whitaker, dated 27.12.44 presenting him with the above note (2)

201* Jefferies Family. A small group of manuscript ephemera relating to Jefferies and his circle, including an autograph letter signed from Jefferies’ widow Jessie, to Walter Besant, 20 September 1887, concerning Besant’s biography of Jefferies and the possibility of publishing a volume of Jefferies’ essays, 3 pp., blackedged mourning paper, a little fragile, two folds partly split, 8vo, an autograph letter signed from C.C. Osborne to Lieutenant F.H. Davies, 3 September 1887, acknowledging a donation of one guinea to the Richard Jefferies Memorial Fund, 2 pp., 8vo, three autograph letters signed from Walter Besant to Charles Jefferies, 1887/1888, one with signature excised, an autograph letter signed from Elizabeth Jefferies to Charles Jefferies, 10 September 1880, concerning family bibles, 1 p. plus integral blank, 8vo, an autograph letter signed from William Jefferies to his brother, Draycott, 21 December 1788, concerning the purchase and price of flour, some heavy spotting, 1 p., 4to, a scrap of paper with family names, the manuscript journal of Robert Billings [married to Jefferies’ sister Elizabeth], 1872, concerning the printing trade, contemp. quarter roan, rubbed, plus two letters from Samuel Looker (one typed and one handwritten), 1944/48, with references to Williamson, Jefferies, etc., plus a later letter from Looker’s brother Basil, 31 August 1974, giving information on Samuel Looker’s life and activities, with reference to Jefferies, etc., a total of 9 pp., various sizes

£100-150

199* Jefferies (Richard, 1848-1887). A pair of rare oval albumen print carte-de-visite portraits of Richard Jefferies by Elliott & Fry, London & J. Hubert Newman, Sydney, the first showing Jefferies with arms folded on a lectern and head turned slightly to the right, the second head and shoulders only, near full face, image sl. speckled, photographer’s imprints and printed details at foot of each card and to versos, togother with Matthew’s own album containing twenty-one corner-mounted reproduction photo portraits of Jefferies and his circle, modern quarter cloth, small 4to

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The carte de visite by Elliott & Fry was first published as the frontispiece to the Jefferies’ bibliography in 1993. (3) £150-200

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£150-200


202* Williamson (Henry, 1895-1977 ). Two typed letters, one initialled and one signed, Georgeham, North Devon, 23 September 1949 & 1 July 1952, both to E.J. Rogers [who wrote about Jefferies], the first about Jefferies, ‘... thus Jefferies was a lonely man in his lifetime and remained a lonely man in his death. The fact that many more know of him now than knew of him 50 years ago or 75 years ago does not mean that there is unity of thought about him... ‘, ‘... Fortunately his books will remain, when those edited by Looker or altered arrogantly by Williamson or disparaged by Elwin etc. have passed away with the skulls and trousers which picked them up and mucked about with them... ‘, 1 p., 4to, the second with reference to the Jefferies Society, his experiences as a farmer, etc., some holograph ink corrections and a footnote, 2 pp., 4to, both with orig. franked envelopes, plus an ALS from Samuel J. Looker to Henry Williamson, 10 November 1948, concerning Elwin’s ‘Essential Richard Jefferies’, 3 pp., 8vo, plus a letter from Phyllis Hargrave [Jefferies’ daughter] to Rogers, envelope stamped 25 January 1943, presenting him with an unsigned pen and ink sketch of a boat in a bay by Jefferies, unsigned and undated, the illustration 5 x 11cm on a folded octavo sheet, plus some photocopies of letters to Rogers and a small quantity of correspondence (1977 to 1998) concerning the disposal/sale of the Rogers archive (a folder)

£150-200

203* Young (Geoffrey Winthrop, 1876-1958). Bevis, The Story of a Boy, by Richard Jefferies, 1904, Geoffrey Winthrop Young’s copy with his bookplate to front pastedown, numerous pen and pencil marginal annotations by Young to text and map frontis., plus three related items enclosed in pocket pasted to rear pastedown, two of these letters to Young from the publishers’ Duckworth and Lutterworth, 1946/47, some spotting, hinges cracked, orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little fraying to extremities, 8vo, together with a folder of related ephemera including six draft maps and fragments by Young, two letters from Samuel J. Looker to Young, nine letters and postcards from J.B. Jones to Young, all c. 1947 and relating to the revised map of the Bevis territory that Young supplied for the 1948 edition by Eyre & Spottiswoode

Lot 202

This archive formed the basis for an article by Mark Daniel, published in the Richard Jefferies Society journal, No. 3, Spring 1994. (2) £150-200

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ORIGINAL ART & ILLUSTRATIONS 204* Broderick (Muriel Alice, 1910-1954). “Medieval Craft Play at Coventry”, gouache, together with “Nativity Play in Peterborough Cathedral”, “Miracle Play performed outside Rochester Cathedral”, and “Miracle Play performed on village green, each signed lower right 36.5 x 29cm (14.5 x 11.5ins), all mounted, framed and glazed A pencilled note on the verso indicates that these pictures were reproduced in ‘The Illustrated London News’ Christmas Number 1935. (4) £300-400

205* Jones (Harold, 1904-1992). Original illustration for The Town Mouse, by Ruth Manning-Saunders, [1977], pen, ink & watercolour on thick wove paper, signed in pencil, with printed text pasted below image, sheet size 274 x 197mm (10.75 x 7.75ins), mounted (1)

£70-100

206 Manuscript. Summerland News, Stories and Pictorial, 19191926, a collection of 100+ issues of a manuscript periodical in a child’s hand, each between 4pp. and 18pp., some in ink and some in pencil, containing news stories such as Prince Bismark’s treatment of France, Amundsen’s expedition to the North Pole, the 1926 General Strike, notice of a Grand Bell Ringing Festival at North Tawton, Devon, plus stories by Rupert Chesterton, Christopher Beck, Walter Mortimer, John Proudfoot, Douglas Valentine, etc., and articles about astronomy and the weather, shipping, cider-making, nature studies, programmes on the wireless, etc., plus pictures for colouring in, puzzles, advertisements, etc., each approx. 130 x 100mm (5 x 4ins) (approx. 100)

£200-300

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207* Meredith (Norman, 1909-2005). The Enthusiast, 1981, watercolour on paper, heightened with bodycolour, signed and dated lower left, 28 x 22cm (11 x 8.7ins), framed and glazed, with Chris Beetles’ label to verso

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£100-150


213* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & wash or watercolour on artist’s board, including natural history illustrations from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., includes work by artist George Bowe, sheet size typically 39 x 33cm and slightly larger, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 100)

£150-200

214* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original artwork for children’s magazines, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour and gouache on artists board, including many exotic natural history illustrations from magazines Look and Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., artists include R.B. Davis , Clive Uptton & Arthur Oxenham, sheet size typically approx. 50 x 37 cm, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 100)

£150-200

208* Original artwork. A collection of seventeen illustrations, watercolour and gouache on paper or artist’s board, showing fairies, children, animals, etc., several initialled ‘J.B.S.’, two signed ‘Woodall’, varying condition, sheet size 55 x 40.5cm (21.5 x 16ins) and smaller (17)

£100-200

209* Original artwork. A collection of 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour or gouache on artist’s board, including natural history illustrations from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, World of Knowledge, etc., artists include R.B. Davis, John Chalkley, T. Watts and Arthur Oxenham, sheet size typically 54 x 38 cm, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 100)

£150-200

210* Original artwork. A collection of forty sheets of original comic strip artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen & wash on artist’s board, comprising complete stories of “Benny Hill” from Look-In magazine drawn by Bill Titcombe, sheet size 46 x 37 cm, and ten two-page strips of the “Doctor at Sea” TV series from Look-In magazine, drawn by John Cooper, sheet size 47 x 36 cm, etc., some printer’s markings to margins (40)

215* Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, film poster, UK release, November 2001, colour printed poster, some marks and a little fraying to margins, 76 x 101.5cm (30 x 40ins) (1)

£150-200

216* Rupert Bear. Four original story pages from Rupert Annual, 1978, watercolour over pencil on thick card, with printed acetate overlay in black (possibly by John Harrold?), each with old adhesive tape marks to edges, various image sizes (7.5 x 6.75 inches to 8.5 x 8.25 inches)

211* Original artwork. A collection of 100 sheets of original childen’s comic-strip and magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, pen, ink & wash or watercolour on artist’s board, including comic strips Arthur the Moth, Gingerbread Boy, Eric the Elephant, Clockwork Edna, Bonnie and the Cats, Snuggles, etc. from magazines including Funtime, Playhour, Hey Diddle Diddle, Play Box, and Jack and Jill, etc., the strips including Percy Pig, Dolly Girls, Harold Hare, Bobby Bunny and the Friendly TV, sheet size typically 55 x 37 cm, and smaller, printer’s markings to margins (approx. 100)

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£150-200

212* Original artwork. A collection of approx. 100 sheets of original children’s magazine artwork, 1970s & 1980s, watercolour & gouache on artist’s board, including natural history illustrations from Look & Learn, Once Upon a Time, Princess Tina, etc., artists include Graham Allem, Richard Hook, Bert Illos, D. A. Forrest, R.B. Davis, D. Nockels, Arthur Oxenham, and Basil Reynolds, sheet size typically 49 x 38 cm, printer’s marking to margins (approx. 100)

£70-100

£150-200

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£100-150


217* Rupert Bear. Original cover artwork for the Rupert Annual 1961, watercolour with pen & black ink, heightened with bodycolour, on artist board, signed by Alfred Bestall to lower margin, short closed tear to lower left margin, in bright fresh condition, image size 33.5 x 49.5cm (13.25 x 19.5 inches) (1)

ÂŁ5000-7000

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Lot 218

218* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Triptych drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet hunting a woozle, c.1920s/30s, pen & ink on artist’s card, consisting of three vignette illustrations of Pooh and Piglet, the larger central image showing Pooh and Piglet tracking woozle prints in the snow around a clump of trees, flanked by smaller vignettes of the pair puzzling over the tracks in the snow, and Piglet jumping up and down while Pooh discovers a third set of tracks, some light overall toning, 14.5 x 22.5cm (5.75 x 9ins)

the vicinity. A letter of provenance from the vendors is available to the purchaser. The drawings illustrate the story in chapter three of ‘Winnie-thePooh’ (first published in 1926) in which Piglet makes his debut appearance, hunting a woozle with Pooh. Apart from one small image of Piglet in the preceding chapter and a drawing of Piglet at the beginning of chapter three, these three images are the first which demonstrate the friendship of Milne’s two central characters. The image is a composite one, bringing together the three separate drawings from pp.34, 35 and 37 in the first edition. Each vignette is near-identical to that in the book, but with some small additional or varying details (such as the added grassy backdrop to the third illustration). (1) £15000-20000

Provenance: Given to the current vendors by their mother, who were given the drawing in July 1964, during one of several visits to E.H. Shepard’s home in Lodsworth, West Sussex, by their parents, who owned an antique shop in

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219* Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Three drawings for Playtime & Company, A Book for Children, Verses by E.V. Lucas, Methuen, 1925, three pen & ink drawings on artist’s card, one of a horse-drawn gipsy caravan, one of a hawking gipsy woman followed by a small boy and a dog and watched by children at a gate, and the other of a gipsy encampment, some faint spotting, sheet size 16 x 27cm (6.25 x 10.75ins) and sl. smaller, together with a second edition of the work for which the drawings were produced, inscribed by E.H. Shepard on the title-page and dated July 1964, early ms. inscription on front free endpaper, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, a little dusty and edge rubbed Provenance: The drawings were given to the current vendors by their mother, who was given them by the artist in July 1964 (when he also signed this copy of ‘Playtime & Company’), during one of several visits to E.H. Shepard’s home in Lodsworth, West Sussex, by their parents who owned an antique shop in the vicinity. A letter of provenance from the vendors is available to the purchaser. The three illustrations were produced for the poem entitled ‘The Happy Gipsies’ on pp.56-57 of the book. (4) £1500-2000

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222* Thomson (Emily Gertrude, 1850-1929). “Fairies and Bower”; “Fairies and Jonquils”: a pair of drawings of fairies for ‘Three Sunsets and Other Poems’, by Lewis Carroll, pub. Macmillan, 1898, pen & ink, the first showing two child fairies sitting under an arbour of ferns and brambles, the second showing three infant fairies disporting amongst daffodils, both initialled lower right, both approx, 11 x 15cm (4.25 x 6ins), mounted and framed, the former glazed

220* Sillince (William Augustus, 1906-1974). Twenty-four humourous illustrations for Basic British, by Victor Ross, pub. Max Parrish, 1956, pen & ink on paper, each captioned in red ink to lower margin, occn. pencil annotations, sheet size 37 x 22cm (14.5 x 8.5ins) and sl. smaller, together with a copy of the printed book in pictorial d.j. designed by Sillince, plus a letter from the publisher to the artist to accompany the artwork being sent for an exhibition, and asking him to return it afterwards Twenty-four of the twenty-eight illustrations used in the book. (25)

Emily Thomson was a portrait painter, book illustrator and stained glass artist. She studied at Manchester School of Art and became a member of the Royal Miniature Society. She also studied painting on china at the Wedgwood works at Etruria in Staffordshire. In 1878 Emily was approached by Lewis Carroll to illustrate some of his books, including the cover-design for ‘The Nursery “Alice”‘, as well as the covers and twelve large vignettes for ‘Three Sunsets’. She became a friend of Dodgson and wrote a short biographical memoir of him. She exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool, Brussels and Canada. Her works are held at Manchester Art Gallery and the V&A. (2) £400-600

£250-350

223* Tom and Jerry. An original production cell and production background from an MGM Mouseketeers story, 1950s, featuring Tom outdoors with sword over shoulder marching purposefully towards Jerry who is tugging Nibbles away, all three in musketeers’ attire, a little loss of grey gouache to Tom’s lower left leg, 22 x 29cm (8.75 x 11.5in), slightly soiled and bruised original card window mount

221* Sleigh (Bernard). An Anciente Mappe of Fairie Land, Plaistow, The Whitwell Press, 1909, litho. pictorial map with handcolouring and old varnish, one or two ms. words added in pencil, ms. notes in top blank margin “To be obtained from B. Sleigh, 2 Ludgate Hill, Birmingham 5/2” and “Mr. Burrell will supply information as regard to this map”, 58.5 x 44cm (23 x 17.25ins), framed and glazed (1)

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£100-150

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£100-150


BRITISH COMICS 224 Adventure. A large collection of approx. 550 orig. issues, c. 1950-1961, many with newsagent name to front cover, some issues dust soiled, generally VG condition, 4to (2 cartons)

£200-300

225 British Comics. A large collection of British comics, comprising approx. 145 orig. issues of Adventure, c.1951-1957, together with Hotspur, approx. 145 orig. issues, c. 1952-57, plus Wizard, approx. 170 orig. issues, 1952-56, plus Rover, approx 150 orig. issues, 195155, many with newsagent name to front cover, several issues damaged with loose covers, torn, pieces missing etc., some with sew holes to spine, generally G/VG condition, 4to, together with a large quantity of other comics, incl. Modern Boy, c. 1930s, Eagle & Boy’s World, c. 1960s, etc., plus twenty-six Chatterbox Annuals, c. late 19th-mid 20th c. (4 cartons)

£300-500

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226 Dandy Monster Comic, pub. D.C. Thomson, 1941, num. duotone and b&w illusts., neat pencil inscription to belongs to box, leaves toned, orig. col. pict. boards and spine, some wear and splitting to spine edges, 4to A good example of the third Dandy Annual. (1)

£300-400

227 Hotspur. A large collection of approx. 750 orig. issues, c. 19411959, many with newsagent name to front cover, some issues dust soiled, generally G/VG condition, 4to (2 cartons)

£300-400

228 Rover and Adventure. A large collection of approx. 145 orig. issues (incl. a few Rover and Wizard), c. 1961-1963, many with newsagent name to front cover, generally VG condition, 4to (a carton)

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£70-100


229 Rover. A large collection of approx. 500 orig. issues, c. 19501963, many with newsagent name to front cover, some issues dust soiled, generally VG condition, 4to

230 Wizard. A large collection of approx. 600 orig. issues, c. 19511963, many with newsagent name to front cover, some issues dust soiled, generally VG condition, 4to

(2 cartons)

(2 cartons)

ÂŁ200-300

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ÂŁ200-300


ROCK, POP & FILM MEMORABILIA

233* The Beatles. Group photograph with Pete Best by Albert Marion, 1962, modern gelatin silver print from the original negative, 11.5 x 15.5in (29 x 40cm), window mount As used on the front cover of ‘Beatles Anthology’. (1)

£150-200

231* AC/DC. If You Want Blood, Atlantic promo LP, 1978, front sleeve signed in black felt tip for Jordi [Tarda] by band members Angus and Malcolm Young Provenance: This and other lots as noted belong to Jordi Tarda, music critic, collector and long-standing Barcelona d.j. (1) £300-400

234* The Beatles/Rolling Stones. Two photographs showing the backs of the heads of each band’s personnel, modern gelatin silver prints from original negatives, The Beatles photographed in Southend Odeon, 1964, 14 x 14in (35 x 35cm), the Rolling Stones photographed at Victoria Station, 11th October 1964, waiting to get a train to Brighton, 14 x 18in (35 x 46cm), with ‘The Hayward Archive Print’ embossed stamp lower left, both in mat mounts Reputedly the only known photographs showing all the backs of the heads of each of these band’s members. (2) £250-300

232* Bardot (Brigitte). Head and shoulders portrait, Buzios, Brazil, 1964, modern archival colour photo from the original negative, 18 x 18in (46 x 46cm), framed and glazed (1)

£100-150

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235* The Beatles. Group portrait from the film shoot for Rain, Chiswick, modern colour archival photo from the original negative, 12 x 15in (30 x 38cm), mat mount Limited edition, one of twenty prints. (1)

£70-100

238* Bowie (David). At the Tower Philadelphia, RCA, 1974, double LP in gatefold sleeve, some rubbing and edge wear, signed in silver pen by Bowie and dated 2002 to upper cover (1)

£150-200

236* The Beatles. A rare flat cover proof for the original 1965 Parlophone LP ‘Beatles for Sale’, printed on one side only with contemp. ink inscription and brown paper adhesion strips to side margins, some creasing to lower edge, 12 x 36in (30 x 91cm) (1)

£150-200

239* The Clash. London Calling, CBS, 1979, double LP in single sleeve, a few marks and creases, signed by Joe Strummer in black ink to light area of upper cover, together with a photograph of Strummer with the vendor 237* Bowie (David). Signed photograph, modern b & w archival print from the original negative, showing a bare-topped Bowie with Ziggy-period hair leaning forward across a table towards viewer, signed in black felt tip in light area lower right with three kisses, 12 x 16in (30 x 40cm), mat mount (1)

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£150-200

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£150-200


240* Cobain (Kurt). Group portrait of Kurt Cobain seated in the front row (second from right), Beacon Avenue Elementary, Grade 5 (Mrs Grove), 1977-78, modern colour archival photograph from the original negative, 12 x 18in (30 x 46cm), mat mount Limited edition, one of fifty copies. (1)

£70-100

241* Colloseum. A group of seven original colour transparencies, live in Rotterdam, 1969, showing drummer John Hiseman and other band members as photographed by P. Mazel, orig. card supports, transparency size 2.5 x 3.5cm Sold with full copyright. (7)

£200-300

242* Cozik (Frank). A group of five colour screenprint posters, early 1990s, all pencil signed by the artist with limitation number (print runs range between 250 and 500 copies), one with marginal closed tear, approx. 34 x 11in (86 x 28cm) and similar, mat mounts (5)

£80-120

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Lot 241

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243* Davis (Miles). ‘Lady Bird’, autograph music score in red ink and pencil, a total of five sheets with pre-printed staves and a total of five pages with autograph insertions and deletions, sl. chipped at extremities and some browning to one sheet, 12.5 x 9.5in (32 x 24cm) With a certificate of authenticity from Gotta Have Rock and Roll (lot 364, 21 July-6 August 2008). (1)

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£1000-1500


244* Deep Purple/Led Zeppelin. A half-inch reel-to-reel mono full track recording from John Peel’s “Top Gear” Radio 1 programme, 1968/9, contained in orig. card box with recording details in black felt tip to lower cover, three tracks by Deep Purple, two by Led Zeppelin, plus one track by Free and ‘Hey Joe’, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, live from “Ready Steady Go”, 1966, overall 11 x 11in (28 x 28cm) (1)

246* Dylan (Bob). Bob Dylan backstage at Manchester Free Trade Hall, 1965 or 1966, modern b & w archival print from the original negative, head and shoulders, Dylan with lit cigarette and harmonica looking into camera, ‘Mark Hayward Archival Print’ embossed stamp lower left, 18 x 18in (46 x 46cm), mat mount Limited edition 3/50. (1)

£400-600

245* Dire Straits. Triple platinum sales award for the album “Brothers in Arms”, 1988, presented to Dave Buckley for UK sales of more than 900,000 copies, framed and glazed, overall 21.5 x 43in (55 x 111cm) (1)

£300-400

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£150-200


247* Ferry (Bryan). In Your Mind, EG Records, 1977, orig. LP in sleeve, upper cover signed by Ferry in black felt tip, minor edge wear, together with a photograph of Ferry in Barcelona with the vendor Jordi [Tarda] where the LP was signed (1)

249* Hendrix (Jimi). Head and shoulders portrait with classic purple scarf, Montague Square, London, 1967, colour archival photograph from the original negative, 18 x 18in (46 x 46cm), ‘Mark Hayward Archival Print’ embossed stamp lower left, framed and glazed

£120-150

Limited edition, one of ten copies. (1)

£150-200

250* The Hollies. A group of twelve original colour transparencies of members of the group taken in London by Tony Gale, 1967, each 6.5 x 6cm Sold with full copyright. (12)

251* Island Records. An assorted group of twenty-two posters, mostly early 1980s, the majority relating to promotions for Island Records’ releases, etc., all in rolled condition, various sizes, mostly fine

248* Film and Entertainment. A large quantity of modern colour photos from Pictorial Press negatives, mostly approx. 10 x 8in (16 x 20cm) and similar, a total of over 1,000 portraits, the majority loosely enclosed in approx. 300 captioned card folders with some biographical cuttings, etc. (a large carton)

£500-800

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£200-300

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£70-100


252* Isle of Wight Festival. An original colour poster with design by Dave Roe, for the festival 26-30 August 1970, artists featured include Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Doors, The Who, Sly & the Family Stone, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Spirit, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, Chicago, etc., rolled poster in fine condition, minor creasing to lower right corner, 30 x 20in (76 x 51cm) (1)

£150-200

254* John (Elton). A red crushed velvet bathrobe by Versace, as worn by Elton John, with original belt

253* Jagger (Mick & Jones, Brian). Head and shoulders portrait of the bearded duo, photographed by Tony Gale at Supremes party, Kings Road, January 1968, colour archival print from the original negative, ‘The Hayward Archive Print’ embossed stamp lower left, 18 x 18in (46 x 46cm), mat mount One of twenty copies. (1)

Provenance: Jordi Tarda, music critic, promoter and Barcelona Radio d.j. (1) £350-450

£100-150

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255* Jones (Tom). A group of six colour transparencies of Tom Jones, taken in London by photographer Tony Gale, 1967, including three head shots and three with various men and women, each 6 x 6cm Sold with full copyright. (6)

257* Led Zeppelin. Original concert poster for Earl’s Court, 23-25 May [1975], printed in red, yellow and black, rolled poster in fine condition, 27 x 36in (68 x 92cm), framed and glazed

£150-200

Formerly in the possession of the promoter Mel Bush. (1)

256* Kennedy (John Fitzgerald, 1913-63). Head and shoulders portrait of Kennedy with his young daughter Caroline by Cecil Stoughton, 1963, vintage gelatin silver print with White House stamp to verso, 8 x 8in (20 x 20cm), framed and glazed

£400-500

258* Lennon (John). Lennon lying in bed with soles of feet raised towards photographer, Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, 1969, colour archival print from an original negative, 14.5 x 15in (37 x 38cm), mat mount

Cecil Stoughton was the first official White House photographer. This photograph was allegedly presented to Caroline’s governess after the assassination of J.F. Kennedy. Unexamined out of frame. (1) £300-400

One of fifty copies. The only known photograph of the soles of John Lennon’s feet. (1) £100-150

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259* Lennon (John and Ono, Yoko). John and Yoko sitting beside a swimming pool with Eric Clapton and Klaus Voorman, Toronto, 1969, colour archival print from the original negative, the four with Peace sign fingers raised towards each other (Clapton fingers using reverse Peace sign) and the camera, 18 x 22in (46 x 56cm), mat mount One of twenty copies. (1)

£300-400

261* Madonna. ‘Like A Virgin’ Tour stage-worn wedding dress by Andre Van Pier, lined brocade satin wedding gown with Elizabethanstyle shoulders and sleeves that taper to the wrist, sl. drop waist, piping in bodice seams and beading throughout gown, tulle underlining, open back with zipper beneath, back of gown approx. 18 inches longer than hem Provenance: Cooper Owen, London 19 April 2006, lot 18. A letter from Andre Van Pier, who made all Madonna’s wedding dresses for the Like a Virgin Tour, accompanies the lot (2) £4000-4500

260* Madonna. Madonna on stage at her first concert, US Blues, Roslyn, New York, modern inkjet laser print, signed by the photographer George du Bose(?) and captioned to verso, 17.75 x 12in (45 x 30cm) (1)

£100-150

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262* McCartney (Paul). An original enamel street road sign from the wall of Cavendish Avenue, NW8, 17.5 x 35.5in (44 x 90cm) Paul McCartney lives in Cavendish Avenue and used to walk to the Abbey Road Studios from there. (1) £500-600

263* McCartney (Paul). A group of three items in a framed and glazed case ready for wall hanging, including a signed Freedom of Liverpool programme 28 November 1984 (one of 900, framed and glazed), a modern gelatin silver print of an unpublished group photograph of The Beatles with Pete Best in performance, 1962, plus a Hofner contemporary series right-handed electric bass (i.e. not Paul McCartney’s), in total 48 x 22 x 6in (122 x 56 x 15cm) (1)

Lot 263

£800-1200

264* Monroe (Marilyn). Marilyn Monroe leaning upwards smilingly to look through a telescope, California, 1946, modern b & w archival print from the original negative, 18 x 14in (46 x 36cm), mat mount A rare early photograph, taken when Marilyn was still known as Norma Jean, for the Blue Book Modelling Agency. One of fifty copies. (1) £150-200

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265* Monroe (Marilyn). Marilyn Monroe as Norma Jean in twopiece swimsuit on Zuma beach with two unidentified actors, California, 1947, modern gelatin silver print from the original negative, 19 x 19in (48 x 48cm), mat mount Limited edition, one of fifty prints. (1)

£150-200

266* Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd outside the Palm House, Kew Gardens, London, 1969, modern colour photograph from the original negative, 22 x 22in (56 x 56cm), framed and glazed Limited edition, one of ten prints. (1)

£150-200

267* Pink Floyd. A Red Squier brand bass guitar signed in the body in silver marker by Roger Waters, in fine condition, complete with a colour photograph showing Roger Waters signing the guitar (dated 28 September 2010 to the reverse), plus signed guarantee of authenticity for this item from Rockaway Records, Los Angeles, dated 23 November 2012 (1)

Lot 267

£1500-1800

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270* The Ramones. Signed b & w photograph by Walt Davidson, Electric Circus, Manchester, May 1977, featuring the band in action, and signed by all four members in black felt tip, captioned in ink to lower edge and with photographer’s wet stamp to verso, 8 x 10in (20 x 25cm) (1)

268* Presley (Elvis). Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra (as Susan Jacks) on the set for ‘Speedway’, June 1968, large colour archival photograph from the original negative, 37 x 36in (94 x 92cm), framed and glazed Limited edition, 2/25 (1)

£250-300

£500-800

269* Ramone (Johnny). Signed photograph, gelatin silver print showing Ramone in action with guitar slung low, signed in silver to dark area upper left, 8 x 10in (16 x 20cm) Provenance: Given to the Spanish DJ Jordi Tada in person. (1)

£300-350

271* Richards (Keith). A black leather Rolling Stones jacket, as worn by Keith Richards, with pressed stud fasteners, stitched front belt, tongue logo zip fasteners, flag design shoulder badge and Rolling Stones 07 label with tongue and record logos Provenance: Given by Richards to his friend Jordi Tarda, music critic, collector and long-standing Barcelona d.j. (1) £4000-5000

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274* The Rolling Stones. Group portrait for the Beggars Banquet LP, West Heath Road, London, 6 July 1968, modern b & w archival print from the original negative by Michael Joseph, showing the five band members decadently lying around a large manorial dining table, 18 x 22in (46 x 56cm), mat mount

272* The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones sitting on a wall, Embankment, London, photographed by Philip Townsend, June 1963, modern b&w archival print from the original negative, 19 x 19in (48 x 48cm), heavy-duty exhibition mount (produced for Atlas Gallery Exhibition in London) From the Rolling Stones’ first photo session. (1)

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£150-200

£200-300

275* The Rolling Stones. Group publicity shot for Beggars Banquet, taken at Swarkestone, Derbyshire, 5th July 1968, colour archival photo from the original negative, showing the five band members lying on grass in front of a crumbling manor house, 20 x 18in (51 x 46cm), ‘Mark Hayward Archival Print’ embossed stamp lower left, mat mount

273* The Rolling Stones. Some Girls, enlarged colour print of the band cover with facsimile signatures of the four band members to lower mount and with embossed tongue logo lower right, 23 x 22in (59 x 56cm), exhibition mount Produced in 1992 and now long out of print, this copy 3571/5000. The original artwork featured here was banned as the featured women did not like being portrayed as cheap. (1) £100-150

This image was later used as a pomotional poster for the album. (1) £150-200

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276* The Rolling Stones. Signed group photograph, 1960s, a colour magazine centre-page spread with printed band name caption, signed by all five members including Brian Jones in blue ballpoint pen across their respective clothing, 12.5 x 19in (32 x 49cm), mat mount (1)

£250-350

278* The Rolling Stones. A 1994 Voodoo Lounge Tour jacket, specially crafted for Budweiser, black wool and synthetic fibres, medium size, inside leather label with limitation number 139/2000, a little wear to lining, red and white tongue logo to left chest area and red, black and white merchandise and tour motif stitched to back (1)

279* The Ronettes. Group portrait of the trio on Ready Steady Go 1964, modern gelatin silver print from the original negative, 11.5 x 15.5in (29 x 40cm), framed and glazed

277* The Rolling Stones. Outtake group portrait for ‘Through the Past Darkly’ by Ethan Russel, modern colour archival print from the original negative, showing the five band members with hands and noses pressed against glass facing towards camera, small scratch to left and right blank areas, 20 x 16in (51 x 41cm), framed, glass not present (1)

£300-400

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£200-250

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£150-200


282* Small Faces. Portrait of the four members smoking cigars, 1965, together with a group portrait of The Who (as The High Numbers), standing in Park Lane, London, 1964, both modern colour archival photos from the original negatives, 12 x 16in (30 x 41cm), framed and glazed/16 x 15in (41 x 39cm), modern clip frame (2)

£100-150

280* Sex Pistols. and we dont care, 1977, vintage bootleg poster featuring the original line-up with Glenn Matlock, printed in red and black on white, rolled poster in fine condition, some minor creasing, 40 x 30in (102 x 76cm), framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

283* The Smiths. Meat is Murder, Rough 81, original LP in sleeve, upper sleeve signed by Morrissey in black felt tip (1)

281* Sex Pistols. The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, with Music by Sex Pistols, orig. UK quad poster in folded condition with artwork by M. Hirsch, sl. creasing, marginal pin holes and adhesion marks, several nicks and closed tears, but overall VG+, 30 x 40in (76 x 102cm) (1)

£300-400

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£150-200


286* Stewart (Rod). A stage-worn jacket designed by Andre van Pier, as worn on stage by Rod Stewart, purple-black satin with yellow collar lapels and lining, stitched yellow pockets, signed by Rod Stewart in ink under right arm hole lining, a few minor marks Provenance: Gotta Have Rock and Roll Auctions, 27 July 2009, lot 429. Sold with the auction house's certificate of authenticity. (1) £400-600

284* Star Wars. Star Wars Sourcebook, an original ring binder with 151 leaves printed to rectos only, colour and b & w illusts., thumb tabs, CD inset to tray in upper inner cover, pictorial boards, 4to One of only 500 sets made this in-house product was given exclusively to licensors of Star Wars merchandise in 2000. The book and CD gives details of how to design and use artwork and logos. (1) £700-1000

285* Starr (Ringo). A pair of black leather skiing gloves as worn by Ringo Starr in The Beatles film ‘Help!’, Obertavern, Austria, March 1965, together with two related photos and a letter of provenance from the film crew member who acquired the gloves

287* Sting. A white bathrobe, signed by Sting, and covered in make-up foundation, together with a reproduction colour photo of Sting in a similar bathrobe plus letter (soiled) from auctioneers Fame Bureau Ltd. enclosing the photo to go with the bathrobe

Provenance: Jordi Tarda, music critic and Barcelona d.j. Acquired directly from the family resposible for the film’s costumes. (5) £500-600

The bathrobe was originally worn by Sting for a Rolling Stone magazine photoshoot. Provenance: Fame Bureau, 29 November 2006, lot 42. (1) £200-300

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290* Wham! A quintuple platinum sales award for the album “Make It Big”, Canadian Recording Industry Association, August 1985, presented to Andrew Ridgeley for sales of over 500,000 units, framed and glazed, 27 x 40in overall (69 x 102cm) (1)

£500-800

288* U2. War, Island Records, 1983, LP in gatefold sleeve, some edge rubbing, upper cover signed in black ink by the Edge, Bono and Adam Clayton (1)

£250-300

291* Williams (Robbie). Triple platinum CD award for the album “Life Thru A Lens”, 1998, presented to Ian McMinn for UK sales of over 900,000 copies, framed and glazed, overall 16 x 20in (41 x 51cm) (1)

289* Webber (Andrew Lloyd & Rice, Tim). A gold award disc for ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’, August 1991, presented to George McManus for UK sales of more than 100,000 copies, framed and glazed, overall 16 x 16in (41 x 41cm) (1)

£70-100

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£150-200


292* Williams (Robbie). A jockstrap, signed on the inside of the waistband in red by Robbie Williams, 2000, a few dirt marks

293* Zappa (Frank). Large Swedish concert poster, Lund, 12 September [1984], rolled poster in fine condition, 40 x 30in (102 x 76cm), mat mount

Provenance: As worn by Robbie Williams when in full football strip for the “Sing When You’re Winning” album photo-shoot. The jockstrap was sold as part of lot 23 by Sotheby’s, London, 10 April 2001 in the “Bid It Sum”: The Robbie Williams sale. On this occasion Robbie Williams acted as auctioneer, the winning bidder being the vendor here. A copy of the original catalogue is included with the lot. (1) £500-600

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£150-200

294* Zappa (Frank). Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels, United Artists, 1971, double LP with inner gatefold sleeve signed in black felt tip pen by six band members, sleeve sl. rubbed One of three copies signed for the film director David Alexander. (1) £200-300

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MODERN FIRST EDITIONS 300 Buckeridge (Anthony). A near complete set of the ‘Jennings’ stories, 1950-2004, from Jennings Goes to School, 1950 to Jennings and the Unconsidered Trifles, Plays for Radio vol. 10, 2004 (only lacking Jennings Abounding, A Comedy with Music, 1980), duplicates of According to Jennings, 1954, Our Friend Jennings, 1955, Take Jennings for Instance, 1958, Just Like Jennings, 1961, Jennings Abounding, 1967, Jennings in Particular, 1968 and Trust Jennings, 1968, colour and b & w illustrations, Jennings Goes to School frontis. detached, Jennings and Darbishire lacking colour frontis., occasional light toning and spotting, a few previous owner inscriptions, one Our Friend Jennings ex-library with ususal marks, original cloth, occasional marginal fading, d.j.s, Jennings Goes to School & Jennings and Darbishire in later d.j.s, a few price-clipped with some tears, chips and losses, Jennings at Large paperback (as issued by Armada), Jennings Sounds the Alarm to Jennings and the Unconsidered Trifles in original laminate wrappers, of which some signed by the author and illustrator, with four others including Jonathan Cooper’s The World of Jennings, 2005 (49)

£400-600

295 Adams (Richard). Watership Down, 1st ed., 1972, folding map at rear,, orig. cloth gilt, in d.j., slight staining to spine and rear wrapper, 8vo (1)

£300-500

296 Amis (Martin). Dead Babies, 1975; Other People: A Mystery Story, 1981; Night Train, 1997, 1st eds., sellotape residue marks to Dead Babies endpapers, inkstamp to front endpaper of Other People, original cloth, d.j.s, small nicks to Dead Babies, stickers to rear panel of Night Train, 8vo (3)

£100-150

297 Ballard (J.G.). The Four-Dimensional Nightmare, 1st ed., 1963, previous owner signature to front pastedown, loose pubs. review copy slip, d.j., spine a little darkened with small chips at ends, 8vo, together with The Terminal Beach, 1st ed., 1964, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, with another copy of The 4-Dimensional Nightmare, 1963 (3)

£200-300

298 Beckett (Samuel). Murphy, 1st ed., Routledge, 1938, 4 pp. pubs. ads. at end, scattered light spots, previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original first issue binding of smooth green cloth with spine lettered in gilt, spine a little darkened, lower joint splitting, spines ends rubbed with short tears, 8vo The author’s first novel. One of no more than 718 copies printed. (1) £500-800

299 Bowen (Peter). Yellowstone Kelly, Gentleman & Scout, pub. Illinois, 1987; Kelly Blue, pub. New York, 1991; Imperial Kelly, 1992; Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse, 2001, all 1st eds., together 4 vols., Yellowstone Kelly with dedicaton from the author to half-title, ThreeToed Horse signed by the author to title, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus Coyote Wind, A Gabriel du Pre Mystery, pub. New York, 1996; Specimen Song, 1995; Wolf, No Wolf, 1996; Notches, 1997; Thunder Horse, 1998; Ash Child, 2002; Badlands, 2003; The Tumbler, 2004; Cruzatte and Maria, 2001 (2), together 10 vols., seven vols. signed by author to title/half-title, all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus two lengthy letters addressed to Mr Snelling from the author talking about his books (14)

301 Chandler (Raymond). The Little Sister, 1st UK ed., 1949, light spots to endpapers, bookseller ticket, original red cloth, d.j., short closed tear at head of spine, minor edge wear, 8vo A good copy, preceeding the first U.S. edition. (1)

£100-150

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302 Christie (Agatha). A Murder is Announced, 1950; Mrs McGinty’s Dead, 1952; They Do it With Mirrors, 1952; A Pocket Full of Rye, 1953; Destination Unknown, 1954; Hickory Dickory Dock, 1955; Dead Man’s Folly, 1956; 4.50 From Paddington, 1957; Ordeal by Innocence, 1958; Cat Among the Pigeons, 1959, 1st eds., one or two light spots, Hickory with presentation inscription, original cloth (a couple of spine ends a little faded), d.j.s, 4.50 price-clipped, a few chips, tears and repairs to verso, 8vo, with other Agatha Christie including Partners in Crime, 1929, The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929 and Murder For Christmas, 1939 (all 1st US eds., no d.j.s), etc (53)

305 Crompton (Richmal). William the Lawless, 1st ed., 1970, illustrations by Henry Ford, a few light spots to endpapers and foredges, original red cloth (slight fading at head), d.j., neat repair to verso at spine head, light creases to front flap, small abrasion to rear flap, 8vo Scarce final ‘William’ book. (1)

306 Davies (William H.). The Soul’s Destroyer and Other Poems, 1st ed., privately printed for the author, [1905], some spotting, bookplate, original buff wrapper, spine a little rubbed with tear at foot, contemporary signature to upper wrapper, 8vo

£300-400

303 Cousins (Sheila (i.e. Ronald Matthews & Graham Greene)). To Beg I Am Ashamed, 1st ed., 1938, a few light spots, original grey cloth, price-clipped d.j., spine darkened and chipped, some spotting, 8vo

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£100-150

307 De Bernieres (Louis). Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1994, light marginal toning (as often), original white cloth, d.j., spine a little faded, 8vo, together with The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts, 1st ed., 1990, light marginal toning, original cloth, d.j., one or two light marks to flaps, 8vo

Supposedly an authentic autobiography of a London prostitute, but now known to have been mainly written by Ronald Matthews, with input from Graham Greene. The book was withdrawn from sale by the Home Secretary after being alerted to its content by the Public Morality Council. It was then published in Paris at the Obelisk Press in 1938 by Jack Kahane and by the Vanguard Press in New York. (1) £300-400

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£100-150

308 Deighton (Len). The Ipcress File, 1962; Horse Under Water, 1963; Funeral in Berlin, 1964; Billion Dollar Brain, 1966; An Expensive Place to Die, 1967, 1st eds., Horse Under Water with loose crossword competition, An Expensive Place to Die with loose document wallet, one or two spots, Ipcress File with previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j.s, light edge wear and marginal toning, Expensive spine faded, 8vo

304 Crompton (Richmal). William and A.R.P., 1939; William and the Moon Rocket, 1954; William and the Space Animal, 1956; William and the Witch, 1964; William and the Pop Singers, 1965; William and the Masked Ranger, 1966; William the Superman, 1968, 1st eds., illustrations by Thomas Henry and Henry Ford, a few scattered spots, Space Animal endpapers a little toned, Moon Rocket with owner signature erased and bookplate removed, d.j.s, A.R.P. in 2nd impression d.j. (with 2/6 price), Superman price-clipped, a few chips and tears, some creasing, together with Just William’s Luck, 1948 (without d.j.), What’s Wrong With Civilizashun and Other Important Ritings by William Brown (and Richmal Crompton), 1990, and duplicates of William and the Moon Rocket, William and the Pop Singers (2 copies) and William and the Masked Ranger (2 copies) (14)

£400-600

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£200-300

309 Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1902, misprint ‘you’ for ‘yours’ line 3, p.13, 16 b & w plates, a few light spots, contemporary pencil owner signature to half title, original red cloth gilt, 8vo A bright copy. (1)

£150-200

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310 Du Maurier (Daphne). Jamaica Inn, 1st US ed., New York, 1936, author’s signed presentation inscription to Deirdre Hart to halftitle, dated June 1970, orig. cloth (a little rubbed) in sl. chipped and soiled d.j., 8vo (1)

£300-400

311 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st ed., 1938, scattered light spotting, original black cloth (letter ‘R’ of Rebecca partly rubbed on spine), d.j., spine and extremities a little faded, light stain at foot of front panel and flap, 8vo (1)

£1000-1500

312 Eliot (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965). A Sketch of T. S. Eliot by Ronald Duncan, c. 1980, an unpublished typescript, 56 pp., printed to rectos only, with vivid memories of Duncan’s friendship and encounters with T. S. Eliot from their first meeting in 1937 until an unfortunate falling out over a ‘trivial misunderstanding’ in 1964, with frequent mentions of Eliot’s and Duncan’s various poetry and play projects, anecdotes concerning their shared friend Ezra Pound, encounters with other artists, evidence of Eliot’s homophobia with reference to Benjamin Britten, Jean Cocteau and Oscar Wilde (pp. 24 & 30), many conversations reported in speech form, orig. spiral-bound card covers with literary agents’ label to upper cover, slim folio Ronald Duncan (1914-1982, writer, poet and playwright) is perhaps best remembered now as librettist for Benjamin Britten’s Opera ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ (anecdotes about which appear in this brief biography). T. S. Eliot became Duncan’s mentor and publisher while working for Faber in the 1940s and 1950s. The relationship seems to have been close and ended when Eliot read of their first meeting in a proof of Duncan’s autobiography : ‘I was impressed by his immaculate clean collar and carefully manicured fingernails’. In the margin ‘Eliot has scribbled the angry comment “Does Ronnie think I’m effeminate?”. Of course that was not my intention I was merely contrasting a genuine poet’s appearance with a grubbiness which many poetasters employed as a uniform to indicate their artiness. I wrote and gave Eliot this explanation ... But he did not accept my apology. We have tripped up over a tiddly-wink. I never heard from him again. That was sad. When we lose a friend we are in exile from ourself.’ Provenance: Given to the vendor by Duncan as a potential publishing project thirty years ago. (1) £200-300

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313 Ferrars (Elizabeth). The March Hare Murders, 1949; The Lying Voices, 1954; Always Say Die, 1956; Murder Moves In, 1956; Furnished for Murder, 1957; Unreasonable Doubt, 1958; A Tale of Two Murders, 1959, 1st eds., a few light spots, original cloth, d.j.s, a few price-clipped, a few chips and light stains, Murder with repaired tear, Always inscribed by the author, with 53 others by Ferrars, mostly first editions, a few reprints

318 Fleming (Ian). Diamonds are Forever, 1st ed., 1956, strip of tape at foot of front endpaper, a few spots and light toning front and rear, d.j., neat repairs at spine ends and folds to verso, a few light marks, 8vo

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319 Fleming (Ian). Diamonds Are Forever, 1st ed., 1956, a few spots, contemporary previous owner inscription, original cloth, priceclipped d.j., small chips at spine ends, light toning to rear panel and margins, 8vo

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£150-200

314 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, a few light spots to The Spy Who Loved Me, 8vo (2)

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320 Fleming (Ian). Dr No, 1st ed., 1958, original cloth (without the brown silhouette of a dancing girl), price-clipped d.j., spine a little faded with small chips at ends, light soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£300-400

321 Fleming (Ian). Dr No, 1st ed., 1958, a few minor spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, upper cover with silhouette of a dancing girl, d.j., chips and tears at spine ends, a little stained and rubbed along folds, 8vo

£150-200

316 Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, 1st ed., 1953, half title, scattered spotting, paper abrasions at gutter of contents leaf, manuscript red letter ‘M’ to title, t.e.g., modern black half morocco, slipcase, 8vo (1)

£500-700

£100-150

315 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st eds., previous owner signatures, original cloth, d.j.s, OHMSS spine sunned with closed tears and light spots, 8vo (3)

£400-600

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£100-150

£200-300

322 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, original cloth, d.j., minor tears at head of spine, 8vo 317 Fleming (Ian). Diamonds Are Forever, 1st ed., 1956, a few light spots and stains, original cloth, d.j., small tape repairs to verso, spine ends chipped, a little rubbed with light soiling to rear panel, 8vo (1)

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£500-800

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323 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, contemporary preseentation inscription to front endpaper, original cloth, d.j., a couple of closed tears and nicks, spine a little toned, 8vo, together with From Russia, With Love, 1957, Dr No, 1958, Thunderball, 1961 and The Spy Who Loved Me. 1962, all 1st eds. without d.j.s, and two reprints

328 Fleming (Ian). The Spy Who Loved Me, 1st ed., 1962, previous owner signature, original cloth, spine slightly sunned, one or two small stains, 8vo

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329 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1st ed., 1963, small mark to front pastedown, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo

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£400-600

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£150-200

£100-150

324 Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st ed., 1959, original cloth, small marks to lower cover, price-clipped d.j., spine a little toned, 8vo (1)

330 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1961; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st eds., a few spots, original cloth, Thunderball with small indentation and tear at foredge of upper cover, d.j.s, Thunderball with chips and stains, 8vo, plus one other

£300-400

325 Fleming (Ian). For Your Eyes Only, 1st ed., 1960, original cloth (small indentation at spine head), d.j., spine lettering faded to orange, small nicks or tears at ends, 8vo (1)

£150-200

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326 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, one or two light spots, original cloth, d.j., spine and margins a little toned, 8vo (1)

331 Forster (E.M.). A Passage to India, 1st ed., 1924, 3 pp. ads. at end, light marginal toning, original red cloth, spine faded and a little rubbed at ends, d.j., lacking spine, losses to front and rear panels, some soiling, 8vo

£150-200

327 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1st ed., 1961, one or two light spots, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., light edge wear with marginal toning, 8vo (1)

£150-200

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£100-150

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332 Fowles (John). The Collector, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1963; The Aristos. A Self-Portrait in Ideas, 1965; The Magus, 1966; The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969, all 1st eds., together 4 vols., all orig. cloth in d.j.s (first two jackets clipped), final vol. with some writing to front flap, 8vo John Fowles first four novels. (4)

£150-200

333 Francis (Dick). A complete set of novels, 1st eds., 1962-2000, from Dead Cert, 1962 to Shattered, 2000, Dead Cert inscribed by the author on title and with a loose typed signed letter, dated 1996, Wild Horses 3rd impression, a few titles with marginal toning and light spotting, original cloth, one or two bumps and small dents, d.j.s, a few priceclipped, one or two repaired to verso, Nerve and Rat Race spines with some fading, one or two spines and edges a little rubbed, with others by Dick Francis including The Sport of Queens, 1st ed., 1957 (in repaired jacket), with loose signed typed dated 1994, plus an uncorrected proof of The Sport of Queens, 1957, Wild Horses, 1994, Scorpion Press signed limited edition of 99 copies, and other biography etc (55)

£1000-1500

334 Freemantle (Brian). Face Me When You Walk Away, pub. Jonathan Cape, 1974; The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow, 1975; The November Man, 1976 (2); Charlie Muffin, 1977 (2); Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie, 1978 (2); The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin, 1979 (2); Charlie Muffin’s Uncle Sam, 1980 (3), all 1st eds., together 13 vols., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, some rubbing, 8vo (13)

£100-150

335 Frost (Robert). Mountain Interval, 1st ed., 1st issue, New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1916, early ownership inscription to front endpaper of Eileen Power [American Economic Historian], dated Boston, September 1921, orig. dark green cloth gilt, generally in very good condition (1)

£100-150

336 Greene (Graham). It’s A Battlefield, 1st ed., 1934, some edge spotting, orig. cloth in d.j. (second issue, priced 3/6d), cloth a little rubbed and faded at head and foot of spine, d.j. sl. chipped and spotted with small loss at head and foot of spine (affecting title and imprint lettering), 8vo (1)

Lot 337

£300-500

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337 Greene (Graham). Stamboul Train, 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1932, 2nd issue with ‘Quin Savory’ for ‘Q.C. Savory’, a few minor spots, original black cloth, slight lean, d.j., spine slightly soiled with minor nicks and closed tears at ends, 8vo

341 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles Breaks the Silence, 1949; Biggles Gets his Men, 1950; Biggles and the Black Raider, 1953; Biggles of the Interpol, 1957; Biggles Presses On, 1958; Biggles in Mexico, 1959; Biggles’ Combined Operation, 1959 (2); Biggles and the Leopards of Zinn, 1960; Biggles Forms a Syndicate, 1961; Biggles and the Missing Millionaire, 1961; Orchids for Biggles, 1962; Biggles Sets a Trap, 1962; Biggles Takes a Hand, 1963; Biggles and the Plane that Disappeared, 1963; Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns, 1964 (2); Biggles and the Black Mask, 1964; Biggles Investigates, 1964; Biggles Looks Back, 1965; Biggles in the Underworld, 1968; Biggles and the Little Green God, 1969; Biggles Sees Too Much, 1970, 1st eds., colour and b & w illustrations, some scattered spotting and stains, a few previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, one or two faded patches, d.j.s, some price-clipped with chips, tears and losses, Biggles Gets his Man with annotation to rear flap, Biggles Presses On & Orchids for Biggles lacking d.j.s, 8vo, with others by W.E. Johns including The Spy Flyers, 1933, Gimlet Comes Home, 1946, Gimlet’s Oriental Quest, 1948, Doctor Vane Answers the Call, [1950], and Wings, Flying Thrills, 4 parts rebound in cloth, 1934-35

‘Q.C. Savory’, a somewhat imperious character in the book was changed to ‘Quin Savory’ to placate J.B. Priestley, who, after reading a review copy, thought the unflattering character was based on himself and threatened a libel case. Heinemann readily agreed to make the changes, as Priestley was one of their biggest selling authors, and only a few copies remain with the uncorrected text. (1) £1000-1500

338 Highsmith (Patricia). The Talented Mr Ripley, 1st UK ed., Cresset Press, 1957, scattered spotting, original red cloth, d.j., some fading to spine, 8vo (1)

£150-200

339 Hornby (Nick). Fever Pitch, 1st ed., 1992, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, inscribed to title: “For Ian, I got drunk, Nick Hornby”, additionally inscribed to foremargin of p.229: “To a true Gooner, Best wishes, Michael Thomas” (last-minute goalscorer for Arsenal in the League Championship decider v Liverpool, 1989), together with High Fidelity, 1st ed., 1995, original cloth, d.j., signed by the author to title, with a loose ‘Fever Pitch’ signed postcard from the author to I.G. Snelling, with others by or related to Hornby including About a Boy, 1st U.S. ed. inscribed by the author, Fever Pitch. The Screenplay, 1997, signed by the author, and Contemporary American Fiction, 1992 (11)

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342 Joyce (James). Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress, Babou & Kahane, Paris & Fountain Press, New York, 1930, title printed in green and black, light spotting, previous owner signature, original wrapper (lacking glassine d.j.), original green and gilt slipcase, one or two small chips, small folio Slocum and Cahoon A41. Limited edition, 393/500. (1)

£200-300

£150-200

343 Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake, 1st ed., Faber, 1939, front endpaper and last leaf browned (as often), original red cloth, neatly restored d.j., 8vo

340 Hughes (Ted). The Iron Man. A Story in Five Nights, 1st ed., 1968, b & w illustrations by George Adamson, original cloth, d.j., slight fading to spine, 8vo, with a tipped-in presentation inscription at front: “For Grahame White, Best wishes from Ted Hughes, together with three others by Ted Hughes: River, 1983, Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth, 1986 and Tales of the Early World, 1988 (4)

£500-800

Slocum and Cahoon A47. (1)

£400-600

344 King (Stephen). Carrie, 1st UK ed., 1974, some spotting and toning, previous owner signature, original purple cloth, d.j., sellotape marks to verso, light edge wear, 8vo, together with The Shining, 1st UK ed., 1977, light toning and a few spots, original cloth, one or two light stains, d.j., light edge wear, 8vo

£300-400

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Lot 350

345 Le Carre (John). Call for the Dead, 1st ed., 1961, original cloth, d.j., one or two minor spots and stains, 8vo

350 Lee (Harper). To Kill a Mockingbird, 1st UK ed., pub. Heinemann, 1960, some light foxing to endpapers, orig. cloth, lettered in silver, in d.j., very sl. rubbed to extrems., 8vo

A good copy of the author’s first book and the debut of George Smiley. (1) £2000-3000

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346 Le Carre (John). A Murder of Quality, 1st ed., 1962, half title, some light spotting and toning, modern half calf, spine with black labels, 8vo Signed by the author to title. (1)

Lot 351

£150-200

351 Leroux (Gaston). The Veiled Prisoner, Translated by Hannaford Bennett, 1st ed., Mills & Boon, 1923, 16 pp. pubs. list at end, previous owner inscriptions, original green cloth, 2/6 d.j., a few small chips and closed tears, light soiling, 8vo

£400-600

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£150-200

347 Le Carre (John). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st ed., 1963, a little toned with one or two small stains, endpapers renewed, original blue cloth (spine faded), d.j., spine faded with minor nicks, 8vo, signed by the author to title, together with A Murder of Quality, 1st ed., 1962, light spotting and toning, library stamp and number to title verso, original cloth, light edgewear, photocopied d.j., 8vo, signed by the author to sticker adhered to title verso (2)

£200-300

348 Le Carre (John). The Looking-Glass War, 1st ed., 1965, light spotting, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., tape reinforcements to verso, spine a little faded, 8vo, signed by the author to front endpaper, 8vo, together with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1st ed., 1974, one or two small stains, original cloth, d.j., spine faded with chips at ends, 8vo, signed by the author to title, plus A Small Town in Germany, 1st ed., 1968, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, together with 17 other first editions signed by John Le Carre (20)

£300-400

349 Le Carre (John). Our Game, 1st ed., 1995, map endpapers, original cloth, d.j., 8vo

Lot 352

Inscribed to title: “John Le Carre aka David Cornwell, 26 ii ‘02 Cornwall”. (1) £100-150

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352 Lewis (C.S.). The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 2nd impression, 1954; Prince Caspian, 1951; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 1952; The Silver Chair, 1953; The Horse and his Boy, 1954; The Magician’s Nephew, 1955; The Last Battle, 1956, 1st eds., colour frontis. to first two titles, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, scattered light spots, mainly to endpapers, Lion with bookplate to front endpaper, pen and pencil previous owner signature to half titles or endpapers, original cloth, some fading to spines and margins, d.j.s, Lion price-clipped, a few chips and tears, mainly to Silver Chair front panel, some light toning and spotting, 8vo (7)

£1500-2000

353 Lewis (C.S.). Prince Caspian, The Return to Narnia, 1st ed., 1951, colour frontis. and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, closed tear to p.67/68, orig. blue cloth in price-clipped d.j., slightly frayed to head of spine and small tear to rear flap, 8vo The second Narnia adventure. (1)

£300-500

354 Lewis (C.S.). Prince Caspian, 1st ed., 1951, colour frontis. and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, a few light spots at front, original blue cloth, d.j., spine a little toned, neat restorations to verso, 8vo The second Narnia adventure. (1)

£300-400

356 Maugham (William Somerset, 1874-1965). The Moon and Sixpence, 1st ed., 1st issue, 1919, 4 pp. ads. at rear, author’s signed presentation inscription for Robert Partridge to half-title, dated 24 October 1946, paper somewhat browned throughout, orig. cloth, rubbed and sl. soiled, 8vo

355 Lewis (C.S.). The Magician’s Nephew, 1st ed., 1955, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, previous owner signature to front endpaper, endpapers with a few light spots, original cloth (one or two light marks), price-clipped d.j., minor nicks at spine ends, light toning and a few spots, 8vo (1)

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£200-300

£500-700

357 McGahern (John). The Barracks, 1st ed., 1963, one or two light spots, contemporary previous owner inscription, original cloth, d.j., small fleck of paint to spine, slight edge wear, 8vo The author’s first novel. (1)

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359 O’Brian (Patrick). The Frozen Flame, 1953; The Road to Samarcand, 1954, 1st eds., Frozen Flame with presentation inscription, original cloth, price-clipped d.j.s, spines a little faded, Samarcand with a few chips, 8vo, together with Hussein, by Patrick Russ (i.e. Patrci O’Brian), 1st ed., 1938, partially browned endpapers (front endpaper with contemporary presentation inscription and bookseller stamp), original black cloth, loss at head of spine, priceclipped d.j., spine chipped and toned with abrasions, 8vo

358 Novelists of the Sixties. A group of six unpublished typescripts of interviews conducted by Professor Bernard Bergonzi, November 1967, transcribed from recordings by Sound Direction Telediphone Unit, the subjects of the interviews being the authors B. S. Johnson (19 pp.), Margaret Drabble (26 pp.), Michael Frayn (24 pp.), David Lodge (19 pp.), David Storey (20 pp.), and Andrew Sinclair (24 pp.), all concerning their lives and writings, scattered over-typing and corrections [by Bergonzi/BBC], a total of 132 pp., typed to rectos only (approx. 32500 words), a few marginal splits, folio

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£500-800

360 O’Brian (Patrick). Caesar. The Life Story of a Panda Leopard, 1st ed., 2nd issue, October, 1930, illustrations by Harry Rountree, some light spotting, original cloth, 2/6 d.j., spine and margins darkened, tape repairs to verso, 4to, together with Beasts Royal, 1934, illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe, some spotting and browning, original cloth, spine faded, d.j., lacking spine, a few tears, 4to, plus Hussein. An Entertainment, 1st ed., 1938, endpapers partially browned, inkstamp and presentation inscription, original cloth, insect damage at head of spine, price-clipped d.j., insect damage at spine ends, a little toned, 8vo, with The Road to Samarcand, 1954

Used in part for Bergonzi’s Radio Three series of six programmes broadcast in early 1968. The programmes included readings of the writers’ works and these unedited transcripts were used only selectively. Provenance: Acquired by the vendor from Professor Bergonzi. (6) £400-600

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£200-300


361 Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st ed., 1949, previous owner signature to front pastedown, original green cloth, some fading, green d.j., neat restorations at spine ends and edges to verso, 8vo (1)

363 Poem of the Month Club. A complete set of forty-eight broadside poems, 1970-75, issued as four folios, each poem signed by the respective poet, including W.H. Auden (with signed duplicate, one signed in black and one in blue), Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, John Betjeman (with two words hand corrected as usual), Thom Gunn, Stephen Spender, Robert Graves, Philip Larkin and Cecil Day Lewis, each sheet 38 x 28.5cm (15 x 11in), some related printed order forms and biographical notices loosely inserted, two broadsides a little browned at extremities (Stevie Smith and one copy of W.H. Auden), loose as issued in publisher’s half sheep portfolio with cloth ties, rubbed and soiled, sellotape repairs and manuscript title to spine, folio

£300-400

362 Peters (Ellis). A Morbid Taste for Bones, 1977; Death Mask, 1959; Funeral of Figaro, 1962; Black is the Colour of My True-Love’s Heart, 1967, 1st eds., a few light spots, previous owner signature to Black, original cloth, d.j.s, Death Mask price-clipped, a couple of closed tears to Black and Funeral, light toning, with others by Peters including The House of Green Turf, 1969, The Knocker on Death’s Door, 1970 and Death to the Landlords!, 1972, a few duplicates, plus Sue Grafton’s ‘B’ is for Burglar, 1985 and ‘D’ is for Deadbeat, 1987, both UK 1st eds. (21)

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£400-600

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£300-500


366 Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1st ed., 1st issue, Bloomsbury, 1997, some marginal yellowing (as often), original boards. some fading to spine, spine ends and corners a trifle rubbed, 8vo A good copy of the first Harry Potter book, only around 500 copies printed, most of which went to school libraries. (1) £8000-12000

367 Sassoon (Siegfried). Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, 1930, t.e.g., original blue cloth, spine faded, 8vo Limited edition, 789/750 signed by the author. Unusual copy, this number larger than the stated limitation. (1) £80-120

364 Rankin (Ian). The Flood, 1st ed., 1986, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author to title, 8vo, together with Knots & Crosses, 1st ed., 1987, text block lightly toned, previous owner signature, original cloth, d.j., bookseller sticker to rear panel, 8vo, plus Watchman, 1988 (2 copies) (4)

£400-600

368 Storey (David). This Sporting Life, 1st ed., 1960, light spots to endpapers, original cloth (extremities a little faded), d.j., one or two tiny closed tears, 8vo (1)

369 Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Fellowship of the Ring, 14th impression, 1965; The Two Towers, 11th impression, 1965; The Return of the King, 11th impression, 1965, folding map to each, original red cloth (a little rubbed at spine ends), d.j.s, a few chips and closed tears, light stains, 8vo

365 Rendell (Ruth). A Guilty Thing Surprised, 1970; Murder Being Once Done, 1972; The Face of Trespass, 1974; Shake Hands Forever, 1975; A Judgement in Stone, 1977; Put On Cunning, 1981, 1st eds., original cloth, d.j.s, minor edgewear, 8vo, Murder, Judgement and Put On signed by the author (Put On with tipped-in TLS stating that she thought the jacket design was the best ever for one of her books in this country), together with 40 others by Rendell, a few signed, including Demon in My View, 1976 and A Sleeping Life, 2nd impression, 1978, inscribed by the author, The Lake of Darkness, 1978 and Master of the Moor, 1982 (both with tipped-in TLS and signed bookplates), Masters of Suspense, 1982 (signed Ruth Rendell, 1986, Undermining the Central Line, 1989 (signed with Colin Ward) and The Crocodile Bird, 1993 (limited signed edition of 150) (46)

£100-150

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£100-150

370* Waugh (Evelyn, 1903-1966). Autograph letter signed ‘Evelyn Waugh’, St. James’ Club, Piccadilly, W.1., [to Lord Dormer] ‘Very sorry to hear of your cold. Do you know ‘Le Raniol’ - a cachet sold by Roberts. I find it very effective. Kindest regards to Lady Maureen’, one page of headed note paper, light central vertical crease, 15 x 10cm (6 x 4ins) An exact contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, Charles Walter James Dormer, 15th Baron Dormer (1903-1975) was educated at Oratory School and Sandhurst. He was a Captain in the Life Guards, and ADC to the Governor-General of New Zealand from 1939 to 1941. (1) £100-150

£300-400

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Lot 371 371 Wingfield (R.D.). A Touch of Frost, 1990; Frost at Christmas, 1989; Night Frost, 1992; Hard Frost, 1995; Winter Frost, 1999; A Killing Frost, 2008, pub. Constable/Bantam, all 1st eds., Winter Frost signed by author to title (occ. spotting), all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, together with A Touch of Frost, 1998, orig. cloth, 8vo Limited edition 147/350, signed by the author. (7)

Lot 372

Lot 373

£300-400

372 Wodehouse (P.G.). William Tell Told Again, 3rd issue, 1904, 16 colour plates by Philip Dadd, 2 pp. ads. at end, t.e.g., original tan pictorial cloth, 8vo McIlvaine A5a3. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “To David from Plum, P.G. Wodehouse” (David A. Jasen, Wodehouse biographer). (1) £300-400

373 Woolf (Virginia). Monday or Tuesday, 1st ed., Hogarth Press, 1921, four woodcut illustrations by Vanessa Bell (with usual offsetting to opposing text), single-leaf advert. leaf at end, bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, upper cover designed by Vanessa Bell, light edge wear and spotting, 8vo Woolmer 17. 1000 copies printed. (1)

£400-600

374 Wyndham (John). The Day of the Triffids, 1st ed., 1951, previous owner signature, original green cloth, price-clipped d.j., neat repairs to verso, rear panel a little soiled, 8vo (1)

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Lot 378

£300-400

375 Wyndham (John). The Kraken Wakes, 1st ed., 1953, wndpapers with partial offsetting from flaps, original red cloth, d.j., spine ends with small chips, rear panel with light toning, 8vo (1)

£150-200

376 Wyndham (John). The Chrysalids, 1st ed., 1955, scattered spotting, original black cloth, light stains, d.j., a few light spots to rear panel and flaps, 8vo (1)

£150-200

377 Wyndham (John). The Seeds of Time, 1956; Trouble With Lichen, 1960, 1st eds., a few light spots, original cloth, d.j.s, small nicks at Seeds head of spine, one or two light stains, 8vo (2)

£150-200

378 Wyndham (John). The Midwich Cuckoos, 1st ed., 1957, a few light spots, partial offsetting to endpapers from flaps, original black cloth, one or two small chips, spine a little faded, light soiling, 8vo (1)

£150-200

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FINE TRAVEL & EXPLORATION INCLUDING A PRIVATE LIBRARY OF BRITISH EMPIRE MILITARY HISTORY

April 2014

David Roberts, The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 volumes bound in 4., 1842-49. Fine coloured copy in contemporary binding. Estimate £30,000-£50,000

Further entries are invited: please contact Nathan Winter 01285 860006 info@dominicwinter.co.uk


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Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum ÂŁ15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments are handed to third party shipping companies.


The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of ticket services and discounts.

National Rail Enquiries:

08457 484950

Telephone advance train ticket booking:

08457 000125 (First Great Western)

Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:

www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxis from Kemble Station (5 miles/10 minutes) Brian's Cabs Cirencester Radio Cars Cirencester Taxis

01285 655299 / 07980 579947 01285 650850 01285 642767

Taxis from Swindon Station (12 miles/25minutes) V-Cars

01793 701701

Cirencester Visitor Information Centre

+44 (0)1285 654180 cirencestervic@cotswold.gov.uk

Catalogue Produced by Jamm Design – 020 8901 7522 info@jammdesign.co.uk

Photography by Ben Cavanna – 07968 342013 bencavanna@aol.com


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