The Working Library of George MacDonald Fraser - Catalogue 1006

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THE WORKING LIBRARY OF

G EO RG E M AC D O NA L D F R A SE R (1925-2008)

Catalogue No. 1006 2 June – 31 July 2014

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CONTENTS

C ATA LO G U E R ’ S N OT E

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AN INTRODUCTION

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SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

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THE LIBRARY GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

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L I T E R AT U R E & P O E T RY

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H I S TO RY & T R AV E L

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S C OT L A N D & T H E B O R D E R S

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BOOKS FOR BOYS

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CHILDREN’S

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REFERENCE

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The Library of George MacDonald Fraser will be offered for sale at Heywood Hill from Monday 2 June to Thursday 31 July 2014.

The books will be available to preview from Tuesday 20 May to Saturday 31 May (excluding the May Bank Holiday weekend).

All purchases will include a posthumous bookplate.

Any enquiries please contact Ben Scott (ben@heywoodhill.com) or Nicky Dunne (nicky@heywoodhill.com) The books shall legally remain the property of the Beneficiaries of the Literary Estate of George MacDonald Fraser until the price has been discharged in full.

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C ATA LO G U E R ’ S N OT E The make-up of George MacDonald Fraser’s working library is perhaps at first glance not all that surprising: a healthy dose of ‘Book for Boys’ and Empire literature; strong representations of Victorian history, both domestic and colonial; military memoirs and travelogues; and the formative fiction of his youth. The works of Macaulay and annuals of Punch served to buttress GMF’s unequivocal and deep-seated love of history. Having grown up in Carlisle, he retained a devoted interest in the history of the Borders as well as an attachment to his Scottish heritage; authors like Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson further fuelling the romantic tradition.

There is, however, much more to this library than meets the eye. The classical orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, the allegorical poetry of Piers Plowman and Edmund Spenser, the plays of Ben Jonson and George Bernard Shaw, the novels of Emile Zola, not to mention numerous dictionaries of reference. GMF read his books, reviewed them and researched from them. Like all keen readers he left behind a variety of bookmarks, many of which have proved both interesting and amusing; from a Glasgow tram ticket, to gas bills and car insurance notices. There are books from The Glasgow Herald Library; and even a school prize to Herbert Asquith. A number of the books contain the inscriptions of family members past and present, as well as fellow authors of historical fiction such as Dennis Wheatley and Bernard Cornwell.

GMF was a longstanding customer of Heywood Hill, sadly before my time. It is only fitting therefore that John Saumarez Smith, managing director of Heywood Hill for many years, has kindly written the introduction to this catalogue.

On a personal note, as a devoted reader of GMF it has been nothing short of a great privilege to catalogue his library. For those of you who read on, I hope that it might lend further insight into the reading life of this truly exceptional man.

Ben Scott

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“ H O U R A F T E R H O U R I S E E M T O H A V E S P E N T, P R O N E O N T H E CARPET ON SUMMER AFTERNOONS WHEN SUNLIGHT FELL ON T H E PAG E S, A N D W I N T E R DAY S W I T H T H E R A I N L A S H I N G O N THE WINDOWS, LOST IN THOSE MARVELLOUS VOLUMES.”

George MacDonald Fraser on Arthur Mee’s ‘Children’s Encyclopedia’ (from‘The Light’s on at Signpost’)

AN INTRODUCTION In his memoir George admits to having been an avid reader from an early age.

Stevenson and Scott might well have been his literary mentors – and his library included quantities of both, but his taste was never conformist and he preferred Henty and Rafael Sabatini. In terms of general knowledge he has a passion for Arthur Mee’s Encyclopaedia, a mine of invaluable facts which he retained for the rest of his life.

Mee also inspired him to extend his scope in many different directions, some of them surprising but all useful for the future writer. Even his addiction to the cinema helped him later to compile The Hollywood History of the World.

For any enthusiastic reader this catalogue will be of major interest. It is a reader’s, not a collector’s, library and bears witness to his extraordinary range and his love of reference books, including the Dictionary of National Biography and the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica; his constant pursuit of intellectual idiosyncrasy; and the depth of research that created the Flashman Papers. From his desk he could be reassured by the contents of his study shelves, constituting more than a lifetime’s research for books.

George first visited Heywood Hill in 1969 when Flashman was about to be published. Many years later, when we had a long Standing Order of customers who wanted every book that he had written, we corresponded in an intermittent way.

We once came across a marvellous account of a secondary school in Srinagar by its Imperialist headmaster Mr Tyndale-Biscoe – a foreword by Robert Baden-Powell – and suggested that George might provide an introduction. He very much enjoyed it but politely declined, on the grounds that his reputation for political incorrectness did not need to be underlined.

He was disappointed that he didn’t win the Heywood Hill Prize but found solace when, after long signing sessions in Piccadilly on the publication of his books, he would spend the evening meeting and dining with a small group of special admirers and friends of the shop. He never failed to live up to their hopes and expectations.

John Saumarez Smith

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SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

[HUGHES (Thomas)]. Tom Brown’s School Days. By an Old Boy. London, Macmillan & Co., 1894 [see ‘The Library’ No. 328]

Illustrations by Arthur Hall & Sydney Prior Hall, with publisher’s catalogue to rear; includes 8 newspaper cuttings pasted into the front, detailing the origins of the character ‘Slogger Williams’, as well as tributes to Dr. Arnold - one amusing cutting reports that pupils of Rugby were responsible for ‘disfiguring’ the statue of the author situated in the grounds of the school. 8vo. Original dark green cloth, gilt stamped & lettered, soiling to rear panel & lower corner of spine, three of the cuttings have dates in ink attributed to them, relief stamp address to upper corner of front endpaper, spotting occurs throughout the text although this is mostly light, in all a very good, square & tight copy of the book that gave birth to ‘Flashman’. £1,500

Thomas Hughes portrayed the bully Flashman thus: “big and strong of his age... he played well at all games where pluck wasn’t much wanted, and managed generally to keep up appearances where it was; and having a bluff, off-hand manner, which passed for heartiness, and considerable powers of being pleasant when he liked” (p.143).

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman. From the Flashman Papers 18391842. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969 [No. 1] First edition. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper, a near fine copy. £875

The very first of the Flashman Papers and GMF’s first novel - he admitted himself that: “in all it took ninety hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table’’ (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’).

FRASER (George MacDonald). Royal Flash. From the Flashman Papers 184243 & 1847-48. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970 [No. 5] First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, near fine with matching unclipped dustwrapper designed by Barbosa. £795

The second of the Flashman Papers. Artur Barbosa (1908-1995) also designed dustwrappers for the post-war titles of Georgette Heyer. Alongside his illustration he was a noted interior designer and counted Cecil Beaton and Elizabeth Taylor among his friends.

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Flash for Freedom! From the Flashman Papers 1848-1849. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 [No. 7]

First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in fine unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £600

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman at the Charge. From the Flashman Papers 1854-55. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1973 [No. 11]

First edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £575

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman in the Great Game. From the Flashman Papers 1856-58. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 [No. 14]

First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, near fine with similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £550

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman’s Lady. From the Flashman Papers 1842-1845. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977 [No. 17]

First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, light shelf wear else near fine, in a similar unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper. £475

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Redskins. From the Flashman Papers, 1849-50 and 1875-76. London, Collins, 1982 [No. 20]

First edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s red cloth, in a similar pictorial unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £375

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Dragon. From the Flashman Papers, 1860. London, Collins Harvill, 1985 [No. 23]

First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £325

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Mountain of Light. From the Flashman Papers 1845-46. London, Collins Harvill, 1990 [No. 26]

First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £275

FRASER (George MacDonald) Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. From the Flashman Papers 1858-59. London, Harvill, 1994 [No. 29]

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £250

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Tiger, and other extracts from the Flashman Papers. London, HarperCollins, 1999 [No. 33]

First edition. 8vo. As new black publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial dustwrapper. £150

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman on the March. From the Flashman Papers 1867-68. London, HarperCollins, 2005 [No. 37]

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in fine unclipped dustwrapper. £150

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FRASER (George MacDonald). McAuslan in the Rough. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974 [No. 56]

First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper.

£200

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Sheikh and the Dustbin, and other McAuslan stories. London, Collins Harvill, 1988 [No. 60]

First edition. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, pages clean and tight, a fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. £175

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Pyrates. London, Collins, 1983

[No. 61]

First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £175

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FRASER (George MacDonald). The Reavers. London, HarperCollins, 2007 [No. 63] First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, as new in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper.

£120

FRASER (George MacDonald). Black Ajax. London, HarperCollins, 1997 [No. 45] First edition. 8vo. Original black publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £200

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Light’s on at Signpost. London, HarperCollins, 2002 [No. 72]

First impression. Photographs throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, in a white unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly creased to edges, else a near fine copy. £150

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the AngloScottish Border Reivers. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 [No. 77]

First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this lightly faded to front panel, with the occasional small nick and general shelf wear, else very good. £350

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Hollywood History of the World. Film Stills from the Kobal Collection. London, Michael Joseph, 1988 [No. 84]

First edition. Photographic illustrations throughout. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £95

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Candlemass Road. London, Harvill, 1993 [No. 66] Author’s corrections. First edition, first impression. Errata slip tipped in to p.18 by the author, with typewritten note & handwritten notes loosely inserted. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, corners slightly bumped, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £175

FRASER (George MacDonald). Mr. American. London, Collins, 1980

[No. 52]

First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £175

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969 [No. 3] Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. Ink notes loosely slipped in.

8vo. Plain wrappers, creased and darkened to spine, else very good. £1000

The proof copy - of the first book - from the author’s library - signed by him…

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Quartered Safe Out Here. A Recollection of the War in Burma. London, Harvill, 1992 [No. 74]

First edition, first impression. With map to front. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, binding a bit pushed, else near fine in similar unclipped dustwrapper. £475

John Keegan described it as: “One of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’’GMF himself said of his experiences: “I need say no more, than that I learned much about soldiering and about that matchless fighting man, the British infantryman, and his Indian and Gurkha comrades - yes, and the Japanese’’ (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’).

FRASER (George MacDonald). The General Danced at Dawn and other stories. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970 [No. 54]

Inscribed by GMF’s publisher. First edition. Inscribed in fountain pen (& upside down) to reverse inner flap of the dustwrapper by Christopher MacLehose. 8vo. Original cloth, a band of cellotape around the top of the binding, with an ‘x’ marked on card to the spine, page references in ink to front endpaper, inscription reads: “George, the first finished copy – (they swear that the ‘nose’ will not reach the spine!), yours, Christopher” – presumably refering to the rather elegant photograph in profile of the author on the rear flap. The main text appears to be free of annotation, dustwrapper a bit creased, but overall a very good & interesting association copy. £275

McAuslan’s first appearance, this seemingly being the first of the finished copies to come off the press. Christopher MacLehose worked with GMF at the Glasgow Herald and later became his publisher.

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969 [No. 2] First edition. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine copy, bound for the author. ÂŁ500

FRASER (George MacDonald). Royal Flash. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970 [No. 6] First edition. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine copy, bound for the author. ÂŁ500

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Flash for Freedom! London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 [No. 8]

First edition. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled and lettered to spine, marbled endpapers t.e.g, a fine copy, bound for the author. £450

FRASER (George MacDonald). Mr. American. London, Collins, 1980

[No. 51]

First edition. A.L.S. from Christopher MacLehose loosely inserted. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., some light sunning to spine, else a near fine copy. £350

FRASER (George MacDonald). Black Ajax. London, HarperCollins, 1997 [No. 47] First edition. Presentation dedication to GMF “on publication day 1 July 1997”. 8vo.

Rebound in full red leather, gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., a fine copy, bound for the author. £400

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman on the March. Gladestry, Scorpion Press, 2005 [No. 41]

No. A of 20 lettered deluxe copies signed by the author, Allan Mallinson & Anthony Price for private distribution. 8vo. Quarter red leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering. £450

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman on the March. Gladestry, Scorpion Press, 2005 [No. 39]

No. 2 of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. 8vo. Red leather-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering, a fine copy. £350

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. Bristol, Scorpion Press, 1994 [No. 31]

Copy A of 20 lettered deluxe copies, signed by the author & Peter Lovesey for private distribution. 8vo. Quarter red leather, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering, a fine copy, as issued in a mylar wrapper. £550

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. Bristol, Scorpion Press, 1994 [No. 32]

No. 2 of an edition limited to 99 numbered copies, signed by GMF. 8vo. Red leatherbacked marbled boards, gilt lettering, a fine copy. £400

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FRASER (George MacDonald). Black Ajax. London, HarperCollins, 1997 [No. 49] Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Orange wrappers, creased to spine, light shelf wear, else near fine. £150

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Reavers. London, HarperCollins, 2007 [No. 65] Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to half title. 8vo. Red wrappers, with mark to front and a crease, else fine. £95

FRASER (George MacDonald). The Steel Bonnets. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 [No. 82]

Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page, as well as green ink correction to “Frazer”. Illustrated throughout with folding map to rear. 8vo. A very good softcover, save for occasional creasing along spine and to corners, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being scuffed along top edge. £275

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Redskins. London, Collins, 1982 [No. 21]

Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, in black and white by Barbosa, creasing and darkening to spine, light creasing to corners.

£275

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Dragon. London, Collins Harvill, 1985 [No. 25]

Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Original wrappers, watermark to front, scuffing to spine head and crease to rear corners, else very good. £250

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman and the Tiger. London, HarperCollins, 1999 [No. 36]

Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser I.O.M. Sept ‘99” to title page. 8vo.

Original wrappers, light shelf wear, else near fine. £150

FRASER (George MacDonald). Flashman on the March. London, HarperCollins, 2005 [No. 42]

Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Near fine wrappers, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities. £120

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FRASER (George MacDonald); VALPOLA (Aarne) trans. Flashmanin

Seikkailut. Ensimmainen - vuodet 1839-1842 kasittava - paketti Flashmanin papereita. Helsinki, Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava, 1969 [No. 86] Proof copy. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, lightly shelf worn and scuffed, top edge lightly dust soiled, spine darkened, very good. ÂŁ85

The Finnish edition was the first translation of the Flashman books.

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HENTY (G.A.)

[Nos. 822-841]

At the Point of the Bayonet. A Tale of the Mahratta War. London, Blackie & Son, 1902. £95

Through Three Campaigns. A Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashantee. London, Blackie & Sons, 1904. £65

By Conduct and Courage. A Story of the Days of Nelson. London, Blackie & Son, 1905. £80

The Tiger of Mysore. A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib. London, Blackie & Son, [1896]. £95

By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. £150

To Herat and Cabul. A Story of the First Afghan War. London, Blackie & Son, 1902. £95

Held Fast for England. A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83). London, Blackie & Son, 1892. £95

Under Wellington’s Command. A Tale of the Peninsular War. London, Blackie & Son, 1899. £105

In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence (18211827). London, Blackie & Son, 1893. £80

When London Burned. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire.

London, Blackie & Sons, 1895. £125

In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy. London, Blackie & Son, 1888. £65 A March on London. Being a Story of Wat Tyler’s Insurrection. London, Blackie & Son, 1898. £65 On the Irrawaddy. A Story of the First Burmese War. London, Blackie & Son, 1897. £85 Out with Garibaldi. A Story of the Liberation of Italy. London, Blackie & Son, 1901. £70 Through the Sikh War: A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab. London, Blackie & Son, 1894. £125 28

With Buller in Natal or, A Born Leader. London, Blackie & Son, 1901. £85 With Frederick the Great. A Story of the Seven Year’s War. London, Blackie & Son, 1898. £95 With Kitchener in the Soudan. A Story of Atbara and Omdurman.

London, Blackie & Son, 1903. £95 With Roberts to Pretoria. A Tale of the South African War. London, Blackie & Son, 1902. £65 With the Allies to Pekin. A Story of the Relief of the Legations. London, Blackie & Son, 1904. £75

VARIOUS Facsimile Editions from The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books... in twenty-seven volumes. London, The Bodley Head, 1981 [No. 920]

27 vols. Illustrated throughout. Variously 4to. to 16mo. A beautiful set of stories and games held in decorative card slipcases, all as new. ÂŁ500 29

MEE (Arthur) ed. The Children’s Encyclopedia... in ten volumes. London, The Educational Book Company Ltd., c.1937 [No. 909]

10 vols. Coloured illustrations and maps throughout. Large 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, blindstamped design to front, minor rubbing to spines and corners, pages clean and bright, a nice set. £295

“... but if there is a name that I thanked God for, it is that of Arthur Mee, whose work influenced me more than any other.” (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’).

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SABATINI (Rafael). The Writings of Rafael Sabatini... in twenty-one volumes.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924-28 [No. 870]

‘Autograph edition’, no. 439 of an edition limited to 750 copies, signed by the author. 21 vols (of 34 eventually issued). Illustrations to frontis and throughout. Large 8vo. Uniformly bound in publisher’s original half cloth, with printed paper labels on spines, occasional wear to extremities, some corners bumped and minor staining, sadly lacking volume thirteen from this run (vols. I-XXII), otherwise a very good set. £675

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WHEATLEY (Dennis). [Nos. 500-512] Bill for the Use of a Body. London, Hutchinson, 1964 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, light shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly chipped, but overall a nice copy. £295

Desperate Measures. London, Hutchinson, 1974 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lightly pushed, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a nice copy. £275

Evil in a Mask. London, Hutchinson, 1969 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine head and tail lightly shelf worn, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, else a nice copy. £275

The Irish Witch. London, Hutchinson, 1973 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, shelf worn spine tail, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to front board corners, else a nice copy. £200

The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware.

London, Hutchinson, 1971 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s

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red cloth, light shelf wear to spine tail, corners lightly pushed, in a similar pictorial unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £275

The Strange Story of Linda Lee. London, Hutchinson, 1972 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, light shelf wear to spine else a fine copy. £200

The Sultan’s Daughter. London, Hutchinson, 1963 First edition. Inscribed by author to GMF on title page, letter from author to GMF slipped in. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, minimal shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, this being slightly scuffed at spine, very good. £350

The Wanton Princess. London, Hutchinson, 1966 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, spine pushed, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this inside a clear protective wrapper. £325

The White Witch of the South Seas.

London, Hutchinson, 1968 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page, annotation to verso half title. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being in clear protective wrappers. £300

WHEATLEY (Dennis). The Time has Come... The Memoirs of Dennis

Wheatley. The Young Man Said, 1897-1914. London, Hutchinson, 1977 [No. 189] First edition. Inscribed by author to GMF on title page, portrait of author to frontis. 8vo.

Publisher’s cloth gilt, spine tail lightly shelf worn, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £250

Dennis Wheatley enjoyed a prolific career as a novelist, publishing his first novel in 1930.

His books cover a number of genres, but always with a historical thread throughout.

The warmth of Wheatley’s friendship with GMF is evident through these inscriptions.

He followed his early memoirs with an account of his experiences in the First World War entitled ‘Officer and Temporary Gentleman’, which detailed his service in the Royal Field Artillery and in particular the results of suffering a gas attack at Passchendaele. These were in turn followed by a third volume of authorial memoirs entitled ‘Pen and Ink’.

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PUNCH MAGAZINE Punch, or the London Charivari... 1841-1939. Vols.

I-CXCVII (incomplete). London, The Punch Office, 1841-1939 [No. 430]

A total of 197 vols., bound in 138. Numerous illustrations & decorations throughout. 4to.

Various bindings in varying condition, some original half annuals (as issued), some rebound together as annuals or bi-annuals. Unusual to have such an extensive run of the periodical albeit incomplete, a fascinating insight into the publication which lent so much to GMF’s research over the years. £2,500

PUNCH MAGAZINE Mr. Punch’s Coronation Number. No. 3648, Vol. CXL. June 7, 1911. London, Punch Office, 1911 [No. 422]

Illustrated, adverts to front & rear. 4to. Original coloured pictorial wrappers, some light edge wear but overall a smart, bright copy, very uncommon to find as issued in wrappers.

£120

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ACT OF PARLIAMENT An Act for the better Supressing of Theft upon the

Borders of England and Scotland, and for Discovery of High-way Men and other Felons; At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656. London, printed by Hen: Hills & John Field, 1657 [No. 746] Pamphlet. 8vo. Black letter type, with woodcut armorial to title centre, this bordered, light offset to text, else very good indeed (9pp) £225

SCOTT ([Sir]Walter). Border Antiquities of England and Scotland... in two volumes. Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages... etc. London, Punch Office, 1911 [No. 783]

First edition. 2 vols. 96 engraved plates of landscape & architectural subjects, tissue-guards present. Large 4to. Full straight-grained green morocco, intricate gilt tooled & blind-stamp borders, with panel design to front boards, gilt in compartments (first volume confusingly also labelled ‘1817’), a.e.g., front board joint of first volume coming loose, extremities considerably rubbed, with some light scuffing, but internally clean & bright, free from spotting, very good overall. cxxvii, 1-92; 209, ci, [11]pp. £875

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SHAW (Dr. Norton) intro. The Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography,

with an introductory notice by Dr. N. Shaw, Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society &c. London, A. Fullarton & Co., [c.1862] [No. 945] Atlas. 66 hand-coloured plates, including full or double page maps, and vignettes of people & animals to regional title pages. Folio. Contemporary half leather, gilt titling to front board & spine, a.e.g., extremities heavily rubbed & worn, signs of both boards splitting from the bottom of the spine, light spotting to some of the earlier plates, with tiny ink splashes to bottom edge of first few leaves, but generally near fine & bright, complete, with just a handful of copies in national institutions. £1,500

JOHNSON (A.J.) & FISHER (Richard Swainson). Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World, with Physical Geography, and with descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, including the latest Federal Census, a Geographical Index, and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America.

New York, Johnson & Ward, 1866 [No. 931]

Atlas. Over 100 full page maps & charts, states, city plans etc., these coloured in, frontis depicts a frontier scene with the title: ‘American Atlas’, also with numerous vignettes to accompany the text. Small Folio. Original half leather, blind-tooled cloth, gilt stamped to front board & spine, extremities a bit rubbed, head & tail a touch worn, corners bumped, ink inscription three times to title: ‘Lawhope, by Hollytown, January 16th 1866’, but overall a clean & tight copy, complete, a lovely item. £1,500

JOHNSTON (Alexander Keith). The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography, constructed from the most recent and authentic sources.

Edinburgh, Cowan & Co., [c.1843] [No. 932] Atlas. 41 double page maps, hand-coloured. Large Folio. Original half leather, gilt lettered to front board, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., edges are considerably worn, backstrip chipped and parting from the spine, front joint held only by material, otherwise binding is sound, internally beautiful & clean, a lovely complete example of Johnston. £1,750

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[MONTAGU (Lady Mary Wortley)] Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe... etc.

London, printed for T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, 1763 [No. 662]

Second edition. 3 vols bound in 1. 12mo. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label gilt, binding a little tight but otherwise a fine clean example. £175

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MARRYAT (Cpt. Frederick); BRIMLEY JOHNSON (Richard) ed. The

Novels of Captain Marryat... in twenty-four volumes London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1896 [No. 389] No. 211 of an edition limited to 750 copies. 24 vols. Portrait frontis & with illustrations of W. Downing. 8vo. Original blue buckram, gilt spines, page edges untrimmed, occasional volume lightly rubbed, else a near fine & handsome set printed on hand-made paper. ÂŁ650

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MILES (Henry Downes). Pugilistica... in three volumes. The History of British Boxing. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1906 [No. 659]

3 vols. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth gilt with black tooled design to front board, rubbing and shelf wear to extremities, boards starting, corners bumped, binding of first volume detaching, this in need of repair, a good set only. £325

FROISSART ( Jean); BOURCHIER ( John, 2nd Baron Berners) trans.

Froissart’s Cronycles... in eight volumes. Vol. I. (in four parts); Vol. II. (in four parts). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1927-28 [No. 594] One of an edition limited to 350 copies. 2 vols. bound in 8. Beautiful hand-coloured armorials to titles & page margins, printed on hand-made paper at the Shakespeare Head Press. 8vo. Linen-backed boards, printed paper labels, fore & bottom edges untrimmed, some light soiling to spines, boards to final volume bowing ever so slightly, but generally a handsome near fine set, with a note of presentation to GMF from his wife tipped in to first volume. £1,300

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KAYE (Sir John) & MALLESON (Colonel George Bruce). Kaye’s and

Malleson’s History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8... in six volumes. London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898 [No. 628] New impression. Folding maps throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, minimal shelf wear to spine, some colouring to untrimmed page edges, otherwise pages clean & bright, publisher’s adverts to rear of each volume, a very nice set. £475

KIPLING (Rudyard). In Black and White. Indian Railway Library. Allahabad, A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1889 [No. 350]

Second edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Pictorial soft covers, spine held with cellotape, leaves fragile but holding, text clean throughout, minor soiling to rear wrapper, else a good copy. £95

ROBERTS (Field-Marshal Lord). Forty-one Years in India... in two volumes.

From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief. London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1897 [No. 157]

Eighteenth edition (published same year as the first). 2 vols. With portraits and folding maps. 8vo. Publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt stamped armorials, with bookplate & ownership inscription, exceedingly handsome, a fine clean & tight set. £325 41

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THE LIBRARY

GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER T H E F L A S H M A N PA P E R S

FRASER (George MacDonald).

1. Flashman. From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969 First edition. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper, a near fine copy. £875

The very first of the Flashman Papers and GMF’s first novel - he admitted himself that: “In all it took ninety hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table” (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’). The book was eventually published

by Herbert Jenkins and famously upon release caused some confusion as to whether it was fictitious or one of the most important set of Victorian memoirs ever found...

2. Flashman. From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969 First edition. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine copy, bound for the author. £500 3. Flashman. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1969 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. Ink notes loosely slipped in. 8vo. Plain wrappers, creased and darkened to spine, very good. £1000 The proof copy – of the first book – from the author’s library – signed by him…

4. Flashman. London, Collins Harvill, 1986 Reprint. 8vo. Original red cloth boards fine, in a pictorial unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £175 5. Royal Flash. From the Flashman Papers 1842-43 & 1847-48. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, near fine with matching unclipped dustwrapper designed by Barbosa. £795

The second of the Flashman Papers. Artur Barbosa (1908-1995) also designed dustwrappers for the post-war titles of Georgette Heyer. Alongside his illustration he was a noted interior designer and counted Cecil Beaton, Rex Harrison, Laurence Oliver and Elizabeth Taylor among his friends.

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6. Royal Flash. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970 First edition. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine copy, bound for the author. £500 7. Flash for Freedom! From the Flashman Papers 1848-1849. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in fine unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £600 8. Flash for Freedom! London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 First edition. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine copy bound for the author. £450 9. Flash for Freedom! New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £250 10. Flash for Freedom! London, Heron Books, 1971 ‘Collector’s edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth boards, gilt design to front board and spine, this being slightly faded, top edge lightly dust soiled, else near fine. £65 11. Flashman at the Charge. From the Flashman Papers 1854-55. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1973 First edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £575 12. Flashman at the Charge. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, near fine in similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £325 13. Flashman at the Charge. London, Collins Harvill, 1986 Reprint. 8vo. Original cloth fine, in a pictorial unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £150

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14. Flashman in the Great Game. The Flashman Papers 1856-58. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, near fine with similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £550 15. Flashman in the Great Game. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, near fine in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £275 16. Flashman in the Great Game. London, Heron Books, 1975 ‘Collector’s edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, with gilt border design to front boards and spine, near fine. £60 17. Flashman’s Lady. From the Flashman Papers 1842-1845. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, light shelf wear else near fine, in a similar unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper. £475 The third volume in the canon.

18. Flashman’s Lady. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, near fine in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £300 19. Flashman’s Lady. Oxford, Compass Press, 1997 Large print edition. Large print typeface. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial laminated boards, a fine copy. £85 20. Flashman and the Redskins. From the Flashman Papers, 1849-50 and 1875-76.

London, Collins, 1982 First edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s red cloth, in a similar pictorial unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £375 21. Flashman and the Redskins. London, Collins, 1982 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser.” to title page. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, in black and white by Barbosa, creasing and darkening to spine, light creasing to corners. £275 22. Flashman and the Redskins. Leicester, Charnwood, 1983 Large print edition. Large print typeface. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial laminated

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boards, light shelf wear and colouring to spine, else a very good copy. £70 23. Flashman and the Dragon. From the Flashman Papers, 1860. London, Collins Harvill, 1985 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £325 24. Flashman and the Dragon. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1986 First US edition. 8vo. Original red publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £250 25. Flashman and the Dragon. London, Collins Harvill, 1985 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser.” to title page. 8vo. Original wrappers, water mark to front, scuffing to spine head and crease to rear corners, else very good. £250 26. Flashman and the Mountain of Light. From the Flashman Papers 1845-46.

London, Collins Harvill, 1990 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £275 27. Flashman and the Mountain of Light. London, Collins Harvill, 1990 First edition, second impression. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, bookdealers catalogue pasted in to front endpaper. £150 28. Flashman and the Mountain of Light. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 First US edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, as new in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £200 29. Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. From the Flashman Papers 1858-59.

London, Harvill, 1994 First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £250 30. Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £195

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31. Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. Bristol, Scorpion Press, 1994 Copy A of 20 lettered deluxe copies, signed by the author & Peter Lovesey for private distribution. 8vo. Quarter red leather, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering, a fine copy, as issued in a mylar wrapper. £550 32. Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. Bristol, Scorpion Press, 1994 No. 2 of an edition limited to 99 numbered copies, signed by GMF. 8vo. Red leather-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering, a fine copy. £400 33. Flashman and the Tiger, and other extracts from the Flashman Papers.

London, HarperCollins, 1999 First edition. 8vo. As new black publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial dustwrapper. £150 34. Flashman and the Tiger. London, HarperCollins, 1999 First edition, third impression. 8vo. As new black publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial dustwrapper. £95 35. Flashman and the Tiger. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000 First US edition. 8vo. Fine black publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper. £125 36. Flashman and the Tiger. London, HarperCollins, 1999 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser. I.O.M. Sept ‘99” to title page.

8vo. Original wrappers, light shelf wear, else near fine. £150 37. Flashman on the March. From the Flashman Papers 1867-68. London, HarperCollins, 1999 First edition, first impression. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in fine unclipped dustwrapper. £150 38. Flashman on the March. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, fine in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £120 39. Flashman on the March. Gladestry, Scorpion Press, 2005 No. 2 of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. 8vo.

Red leather-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering, a fine copy. £350 40. Flashman on the March. London, HarperCollins, 2005 48

No. 1 of an edition limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. 8vo. Maroon cloth with matching slipcase, lettered and decorated in gilt, fine. £175 41. Flashman on the March. Gladestry, Scorpion Press, 2005 No.A of 20 lettered deluxe copies signed by the author, Allan Mallinson & Anthony Price for private distribution. 8vo. Quarter red leather over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering, fine. £450 42. Flashman on the March. London, HarperCollins, 2005 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Near fine wrappers, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities. £120 43. Flashman on the March. London, BCA, 2005 Small 8vo. As new publisher’s cloth, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper. £40 44. Flashman on the March. London, HarperCollins/Windsor, 2005 Large print edition. Large print typeface. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s laminated pictorial boards. £50

FURTHER FICTION

45. Black Ajax. London, Harper Collins, 1997 First edition. 8vo. Original black publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £200 46. Black Ajax. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1998 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, fine in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £200 “I had been naive enough to think that the true story of a black slave who had battled gamely against prejudice and injustice, and been cheated by white society [and]... What alarmed and depressed me was to discover what a grip political correctness had taken in the U.S.” (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’).

47. Black Ajax. London, HarperCollins, 1997 First edition. Presentation dedication to GMF “on publication day 1 July 1997”.

8vo. Rebound in full red leather, gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., a fine copy, bound for the author. £400

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48. Black Ajax. London, HarperCollins, 1997 First edition. Two notes slipped in by GMF concerning the overall plot of Ajax.

8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in unclipped dustwrapper. Spine very slightly worn with minor nicks to dustwrapper. £375

Also enclosed are three pictures of Tom Cribb’s tomb in Woolwich (GMF’s handwriting on reverse of two) and a letter from JD Ellis dated 13 November 2000 concerning black soldiers in the British Army during the early part of the nineteenth century.

49. Black Ajax. London, HarperCollins, 1997 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Orange wrappers, creased to spine, light shelf wear else near fine. £150 50. Black Ajax. London, Charnwood, 1998 Large print edition. Large print typeface. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, light bumping to corners, else a fine copy. £60 51. Mr. American. London, Collins, 1980 First edition. A.L.S. from Christopher MacLehose loosely inserted. 8vo. Rebound in half blue leather, cloth boards, gilt tooled & lettered to spine, with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., some light sunning to spine, else a near fine copy, bound for the author. £350 52. Mr. American. London, Collins, 1980 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £175 53. Mr. American. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1980 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a near fine copy. £175 54. The General Danced at Dawn and other stories. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1970 First edition. Inscribed in fountain pen (& upside down) to reverse inner flap of the dustwrapper by Christopher MacLehose. 8vo. Original cloth, a band of cellotape around the top of the binding, with an ‘x’ marked on card to spine, page references in ink to front endpaper, inscription reads: “George, the first finished copy - (they swear that the ‘nose’ will not reach the spine!), yours, Christopher” - presumably refering to the rather elegant photograph of the author on the rear flap. The main text appears to be free of annotation, dustwrapper a bit creased, but overall a very good & interesting association copy. £275 50

McAuslan’s first appearance, this seemingly being the first of the finished copies to come off the press. Christopher MacLehose worked with GMF at the Glasgow Herald and later became his publisher.

55. The General Danced at Dawn and other stories. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973 First US edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. £150 56. McAuslan in the Rough, and other stories. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper. £200

The second McAuslan.

57. McAuslan in the Rough. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1974 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards, slight discolouration to upper & lower sections of front & rear boards as is common, with light spotting to edge of text block, this not affecting the text, overall very good in a bright unclipped dustwrapper. £150 58. McAuslan in the Rough. London, Collins, 1981 Reissue. With typewritten letter from Christopher MacLehose loosely inserted.

8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a very good dustwrapper, with ‘Collins’ label over Barrie & Jenkins to tail of the dustwrapper. £175 59. McAuslan in the Rough. London, Heron Books, 1974 ‘Collector’s edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, with gilt design to front board and spine, yellow silk tie, a fine copy. £45 60. The Sheikh and the Dustbin, and other McAuslan stories. London, Collins Harvill, 1988 First edition. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, pages clean and tight, a fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. £175

The third of the McAuslan stories.

61. The Pyrates. London, Collins, 1983 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper, a fine copy. £175

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62. The Pyrates. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 First US edition. 8vo. Original red publisher’s cloth, fine in an unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper. £120 63. The Reavers. London, HarperCollins, 2007 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, as new in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £120

It is fitting that GMF’s last novel was focused on the subject closest to his heart, the history of the Scottish borders.

64. The Reavers. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 First US edition. 8vo. Fine original boards, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £75 65. The Reavers. London, HarperCollins, 2007 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser.” to half title. 8vo. Red wrappers, with mark to front and a crease, else fine. £95 66. The Candlemass Road. London, Harvill, 1993 First edition, first impression. Errata slip tipped in to p.18 by the author, with typewritten & handwritten notes loosely inserted. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, corners slightly bumped, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £175 67. The Candlemass Road. London, Harvill, 1993 First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, as new. £175 68. The Candlemass Road. London, Magna Large Print Books, 1993 Large print edition. Large print typeface. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial laminated boards, light bumping to extremities, else a very good copy. £45 69. Flashman’s First Omnibus... three volumes in one. Flashman; Royal Flash; Flash for Freedom! London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1979 First edition thus. 3 vols. in 1. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, in pictorial yellow dustwrappers, this being lightly shelf worn, else near fine. £175 70. Flashman at the Charge; Flashman in the Great Game. London, Chancellor Press, 1983

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2 vols. in 1. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, light crease to spine, this being pushed, else a very good copy. £75 71. Flashman and the Dragon; The Pyrates. London, Book Club Association, 1986 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, in unclipped pictorial Barbosa dustwrapper, this being lightly creased to spine and extremities. £95

NON-FICTION

72. The Light’s on at Signpost. London, HarperCollins, 2002 First impression. Photographs throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, in a white unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly creased to edges, else a near fine copy. £150

GMF’s memoir of Hollywood and the bright lights, as well as musings on the Britain of New Labour.

73. The Light’s on at Signpost. London, HarperCollins, 2002 Second impression. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine brown publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped white dustwrapper. £75 74. Quartered Safe Out Here. A Recollection of the War in Burma. London, Harvill, 1992 First edition, first impression. With map to front. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, binding a bit pushed, else near fine in similar unclipped dustwrapper. £475

John Keegan described it as: “One of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War” GMF himself said of his experiences: “I need say no more, than that I learned much about soldiering and about that matchless fighting man, the British infantryman, and his Indian and Gurkha comrades - yes, and the Japanese.” (from light’s on at Signpost’).

75. Quartered Safe Out Here. A Recollection of the War in Burma. London, Harvill, 1992 First edition, second impression. With map to front. 8vo. Fine publisher’s red cloth, in similar unclipped dustwrapper. £195 76. Quartered Safe Out Here. A Recollection of the War in Burma. Anstey, F.A. Thorpe, 1993 Large print edition, complete and unabridged. Large print typeface. 8vo.

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77. The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this lightly faded to front panel, with the occasional small nick and general shelf wear, else very good. £350 78. The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. London, Collins Harvill, 1986 Second edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £150 79. The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. London, Collin Harvill, 1990 First paperback edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Near fine wrappers, some minor creasing. £35 80. The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. London, Collins Harvill, 1989 ‘Harvill edition’, third impression. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, fine in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £95 81. The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972 First US edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £215 82. The Steel Bonnets. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 Proof copy, signed “George MacDonald Fraser.” to title page, as well as green ink correction to “Frazer”. Illustrated throughout with folding map to rear. 8vo.

A very good soft cover, save for occasional creasing along spine and to corners, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being scuffed along top edge. £275 83. The Steel Bonnets. The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971 Proof copy, signed to the title page “George MacDonald Fraser.” 8vo. Original wrappers, slightly creasing but, overall very good. £200

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84. The Hollywood History of the World. Film Stills from the Kobal Collection.

London, Michael Joseph, 1988 First edition. Photographic illustrations throughout. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £95 85. The Hollywood History of the World. From ‘One Million Years B.C.’ to ‘Apocalypse Now’. Film Stills from the Kobal Collection. New York, Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1988 First US edition, first impression. Photographic illustrations throughout. Large 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth-backed boards, in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. £95

T R A N S L AT I O N S

86. VALPOLA (Aarne) trans. Flashmanin Seikkailut. Ensimmainen - vuodet 1839-1842 kasittava - paketti Flashmanin papereita [‘Flashman’]. Helsinki, Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava, 1969 First Finnish edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, this being lightly shelf worn, top edge lightly dust soiled. £125

The Finnish edition was the first translation of the Flashman books.

87. VALPOLA (Aarne) trans. Flashmanin Seikkailut. Ensimmainen - vuodet 1839-1842 kasittava - paketti Flashmanin papereita [‘Flashman’]. Helsinki, Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava, 1969 Proof copy. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers lightly shelf worn and scuffed, top edge lightly dust soiled, spine darkened, very good. £85 88. BAUDISCH (Paul) trans. Flashman. Karrieren eines Kavaliers [‘Flashman’].

Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1971 First German edition. 8vo. Fine original cloth, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £110 89. DEGNER (Helmut) trans. Prinz von Danemark [‘Royal Flash’]. Hamburg, Hoffmann and Campe, 1972 First German edition. 8vo. Original navy cloth, fine, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £80

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90. BOISEN (Mogens) trans. Levemand til hest. Af Flashman-Papirerne 1839-42 [‘Flashman’]. Denmark, Lademann, 1970 First Danish edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being in a clear protective sleeve within a card slipcase. £95 91. BOISEN (Mogens) trans. Levemand ved hoffet. Af Flashman-papirerne 1842-43 og 1847-48 [‘Royal Flash’]. Denmark, Lademann, 1977 First Danish edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in similar unclipped dustwrappers, in a card slipcase. £95 92. BOISEN (Mogens) trans. Levemand til sos. Af Flashman-papirerne 1848-49 [‘Flash for Freedom!’]. Denmark, Lademann, c.1973 First Danish edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, hardly bumped at corners, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, with slight shelf wear and darkening to spine, held in a card slipcase. £95 93. BOISEN (Mogens) trans. Levemand ved fronten. Af Flashman-papirerne 18541855 [‘Flashman at the Charge’]. Denmark, Lademann, c.1975 First Danish edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine original cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities. £75 94. BOISEN (Mogens) trans. Levemand i Indien. Af Flashman-papirerne 1856-58 [‘Flashman in the Great Game’]. Denmark, Lademann, 1980 First Danish edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s black cloth, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being scuffed along edges. £75 95. BOISEN (Mogens) trans. Levemand i Osten. Af Flashman-papirerne 1842-1845 [‘Flashman’s Lady’]. Denmark, Lademann, 1981 First Danish edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed lightly along edges, near fine. £85 96. LORENTS (Maj) trans. En arans lymmel [‘Flashman’]. Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1969 First Swedish edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper, this being slightly scuffed along extremities and rubbed to boards. £110

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97. RAMBELLI (Roberta) trans. Flashman l’ussaro della regina bianca [‘Flashman’].

Milano, Longanesi & C., 1984 First Italian edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £75 98. BOCCHIOLA (Max) trans. Flashman e la montagna di luce [‘Flashman and the Mountain of Light’]. Milano, Edizioni Frassinelli, 1993 First Italian edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £65

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

99. AGATE ( James). Ego 2-9... in eight volumes. London, Victor Gollancz [&] George G. Harrap & Co., 1936-49 First editions. 8 vols. Illustrated throughout with portrait to frontis. Of ‘A Shorter Ego’. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, sunned spines and board edges with rubbing to the edges, light bumping and/or rubbing to corners, chip to ‘Ego 8’ front endpaper, a good to very good set, though lacking first volume. £180 100. – A Shorter Ego… in two volumes. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1945-6 First editions. 2 vols. Photo to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, sunning to spine, corners a touch pushed, else a very good copies, a third volume was issued later. £70 Ego - Ego 2 - Ego 3; Ego 4 - Ego 5 - Ego 6.

101. AIRLIE (Mabell, Countess of ). In Whig Society, 1775-1818. Compiled from the Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1921 Portrait frontis. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt lettered to spine, edge worn, library label to rear paste down, casing coming loose, a fair copy only. £17 102. ALCIPHRON, AELIAN & PHILOSTRATUS; BENNER (Allan Rogers) & FOBES (Francis H.) trans. The Letters of Alciphron, Aelian & Philostratus. Harvard University Press, 1979 Small 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, lightly scuffed to extremities. £22 103. ANDREWS (Evangeline Walker) ed. Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776. Yale University Press, 1927 Fourth printing. 8vo. Half cloth to marbled boards, label to shelf worn spine, rear hinge starting, pages untrimmed, t.e.g., a very good copy. £25 104. ANON [FIELDS ( Julian Osgood)]. Uncensored Recollections. London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1924 Second edition. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, rubbing to spine, this being sunned, else a very good copy. £16

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105. ASTLEY (Sir John Dugale). Fifty Years of My Life. In the World of Sport at Home and Abroad. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1895 Fourth edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, boards starting, publisher’s adverts to rear, else good. £22 106. ATKYNS (Richard); YOUNG (Peter) ed. [&] GWYN ( John); TUCKER (Norman) ed. Richard Atkyns [&] John Gwyn: The Civil War. Military Memoirs Series.

London, Longmans, 1967 First edition thus. Maps & portrait frontis. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar shelf worn dustwrapper, publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £22 107. BENSON (A.C.) & ESHER (Viscount) eds. The Letters of Queen Victoria.

A Selection from Her Majesty’s Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861... in three volumes. London, John Murray, 1908 First edition thus. 3 vols. Pictorial frontis. to each volume. 8vo. Original scarlet cloth, blind tooling to front boards, and gilt to spines, some light shelf wear but overall a clean tight set. £140 108. BROWN (T.E.) Letters of T.E. Brown. With an Introductory Memoir by Sydney T. Erwin. Liverpool, University Press of Liverpool, 1952 Fourth edition. Photograph of Brown to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, with small stain to spine tail, in similar dustwrapper with sunning to spine, else a nice copy. £20 109. BULLEN (Frank T.) The Log of a Sea-Waif. Being Recollections of the First Four Years of my Sea Life. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1910 Pictorial frontis. Small 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, a bit rubbed, hinges slightly weak but sound, overall very good. £16 110. CANOT (Capt. Theodore); COWLEY (Malcolm) ed. Adventures of an African Slaver. Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Own Story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer. Cleveland, The World Publishing Co., 1942 ‘Tower Book edition’. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, darkened spine lightly shelf worn, hinges weakening, slight rubbing to corners, chips to endpapers, good. £18

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111. CAR[E]Y (Robert, 1st Earl of Monmouth). Memoirs of the Life of Robert Cary, Baron of Leppington & Earl of Monmouth. Written by Himself, & now published from an original Manuscript in the Custody of John Earl of Corke & Orrery, with some Explanatory Notes. London, printed by J. Hughs...for R. & J. Dodsley, 1759 First edition (?) Engraved frontis. depicting a royal procession of Elizabeth I. 8vo.

Contemporary full calf, worn & scuffed to extremities, rebacked with leather label laid down, binding consequently a bit tight, image of the Queen on the engraving has sadly been scratched, a half inch tear to top of the title, some light soiling to pages but generally a good copy. xxxiv, 200, [5]pp. £45 112. CARDIGAN (The Countess of ). My Recollections. London, George Bell, 1909 Portrait to frontis. Note by GMF slipped in. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, light foxing throughout, occasional staining to boards. £20

The wife of the Seventh Earl of Cardigan, who himself makes appearances in a number of the Flashman Papers.The two characters enjoy a numbers of tussles, memorably when Cardigan attempts to seduce Flashman’s wife, only to be foiled by the drunken husband emerging from the bedroom cupboard.

113. CARTWRIGHT ( Julia). Beatrice D’Este. Duchess of Milan. 1475-1497. A Study of the Renaissance. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1926 Ninth edition. Portrait to frontis. and illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, blind tooled image to front board, spine darkened, shelf worn and slightly pushed, else pages clean and bright. £25 114. CASANOVA (Chevalier de Seingalt, Giacomo); TRASK (Willard R.) trans.

History of My Life... twelve volumes in six. London, John Hopkins University Press, 1997 12 vols in 6. 8vo. As new wrappers, save for light creasing to spine of first volume. £100 115. CHILDS ( J. Rives). Casanova. A Biography Based on New Documents.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1961 First edition. Portrait to frontis., illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine, in a similar black unclipped dustwrapper, very good. £22 116. COLOMA (Padre Luis); MORETON (Lady [Ada Margarette]). The Story of Don John of Austria. London, John Lane, 1912 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, red library sticker to front board, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, marking to back boards, staining to pages, good only. £20 60

117. COSTELLO (Edward); BRETT-JAMES (Antony) ed. Edward Costello: The Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns. Military Memoirs Series. London, Longmans, 1967 First edition thus. Portrait frontis. & maps. 8vo. Original cloth, corners a bit bumped, in a similar shelf worn dustwrapper, with the publisher’s review slip loosely inserted, a very good copy. £27 118. DAICHES (David). The Last Stuart. The Life and Times of Bonnie Prince Charlie. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973 First US edition. With 31 illustrations and with a fully typed up review of the book by GMF and a requests slip from The Washington Post loosely inserted.

8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in lightly shelf worn pictorial dustwrapper. £25 119. DE BLOWITZ (Henri Stephan). My Memoirs. London, Edward Arnold, 1903 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Original navy cloth gilt, spine pushed, corners lightly rubbed, pages untrimmed, a very good copy. £30 120. DE MAUNI (Roger); CLARKE (David) ed. Roger de Mauni: The FrancoPrussian War. Military Memoirs Series. London, Longmans, 1970 First edition thus. Maps & portrait frontis. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine dustwrapper, publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £32 121. DEFOE (Daniel); MONK (Samuel Holt) ed. The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jack. Oxford University Press, 1965 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being faded to spine and worn along top edge. £20 122. FLEISCHER (Richard). Just Tell Me When to Cry. A Memoir. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1993 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF and Kath to title page. Photographs throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, minimal scuffing to edges, a fine copy. £65

Inscription reads “To George and Kathy - Whose enthusiasm spurned me on. With love, Dick. Los Angeles, ‘93”.

123. FOOTMAN (David). The Primose Path. A Life of Ferdinand Lassalle. London, The Cresset Press, 1946 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a chipped dustwrapper, light foxing to page edges else a very good copy. £18

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124. FORREST (Denys). Tiger of Mysore. The Life and Death of Tipu Sultan.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1970 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine bright unclipped dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip inserted. £30 125. FRASER (Ian). Frogman V.C. London, Angus & Robertson, 1957 First edition. Photographic illustration. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine sunned, else good without dustwrapper. £17 126. GAGE (Nicholas). Eleni. London, Collins, 1983 First edition. Map to front. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, gilt with light shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £25 127. GREEN (Mary Anne Everett). Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest... in six volumes. London, Henry Colburn, 1850 6 vols. 8vo. Twentieth century half blue calf, sunning to spine with light rubbing to extremities, a very nice set overall. £350 128. GREVILLE (Charles C.F.); REEVE (Henry) ed. The Greville Memoirs... in three volumes. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1874 3 vols. Publisher’s adverts etc. 8vo. Original lilac cloth, gilt embossed armorial to front boards, lettering to spines, hinges to first volume are weak but holding, second & third much tighter, rubbing to extremities & spines darkened, a good set only. £125 A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV. 129. – ; WILSON (Philip Whitwell) ed. The Greville Diary. Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication... in two volumes. London, William Heinemann, 1927 First edition thus. 2 vols. Illustrated. 8vo. Publisher’s dark green cloth, gilt embossed armorial to front boards, & lettered to spines, overall a near fine set. £50 130. HARRISON (Michael). Gambler’s Glory. The stoy of John Law of Lauriston, sometime Comptroller-General of the Finances of His Catholic Majesty King Louis XV. London, Rich & Cown Ltd, 1940 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth with minor darkening to upper front board, spine and back board, pencil notes on front panel and unknown signature in ink on front endpaper, dust wrapper chipped, slightly torn and price clipped. £20

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131. HENRY (Surg. Walter); HAYWARD (Pat) ed. Surgeon Henry’s Trifles. Events of a Military Life. London, Chatto & Windus, 1970 First edition. Map & portrait frontis. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, slightly dust soiled to top edge, spine sunned else very good, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £16 132. HERZEN (Alexander); GARNETT (Constance) trans. My Past and Thoughts.

The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen… in four volumes. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1968 4 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth with minor bumping of spines, these being slightly pushed, pages tight and clean, in pictorial unclipped dustwrappers, occasional chipping to extremities, a fine set in a slipcase, this being split and reattached along the sides. £140 133. HOGG ( James); CAREY ( John) ed. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Oxford University Press, 1969 8vo. Original cloth in an unclipped dustwrapper, light scuffing to extremities, tear to spine head, else very good. £27 134. HUTCHINSON (Lucy). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, n.d.

Small 8vo. Teal publisher’s cloth gilt, white marker to spine, creasing to front board, further marking to rear board, corners lightly bumped, good only. £16 135. JEAL (Tim). Livingstone. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973 First US edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped shelf worn pictorial dustwrapper, with typed review manuscript (5pp.) by GMF loosely inserted. £32 136. JEROME ( Jerome K.) The Diary of a Pilgrimage (and six Essays). Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, [1891] First edition. Illustrated by G.G. Fraser, with a presentation inscription in pencil from the young GMF to his Aunt Ella.. 8vo. Publisher’s decorative cloth, gilt a bit faded, damp marks to boards, some light staining, overall a good copy only. £30 137. JERROLD (Clare). The Married Life of Victoria. London, Eveleigh Nash, 1913 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original purple cloth, gilt, small stains to rear board & spine, else a very good bright copy. £25

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138. JOHNSON (Captain Charles); LLOYD (Christopher) ed. Lives of the Most Notorious Pirates. London, The Folio Society, 1962 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Cloth-backed marbled boards, a fine copy in original green slipcase, this worn to extremities. £27 139. JOHNSON (Samuel); CHAPMAN (R.W.) ed. The Letters of Samuel Johnson... in three volumes. Vol. I 1719-74; Vol. II 1775-82; Vol. III 1783-84. Oxford University Press, 1984 Reprint. 3 vols. Each volume inscribed to front endpaper from each of GMF’s children to him at Christmas 1984. Fascimile to frontis. 8vo. Navy publisher’s cloth, gilt in a clear protective sleeve, a very fine set. £150 140. JULLIAN (Philippe); DAWNAY (Peter) trans. Edward and the Edwardians.

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1967 First UK edition. Illustrated with William Nicholson drawings. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an edge worn & spine sunned dustwrapper, with review slip loosely inserted. £18 141. LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London, Jonathan Cape, 1935 Third impression. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Publisher’s buckram gilt, light shelf wear to spine in a price clipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed and creased to extremities with a chip to head of front board and spine tail, pages untrimmed, light dust soiling to top edge, very good. £175 142. LE GOLIF (Louis); T’SERSTEVENS (A.) trans.; ALAUX (G.) ed. The Memoirs of a Buccaneer. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1954 Second impression. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with slight fading to edges, in a pictorial dustwrapper, small chip to spine head and scuffing to extremities. £25 143. LEWIS (W.H.) The Sunset of the Splendid Century. The Life and Times of Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duc du Maine, 1670-1736. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955 First edition. Illustrated, with folding chart to rear. 8vo. Original cloth, a bit dust soiled, else very good in a slightly torn & shelf worn dustwrapper. £17 144. MACAULAY (Thomas Babington, Lord). Biographies by Lord Macaulay, contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with notes of his connection with Edinburgh, and extracts from his Letters and Speeches. Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1860 64

First edition thus. Adverts to rear. 8vo. Original purple cloth, blind tooled borders, gilt lettered to spine, rubbing to extremities, in particular head & tail, a very good clean, tight copy. £33

Subjects are: Francis Atterbury, John Bunyan, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson & William Pitt.

145. – The Life and Works of Lord Macaulay... complete in ten volumes. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1896 ‘Edinburgh edition’. 10 vols. Portrait frontis. of author to first volume. 8vo. Fine publisher’s original cloth, gilt lettered to spines, clean throughout, many pages uncut, a handsome set. £200 146. MACKENZIE (W.C.) Lovat of the Forty-Five. Edinburgh, The Moray Press, 1934 First edition. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, sunning to spine and top edge of boards, shelf wear to spines, else a very good copy. £17 147. MAURICE (Sir Frederick). Robert E. Lee. The Soldier. London, Constable & Co., 1930 Reprint. Portrait to frontis., maps throughout, folding map to rear. 8vo. Original blue cloth, darkening to spine, rubbing to joints, corners bumped lightly, shelf wear to spine, dust soiling to top edge, foxing to page edges, else pages clean and bright, with handwritten and typed correspondence between GMF and a fan, a good copy. £28 148. MONTEFIORE (Arthur). Henry M. Stanley. The African Explorer. London, S.W. Patridge & Co., c.1890 Sixth edition, revised & enlarged. Engraved illustrations, portrait frontis. etc. 8vo.

Original scarlet decorative cloth, gilt embossed, very light sunning to spine & dust soiling, however gilt still bright, a handsome example. £27 149. MOTT (Edward Spencer). A Mingled Yarn. The Autobiography of Edward Spencer Mott (‘Nathaniel Gubbins’). Late Lieutenant in the 19th Regiment.

London, Edward Arnold, 1898 First edition. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, sunning to spine this being shelf worn, corners bumped, staining to boards. £75

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150. NEVILL (Lady Dorothy); NEVILL (Ralph) ed. The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill. London, Edward Arnold, 1906 First edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth gilt, spine creased and rubbed to edges, dust soiled top edge, corners bumped else pages clean and bright. £42 151. PARKER (Robert); CHANDLER (David) ed. Robert Parker and Comte de Merode-Westerloo. Military Memoirs Series. London, Longmans, 1968 First edition. Map & portrait frontis. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine dustwrapper, publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £22 152. PEPYS (Samuel); WHEATLEY (Henry B.) ed. The Diary of Samuel Pepys... in ten volumes London, G. Bell & Sons, 1910-19 Mixed printings. 10 vols., including index. Portrait frontis. to each volume, plus occasional folding plate within the text. 8vo. Publisher’s original navy blue cloth, gilt tooled anchor & rope design to spines, half of these bright the other half darkened, head & tail a bit chipped, some of the bindings a little shaken, but overall a good clean set. £150 153. POWELL ( J.R.) Robert Blake. General-at-Sea. London, Collins, 1972 First edition. Portrait to frontis. and illustrated throughout. Review by GMF slipped in. 8vo. Fine grey publisher’s cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, this being faded lightly to spine, else a fine copy. £30 154. PREEDY (George R.) The Courtly Charlatan. The Enigmatic Comte de St. Germain. London, Herbet Jenkins, 1942 First edition, second impression. Inscribed to front endpaper “G.M. Fraser 17/ XI/48.” 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, sunning to spine, clean pages. £32 155. QUENNELL (Peter). Four Portraits. Studies of the Eighteenth Century.

London, Collins, 1945 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt in pink dustwrapper, this being sunned to spine and scuffed to edges, a very good copy. £20 156. RITCHIE ( J. Ewing). The Life and Times of Viscount Palmerston. Embracing the diplomatic and domestic history of the British Empire during the last half century... in six volumes. The London Printing and Publishing Co., c.1865 First edition. 6 vols. Engraved plates to front of each volume, all are portraits of contemporary political figures, and a vignette title depicting his Broadlands

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estate in Hampshire to first volume. 4to. Original green cloth, bevelled boards, gilt decorated to front panels & spines, a clean & attractive set. £195

‘Pam’ as he was affectionately known, one of the most important of the Victorian statesmen, is referred to a number of times in the Flashman books, most notably as the Foreign Secretary in ‘Royal Flash’ and as Prime Minister in ‘Flashman and the Great Game’.

157. ROBERTS (Field-Marshal Lord). Forty-one Years in India... in two volumes.

From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief. London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1897 Eighteenth edition (same year as the first). 2 vols. With portraits and folding maps. 8vo. Publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt tooled armorials, with bookplate & ownership inscription, exceedingly handsome, a fine clean & tight set. £325 158. RODD (Sir James Rennell). Social and Diplomatic Memories (Third Series) 1902-1919. London, Edward Arnold & Co., 1925 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, blind tooled border to boards, sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities and front board, hinges weak, rear endpaper missing, else a good copy. £25 159. ROWSE (A.L.) The Early Churchills. An English Family. London, Macmillan & Co., 1956 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth, lightly dust soiled, in a good but slightly torn pictorial dustwrapper. £20 160. – Sir Richard Grenville of the ‘Revenge’. London, Jonathan Cape, 1977 Reissue. 8vo. Fine black publisher’s cloth in a siilar pictorial dustwrapper. £16 161. RUSSELL (William Howard). My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9... in two volumes. London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1860 First edition. 2 vols. Lithograph illustrations throughout, folding map in first volume, and notes by GMF loosely inserted to the second volume. 8vo.

Contemporary half leather, gilt in compartments, a.e.g., spine of first volume a touch faded, boards heavily rubbed, plates occasionally a little soiled to margins, with school prize plate to front paste down, overall a good set. £225 162. SADLEIR (Michael). Blessington-D’Orsay. A Masquerade. London, Constable & Co., 1933 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, rubbing to top edge, shelf wear to spine, else a good copy. £17

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163. SANDRAZ (Courtilz de); NEVILL (Ralph) trans. Memoirs of Monsieur D’Artagnan, Captain-Lieutenant of the 1st Company of the King’s Musketeers... in three volumes. London, H.S. Nichols, [1925] First English edition. 3 vols. Portrait frontis. to first volume, this coming slightly loose. 8vo. Publisher’s decorative blue cloth, gilt tooled fleur-de-lis design, a bit shelf worn, the second volume has a puncture to lower edge of the spine, spines are generally darkened, with light scuffing to rear boards, first volume has some light staining to front endpaper, else a very good set. £85 164. SAUMAREZ SMITH ( John) ed. The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street. Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73. London, Frances Lincoln, 2004 First impression. Signed by JSS to title page. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. £25 165. – A Spy in the Bookshop. Letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith, 1966-74. London, Frances Lincoln, 2006 First impression. Signed by JSS to the title page. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine dustwrapper. £20 166. SCOTT (Adam). British Military Biography: Comprising the Lives of the Most Distinguished Commanders, from Alfred to Wellington: Connected by an Outline of the Military History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present time.

London, Printed for Adam Scott, 1846 Second edition. Illustration to frontis. Small 8vo. Contemporary full calf, gilt, extremities rubbed, corners pushed, pages clean and tight, very good. £125 167. SINCLAIR (Andrew). Death by Fame. A Life of Elisabeth Empress of Austria.

London, Constable, 1998 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £18 168. SMITH (Logan Pearsall). Unforgotten Years. London, Constable & Co., 1938 Reprint. Portrait frontis. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, shelf worn, but overall a very good copy, lacks dustwrapper. £22 169. SMITH (Rev. Sydney). The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith.

London, Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861 Fourth edition. 8vo. Original cloth blind tooled boards, gilt to front and spine,

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this being sunned and rubbed to head and tail, corners bumped, rear board starting, good. £32 170. ST AUBYN (Giles). Edward VII. Prince & King. London, Collins, 1979 First edition. Typewritten review with ink annotations by GMF slipped in. 8vo.

Publisher’s cloth, light shelf wear to extremities in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £25 171. STANLEY (Arthur Penrhyn). The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1890 Third edition. Portrait frontis. 8vo. Original green cloth, black lettered & gilt to spine, many of the leaves & gatherings coming loose (gutta percha has perished), otherwise clean & square. £18 172. STRACHEY (Lytton). Queen Victoria. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921 Seventh printing. Illustrated. Large 8vo. Original red cloth, lacking front endpaper, spine a touch sunned, else very good. £16 173. SUETONIUS; THOMSON (Alexander) trans. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

London, G. Bell & Sons, 1926 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, creasing to front board, spine slightly shelf worn and sunned, light rubbing to corners. £20 174. THACKERAY (William Makepeace); RAY (Gordon N.) ed. The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray... in four volumes. Harvard University Press, 1945-46 First edition thus. 4 vols. Fine publisher’s cloth, in slightly edge worn dustwrappers, these bright to panels but a little stained to spines, first volume in particular a bit chipped to head, otherwise an attractive set, uncommon in dustwrappers, and housed in two labelled slipcases. £130 Vol. I. 1817-1840; Vol. II. 1841-1851; Vol. III.: 1852-1856; Vol. IV. 1857-1863.

175. TINDALL (Mrs.) ed. Mrs. Bousquet’s Diary, 1765. Norwich, Jarrold & Sons, 1927 Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, a very nice copy. £35

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176. TISDALL (E.E.P.) Queen Victoria’s Private Life, 1837-1901. London, Jarrolds, 1961 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth, very good in a shelf worn dustwrapper. £16 177. TOLSTOY (Nikolai). The Half-Mad Lord. Thomas Pitt 2nd Baron Camelford (1775-1804). London, Jonathan Cape, 1978 First edition. Typed review by GMF slipped in. 8vo. Black original cloth, in a brown unclipped dustwrapper, near fine. £17 178. TSCHUDI (Clara), COPE (E.M.) trans. Eugenie, Empress of the French. A Popular Sketch. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1899 First UK edition. Portrait frontis., curiously with a ‘cabinet card’ size sepia photograph of the Empress pasted to front endpaper, and a smaller one of her son the Prince Imperial (for whom she was mourning) appears to have come unstuck from the pastedown and unfortunately now adhered to p.233. Large 8vo. Original red cloth, spine slightly darkened, rubbed to head & tail, some small tears to front endpaper where it has been handled, hinges a bit delicate, otherwise very good. £37

Napoleon, the Prince Imperial and only son of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, was killed whilst on a scouting mission during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

179. VIZETELLY (Ernest A.). With Zola in England. A Story of Exile. London, Chatto & Windus, 1899 First English edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, black and red tooling to front, spine darkened and pushed, evidence of shelf wear, corners bumped, pages untrimmed, evidence of separation, otherwise very good, with publisher’s adverts to rear. £95 180. VON BULOW (Prince); DUNLOP (Geoffrey) & VOIGT (F.A.) trans. Memoirs.

1849-1897. London, Putnam, 1932 First English edition. 8vo. Original cloth gilt, sunning to spine with rubbing to tail, corners bumped, top edge dust soiled, Glasgow Herald Library stamp to front endpaper and title page, else pages clean and bright, good only. £40 181. WALLACE (Lew). Ben-Hur, or, the Days of the Messiah. London, Frederick Warne & Co., c.1890 12mo. Original decorative cloth, black and gilt pictorial design, slightly bumped with some light rubbing to extremities, hinges starting, rear endpapers coming

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loose, half title absent, with pencil marks on contents pages, but overall a sound & bright copy. £17 182. WALLER ( John Francis) ed. The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography.

Comprising a Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men all Ages & all Nations... in fourteen volumes. London, William Mackenzie, [1857-63] 14 vols. Engraved full-page portraits of subjects. 4to. Original decorative brown cloth, gilt, head & tails a bit worn to some volumes but overall a clean & bright set. £235 183. WALPOLE (Horace); CUNNINGHAM (Peter) ed. The Letters of Horace Walpole... in nine volumes. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1906 9 vols. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Maroon cloth gilt, shelf wear to spines, untrimmed pages, a fine set. £145 184. WARWICK & BROOKE (The Right Hon. Earl of ). Memories of Sixty Years.

London, Cassell & Co., 1917 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, rubbing to spine edges and joints, very good. £22 185. WATERFIELD (Robert); SWINSON (Arthur) & SCOTT (Donald) eds. The Memoirs of Private Waterfield. Soldier in Her Majesty’s 32nd Regiment of Foot (Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry) 1842-57. London, Cassell, 1968 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a lightly marked & spine sunned dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £27 186. WAUGH (Evelyn); DAVIE (Michael) ed. Diaries... London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976 First edition. Large 8vo. Original cloth, slightly shelf worn in a price clipped dustwrapper, this being creased and lightly scuffed, small tear to rear corner, else a very good copy. £28 187. WEINTRAUB (Stanley). The Importance of Being Edward. King in Waiting 1841-1901. London, John Murray, 2000 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in a pictorial, unclipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £20

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188. WETMORE (Helen Cody). The Last of the Great Scouts. The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody. “Buffalo Bill”. London, Methuen & Co., 1901 First UK edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth with gilt image and lettering to front and spine, this browned with barely visible water damage towards tail, boards sunned at edges, light dust soiling to top edge. £20 189. WHEATLEY (Dennis). The Time has Come... The Memoirs of Dennis Wheatley. The Young Man Said, 1897-1914. London, Huthinson & Co., 1977 First edition. Inscribed by author to GMF to title page, portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, spine tail lightly shelf worn, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, a fine copy. £250

Inscription reads “For George Flashman, with best wishes from Dennis”.

190. WILLCOCKS (Sir William). Sixty Years in the East. London, William Blackwood, 1935 First edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, rubbing to extremities, spine shelf worn, stain and Boots sticker to front board. £70

Willcocks (1852-1932) was an engineer who among other achievements throughout the British Empire, was responsible for the construction of the original Aswan Dam. 191. WILLIAMS (Charles). James I. London, Arthur Barker, 1934 First edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, rubbing to extremities, shelf wear to spine, this being pushed, a good ex-library copy. £18 192. WILLIAMS (Ronald). Montrose. Cavalier in Mourning. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 First edition. Typewritten notes from the Glasgow Herald and from GMF slipped in. Notes made to back of Barrie & Jenkins review slip, also loosely inserted.

Illustrations and maps throughout. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, light shelf wear, in a black unclipped dustwrapper, this with bubbling to lamination, light creasing along edges, else very good. £32

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193. ABDULLAH (Achmed) [ROMANOFF (Alexander Nikolayevitch)]. Shackled.

London, Hutchinson & Co., c.1930 Second edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, spine sunned, pages browned, a good tight copy. £18 194. ALIGHIERI (Dante). The Divine Comedy - Vol. III. The Paradiso. The Italian text with a translation in English terza-rima verse by Melville B. Anderson.

Oxford University Press, 1932 12mo. Publisher’s blue cloth, with blind tooled border design to boards and gilt lettering to spine, light shelf wear to spine and edges, pages clean, else a nice copy. £17 195. ARMSTRONG (Anthony). Warrriors Paraded. A Military Omnibus from Warriors at Ease, Warriors Still at Ease; Easy Warriors; Livestock in Barracks; Captain Bayonet and Others. London, Methuen & Co., 1941 Second edition. Illustrated throughout, “George MacDonald Fraser” to front endpaper. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, boards creased, rubbing to extremities and joints, spine pushed. £22 196. AUDEN (W.H.) Thank You, Fog. London, Faber & Faber, 1974 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a price clipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £35 197. BACON (Francis). Essays or Counsels, Civill and Morall. Oxford University Press, 1966 Small 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped dustwrapper. £25 198. – ; DEVEY ( Joseph) ed. The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon, including his Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh. London, George Bell & Sons, 1890 ‘Bohn’s Standard Library edition’. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s maroon cloth, gilt lettered to spine, slight wear to corners, else a nice bright copy. £40

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199. – ; WILSON (Richard) ed. Essays and Other Writings... London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1937 Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, light shelf wear and dust soiling to top edge else a near fine copy. £20 200. BARHAM (Rev. Richard H.); ROBINSON (T.H.) illus. The Ingoldsby Legends.

London, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, c.1910 Illustrated throughout. Small 8vo. Maroon cloth, with gilt to spine and gilt fascimile signature to front, shelf worn spine, tail corners bumped, pages clean and bright, a.e.g. £20 201. BARRIE ( J.M.) Auld Licht Idylss. The Works of J.M. Barrie. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1926 8vo. Blue cloth, title label to front and spine this being light shelf worn, slight dust soiling to top edge, occasional foxing to page edge, else a nice copy. £18 202. – The Plays. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928 First edition thus. Photographic frontis. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s blue cloth, mild spotting to prelims, in a fine & bright printed dustwrapper, this being price clipped, seemingly unread. £28 203. – Selections from Plays. University of London Press, 1931 Small 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, a bit rubbed, spine a touch faded, very good with ownership inscription of GMF’s wife to front endpaper. £16 204. – ; WILSON (A.E.) ed. Plays. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1943 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf wear to a pushed spine, boards starting, else a nice copy. £17 205. BEACONSFIELD (The Earl of ) [DISRAELI (Benjamin)]. Henrietta Temple: A Love Story. London, Longmans, Green, & Co., c.1880 8vo. Publisher’s blue boards, black tooling decoration to boards & spine, this being darkened and pushed, corners rubbed, hinges starting, front endpaper missing, school library stamp to half title. £18

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206. – Novels and Tales. by the Earl of Beaconsfield with Portrait and Sketch of his Life... in eleven volumes. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1881 ‘Hughenden edition’. 11 vols. Portrait to frontis. in ‘Vivian Grey’ and ‘Endymion’.

8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt design to front & spine, this being pushed and lightly shelf worn, extremities rubbed, occasional marking to boards, detached and torn leaf slipped back into ‘Lothair’, otherwise pages clean, a very good set. £425

Vivian Grey; The Young Duke, and Count Alarcos; Contarini Flemming, and The Rise of Iskander; Alroy, Ixion in Heaven, The Infernal Marriage, and Popanilla; Henrietta Temple; Venetia; Coningsby; Sybil; Tancred; Lothair; Endymion.

207. – Alroy. Ixion in Heaven. The Infernal Marriage. Popanilla. London, Longmans, Green & Co., c.1890 New edition. 8vo. Original decorative sky blue cloth, very good. £22 208. BECKFORD (William). Vathek. An Arabian Tale. London, Gibbings & Co., 1900 Etchings by Herbert Nye. Small 8vo. Near fine decorative green cloth, gilt embossed arabic design to front & spine, t.e.g., pages untrimmed, a very attractive copy. £75 209. BELL (G.H.) ed. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton. London, MacMillan & Co., 1930 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, shelf wear and creasing to spine, light foxing to page edges, t.e.g. a nice copy. £37 210. BILSE (Lt. [Fritz Oswald]). Life in a Garrison Town. The Military Novel Suppressed by the German Government. London, John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904 Second UK edition. Portrait frontis. of the author. 8vo. Original decorative red cloth, gilt, heraldic design to front board, spine heavily sunned, lightly bumped to head & tail, else a very good tight copy. £64 211. BOCCACCIO (Giovanni); DERRICK (Thomas) illus. The Decameron of Boccaccio. London, Chatto & Windus, 1920 First edition thus. Illustrations by Derrick. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, gilt, light soiling to boards, spine slightly darkened, with occasional foxing to page margins, a good copy. £32

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212. BOMBAUGH (Charles Carroll). Gleanings for the Curious from the HarvestFields of Literature. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., [1896] 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, front joint cracked, backstrip with red leather label, this worn & peeling away, lacks title page, with newspaper clippings tipped in, a binding copy in need of repair. £16 213. BRAHMS (Caryl) & SIMON (S.J.) No Nightingales. London, Michael Joseph, 1944 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, this being faded to spine, Boots library sticker adhered to front board, bumped corners, a good reading copy. £22 214. – Six Curtains for Stroganova. London, Michael Joseph, 1945 First edition. Small 8vo. Publisher’s boards in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being chipped to extremities, else a nice copy. £30 215. – Titania has a Mother. London, Michael Joseph, 1944 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, dust soiling to top edge, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being in a protective sleeve, a very good copy. £33 216. BRIDGES (Robert). Poetical Works... Excluding the Eight Dramas. Oxford University Press, 1914 Portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to boards, spine creased and shelf wear to head and tail, pages clean and tight. £35 217. BROOKE (Rupert). The Complete Poems... London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1941 Seventeenth impression. Portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Original green cloth bevelled boards gilt, slight fading to spine, pages untrimmed, very good. £20 218. BROWN (T.E.) Poems. With an Introductory Memoir by Sir Arthur QuillerCouch... in two volumes. Liverpool, University Press of Liverpool, 1952 2 vols. Photograph of Brown on frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, slight shelf wear to spines, in similar unclipped dustwrappers, with sunning to spines, very good overall. £27

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219. BROWNING (Robert). Poems... Containing Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic Romances, Men and Women, Dramas, Pauline, Paracelus, Christmas-eve and Easter-day, Sordello, and Dramatis Personae. Oxford University Press, 1923 Portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled border on boards, sunning and shelf wear to spine, minimal rubbing to corners. £22 220. BUCHAN ( John). Greenmantle. London, Thomas Nelson, c.1942 8vo. Original green cloth, shelf wear to spine, rear board starting, good with publisher’s adverts to rear. £16 221. – Salute to Adventurers. London, Thomas Nelson, n.d.

8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, half title detached and slipped in, untrimmed pages, good only. £17 222. – The Thirty-nine Steps. London, William Blackwood, 1920 Ninth impression. 8vo. Original green cloth boards, shelf wear and creasing to spine, this being pushed, rear board starting, a good copy. £18 223. BULFINCH (Thomas). Bulfinch’s Mythology. The Age of Fable. The Age of Chivalry. Legends of Charlemagne. New York, The Modern Library, c.1973 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Grey publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine, markings to back boards, bumping to corners, a good copy. £20 224. BULLOCK (Rev. Charles) ed. The Fireside Annual. 1880; 1881... in two volumes. London, “Hand & Heart” Publishing Office, 1880 & 81 Illustrated throughout. 4to. Half leather marbled boards, rubbing to extremities, light foxing throughout, shelf wear, dust soiling to top edge, a good pair. £30 225. BUNYAN ( John). The Pilgrim’s Progess and the Holy War. Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo & Co., 1880 Portrait to frontis., illustrated throughout. 8vo. Green cloth gilt, light rubbing to joints and corners these being bumped, else a very good copy. £47 226. – ; MAGUIRE (The Rev. Robert) ed. A True Relation of The Holy War Made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus... and a Life of Bunyan, by The Rev. William Brock.

London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, c.1860 Illustrated by H.C. Selous & D.H. Friston. 4to. Original publisher’s cloth, gilt embossed warrior to front panel, relief tooling, bevelled boards, heavily rubbed & worn, gilt faded, binding weak & hinges starting, well read, a fair copy only. £27

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227. –; SHARROCK (Roger) ed. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim’s Progress, from this World to that which is to come. Oxford University Press, 1966 First edition thus. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, slight dust soiling to top edge, in a fine bright dustwrapper. £25 228. BURNS (Robert); CURRIE ( James). The Complete Works of Robert Burns: with an Account of his Life, and a Criticism on his Writings. To which are prefixed some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry. London, Milner & Co., c.1830 Illustrated throughout. Small 8vo. Decorative green cloth gilt, front endpapers loosely slipped in, evidence of separation, hinges starting, spine creased and darkened, light rubbing to extremities, foxing to page edges, else a charming copy. £85 229. BURTON (Richard F.) trans. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... in ten volumes [&] Supplemental Nights with Notes Anthropological & Explanatory... in six volumes. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. The Burton Club, c.1970 16 vols. in total. Illustration to frontis. 8vo. Original black cloth with gold, or silver for ‘Supplemental Nights’ volumes, to boards and spine, light shelf wear to spine, pages bright, clean & tight, overall a fine set. £525 230. BUTLER (Samuel). Hudibras. In three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. With Annotations and a complete Index. Edinburgh, A. Kincaid & J. Bell, & A. Donaldson, 1758 New edition. 3 parts in 1. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, original red leather label, gilt, corners bumped and lightly won, shelf wear to spine, a good example. xi, 357, [14]pp. £120 Inscribed “For Lady Selina Frances Rawdon from her most affectionate & tenderly faithful Brother. John Theo. Rawdon.” on front board, below a bookplate pasted in appears to be her initials.

231. BYRON (Lord). Poetical Works… London, Frederick Warne, c.1897 ‘Albion edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt portrait to front board, rubbing to head and tail of spine, corners bumped and pushed, hinges weak, good. £28

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232. CABELL ( James Branch). Chivalry. Dizain des Reines. London, John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1928 First UK edition. 8vo. Green cloth library binding, gilt lettered to spine, Mudie’s Library label stuck to paste down, heavily rubbed, but in all a good clean tight copy. £20 233. CAIRNCROSS (A.S.) ed. Poems Old & New. An Anthology. London, Macmillan & Co., 1936 Inscribed “K. Hetherington” in pencil to front endpaper. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt, blind tooled front board, spine pushed and shelf worn, corners bumped, dust soiling to top edge, pages clean and bright. £17 Kathleen Hetherington went on to marry GMF. 234. CAMPBELL (Thomas) & COLERIDGE (Samuel T.) The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell and Samuel T. Coleridge. With Lives. Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis, c.1860 Engraved plates throughout. Small 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth bevelled boards, these being sunned to edges and spine, extremities lightly rubbed, a.e.g., good. £120 235. CAPEK (Karel); SELVER (Paul) trans. Tales from Two Pockets. London, The Folio Society, 1962 First edition thus. Illustrations by Karel Svolinsky. 8vo. Fine publisher’s decorative cloth, in a near fine slipcase. £20 236. CARLYLE (Thomas). Works... in thirty one volumes. London, Chapman & Hall, 1871-74 ‘People’s edition’. 31 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with black tooling to boards and spine, pages untrimmed, light shelf wear and bumping to corners, notes occasionally slipped in, else a very good set. £495 237. CHARLEY (Fr.); ELKIN (Robert) ed. The New Opera Glass, or Opera as she is wrote. London, Sylvan Press, 1951 Illustrated by Robert Turner. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards, very good in a slightly torn & dust soiled wrapper. £18 238. CHARTERIS (Leslie). Meet the Tiger. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1940 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, black tooling to front and spine, this being pushed and creased, rubbing to front, foxing to page edges, a good pre-war title. £45

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239. – ‘The Saint’ Adventures... in twenty volumes. London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1940 Mixed editions. 20 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, all in yellow pictorial unclipped dustwrappers, these being lightly scuffed and chipped to extremities, top edges lightly dust soiled, occasional foxing to page edges, but overall a very good pleasing run, bright in wrappers. £450

Enter the Saint; The Last Hero; Knight Templar; Featuring the Saint; Alias the Saint; She Was a Lady; The Holy Terror; Getaway; Once More the Saint; The Brighter Buccaneer; The Misfortunes of Mr Teal; Boodle; The Saint Goes On; The Saint in New York; Saint Overboard; The Ace of Knaves; Thieves’ Picnic; Prelude for War; Follow the Saint; The Happy Highwayman.

240. CHATTERBOX MAGAZINE Chatterbox... in three weekly issues. London, Wells, Gardner, Darton, & Co., 1884 3 issues, weekly - costing ‘one halfpenny’. Engraved illustrations. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers, very good, together in single protective sleeve (7pp. each). £33 No. 24, May 3rd; No. 46, October 4th; No. 50, November 1st.

241. CHAUCER (Geoffrey); MORRIS (Richard) ed. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer... in six volumes. London, Bell & Daldy, 1872 Second edition thus. 6 vols. Small 8vo. Original green cloth gilt with border design tooled in black, spine sunned and rubbed at edges, corners bumped, front endpaper missing to second volume, rubbing to rear boards of volumes one and three, else a nice set. £100 242. –; SKEAT (Rev. Walter W.) ed. Complete Works, edited from numerous manuscripts. Oxford University Press, 1903 First edition thus. Illustrated frontis. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g., slightly rubbed to extremities, neat ownership marks to front endpaper & half-title, else a very good clean copy. £24 243. CHESTERTON (G.K.), SILLINCE (W.A.) illus. Wine, Water and Song.

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1945 Nineteenth edition. Illustrated. Small 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, with wear to head and tail of a bumped spine, in a pictorial pink dustwrapper with tear to front, sunning to spine, good only. £18

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244. CICERO (Marcus Tullius); HENRY (T.) trans. Thoughts of Cicero on the Following Subjects: I. Religion, II. Man, III. Conscience, IV. The Passions, V. Wisdom, VI. Probity, VII. Eloquence, VIII. Friendship, IX. Old Age, X. Death, XI. Scipio’s Dream and XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts... newly translated from the Latin and French edition of the Abbe d’Olivet... to which is prefixed, The Life of Cicero. London, T. Adams, c.1790 Small 8vo. Contemporary full calf, red leather label gilt, head of spine a bit worn, else sound, staining to edges of prelims, fore-edge of title awkwardly trimmed, else a nice clean example, with compliments slip of Christopher Maclehose loosely inserted. xliv, 194pp. £75 245. CLARE ( John); TIBBLE (Anne) ed. The Midsummer Cushion. London, Mid Northumberland Arts Group, 1978 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth in a pictorial unclipped green dustwrapper, this being lightly worn to top edge, else a very good copy. £45 246. COBBETT (William). Rural Rides... in two volumes. London, J.M. Dent, 1957 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, minor fading and shelf wear to spine, extremities lightly rubbed, a very good pair. £32 247. CONGREVE (William); BATESON (F.W.) ed. Works... Comedies: Incognita: Poems. London, Peter Davis, 1930 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, shelf worn spine and bumped corners, else good. £20 248. CONRAD ( Joseph). Laughing Anne & One Day More. Two Plays. London, John Castle, 1924 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth near fine, a little shelf worn with dust soiling to top edge, in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed lightly along top edge and darkened to spine, else a lovely copy. £110 249. – Works... in twenty-two volumes. London, The Gresham Publishing Co., 1925-28 ‘The Medallion edition’. 20 vols, plus 2 vols issued later. Photographic frontis. to each volume. 8vo. A fine bright set, navy blue cloth, gilt embossed portrait of the author in relief to front boards, some of these lightly rubbed, some volumes with minor bowing, but this minimal, corners sharp & binding tight, an almost unread set. £650

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250. COOKE (Alistair). Letter from America. 1946-2004 London, Allen Lane, 2004 First edition. Inscribed to Kath from GMF to half title. Illustrated throughout. 8vo.

Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar price-clipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £35

Inscription reads “To K, with love from G. Christmas 2004.”

251. COOPER ( J. Fenimore). The Pathfinder. London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c.1920 Small 8vo. Red publisher’s gilt, darkening of spine, light soiling to top edge, shelf wear, evidence of separation towards front, otherwise good. £16 252. CORNWELL (Bernard). Sharpe’s Escape. Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810. London, HarperCollins, 2004 First edition. Signed by the author to title page, with typewritten note from GMF loosely inserted. 8vo. Fine original cloth in a similar, unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £130 253. – Sharpe’s Prey. Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807.

London, HarperCollins, 2001 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, fine in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £175

Inscription reads “To George Fraser - I hugely enjoyed your Desert Island Discs! Bernard Cornwell.”

254. COWARD (Noel). The Noel Coward Song Book. London, Michael Joseph, 1953 First edition. Illustrations and musical scores throughout, inscribed to front endpaper from GMF to Kath. 4to. Original cloth, lightly shelf worn in a pictorial price clipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed and creased, with small chipping to spine head and tail, yet a very good example. £80

Inscription reads “To Kath, with love on her birthday, and many happy returns. George.

18.12.53” 255. COWPER (William). Poetical Works... London, Ward, Lock & Co., c.1870 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, with intricate black and gilt design to front and spine, this being creased and shelf worn, corners lightly rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, with publisher’s adverts to rear, good. £35 256. CUNNINGHAM (Peter). The Story of Nell Gwyn, and the Saying of Charles II. London, Hutchinson & Co., c.1892

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8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, shelf wear to spine, light dust soiling to top edge, a nice copy. £18 257. DANTE (Alighieri); VARIOUS trans. Inferno. With Translations Broadcast in the BBC Third Programme. London, BBC, 1966 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, with minimal shelf wear, pages clean and bright, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper with minor scuffing to extremities, a very nice copy. £20 258. DAVIES (W.H.) ed. An Anthology of Short Poems. London, Jonathan Cape, 1938 8vo. Original green cloth, with worn gilt to spine, this being rubbed along joints, head and tail, corners bumped, pages clean and bright. £22 259. DE LA MARE (Walter). The Fleeting, and Other Stories. London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1933 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, sunning to spine and upper edges, this being shelf worn, untrimmed clean and bright pages, else a nice copy. £25 260. DEMOSTHENES; PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE (A.W.) trans. Demosthenes’ Public Orations. London, J.M. Dent, 1963 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly shelf worn, else a very good copy. £17 261. DICKENS (Charles). Works... in twenty-one volumes. London, Chapman & Hall, 1901-05 ‘The Authentic Edition’. 21 vols. Illustrations by Phiz etc., with colour frontis. to each volume. 8vo. Original olive green cloth, gilt embossed decoration, t.e.g., clean & tight internally, general shelf wear to volumes but overall a handsome looking set. £500 262. DISRAELI (Isaac); DISRAELI (Benjamin) ed. Curiosities of Literature... in three volumes [with two extra titles]. London, Frederick Warne & Co., c.1870 3 vols. Portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, with black, red and gilt design to front boards and spines, this being shelf worn, light rubbing to extremities, some boards starting, else a very good set. £68

Curiosities of Literature (Vols. I-III); Amenities of Literature; Calamities & Quarrels of Authors.

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263. DOBSON (Austin). Eighteenth Century Vignettes. First Series. Oxford University Press, 1937 Portrait to frontis. Small 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, blind tooled OUP crest and border design to boards, corners pushed, a very good copy. £18 264. –; THOMSON (Hugh) illus. The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century. London, Kegan Paul, 1892 First edition [?]. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Green cloth with pictorial gilt to front board and spine this being faded and shelf worn, light foxing to front else pages clean and tight, a near fine copy. £100 265. DONNE ( John); GRIERSON (H.J.C.) ed. Poems... Oxford University Press, 1937 Reprint. Portrait of Donne on frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, blind tooled border pattern to boards and spine, a very good copy. £40 266. DOSTOEVSKY (F.) Poor Folk: The Gambler. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1944 Small 8vo. Original red cloth, touch dust soiled, spine sunned, a good copy without dustwrapper. £16 267. DOYLE (Sir Arthur Conan). Adventures of Gerard. London, George Newnes, 1903 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, spine pushed with light rubbing and shelf wear, corners pushed, three plates loose, else a nice copy. £120 268. – Danger! And Other Stories. London, John Murray, 1918 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, fading and shelf wear to spine, boards starting, stain to front board, else a nice copy. £50 269. – The Exploits of the Brigadier Gerard. London, John Murray & Jonathan Cape, 1976 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, pushed spine, in a red pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly creased to extremities. £17 270. – The Professor Challenger Stories. The Lost World, The Poison Belt, The Land of Mist, The Distinegration Machine, When the World Screamed. London, John Murray, 1958 Inscribed to front endpaper from Kath to GMF. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, black

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lettering to spine and front, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped else a nice copy. £35 Inscription reads “To George with love, April 2nd. 1959 from K.” 271. – The Sherlock Holmes Collected Edition... in four volumes. London, John Murray & Jonathan Cape, 1974 First ‘Collected edition’. 4 vols. Illustrated endpapers, typewritten review by GMF slipped in to ‘The Sign of Four’. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly creased to extremities, else a fine set. £150

The Sign of Four; The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Study in Scarlet; The Valley of Fear.

272. – Through the Magic Door. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1907 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf wear and darkening to a punctured spine, corners bumped, otherwise good. £40 273. – WORKS... in eight volumes. London, John Murray, 1945-72 Mixed editions. 8 vols. GMF wrote introduction to ‘Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard’. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, spine pushed and rubbed, stains to boards, else pages clean, condition varying. £120

Rodney Stone; The Conan Doyle Stories; The Lost World and The Poison Belt; Sherlock Holmes; The Conan Doyle Historical Romances; The Tragedy of the Korosko; Uncle Bernac; Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard.

274. BARING-GOULD (William S.) ed. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete... in two volumes. London, John Murray, 1968 First edition thus. 2 vols. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Original publisher’s cloth, slightly shelf worn with bumped corners, otherwise very good, in a slightly creased and spine faded dustwrapper, this being unclipped. £65 275. RODEN (Christopher & Barbara) eds. The Blood-Stone Tragedy. A Druidical Story. The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, 1995 First edition thus. 8vo. Fine publisher’s red cloth, gilt, in mylar wrapper as issued, occasional dust mark else fine. £80 276. DRINKWATER ( John). Selected Poems. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1922 First edition, second impression. Portrait to frontis. Small 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, spine faded and rubbed, corners bumped, pages clean, very good. £30

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277. – ed. The Outline of Literature. Part One. London, George Newnes, 1942 Revised and extended edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, boards starting, sunning and shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, top edge slightly dust spoiled, else a nice copy. £20 278. DRYDEN ( John); CHRISTIE (W.D.) ed. Poetical Works... London, Macmillan & Co., 1911 8vo. Green cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, pages untrimmed, else smart copy. £17 279. DUMAS (Alexandre). WORKS... in nine volumes. London, Collins [and others], [c.1890-1930] Mixed editions. Inscribed “G.M. Fraser” to front endpaper of ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’. 9 vols. in 10. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to slightly sunned spines, rubbing to extremities; ‘Louis de la Valliere’, ‘The Companions of Jehu’ & ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ in slightly scuffed or torn dustwrappers. £130

The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo; Twenty Years After; The Viscounte de Bragelonne (Vols. 1 & 2); Louis de la Valliere; The Man in the Iron Mask; The Son of Porthos; The Companions of Jehu.

280. EDGEWORTH (Maria). Castle Rackrent & The Absentee. London, Dent, 1964 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, spine shelf worn, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this reinforced with mylar and adhered to front board, library record pasted to front endpaper, a very good reading copy. £20 281. ELIOT (George). Felix Holt, the Radical. New York, The Mershon Co., c.1900 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt decorated to spine, rear board has some water staining, a piece of card is adhered to front paste down, and title page is trying to work loose, else a good clean copy. £20 282. – Novels of George Eliot. Vol. VI. Romola. London, William Blackwood & Sons, c.1885 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth with blind tooled border designs and gilt, sunning to spine, this being lightly shelf worn, front endpaper missing, else a nice copy. £30 283. ELIZABETHAN THEATRE. The Minor Elizabethan Drama (II) PreShakespearean Comedies. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1930 Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, with light sunning and shelf wear to spine. £20 86

284. EMERSON (Ralph Waldo). Complete Works... London, Ward, Lock & Co., c.1870 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled front board this with stain, shelf wear and darkening to spine, dust soiled top edge, else a nice copy. £27 285. FARMER ( John). Gaudeamus. A Selection of Songs for Colleges and Schools.

London, Cassell & Co., n.d.

Musical scores throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, blind tooled border to boards, light shelf wear else a very good copy. £25 286. FIELDING (Henry). Select Works of Henry Fielding, Esq. - Vol V. Containing: The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, The History of Tom Jones, Amelia, and The History of Jonathan Wild... etc. Edinburgh, printed for Peter Hill etc. 1812 Second edition, fifth volume (of 5). 8vo. Contemporary calf boards, with early reback, original leather label laid down, heavily edge worn & scuffed, light offset to text, but otherwise clean & tight, a good copy only. £60 287. FLECKER ( James Elroy). Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and how he came to make the Golden Journey to Smarkand: A Play in Five Acts. London, William Heinemann, 1933 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth gilt, spine heavily pushed with rubbing to edges and joints, corners bumped, boards starting, good only. £30 288. – The King of Alsander. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards, paper printed label, a bit darkened & stained, decorative boards shelf worn, but clean & tight internally, overall very good. £25 289. –; SQUIRE ([Sir] J.C.) ed. Collected Poems. London, Martin Secker, 1922 8vo. Original blue cloth, rubbing to front board, corners bumped, shelf wear to spine, untrimmed pages clean and tight. £18 290. –; SQUIRE (Sir J.C.) ed. Collected Poems... London, Secker & Warburg, 1946 Third edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, with lightly bumped corners in a white dust wrapper, this being chipped and darkened, else a good copy. £20 291. FLEMING (R.M.) Ancient Tales from Many Lands. London, Ernest Benn, 1932 Second edition. Small 8vo. Original cloth, in a green unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to edges. £32

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292. FORDE (Nigel); Ryder (Debbie) illus. The Dust Behind the Door. More Various and Varicose Verse. London, Robson Books, 1988 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a very good copy. £18 293. GALSWORTHY ( John). On Forsyte’s Change. London, William Heinemann, 1930 Second impression. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt, some light spotting to prelims & fore-edge, otherwise a very good bright copy. £30 294. – Works... in sixteen volumes. London, William Heinemann, 1927-38 ‘The Grove edition’. 16 vols (of 26). Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, shelf wear to spines, light rubbing to extremities, pages clean, occasional markings to boards, else a very nice set. £375

The Patrician; The Dark Flower; The Inn of Tranquility & Verses New & Old; Beyond; Maid in Waiting; The Country House; Flowering Wilderness; Caravan (3 vols); The Forsyte Saga (3 vols); A Modern Comedy (3 vols).

295. GALT ( John); MELDRUM (D.S.) & ROUGHEAD (William) eds. Works... in ten volumes. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1936 10 vols. Illustrated throughout by C.E. Brock. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth in cream unclipped dustwrappers, these being lightly creased along head and tail of spine, pages untrimmed, light bumping to corners, occasional small stains to dustwrappers, a very good set. £250 296. GAULTIER (Bon) ed. The Book of Ballads. London, William Blackwood, 1877 Thirteenth edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt to spine and front board, blind tooled border to bevelled boards, coloured and rubbed spine, corners worn, front endpaper missing, t.e.g., a good copy. £28 297. GILBERT (W.S.) More Bab Ballads. London, MacMillan & Co., 1926 Reprint. Illustrated throughout by the author. Small 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, spine lightly pushed, t.e.g., a very good copy. £18 298. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. A Collection of Verse from the Glasgow University Magazine. 1903-1910. Glasgow, William Hodge & Co., c.1911 Inscribed in ink to front endpaper “W. Fraser”. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf

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William Fraser being GMF’s father.

299. GOLDSMITH (Oliver). Complete Works... Comprising his Essays, Plays, Poetical Works, and Vicar of Wakefield. London, George Routledge, c.1870 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, black lettering and border design tooled to front and spine, this being shelf worn with rubbed corners, hinges weak, publisher’s adverts to rear, good. £70 300. – The Vicar of Wakefield. Oxford University Press, 1938 Inscribed “George M. Fraser.” to front endpaper. Small 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth gilt, blind tooled border design, spine pushed slightly, rear endpaper missing, good only. £22 301. – ; DOBSON (Austin) ed. The Complete Works... London, Henry Frowde, 1911 Reprint. Portrait of author to frontis., illustrated throughout. Small 8vo. Original green cloth gilt with blind tooled border design, rubbing and shelf wear to spine and corners, frontis. weak, good only, former library copy. £27 302. – ; MASSON (Professor) intro. Miscellaneous Works. London, Macmillan & Co., 1908 ‘The Globe edition’. Portrait frontis. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt tooled, some light shelf wear, corners a touch bumped, occasional mild spotting, else a very good copy. £28 303. GRANVILLE (Wilfred). A Dictionary of Sailor’s Slang. London, Wilfred Granville, 1962 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed along the top edge, else fine. £32 304. GRAVES (Robert). I, Claudius. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Emperor of the Romans, born B.C. 10, murdered and defied A.D. 54. London, Methuen & Co., 1941 Fifteenth edition. 8vo. Original beige cloth, boards a bit soiled, without dustwrapper, a good copy only. £16

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305. GRIGSON (Geoffrey) ed. The Faber Book of Epigrams & Epitaphs. London, Faber & Faber, 1977 Inscribed to half title from GMF to Kath. 8vo. White soft covers marginally darkened, creased to spine with light scuffing to its head and tail, light crease to top edge of front cover, else a near fine copy. £20

Inscription reads “To Kath - with love from G. Beverly Wilshire (Jan 22, 1980 on the day we didn’t go to the pool).”

306. GRINSTEAD (Roger). Some Talk of Alexander. A Novel about Guardsmen.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1943 First edition. 8vo. Near fine original cloth, light browning to wartime paper, in uncommon slightly chipped dustwrapper. £25 307. GROSE-HODGE (H.) ed. Murder at Larinum. Being the narrative portions of Cicero’s speech ‘pro Cluentio’. Cambridge University Press, 1932 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, with black tooling to front and spine, this being shelf worn, corners rubbed, ink and pencil annotations throughout, clipped front endpaper, else a nice copy. £33 308. HABBERTON ( John). Helen’s Babies. London, Ward Lock & Co., c.1930 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being scuffed and slightly chipped to extremities, shelf worn spine, else a nice copy. £30 309. HADDEN ( J. Cuthbert). Composers in Love and Marriage. London, John Long, 1913 Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt to front and spine, corners bumped, sunning to spine and rubbing to its edges, t.e.g., very good. £35 310. HAMMERTON ( J.A.) ed. The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories... in sixteen volumes. London, The Educational Book Company, c.1920 16 vols (of 20), II, X, XII & XVI being absent. Illustrated throughout. 8vo.

Publisher’s green cloth, with tooled black designed to front and spine, shelf wear to extremities, pages clean and bright, occasional colouring to page edges, but overall very good. £95

Vol. I Early Stories; Vol. III French; Vol. IV French; Vol. V Scottish; Vol. VI French & Belgian; Vol. VII English; Vol. VIII English; Vol. IX English; Vol. XI Irish & Overseas; Vol. XIII Russian &c.; Vol. XIV American; Vol. XV American; Vol. XVII Old German; Vol. XVIII Spanish & Portuguese; Vol. XIX Scandinavian & Dutch; Vol. XX The War with Index.

311. HARRISON (G.B.) ed. The Fortune Play Books... three volumes. London, 90

Robert Holden & Co., 1926-27 3 vols (from the same series). Small 8vo. Buckram-backed boards, printed paper label, spines sunned & labels faded, otherwise very good copies. £32

The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Dekker); The Knight of the Burning Pestle (Beaumont & Fletcher); Every Man in his Humour (Jonson).

312. HAWKE ( John) ed. The Grasmere Wordsworth. A Redaction (in one volume).

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1927 Second edition. Illustrated frontis. Small 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled border design, sunning and shelf wear to spine, else a nice copy. £25 313. HAZLITT (William). Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, with shelf wear to spine, front board bowing, corners rubbed else pages clean and bright. £20 314. – Sketches & Essays. Oxford University Press, 1907 Reprint. Small 8vo. Publisher’s green boards gilt, t.e.g., a good copy. £17 315. – ; KEYNES (Geoffrey) ed. Selected Essays... 1778: 1830. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1941 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, bevelled boards, corners rubbed, light dust soiling to top edge, pages clean and tight, very good. £40 316. – ­ ; MARTIN (Frank) illus. Essays. London, The Folio Society, 1964 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, with gilt design and George III coronet monogram to front boards and spine, a fine copy in slipcase. £20 317. HELIODORUS; LAMB (Walter) trans. Ethiopian Story. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1961 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, light scuffing and marks to spine, very good. £28 318. HENDERSON (Keith). The Worm Ouroboros. A Romance. London, Jonathan Cape, 1924 ‘New and Cheaper edition’. Illustrated, part of dustwrapper loosely slipped in.

8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt to creased spine and hippogriff motif to front, rubbing to extremities with snagging to spine head and tail, corners bumped, hinges weak, pages clean and untrimmed, a good copy. £140 91

319. HENLEY (William Ernest). Essays. Fielding: Smollett: Hazlitt: Burns: Byron’s World: ‘Pippin’: Othello: ‘T.E.R.’: Old England: Balzac: Hugo. London, Macmillan & Co., 1921 First edition. Small 8vo. Cloth backed boards gilt, library number on lightly shelf worn spine, minor rubbing to corners, Isle of Man Educational Authority stamp and borrowing conditions pasted to front panel and borrowing record pasted to front endpaper, a good copy. £17 320. HERRICK (Robert). The Poems of Robert Herrick... in two volumes.

London, Humphrey Milford, 1935 One of an edition limited to 500 copies. 2 vols. 8vo. Fine original brown cloth, gilt tooled, with tooled ‘golden apple’ designs to spines, t.e.g., lacking original card slipcase but nevertheless a fine set. £95 321. –; HORNE (Herbert P.) ed. Hesperides: Poems. London, Walter Scott, 1887 With an introduction by Ernest Rhys. 12mo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, printed paper label to spine, lightly rubbed but otherwise a nice bright example. £35 322. –; RUTHERSON (Albert) illus. Poetical Works... in four volumes. London, The Cresset Press, 1928 No. 678 of a run of 750 copies. 4 vols. Colour illustration to frontis. Untrimmed pages, some being uncut. 8vo. Publisher’s cream paper boards gilt, untrimmed pages, some being uncut, shelf wear to spine, t.e.g., a fine set. £135 Vols. I-III: Hesperides; Vol. IV: Noble Numbers and Additional Poems.

323. HEYER (Georgette). WORKS... in four volumes. London, [Various], 1948-65 4 vols., all first editions. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, ‘The Foundling’ signed in pencil “George M. Fraser” to front endpaper, all very good copies. £40 The Foundling; The Toll-Gate; The Toll-Gate (Published: The Book Club); Frederica.

324. HOOD (Thomas). The Poetical Works... London, Frederick Warne & Co., c.1890 ‘Albion edition’. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth gilt, fascimile signature in gilt to front, corners bumped and rubbed, shelf worn spine, markings to boards, pages untrimmed, t.e.g., very good. £50 325. HORACE The Satires of Horace [&] Carminum Libri IV. Epodon Liber.

London, MacMillan & Co., 1888 & 1928

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2 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to boards, shelf wear and fading to spines, pages tight and clean, a nice pair. £32 326. HOULT (Norah). Time Gentlemen! Time! London, William Heinemann, 1947 ‘Pocket edition’. Small 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a chipped unclipped dustwrapper, spine being pushed, else a nice copy. £16 327. HOWARD (Edwin Johnston) ed. Ten Elizabethan Plays. New York, Thomas Nelson, 1931 8vo. Original navy cloth gilt, spine sunned and shelf worn, corners bumped, Glasgow Library sticker to endpapers and title, else a very good copy. £14 328. [HUGHES (Thomas)] Tom Brown’s School Days. By an Old Boy. London, Macmillan & Co., 1894 Illustrations by Arthur Hall & Sydney Prior Hall, with publisher’s catalogue to rear; includes 8 newspaper cuttings pasted in to the front paste down, recto & verso of the front endpaper, detailing the origins of the character ‘Slogger Williams’, as well as tributes to Dr. Arnold - one amusing cutting reports that pupils of Rugby were responsible for ‘disfiguring’ the statue of the author situated in the grounds of the school. 8vo. Original dark green cloth, gilt stamped & lettered, soiling to rear panel & lower corner of spine, three of the cuttings have dates in ink attributed to them, relief stamp address to upper corner of front endpaper, spotting occurs throught the text although this is mostly light, in all a very good, square & tight copy of the book that gave birth to ‘Flashman’. £1,500

Thomas Hughes portrayed the bully Flashman thus: “big and strong of his age... he played well at all games where pluck wasn’t much wanted, and managed generally to keep up appearances where it was; and having a bluff, off-hand manner, which passed for heartiness, and considerable powers of being pleasant when he liked” (p.143).

GMF stayed loyal to the original description of his protagonist. In catapulting Flashman to adulthood he affirmed the idea that school bullies rarely change and more often than not retain a streak of cowardice. A number of other characters from the book resurface in the Flashman Papers; Dr. Thomas Arnold the revered Headmaster is frequently referred to, whilst George Speedicut and Tom Brown himself make brief appearances. Tom Brown’s pal Harry ‘Scud’ East appears in two of the books, before dying in Flashman’s arms at the Siege of Cawnpore.

The book is especially remembered for its depiction of a rugby-football match; the early form of the two sports before they separated. It is in this chapter on the playing field that we glimpse the all too familiar Harry Flashman for the first time: “Here comes Speedicut and Flashman the School-house bully with shouts and great action 93

… you don’t really want to drive that ball through that scrummage, chancing all hurt for the glory of the School-house - but to make us think that’s what you want - a vastly different thing; and fellows of your kidney will never go through more than the skirts of a scrummage, where it’s all push and no kicking. We respect boys who keep out of it, and don’t sham going in; but you - we had rather not say what we think of you” (pp.85-86).

Flashman would of course go on to have many ‘scrummages’ in a colourful if chequered career, and true to character, took great exception to the way he was portrayed by his fictional counterpart.

329. – Tom Brown at Oxford. By the author of ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1864 Third edition (single volume edition). Publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s original purple cloth, gilt lettered to spine including mark for 6 shillings, hinges slightly tender but otherwise sound & clean, a very pleasing copy. £275 The sequel to ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’ - it was first published in 1861.

330. – Vacation Rambles. London, MacMillan & Co., 1896 Second edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, blind tooled borders to boards, shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, a good copy. £27 331. HUXLEY (Aldous). Ape and Essence. A Novel. London, Chatto & Windus, 1949 First edition. Inscribed to GMF ‘from K’. 8vo. Original cloth, spine leaning a fraction, in an edge worn printed dustwrapper, very good. £45 332. – Brave New World. A Novel. London, Chatto & Windus, 1932 Second impression. 8vo. Publisher’s original blue cloth, boards a bit soiled and rubbed, spine leaning, missing front endpaper, a good reading copy. £60 333. – The Perennial Philosophy. London, Chatto & Windus, 1946 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, fine in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed lightly along edges and punctured to spine, tear to front corner, else very good. £80 334. – Two or Three Graces. London, Chatto & Windus, 1933 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine lightly shelf worn in a red pictorial unclipped dustwrapper this being lightly scuffed to extremities, very good. £80 335. – Verses & A Comedy: Early Poems, Leda, The Cicadas, The World of Light.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1946

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8vo. Original cloth, dust soiling to top edge, front hinge starting, in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities, very good. £17 336. INGOLDSBY (Thomas); RACKHAM (Arthur) illus. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. London, William Heinemann, 1910 Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, with gilt to spine and front boards, rubbing to extremities, stains to boards, light foxing to page edges, else pages clean, a very good copy. £120 337. IRVING (Washington). The Works of Washington Irving... Vol I: Salmagundi, Knickerbocker’s History of New York. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1859 First UK edition. The first volume only, with prize inscription to former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, “First Latin Prize, July 1864”. 8vo. Contemporary full calf prize binding, gilt armorial to front board, alas a binding copy only, front board detached & backstrip loose missing top panel, in need of repair. £50 338. JACKSON (Holbrook). Bookman’s Holiday. A Recreation for Booklovers.

London, Faber & Faber, 1945 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, dust soiled to top edge, very good in an edge worn dustwrapper. £32 339. JACOBS ( Joseph) ed.; BATTEN ( John D.) illus. Celtic Fairy Tales. London, Studio Editions, 1991 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth, very good in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £25 340. –; HAMMOND (Chris) illus. Goldsmiths Comedies. London, George Allen, 1896 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, with gilt lettering and illustration to front board and spine, a.e.g., this being lightly shelf worn, tail corners bumped, else a very good copy. £30 341. JACOBS (W.W.) Sea Urchins. London, George Newnes, c.1915 Small 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, a touch dust soiled, otherwise a very good copy. £15 342. JEROME ( Jerome K.) The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. A Book for an Idle Holiday. Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1920 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, with black tooling to front board and a pushed spine this being snagged to its head, advert to back board, hinges very weak, good. £20

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343. – Three Men on the Bummel. London, Arrowsmith, 1946 Inscribed in ink to front endpaper. 8vo. Cloth backed paper boards, spine pushed, corners bumped, dust soiled top edge, a good copy. £16 344. JOHNSTON ( J.) Musa Medica: A Sheaf of Song and Verse. London, The Savoy Press, 1897 First edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s pale cloth, gilt to spine and front, bumping to board edges and spine, markings to rear board, pages untrimmed, dust soiling to top edge, a good copy. £22 345. JONSON (Ben) & DEKKER (Thomas); PENNIMAN ( Josiah A.) Poetaster & Satiromastix. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1913 Small 8vo. Cloth-backed paper boards, these being rubbed to edges with bumped corners, spine lightly shelf worn, occasional tearing to pages, good only. £25 346. KAFKA (Franz). Works... in one volume. London, Secker & Warburg, 1976 First edition thus. 9 in 1 vol. Large 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, fine in a similar price clipped dustwrapper. £54

The Trial; America; The Castle; Metamorphosis; In the Penal Settlement; The Great Wall of China; Investigations of a Dog; Letter to his Father; The Diaries 1910-23.

347. KAUFMAN (George S.) & HART (Moss). Six Plays, by Kaufman and Hart.

Once in a Lifetime; Merrily we Roll Along; You Can’t Take it with You; The American Way; The Man who Came to Dinner; George Washington Slept Here.

New York, The Modern Library, 1942 Small 8vo. Original cloth, spine leaning, rubbed & worn to extremities, pp. 547548 loose & torn, a good copy only, with GMF’s name inscribed to the front endpaper. £33 348. KEATS ( John); FORMAN (H. Buxton) ed. Poetical Works... Oxford University Press, 1915 ‘The Oxford edition’. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine sunned, top edge dust soiled, pages clean and bright, a good copy. £45 349. – Works... Vol 1. Poems. London, Macmillan & Co., 1879 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, some rubbing to corners and back board, shelf wear to spine, occasional foxing throughout, else a nice copy. £22

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350. KIPLING (Rudyard). In Black and White. Indian Railway Library. Allahabad, A.H. Wheeler & Co., 1889 Second edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Pictorial soft covers, spine held with cellotape, leaves fragile but holding, text clean throughout, minor soiling to rear wrapper, else a good copy. £95 351. – Rudyard Kipling’s Verse. Inclusive Edition. 1885-1932. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933 Fourth edition, first impression. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, light shelf wear to spine, very good. £28 352. – ; CARRINGTON (Charles) ed. The Complete Barrack-Room Ballads.

London, Methuen & Co., 1973 First edition. 8vo. Fine green publisher’s cloth gilt, in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. £20 353. – ; KIPLING ( J. Lockwood) illus. Kim. London, MacMillan & Co., 1937 Illustrated, and inscribed “G.M. Fraser” to front paper. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt embossed elephant design to front board and tooling to spine, t.e.g, this being lightly shelf worn, small ink stain to fore-edge, but overall a very good copy indeed. £35 354. KNIGHT (Charles); HARVEY (William) illus. Half-Hours with the Best Authors. London, Frederick Warne & Co., c.1890 Second edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, label to spine, t.e.g., stain to rear board, corners bumped, but very good. £27 355. KYD (Thomas); EDWARDS (Philip) ed. The Spanish Tragedy. London, Methuen & Co., 1959 First edition thus. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a pink price-clipped dustwrapper, this lightly scuffed to extremities, pages clean and bright, a very good copy. £18 356. LAMB (Charles). The Essays of Elia. London, George Routledge & Sons, c.1890 Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, dust soiling to top edge, light rubbing to extremities, very good. £22

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357. – Essays of Elia: Last Essays of Elia. London, Dent, 1965 Small 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, light rubbing to extremities, corners and edges bumped, bright pages, good only. £14 358. – ; AINGER (Alfred) ed. The Essays of Elia. London, MacMillan & Co., 1910 Reprint. Small 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, this being darkened, pages uncut, light rubbing to extremities, a nice copy. £18 359. – ; SHEPHERD (R.H.) ed. Complete Works in Prose and Verse... From the original editions, with the cancelled passages restored, and many pieces now first collected. London, Chatto & Windus, 1878 Illustrated, adverts to rear. 8vo. Original decorative cloth, gilt decorated front panel & spine, this slightly faded, general wear to extremities, inscription to front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. £37 360. LANE (Edward William) trans; DAVIDSON (N.J.) ed. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. London, Seeley, Service & Co., n.d.

Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, shelf wear to spine, top edge dust soiled, foxing to page edges, good overall. £20 361. LANG (Andrew). Ballads & Lyrics of Old France. With Other Poems. London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1907 Small 8vo. Original green cloth, with gilt to spine faded, pictorial blind stamp to front, corners bumped, pages bright, a very good copy. £16 362. LANGHORNE ( J.W.) trans. Plutarch’s Lives. Grecian Section. Part II. Alexander the Great to Timoleon of Corinth. London, Frederick Warne & Co., n.d.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, t.e.g., else a nice copy. £17 363. – Plutarch’s Lives of... in three volumes. London, Cassell & Co., 1887-8 3 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher’s tan boards, with black tooled design, darkening to Nicias spine, else shelf wear, adverts to front and rear, a smart trio. £55

Romulus, Cimon, Lucullus, & Lycurgus; Nicias, Crassus, Aratus, and Theseus; Pericles & Fabius Maximus, Demosthenes & Cicero.

364. LANGLAND (William); COGHILL (Nevill) trans. Visions from Piers Plowman. Taken from the Poem of William Langland. London, Phoenix House, 1949

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First edition thus. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, with light shelf wear, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being chipped and scuffed, slight sunning at the spine, a good copy. £22 365. LEACOCK (Stephen). WORKS... in ten volumes. London, The Bodley Head, 1915-50 Mixed editions. 10 vols. Note from GMF slipped in to Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spines, light rubbing to corners, else a nice set. £180

Nonsense Novels; Literary Lapses; My Remarkable Uncle; Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels; My Discovery of England; Moonbeams from Larger Lunacy; Model Memoirs; The Hohenzollerns in America and Other Impossibilities.

366. LEWIS (C. Day) A Time to Dance. and Other Poems. London, Hogarth Press, 1935 First edition. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, ink to front board, shelf wear to spine, light rubbing to corners, very good. £32 367. – & LEHMANN ( John) eds. The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915-1955.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1956 First edition. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth, fading to spine and top edges, a very good ex-library copy. £18 368. LILLIPUT MAGAZINE Lilliput... in twenty-one issues. London, Lilliput Magazine, 1938-1950 21 issues. Numerous adverts & photographic illustrations. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers designed by Walter Trier, with the couple and their dog to the front covers, with occasional ownership mark to covers, else a very good bright group. £175

November 1938; January 1939; April [1939]; August [1939]; March [1940]; AprilNovember 1944; January 1945; May 1945; December 1945; February 1946; April 1948; August 1948; December 1948; June 1950 (‘Sporting Special’).

369. LOANE (George G.) ed. Longer Narrative Poems. (Nineteenth Century) First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1931 Inscribed in ink “Ila Fraser. Upper Vth “Esdaile” 1935.” to front endpaper. 8vo.

Publisher’s red cloth, faded at spine and board edges, blind tooled design to front board, pencil drawing to rear endpaper else a nice copy. £17

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370. [LOCKHART ( John Gibson)] Reginald Dalton. By the author of Valerius, and Adam Blair... in three volumes. Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1823 First edition. 3 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, leather labels & gilt in compartments, the label of the third volume being half chipped, and corners a little bumped, but overall a very smart, clean & tight set. £250

John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was the son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott.

371. LONDON ( Jack). WORKS... in three volumes. The House of Pride; John Barley-Corn; The Faith of Men. London, Mills & Boon [&c.], 1914-17 Mixed editions, some early. 3 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, sunning to spines, these being shelf worn, corners bumped. £75 372. LONGFELLOW (Henry Wadsworth). Poetical Works... Oxford University Press, 1921 Photographic portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth gilt, slight rubbing and shelf wear prize label pasted on front board, t.e.g., very good £16 373. LONSDALE ( James) & LEE (Samuel) trans. The Works of Virgil. London, MacMillan & Co., 1903 ‘The Globe edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, blind tooled boards, shelf wear to spine, some pages uncut, else a nice copy. £20 374. LOVILL ( Justin) ed. Notable Historical Trials... in four volumes. London, The Folio Society, 1999 4 vols. Illustrations throughout, inscribed from Kath to GMF, Christmas 1999, to front endpaper of first volume. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marble boards gilt, in a black slipcase, as new. £110

From Socrates to the Gunpowder Plot; From Galileo to Admiral Byng; From Boston Massacre to Queen Caroline; From Burke & Hare to Oscar Wilde.

375. LUCAS (E.V.) One Day and Another. London, Methuen & Co., 1926 Tenth edition. Small 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, black tooled design to front board and spine, this being lightly shelf worn, slight foxing to page edges, else a very good copy. £20 376. LUCAS ( John) ed. The Oxford Book of French Verse. XIIIth Century - XIXth Century. Oxford University Press, 1924 Small 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to boards, rubbing to extremities, spine pushed and corners bumped, front endpaper missing else pages clean and bright. £17 100

377. LYTTON (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord). The Last of the Barons. London, Richard Edward King, c.1910 8vo. Green cloth gilt, bevelled boards, shelf wear to spine, t.e.g., very good. £16 378. MACAULAY (Thomas Babington, Lord). Critical and Historical Essays.

Contributed to the Edinburgh Review. London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1877 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, shelf worn spine, hinges starting, corners bumped, light dust soiling to top edge, else very good. £25 379. – Lord Macaulay’s Essays. and Lays of Ancient Rome. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1890 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, rubbing to extremities and front board, evidence of separation, hinges weak, otherwise very good £20 380. – Reviews, Essays, and Poems. London, Ward, Lock & Co., c.1890 ‘Complete edition’. 8vo. Maroon cloth gilt, black lettering to front, sunned spine, shelf worn, rubbed and bumped corners, evidence of separation towards rear, but still a good copy. £20 381. – The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1889 ‘Popular edition’. 8vo. Original navy cloth gilt, blind tooled boards, rubbing to extremities, foxing towards rear, evidence of separation, staining to marbled page edges, a good copy only. £18 382. – Critical Historical Essays... in two volumes. London, J.M. Dent, 1927-30 2 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth gilt, shelf worn with rubbed edges, hinges starting, else a very good pair. £22 383. MACDONELL (A.G.) England their England. London, Macmillan & Co., 1933 Reprint. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt, spine pushed and faded, rubbing to extremities with bumping to corners, else pages bright. £22 384. MACKIE (W.S.) A Book of English Verse for South African Readers. London, MacMillan & Co., 1938 Reprint. 8vo. Original red cloth, rubbing to extremities and boards, shelf wear to spine, front endpapers missing, else good. £20

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385. MacNEICE (Louis). Spring Board. Poems 1941-1944. London, Faber & Faber, 1944 First edition. Inscribed on front endpaper “Kathleen, With Best Wishes from Doreen. Christmas 1944”. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with darkening to head of boards, light foxing to endpapers, in a price clipped dustwrapper, this with a chip to front and small chips to back, else a smart copy. £60 386. MACRAE (David) ed. Book of Blunders, to which is added a Chapter of Queer Epitaphs. Glasgow, John S. Marr & Sons, c.1870 First edition (presumed). Publisher’s adverts. 8vo. Original decorative blue cloth, gilt lettered & black tooled, bevelled boards, a smart tight copy. £27 387. MALORY (Sir Thomas); VINAVER (Eugene) ed. Works... Oxford University Press, 1954 First edition thus. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, very good in an edge worn dustwrapper. £40 388. MARRYAT (Cpt. Frederick); PEARS (Charles) illus. Mr. Midshipman Easy.

London, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, c.1938 Small 8vo. Inscribed from Annie Fraser to GMF to front endpaper. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, sunning and shelf wear to spine this being pushed, else a nice copy. £28

Annie Fraser being GMF’s mother, inscription reads “To George, from Mum. 1938.”

389. – ; BRIMLEY JOHNSON (Richard) ed. The Novels of Captain Marryat... in twenty-four volumes. London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1896 No. 211 of an edition limited to 750 copies. 24 vols. Portrait frontis. & with illustrations of W. Downing. 8vo. Original blue buckram, gilt spines, page edges untrimmed, occasional volume lightly rubbed, else a near fine & handsome set printed on hand-made paper. £650 390. MASEFIELD (John). Collected Poems. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1932 New and enlarged edition reprint. Inscribed “from Fish” to front endpaper. 8vo.

Original blue cloth, rubbed at corners and spine, shelf worn, white stains from back boards to spine, a good copy. £24 391. – Dauber and Reynard the Fox. Two Tales in Verse. London, Heineman, 1963 Reprint. Signed “S. Fraser” to front endpaper. Small 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial

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boards, shelf wear to extremities with bumped corners, a good reading copy. £18 392. – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911 Second impression. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, sliver lettered, rubbed to extremities, publisher’s adverts to rear the last page of which is half torn away, a good copy only. £17 393. MASON (A.E.W.) The Drum. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, this being stained to boards and sunned to spine, blind tooled design to front board, shelf wear to spine and bumped corners, photographs from the film adaptation cut and pasted in to front and rear endpapers, a good reading copy. £20 394. MAY (Derwent). Critical Times. The History of the Times Literary Supplement. London, HarperCollins, 2001 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Inscribed to Kath from GMF. Large 8vo.

Fine publisher’s cloth in a pictorial price clipped dustwrapper, this being faintly scuffed to edges, a fine copy. £45

Inscription reads “To K, with love from G. Christmas 2001.”

395. MEE (Arthur). One Thousand Famous Things. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1937 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to front board, faded and shelf worn spine, else a nice copy. £25 396. MENANDER; VELLACOTT (Philip) trans. The Bad-Tempered Man. Or The Misanthrope. Oxford University Press, 1960 First edition thus. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, a little shelf worn, very good in a similar unclipped dustwrapper. £30 397. MILTON ( John). Poetical Works... London, MacMillan & Co., 1929 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, this being foxed to boards, pages clean and bright in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed and darkened, else a good copy. £18 398. –; GARNETT (Richard) ed. Prose of Milton. London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., c.1927 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, sunned spine rubbed and pushed, dust soiling to top edge, a good copy. £16

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399. MONRO (Harold). Twentieth Century Poetry. An Anthology Chosen.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1931 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, a nice copy. £16 400. [MOORE ( J.S.) ed.] The Pictorial Book of Ballads. Traditional & Romantic.

London, Henry Washbourne, c.1850 2 vols in 1. Illustrated title page, illustrated throughout. 8vo. Navy cloth-backed boards gilt, corners bumped, a very good copy. £52 401. MUNRO (Neil). WORKS... in five volumes. Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons, 1910-36 Mixed editions. 5 vols. Small 8vo. Original cloth/boards, ‘Shoes of Fortune’ with a torn dustwrapper, a good-very good group of titles. £55

The Shoes of Fortune; The New Road; The Daft Days; John Splendid; Doom Castle.

402. MURRAY (Charles). Hamewith and Other Poems. Hamewith, A Sough o’ War, In the Country Places. London, Constable & Co., 1927 First ‘collected edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, fading to spine, t.e.g., very good, signed in ink “A. S. Fraser. Aug 1929” to front panel. £17 403. – Hamewith and other Poems. Hamewith, A Sough o’ War, In the Country Places. London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1944 Inscribed to G.M.F. “To George from Uncle George. Sept 1949”. Small 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth, markings to boards and edges, spine lightly shelf worn, very good. £27 404. NASH (Ogden). The Face is Familiar. London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1943 12mo. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt design to front board, minimal fading to spine and slight shelf wear, pages bright and clean, a good copy. £22 405. NEWBOLT (Henry). Poems: New and Old. London, John Murray, 1912 First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, sunning to spine with cloth detaching at head, shelf wear to spine tail, light foxing on endpapers, otherwise pages clean and bright, a nice copy. £35

Inscription front endpaper “To H. from W. with evey good wish. Christmas 1912.”

406. NOYES (Alfred). Collected Poems. Vol I. The Loom of Years, The Flower of Old Japan, The Forest of Wild Thyme, Forty Singing Seamen. London, William Blackwood & Sons., 1914

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Fifth impression. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, stain to front board, shelf wear to spine, corners lightly rubbed, pages untrimmed with occasional foxing, first volume only, very good. £16 407. O’CASEY (Sean). Oak Leaves and Lavender, or A World on Wallpaper.

London, MacMillan & Co., 1946 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth in a faded unclipped dustwrapper, a nice copy. £38 408. OVID; RILEY (Henry T.) ed. Ovid’s Heroides, Amours. Art of Love, Remedy of Love and Minor Works. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1919 ‘Bohn Library edition’. Attractive engraved frontis. 8vo. Fine publisher’s blue cloth, gilt, fine & bright. £42 409. PALGRAVE (Francis T.) ed. The Golden Treasury. Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.

London, MacMillan & Co., 1939 Inscribed “FRASER” to title page. Small 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, blind tooled design to front board, stain to rear board, rubbing to extremities and shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, front endpaper missing, pencil notes to rear endpaper, else a nice copy. £18 410. PALINURUS; [CONNOLLY (Cyril)]. The Unquiet Grave. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1946 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf worn spine, puncture to front board, corners pushed, a nice copy. £20 411. PALMER (Herbert). The Old Knight, a Poem-Sequence for the Present Times. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1949 First edition. 8vo. Cloth backed marbled boards, light shelf wear to spine, corners rubbed, a near fine copy. £18 412. PEACOCK (Thomas Love); GARNETT (David) ed. Novels. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, shelf wear to extremities, pushed spine, pages clean and bright, a nice copy. £30

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413. PENNY MAGAZINE. The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. New Series. London, Charles Knight & Co., 1843 8vo. Half cloth to marbled boards, the front of which is starting, rubbing to extremities, spine detaching towards head, else pages clean, good only. £50 414. PLATO. Symposium and other Dialogues. London, J.M. Dent, c.1964 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in a very good unclipped dustwrapper, this being faded to spine and lightly worn, else a nice copy. £25 415. PLATO & XENOPHON. Socratic Discourses. London, J.M. Dent, 1933 Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, light wear to extremities, a near fine copy. £28 416. POE (Edgar Allan). Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London, Seeley, Service & Co., c.1930 Illustrated by A.D. McCormick. 8vo. Original decorative buff cloth, slightly soiled, some leaves loose, marginal browning, but overall a good copy. £22 417. – Works... Including the Choicest of his Critical Essays. London, Chatto & Windus, [1872] 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, spine heavily rubbed and darkened, corners bumped, title page and preliminary loosely inserted, publisher’s adverts to rear, else pages bright and clean, a good copy. £33 418. POLLEN ( John) trans. Rhymes from the Russian. Being Faithful Translations of Selections from the Best Russian Poets. London, Kegan Paul, 1891 First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt, spine pushed and darkened with light rubbing to front joint and edges, corners bumped, dust soiling to top edge, very good. £55 419. POPE (Alexander).; RHYS (Ernest) ed. Poems, Epistles & Satires. London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1944 Reprint. Signed “C. Fraser” to front endpaper. Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, sunning to front boards and spine, stain to front and back boards, corners pushed with shelf wear to spine, decorative endpapers, overall a good copy. £17 420. – Pope: Poetry & Prose. With Essays by Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt &c.

Oxford University Press, 1939 Reprint. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth gilt, slight bumping to head and tail of spine, else a good copy. £17

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421. – ; WARD (Adolphus William) ed. The Poetical Works... London, Macmillan & Co., 1869 ‘The Globe edition’. Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, with blind tooled border design to slightly rubbed boards, minor shelf wear to spine and edges, pages tight and clean. £32 422. PUNCH MAGAZINE. Mr. Punch’s Coronation Number. No. 3648, Vol. CXL. June 7, 1911. London, Punch Office, 1911 Illustrated, adverts to front & rear. 4to. Original coloured pictorial wrappers, some light edge wear but overall a smart, bright copy, very uncommon to find as issued in wrappers. £120 423. – Pictures from Punch... in two volumes London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1904 2 vols. Selected illustrations from the magazine. 4to. Original dark green buckram, some marking & light spotting to preliminary pages of first volume, joints of both volumes a bit tender, boards with usual rubbing, backstrips have scratches & wear to head & tails, a good set only. £50 424. – Punch, 1840s issues... in thirteen volumes. Vols. I-XVII (incomplete).

London, The Punch Office, 1842-49 13 vols. Illustrated. 4to. Original decorative cloth, bindings in varying condition, some boards slightly stained or rubbed, some detatched altogether, backstrips chipped etc., a fair group, lacking the following volumes: 1, 7, 10 & 12. £250 425. – Punch, 1850s issues... in eleven volumes. Vols. XVIII-XXXVII (incomplete).

London, The Punch Office, 1850-59 11 vols. Illustrated. 4to. Original decorative cloth, bindings in varying condition, some boards slightly stained or rubbed, some detached altogether, backstrips chipped etc., a fair group, lacking the following volumes: 18, 21-23, 25, 30, 32, 34 & 35. £110 426. – Punch, 1860s issues... in eleven volumes. Vols. XXXVIII-LVII (incomplete).

London, The Punch Office, 1860-69 11 vols. Illustrated. 4to. Original decorative cloth, bindings in varying condition, some boards slightly stained or rubbed, some detached altogether, backstrips chipped etc., a fair group, lacking the following volumes: 41, 47, 51-57. £100

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427. – Punch, 1870s, 80s & 90s issues... in fifteen volumes. London, The Punch Office, 1873-1891 15 vols. only. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Original decorative cloth, gilt punch stamp to front boards, generally good, occasional backstrip chipping, but overall a fairly clean & tight group, contains the following volumes: 65-68, 73-76, 86, 87, 91, 97-100. £250 428. – Punch, 1900s issues... in thirteen volumes. Vols. CXVIII-CXXXVII (incomplete). London, The Punch Office, 1900-09 13 vols. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Original decorative cloth, gilt punch stamp to front boards, some of volumes quite poor, staining & discolouration to boards, chipping & erosion to backstrips, some appear to have been affected by temperature or liquid, a fair group only, lacking volumes: 118, 119, 122, 127, 129, 131, 134-137. £175 429. – Punch, 1920s & 30s issues... in twelve volumes. London, The Punch Office, 1922-35 12 vols. only. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Original decorative cloth, gilt punch stamp to front boards, generally good, occasional backstrip chipping, but overall a fairly clean & tight group, contains the following volumes: 65-68, 73-76, 86, 87, 91, 97-100. £200 430. – Punch, or the London Charivari... 1841-1939. Vols. I-CXCVII (incomplete).

London, The Punch Office, 1841-1939 A total of 197 vols., bound in 138. Numerous illustrations & decorations throughout. 4to. Various bindings, all in varying states of condition, some original half annuals (as issued), some rebound together as annuals or biannuals. Vols. 1-39 (1841-60), annuals in original tooled red cloth, gilt embossed, spines sunned, but overall very good; vols. 40-96 (1861-89), half annuals in original brown cloth, gilt embossed, some spines chipped, detached or missing altogether, boards occasionally loose, mostly fair-good condition; vols. 101-197 (1891-1939), half annuals in original maroon cloth, gilt embossed Punch design to front boards & lettering to spines, some a bit faded, occasional water mark to boards, but generally bright, especially after 1920; of these vols. 86 & 87 (1884), 120 & 121 (1901), 122 & 123 (1902), 124 & 125 (1903), 126 & 127 (1904), 130 & 131 (1906), 132 & 133 (1907) have been rebound as annuals in half leather, most with remains of leather labels, but generally scuffed & worn, board detached to one etc; vols. 137 & 145 also rebound, the former in brown cloth, the latter in half blue leather gilt; 11 bi-annuals containing: vols. 13-16, 17-20, 25-28, 29-32, 37-40, 41-44, 61-64, 65-68, 73-76, 89-92, 97-100 (some of these already duplicated above), uniformly bound in half red leather gilt, heavily scuffed & chipped, text 108

block occasionally loose due to the weight; overall absent volumes numbers are: 72, 80, 107, 116, 117, 119, 136, 138-140, 142, 146-159 (1914-1920), 161, 169 & 196 (28 in total). Unusual to have such an extensive run of the periodical albeit incomplete, a fascinating insight into the publication which lent so much to GMF’s research over the years. £2,500 431. – Punch... twenty-two weekly issues (1942-43). 1942 issues: July 1st, 8th; October 7th, 14th, 21st; December 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th. 1943 issues: January 6th, 13th, 27th; February 3rd; March 10th; April 14th, 21st; May 12th; June 2nd; July 7th, 21st; August 18th; September 29th. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1942-43 22 issues, published weekly ‘every Wednesday’. 4to. All in original uniform pictorial wrappers, depicting Mr. Punch with quill in hand, staples have been lost to a couple but otherwise a nice clean wartime group, containing 9 issues from 1942 and 13 from 1943. £425 432. – Punch’s Almanack for... in seven volumes. 1921; 1922; 1924; 1927; 1928; 1932; 1934. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1921-34 7 vols. With usual adverts and illustrations. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers, bright with only very light marginal spotting, hinges of first two are delicate, otherwise a nice group in protective plastic sleeves. £200 433. PUSHKIN (Alexandr Sergeyevitch); AITKEN (Gillon R.) trans. The Complete Prose Tales. London, Michael Russell, 1978 Revised edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, fine in a clipped dustwrapper. £25 434. Q. [Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur Thomas)] Poems and Ballads by “Q.” London, Methuen & Co., 1896 Small 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, sunning to spine with bumping to corners and spine, untrimmed clean and bright pages. £25 435. RALEIGH (Sir Walter) & GROSART (Alexander B.) Choice Passages from the Writings and Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh; being a small Sheaf of Gleanings from a golden Harvest. London, Elliot Stock, 1893 Portrait to frontis. 12mo. Publisher’s green boards with red fleur de lis pattern to front, gilt spine, rubbing to upper spine and board, shelf wear to spine tail, frontis. detached yet slipped in, untrimmed pages, good. £20 436. RATCLIFF (T.P.) ed. Song Book. London, News Chronicle, c.1940 Musical scores throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, shelf wear to extremities, corners bumped, else a nice copy. £18

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437. READE (Charles). The Cloister and the Hearth. London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c.1920 12mo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a very good edge worn dustwrapper, GMF’s ownership inscription to front endpaper. £25 438. RITSON ( Joseph) ed. Ancient English Metrical Romances... in three volumes.

London, Printed by Bulmer & Co., 1802 3 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed marble boards, gilt to spine, this being shelf worn, corners rubbed and bumped, light scuffing to boards, t.e.g., a very good set. £200 439. RONALD (Sir Landon). Music for the Home. London, The News-Chronicle, c.1932 Musical scores throughout. Folio. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, rubbing to spine and corners, evidence of separation, a good copy only. £32 440. ROSS (Leonard Q.); KEELING (C.) illus. The Education of Hyman Kaplan.

London, Constable, 1956 Illustrated throughout. Newspaper clipping tipped in to front endpaper. 8vo.

Original cloth in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed and in a clear protective sleeve, very good. £27 441. ROSSETTI (Dante Gabriel). Poems. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873 Small 8vo. Full vellum gilt, bevelled boards, decorative endpapers, rubbing to boards, a very good copy. £40 442. – ; ROSSETTI (William M.) ed. Poetical Works... London, Ellis and Elvey, 1897 Rossetti’s portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, several pages with small tears, otherwise a nice copy. £54 443. ROUSSEAU ( Jean-Jacques); LOCKE ( John); HUME (David). Social Contract.

Essays by Locke, Hume & Rousseau. Oxford University Press, 1960 12mo. Publisher’s cloth with spine lightly pushed in price clipped dustwrapper, small scuffing to extremities. £16 444. RUSTAVELI (Shota); VIVIAN (Katharine) trans. The Knight in the Panther Skin. London, The Folio Society, 1977 Colour illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s pink cloth boards, gilt and silver design to front board and spine, slight fading to spine, else a fine copy in cream slipcase. £30

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445. SALE (George) trans. The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed. London, Frederick Warne & Co., c.1890 Inscribed “George Fraser” to title page. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, paper label to spine, shelf worn, lower corners bumped, untrimmed pages, dust soiling to top edge, pages clean. £40 446. SARGENT (Helen Child) & KITTREDGE (George Lyman) ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. London, George G. Harrap & Co., c.1920 ‘Student’s Cambridge edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, darkening to spine, rubbing to spine head and tail, stains to upper front board, dust soiling to top edge, front endpaper missing, occasional ink and pencil marks throughout, a good copy. £28 447. SCHOPENHAUER; DIRCKS (Mrs Rudolf ) trans. Essays. London, Walter Scott, [1903] 8vo. Green cloth gilt, shelf wear, bumping to corners, else very good. £35 448. SCOTT (Sir Walter). Waverley... in twenty five volumes. Or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1886 ‘Centenary edition’. 25 vols. Illustrated frontis. and title. 8vo. Maroon cloth backed boards gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, shelf wear to spines a few of which are rubbed, pages all clean and bright, a very good set. £395 449. – Poetical Works... London, Frederick Warne, 1889 ‘Albion edition’. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt portrait to front board, rubbing to head and tail of spine, corners bumped and pushed, hinges weak, front endpapers loosely slipped in, good. £25 450. SELLAR (W.C.) & YEATMAN (R.J.); REYNOLDS ( John) illus. Horse Nonsense. London, Methuen & Co., 1934 Third edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, sunning to spine and bumping to head, pages tight clean and bright, a nice copy. £20 451. SEVERN (Forepoint) The Garden of the Hesperides. London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1936 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, fading to head and tail edges, slightly foxed page edges, minimal shelf wear to spine, in a gold pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being chipped to rear and lightly scuffed to edges, else a very good copy. £48

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452. SHAKESPEARE (William); HINMAN (Charlton) ed. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection. New York, W.W. Norton & Co./The Folio Society, 1996 No. 318 in a Folio Society run of 1000 copies. The Norton Fascimile. Folio. Half goatskin to marbled boards, t.e.g., a fine example, in slipcase. £325 453. SHARP (R. Farquharson). A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1933 First edition. Small 8vo. Original cloth, with light shelf wear, in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, slightly scuffed to extremities, sunning to spine, else a nice copy. £20 454. SHAW (George Bernard). The Complete Plays London, Odhams Press, 1934 Large 8vo. Original red cloth, blind-stamp relief of the author’s head to front board & spine, a bit rubbed & worn but overall a good copy. £33 455. SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley). Dramatic Works... Oxford University Press, 1946 Illustrated throughout, portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, lightly shelf worn, in a similar unclipped dustwrapper with light scuffing to head and tail of spine, very good. £18 456. – Dramatic Works... London, Henry G. Bohn, 1848 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, intricate blind tooling design, sunning to spine with rubbing to head and tail, corners bumped, light dust soiling to top edge, rear hinge weak, overall very good. £28 457. SINGER (I.J.); SAMUEL (Maurice). The Brother’s Ashkenazi. London, Putnam & Co., 1936 First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, spine pushed, else a nice reading copy. £32 458. SMITH (David Nicol) ed. The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse.

Oxford University Press, 1926 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine else a very good copy. £16 459. SMITH (Logan Pearsall). Words and Idioms. Studies in English Language.

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8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, spine shelf worn else pages tight, clean and bright. £16 460. SMOLLETT (Tobias); CRUIKSHANK (George) illus. The Complete Works... in two volumes. London, Bell & Daldy, 1869 2 vols. Engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Tall 8vo. Near fine original green pebbled cloth, gilt lettered to spines, light wear to extremities, small tear to tail of first volume, gathering including pp.67-78 of first volume loose, else a nice clean & tight set. £50 461. SPECTATOR. Selections from the Spectator. London, MacMillan & Co., 1960 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, black lettering to front board and spine with rubbing to joints, shelf worn, else a good copy. £20 462. SPENSER (Edmund); SMITH ( J.C.) & DE SELINCOURT (E.) eds. Poetical Works... Oxford University Press, 1912 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Green cloth backed boards, sunning to spine, t.e.g. a smart copy. £27 463. STARRETT (Vincent). The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1961 Revised edition. 8vo. Red cloth in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a nice copy. £24 464. STEVENSON (Robert Louis). Catriona. A Sequel to ‘Kidnapped’. London, Cassell & Co., c.1910 12mo. Original decorative green cloth, spine leaning, hinges a bit tender, a good copy only, with GMF’s sister’s ownership inscription, very good. £16 465. – Poems... in two volumes. London, William Heinemann, c.1930 2 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, sunning to spine, upper boards faded, corners bumped else pages clean and bright, a pretty pair. £30 466. – The Silverado Squatters. London, Chatto & Windus, 1917 Illustration to frontis. Small 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, rubbing and shelf wear to spine head and tail, light rubbing to extremities, a good copy. £18

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467. – ; BROWNE (Gordon) & HATHERELL (W.) illus. Island Night’s Entertainments. Consisting of the Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices. London, Cassell & Co., 1893 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Original green cloth (issued in a variant binding) gilt to spine & front, spine lightly pushed, gentle rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, a very good copy. £140 468. – ; HAMILTON (W. Bryce) illus. Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. London, Blackie & Son, c.1920 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled front and spine, darkened and pushed, rubbing to front and corner, else very good. £20 469. STOWE (Harriet Beecher). The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. London, Clarke, Beeton, & Co., c.1853 Publisher’s adverts to endpapers. 8vo. Publisher’s blind tooled green cloth gilt, hinges starting, top edge dust soiled, slight rubbing and markings to boards, bumped corners, a good example of an early state. £75 470. – Uncle Tom’s Cabin. London, Ward, Lock & Co., c.1930 Pictorial frontis. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine leaning a fraction, some spotting to page margins, pictorial dustwrapper is heavily chipped, good only. £18 471. STUART (Frank S.) Caravan for China. New York, The Book League of America, 1941 8vo. Original cloth, shelf wear to spine, in a lightly scuffed unclipped dustwrapper, good a clear protective sleeve. £16 472. SUCKLING (Sir John). Works... Containing his Poems, Letters, and Plays.

Dublin, Oli Nelson, 1766 8vo. Full calf, corners bumped, dust soiled spine, some staining else pages clean and tight, a very good copy. £160 473. SUE (Eugene). The Wandering Jew. Illustrated with etchings by Mercier, Poiteau, and Adrian Marcel... in six volumes. Boston, Francis A. Niccolls & Co., c.1900 ‘Deluxe edition’, no.647 of 1000 copies. 6 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo.

Brown cloth-backed marbled boards, light rubbing to extremities, untrimmed t.e.g. pages, a very good set. £195 114

474. SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles). Poems and Ballads. London, Chatto & Windus, 1894 8vo. Original cloth gilt, spine shelf worn and sunned, pages untrimmed, publisher’s adverts to rear, else a very good copy. £17 475. TENNYSON (Alfred). Works... Poet Laureate. London, MacMillan & Co., 1894 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, staining and scuffing to boards, front board creased, front endpaper missing, hinges weak, else interior clean, a good copy only. £22 476. THACKERAY (William Makepeace). Contributions to “Punch” etc. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Volume VI). London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1898 Portrait to frontis. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, sunning to a shelf worn spine, corners bumped, pages untrimmed, t.e.g, a nice copy. £20 477. – ; BROCK (H.M.) illus. Ballads and Songs. London, Cassell & Co., 1896 First edition thus. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original red cloth, pictorial gilt to front board and spine, this being sunned and shelf worn, a.e.g., overall a very good copy. £35 478. THE COURT JOURNAL GAZETTE. The Court Journal: Gazette of the Fashionable World... in three weekly issues. No. 155; No. 156; No. 157 (April 1832). London, printed for Henry Colburn; and published by William Thomas, 1832 3 issues, weekly priced at ‘1s’. 4to. Original printed wrappers, gatherings still held by original wire & string, occasional spotting blemish, but overall in remarkable clean condition for their age, a lovely group of an early periodical, scarce. £180 479. THE SCOTT LIBRARY. WORKS... in five volumes. London, Walter Scott, c.1890 5 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, fading and rubbing to spine, corners bumped, publisher’s adverts to rear, t.e.g., overall a good copy. £125

The Teaching of Epictetus; The Morals of Seneca; Selected Essays of De Quincey; Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and other Essays; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

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480. TIREBUCK (William). The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith. With Introductory Sketch, Biographical and Critical. London, Walter Scott, 1886 Small 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, splattering to front board, shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, evidence of separation, untrimmed pages, good only. £13 481. TOMLINSON (William Weaver) ed. Songs and Ballads of Sport and Pastime.

London, Walter Scott, c.1897 Small 8vo. Green cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, light dust soiling to top edge, pages tight and clean, a very good copy. £18 482. TROLLOPE (Anthony); SKILTON (David) ed.; PENDLE (Alexy) illus. The Chronicles of Barsetshire... in six volumes. London, The Folio Society, 1996-97 ‘Folio Society edition’. 6 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards, the first three being in a single slipcase, the latter three in individual cases, pages clean and bright, a fine set. £150

The Warden; Barchester Towers; Doctor Thome; Framley Parsonage; The Small House at Allington; The Last Chronicle of Barset.

483. –; SKILTON (David) ed.; THOMAS (Llewellyn) illus. The Palliser Novels... in six volumes. London, The Folio Society, 1993-94 ‘Folio Society edition’. 6 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards, in individual slip cases, pages bright and clean, a fine set. £130

Can You Forgive Her?; Phineas Finn; The Eustace Diamonds; Phineas Redux; The Prime Minister; The Duke’s Children.

484. TRUE BRITON MAGAZINE. The True Briton: A Weekly Magazine of Amusement & Instruction... in three weekly issues. No. 47; No. 48; No. 49 (MayJune 1853). London, Wertheim & Macintosh, 1853 3 issues, weekly ‘price one penny’. 4to. Original wrappers, engraved illustrations, very good tight gatherings (14pp. each), with ‘Lady Caroline Cavendish’ in ink to top of each issue, held together in a protective sleeve. £75 485. TWAIN (Mark). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. London, Thomas Nelson, n.d.

Illustrated throughout. Ink inscription “G.M. Fraser M.A.” to front endpaper.

8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, darkening to boards, else a nice copy. £18

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486. – The Innocents Abroad. London, Collins Clear-Type Press, c.1920 Pencil incscription to front endpaper by GMF. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine and rubbing to corners, in a yellow unclipped dustwrapper, this being darkened to spine, light scuffing to extremities, else a nice copy. £17

Inscription reads “George M. Fraser. ‘Kingsway’ Malta Mar. - ‘47” 487. – ; BEARD (Dan) & HURST (Hal) illus. The American Claimant. London, Chatto & Windus, 1892 First UK edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, pictorial black tooling to front and monogram to rear, spine pushed and darkened, else very good. £80 488. VANBRUGH (Sir John). The Complete Works... in four volumes. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1927 Limited edition, no. 579 of 1300. 4 vols. Large 8vo. Blue cloth backed boards, title label to spine this being sunned, pages untrimmed and some uncut, else a near fine set. £150 489. VARIOUS. A Book of Ballads. For Boys and Girls. Oxford University Press, 1930 Inscribed “Kathleen Hetherington” in pencil to front endpaper. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, with black tooling to front board and spine, sunning to spine this being shelf worn, corners bumped, boards lightly stained, pages clean and bright. £18

Having belonged to GMF’s wife.

490. VARIOUS British Dramas... in four volumes. Edinburgh, Stirling & Kenney [&c.], c.1820-30 4 vols. Numerous Regency printings of plays bound together, some with engraved frontis. pieces. 12mo. Bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black leather labels, heavily rubbed to extremities, some browning internally, otherwise very good, an interesting collection. £325

Playwrights include: Sheridan, Congreve, Otway, Farquhar, Centlivre and Dibdin...

491. VARIOUS. Naval Songs, and Other Songs and Ballads of Sea Life. London, Walter Scott, c.1899 Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt design to spine and board edges, spine lightly shelf worn, a.e.g., pages clean and bright, a lovely copy. £25

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492. VARIOUS. Selections from the English Poets: from Spenser to Beattie.

London, Darton & Clark, 1846 Portrait to frontis., illustrated throughout. Small 8vo. Green boards gilt, blind tooled boards, spine head snagged, light rubbing to spine tail, corners bumped, hinges weak, front endpapers missing, evidence of separation, a.e.g., good copy. £20 493. WAVELL (A.P.) ed. Other Men’s Flowers. London, Jonathan Cape, 1952 ‘Memorial edition’. Photograph to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, sunning to spine and board edges, rubbing to spine head and tail, marking to boards, pages very clean, very good. £25 494. WINTER (Douglas E.) ed.; CANTY (Thomas) illus. Prime Evil. West Kingston, Donald M. Grant, 1988 First ‘illustrated edtition’, limited to 1000 copies, signed by each contributor.

Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Fine black publisher’s cloth gilt, in a fine black solander box, lined with red velvet. £200 495. VOLTAIRE; FRAME (Donald M.) trans. Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories.

London, Cassell, 1962 8vo. Original cloth, some dust soiling to top edge, in a lightly shelf worn dustwrapper, publisher’s review slip loosely inserted, very good. £18 496. –; WOOLF (H.I.) trans. Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary. London, George Allen & Unwin, c.1925 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth gilt, heavily rubbed and chipped to spine head and tail, rubbing to front joint, rear board starting, good copy. £20 497. WALPOLE (Hugh). Four Fantastic Tales. Maradick at Forty; The Prelude to Adventure; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Above the Dark Circus. London, Macmillan & Co., 1932 8vo. Original red cloth, binding a touch shaken, boards slightly spotted with fore-edge of front board sunned, a good copy only. £18 498. – Rogue Herries. A Novel. London, Macmillan & Co., 1948 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a slightly slightly spotted & edge worn dustwrapper, a very good copy. £18

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499. WALSH (Maurice). Son of Apple. A Pretelling, from a Translation by Catriona Macleod, of an Old Irish Folk-Tale collected in Kerry by Sheumas O’Duilearga.

London, W. & R. Chambers, 1947 First edition thus. Attractive green & black illustrations by Mackay. 8vo. Original green cloth, very good in a slightly chipped & torn dustwrapper, this however bright and not price clipped. £25 500. WHEATLEY (Dennis). Bill for the Use of a Body. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1964 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, light shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly chipped, but overall a nice copy. £295

Inscription reads “For George Fraser, a Pot Boiler’s to keep the Fox hounds at bay: but with best wishes from his friend Dennis Wheatley... To be published April 27th.”

501. – Curtain of Fear. London, Hutchinson, 1953 First edition. Publisher’s black cloth, pushed spine being shelf worn to head and tail, light rubbing to corners, foxing to endpapers. £20 502. – Desperate Measures. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1974 First edition. Inscribed by author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lightly pushed, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, a nice copy. £275

Inscription reads “For George, The last of Roger Brook. With kind thoughts, from his friend, Dennis” 503. – Evil in a Mask. London, Hutchinson, 1969 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spine head and tail lightly in shelf worn, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, else a nice copy. £275

Inscription reads “For George Fraser, With every good wish from Dennis Wheatley.”

504. – The Irish Witch. London, Hutchinson, 1973 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, shelf worn spine tail, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to front board corners, else a nice copy. £200

Inscription reads “For George Fraser, Roger Brook No II. Only one more to go. With all kind thoughts from Dennis Wheatley.”

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505. – The Launching of Roger Brook. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1947 First edition. Inscribed from the author to GMF to title page, signed “George M. Fraser. Cairo ‘47” to front endpaper. 8vo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine pushed with rubbing to head and tail, lightly bumped extremities. £250 506. – The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1971 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, light shelf wear to spine tail, corners lightly pushed, in a similar pictorial unclipped Barbosa dustwrapper. £275

Inscription reads “For George Fraser. Another installment of Roger Brook. With every good wish from Dennis Wheatley.”

507. – The Shadow of Tyburn Tree. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1948 First edition. Signed “George M. Fraser. June 5th, 1948.” to front endpaper. 8vo.

Publisher’s black cloth, spine pushed, light rubbing and pushing to extremities, marking to boards. £75 508. – The Strange Story of Linda Lee. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1972 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF on title page. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, light shelf wear to spine else a fine copy. £200

Inscription reads “For George Fraser (A new line) From his friend. Dennis Wheatley” 509. – The Sultan’s Daughter. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1963 First edition. Inscribed by author to GMF on title page, letter from author to GMF slipped in. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, minimal shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, this being slightly scuffed at spine, very good. £350

Inscription reads “For George Fraser, souvenirs of a delightful article he wrote about Roger to the Glasgow Herald. With the grateful thanks of Dennis Wheatley.”

510. – They Used Dark Forces. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1964 First edition. Inscribed to GMF from the author on title page. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being in a clear protective sleeve. £325

Inscription reads “For George Fraser. My 50th book. With all kind thoughts from Dennis Wheatley.”

511. – The Wanton Princess. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1966 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, spine pushed, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this inside a clear

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protective wrapper. £325

Inscribed as “For George Fraser, With happy memories of your wonderful article on the last ‘Roger’ and our meeting in Glasgow. With best wishes from Dennis Wheatley... Published on 22nd Aug.” 512. – The White Witch of the South Seas. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1968 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to title page, annotation to verso half title. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, shelf wear to spine, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being in clear protective clear wrappers. £275

Inscription reads “For George Fraser With all kind thoughts from Dennis Wheatley.”

513. WILDE (Oscar). De Profundis. London, Methuen & Co., 1938 Forty-ninth edition. Small 8vo. Rust publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly chipped, else a nice copy. £20 514. WINTER ( John Strange). Cavalry Life and Regimental Legends. London, Chatto & Windus, 1903 New edition. 8vo. Original decorative cloth, slightly limp boards with soldiers in colour to front, spine is heavily sunned with evidence of splitting, hinges are weak, however binding is sound overall, a near very good copy, with compliments slip of the Director of the National Army Museum inserted loosely. £50 515. WODEHOUSE (P.G.) WORKS... in twelve volumes. London, Herbert Jenkins [& others], 1923-77 Mixed editions. 12 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth boards, some pictorial, rubbing to extremities, those with dustwrappers lightly scuffed, overall a good group. £145

Jeeves Omnibus; Thank You, Jeeves; Galahad at Blandings; Sunset at Blandings; Leave it to Psmith; Uncle Fred in the Springtime; The Mating Season; Uncle Dynamite; Joy in the Morning; Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen; Full Moon; Psmith in the City.

516. –; COX (Paul) illus. Jeeves & Wooster... in six volumes. London, The Folio Society, 1998 Illustrated throughout. 6 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, a fine set save for light pushing to spines, in a protective slipcase. £100

Thank You, Jeeves; Right Ho, Jeeves; The Code of the Woosters; Joy in the Morning; The Mating Season; Ring for Jeeves.

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517. WOOLF (Virginia); DICK (Susan) ed. The Complete Shorter Fiction. London, Hogarth Press, 1985 First edition. Inscription from Caro to Kath. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar price-clipped dustwrapper. £50

Inscription reads “To Mum, with much love, Caro x 18.12.85”. Caro being GMF’s daughter.

518. –; NICOLSON (Nigel) ed. The Letters of Virginia Woolf... in six volumes.

London, The Hogarth Press, 1975-79 First edition. 6 vols. Note from Heywood Hill slipped in to fifth volume. 8vo. Fine publisher’s teal cloth, with light shelf wear to spine, in pictorial dustwrappers, of which the first three volumes have been price clipped, else new. £195

The Flight of the Mind; The Question of Things Happening; A Change of Perspective; A Reflection of the Other Person; The Sickle Side of the Moon.

519. ZOLA (Émile). The Attack on the Mill, and other Sketches of War. London, William Heinemann, 1892 First English edition. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, pictorial design to front and spine, this being pushed and rubbed to head and tail, pages untrimmed, light foxing to page edges, else clean and tight, a nice copy. £55 520. – The Ladies’ Paradise. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1929 8vo. Soft covers in a glassine wrapper, this with a chip to front and light scuffing along edges, a little wear to corners, else a good copy. £25

The eleventh novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

521. – Nana: A Realistic Novel. London, Vizetelly & Co., 1884 Second edition. Rose-tinted illustrations throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, pictorial design in gilt, black and red to front and spine, this being pushed and lightly rubbed, corners bumped, pages untrimmed, evidence of separation, rear hinge starting, otherwise very good copy. £80

This being the ninth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

522. – The Soil. (La Terre). A Realistic Novel. London, Vizetelly & Co., 1888 First English edition. Illustrated frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering and red border to front and spine, this being pushed and lightly shelf worn, top edge, dust soiled, evidence of separation, else pages clean and bright, very good indeed. £175

The fifteenth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

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523. – ; CHASE (Eliza E.) trans. The Dream. (Le Rêve). London, Chatto & Windus, 1900 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Decorative pink boards, sunning to spine, occasional foxing throughout and to page edges, evidence of separation, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £40

The sixteenth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

524. – ; DE SOISSONS (Count C.S.) trans. A Dead Woman’s Wish. London, Greening & Co., 1902 First English edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s decorative boards, shelf wear to a darkened spine, rubbing to spine head, pages untrimmed, publisher’s adverts to rear, a very good copy £95 525. – ; SYMONS (Arthur) trans. L’Assommoir. London, T. Werner Laurie, 1928 No. 947 of a thousand copies signed by the editor. Illustrated to frontis. 8vo.

Faux vellum backed to paper boards, corners bumped, spine head and tail rubbed, untrimmed pages bright and tight, in an unclipped dustwrapper, this with tear along front joint, scuffing and darkening along top edge, spine pushed and darkened, but a handsome example. £60

The seventh novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

526. – ; VIZETELLLY (Ernest A.) trans. The Fat and the Thin. (Le Ventre de Paris).

London, Chatto & Windus, 1896 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, decorated in red and green to front and spine, gilt lettering to spine, shelf wear, top edge lightly dust soiled, pages clean and tight, publisher’s adverts to rear, a near fine copy. £50

The third novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

527. – ; VIZETELLY (Edward) trans. The Monomaniac. (La Bête Humaine).

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1901 Illustrated frontis. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt to front board and spine, this being darkened and pushed, light dust soiling to top edge, a nice copy. £85

The seventeenth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

528. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. Doctor Pascal, or Life and Heredity. London, Chatto & Windus, 1893 Portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s decorative boards, gilt lettering to spine, this being pushed, corners lightly rubbed and bumped, rear hinge weakening, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £50

This is the final novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

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529. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. The Downfall. (La Débâcle). A Story of the Horrors of War. London, Chatto & Windus, 1902 8vo. Original decorative brown cloth, shelf worn spine, corners bumped, light foxing to page edges, publisher’s adverts to rear, a good example. £40

Penultimate volume in les Rougon-Macquart series.

530. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. Money. (L’Argent). London, Chatto & Windus, 1894 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, floral design to front and spine, this darkened pushed and lightly rubbed, shelf wear,corners bumped, rear board starting, else pages clean and tight, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £45

The eighteenth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

531. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) ed. The Fortune of the Rougons. London, Chatto & Windus, 1898 Reverse of title page inscribed “Souvenir a Monseieur Rigby. Marie Vizetelly xmas 1902.” 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, decorated to front board and spine, this being lightly pushed, corners bumped, else very good. £200

Marie Vizetelly was the wife of the editor, Ernest Vizetelly.

532. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) ed. Germinal, or Master and Man. London, Chatto & Windus, 1901 8vo. Red decorative publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to front and a darkened spine, this being rubbed to head and tail, corners lightly rubbed, front joint rubbed, front hinge starting, evidence of dust soiling to top edge, light foxing to endpapers, publisher’s adverts to rear, an excellent copy. £55

This is the thirteenth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

533. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. Abbé Mouret’s Transgression. London, Chatto & Windus, 1900 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, decorated to front and spine, this being darkened and lightly pushed, evidence of separation, top edge dust soiled, else pages clean and bright, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £40

The fifth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

534. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. The Conquest of Plassans. London, Chatto & Windus, 1900 8vo. Original green decorative boards, gilt title to spine, top edge dust soiled,

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pages clean and tight, publisher’s adverts to rear, a nice bright copy. £50

This is the fourth novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series.

535. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. Fruitfulness. (Fécondité). London, Chatto & Windus, 1900 First English edition. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt, design tooled to front, spine darkened, shelf wear, bumping to corners, light dust soiling to top edge, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £40 536. – ; VIZETELLY (Ernest A.) trans. Work. (Travail). London, Chatto & Windus, 1901 First English edition. 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth gilt, decorative design to front and spine, this being darkened, markings to rear board, top edge lightly dust soiled, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £60

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537. ABBOTT (G. F.) Israel in Europe. London, Macmillan & Co., 1907 First edition. One folding map before Index. 8vo. Original green cloth, boards with gilt title to faded spine, small tear to cloth along spine and bumped corners.

The Bishop Wilson College Library stamp to front endpaper, title page and rear endpaper, bequeathment bookplate to front panel and signed in ink “R. Hefford.

Christmas. 1907.” to half title, very good. £20 538. ADCOCK (A. St. John); HOPPE (E.O.) illus. Gods of Modern Grub Street.

Impressions of Contemporary Authors. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., c.1930 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Brown cloth gilt, corners bumped, pages untrimmed else a good copy. £18 539. ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE. The Queen’s Regulations and Orders for the Army. London, Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1844 Third edition. 8vo. Publisher’s original red cloth, blind tooled crest to front, gilt on detaching spine, back board slightly scuffed, corners rubbed, good. £175 540. ALDEN ( John Richard). The American Revolution, 1775-1783. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1954 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth, spine sunned, without dustwrapper, but overall very good. £16 541. ANON. Fifty Greatest Rogues, Tyrants and Criminals. London, Odhams Press, c.1940 Illustrated. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, spine rather stained, light marginal browning to pages, else a good copy. £20 Alas Harry Flashman does not appear in the contents page...

542. ANON. History of Great Britain. From the Union of the Crowns to the Reign of Queen Victoria. London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1874 Small 8vo. Brown cloth, darkened to spine, blind tooled front board, corners bumped, minor dust spoiling to spine, good only. £25 543. ARCHER (Mildred) & FALK (Toby). India Revealed. The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser 1801-35. London, Cassell, 1989 126

First edition. Numerous colour illustrations. Small 4to. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper. £65 544. [ARMY BOOKLET.] The Army. The Finest Job in the World. Work & Play All Over the World. London, c.1938 Small 8vo. Red card wrappers stapled, chip to back corner, darkened somewhat with a little wear to top edges, some pages starting, good. £17 545. ASHLEY (Maurice). Louis XIV and the Greatness of France. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1946 First edition. Small 8vo. Original cloth, corners bumped, shelf wear to spine, this being creased slightly, very good. £16 546. ASHWORTH (William). A Short History of the International Economy. Since 1850. London, Longmans, 1962 Second edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities, else a nice copy. £27 547. ASTROV (W.), SLEPKOV (A.), THOMAS ( J.) eds.; UTLEY (Freda) trans. An Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution. Vol. I. London, Martin Lawrence, 1928 First English edition. Illustrated throughout. Folio. Original cloth-backed boards, a nice copy save for water damage to back board and final pages, first volume only, good. £25 548. ATTERIDGE (A. Hilliard). The Wars of the ’Nineties. A History of the Warfare of the Last Ten Years of the Nineteenth Century. London, Cassell & Co., 1899 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, design tooled in black and gilt to front and spine, this being sunned and pushed, front hinge starting, splatter to front board, shelf wear, evidence of separation, a good copy. £62 549. AYLWARD ( J.D.) The House of Angelo. A Dynasty of Swordsmen. Founded 1758. London, The Batchworth Press, 1953 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine, pages bright and clean, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being slightly chipped, very good. £32

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550. BAKER (G.P.) Twelve Centuries of Rome (753 B.C.- A.D. 476) London, G. Bell & Sons, 1934 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, dust soiled top edge, corners bumped, Glasgow Herald Library stamp to front endpaper and title page, good. £18 551. BARING-GOULD (Rev. S.) Legends of Old Testament Characters, from the Talmud and other sources. Vol. I. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871 First edition, first volume only (of two). 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt lettered to spine, spine leaning else a very good tight copy. £25 552. BARR (Pat) & DESMOND (Ray). Simla. A Hill Station in British India.

London, Scolar Press, 1978 First edition. Numerous full page photographs depicting hill station life during the Raj. Oblong 4to. Publisher’s cloth, a touch dust soiled to top edge, in a slightly edge torn dustwrapper, but overall a very good copy, with review slips loosely inserted. £52 553. BEATSON (Robert). A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain & Ireland or, A Complete Register of the Hereditary Honours, Public Offices, and Persons in Office, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time... in two volumes.. London, G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1788 Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Half leather marble boards, front board detached from second volume, else hinges weak, rubbed to extremities, top edge dust soiled, occasional pencil marks throughout, good only. £70 554. BERRIMAN (A.E.) Historical Metrology. A new analysis of the archaeological and the historical evidence relating to weights and measures.

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1953 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine, in a pictorial blue unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed, else a nice copy. £20 555. BIRT (David). Elizabeth’s England. London, Longman, 1981 First edition. Illustrated throughout, with typed review by GMF slipped in.

8vo. Fine publisher’s black cloth, shelf worn spine, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a nice copy. £18

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556. BOGGS (S.S.) Eighteen Months a Prisoner under the Rebel Flag. A Condensed Pen-Picture of Belle Isle, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston, Florence and Libby Prisons, from Actual Experience. Lovington, S.S. Boggs, 1887 8vo. Pictorial softcover, chipped to spine head and worn to spine tail, lower corners cut, faint vertical crease through leaves, else cover good and pages clean. £55 557. BORER (Mary Cathcart). Famous Rogues. London, Longmans, 1966 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, a touch browned along top edge, lamination lifting slightly on dustwrapper, else very good. £27 558. BOSWELL ( James). Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. London, William Heinemann, 1950 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, shelf wear and creasing to spine, very good with clean pages. £20 559. – The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LLD. London, T. Nelson & Sons, c.1924 Small 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, blind tooled design to front board, remains of dustwrapper loosely inserted, corners bumped, spine shelf worn, rear hinge starting, very good with pages clean and bright. £16 560. BOUDET ( Jacques) ed. The Ancient Art of Warfare. 1300BC-AD1650: From Ramses to Vauban; 1700 to Our Times from Peter the Great to Eisenhower... in two volumes. London, Barrie & Rockliff, 1966 2 vols. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Red publisher’s cloth in an unclipped gold dustwrapper, this being marked to spine, light scuffing to extremities, housed together in a black slipcase, a fine pair. £75 561. BOWDEN (Peter J.) The Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England. London, Macmillan & Co., 1962 First edition. Illustrated with maps. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a lightly worn unclipped dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted, very good. £22 562. BRIGGS (Asa). Victorian Things. London, B.T. Batsford, 1988 First edition. Illustrated. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine dustwrapper. £18

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563. BRYANT (Arthur). WORKS… in four volumes. London, The Reprint Society, 1944-50 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, labels a bit scratched, a touch dust soiled, reading copies only but with GMF’s name in ink to half-title of ‘The Years of Endurance’. £52

The Years of Endurance, 1793-1802; Years of Victory, 1802-1812; The Age of Elegance, 1812-1822; English Saga, 1840-1940.

564. BURCHARD ( Johann); PARKER (Geoffrey) ed. & trans. At the Court of the Borgia. Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI. London, The Folio Society, 1963 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, decorated in gilt to front and spine, this being sunned, else fine, in a cream slipcase. £25 565. BURNET (Bishop [Gilbert]). Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. From the Restoration of King Charles II, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne... etc ... in four volumes. London, printed for A. Millar, 1753 4 vols. Engraved portrait frontis. of the author to first volume. 8vo.

Contemporary full calf, raised bands, gilt leather labels, label to first volume being mostly torn away, otherwise a near fine, clean & handsome set. lxxxiii, [i], 566, [1]; [vi], 583; [v], 484; [vi], 486, [67]pp. £325 566. BURNEY ( James). History of the Buccaneers of America. London, Unit Library, 1902 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, markings and shelf wear to spine, untrimmed pages, corners rubbed, t.e.g., a very nice copy. £17 567. CARLYLE (Thomas). The French Revolution. A History. London, Chapman & Hall, c.1888 In 1 vol. Portrait of author to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners, boards starting, good only. £35 568. CARRINGTON (Richard). Mermaids & Mastodons. A Book of Natural and Unnatural History. London, Chatto & Windus, 1957 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, shelf wear to spine, pages clean and bright, in a pictorial dustwrapper this being lightly scuffed to extremities, else a nice copy. £25

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569. CATTON (Bruce). The Army of the Potomac... in three volumes. New York, Doubleday & Co., 1962 3 vols. 8vo. Cloth backed boards, black label to a creased and sunned spine, light foxing to top edge, else a near fine set. £65

Mr Lincoln’s Army; Glory Road; A Stillness at Appomattox.

570. CATTON (Bruce); KETCHUM (Richard M.) ed. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. New York, The American Heritage Publishing Co., 1960 Illustrated throughout. 4to. Cloth backed boards gilt, evidence of shelf wear, corners rubbed lightly, pages clean and bright, dustwrapper loosely slipped in, good only. £30 571. CHISHOLM (George G.) Longman’s Gazetteer of the World. London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1906 4to. Publisher’s red cloth-backed boards, heavy rubbing to extremities, chipping of cloth at head of spine, marbled edges fading, boards starting, good. £30 572. CLARENDON (Edward, The Earl of ); MACRAY (W. Dunn) ed. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the Year 1641... in six volumes. Oxford University Press, 1992 Re-issue (of 1888 edition). 6 vols. Folding plate to first volume. 8vo. Fine publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt, in protective plastic sleeves, a fine facsimile set. £200 573. CLEATOR (P.E.) Treasure for the Taking. London, Robert Hale, 1960 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, faded to top edge, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper this being lightly scuffed to extremitites, a nice copy. £18 574. CLYDE (William M.) The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press. From Caxton to Cromwell. Oxford University Press, 1934 8vo. Original green cloth gilt, darkening to spine and head of boards, shelf wear, light rubbing to corners and joints, dust soiled top edge, else pages clean and bright, good. £17 575. COOK (R.M.) The Greeks till Alexander. Ancient Peoples and Places Series.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1961 First edition. Illustrated. Square 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper. £20 131

576. COWAN (Ian B.) The Enigma of Mary Stuart. London, Victor Gollancz, 1971 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, ‘St. Martin’s Press’ stamped in ink to title and front endpaper, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. £16 577. COX (George W.) & JONES (Eustace Hinton). Tales of the Teutonic Lands.

London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1872 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt to spine and coat of arms on both boards, occasional marking to boards, marbled endpapers and edges, a very good copy. £40 578. CRESSWELL (Richard) trans. Aristotle’s History of Animals. In Ten Books.

London, George Bell & Sons, 1891 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, spine pushed and shelf worn, else a nice copy, very good. £28 579. CUTTS (Rev. Edward L.) Scenes & Characters of the Middle Ages. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1925 Fifth edition. Inscribed to GMF to front endpaper. Illustrations throughout. 8vo.

Publisher’s brown cloth gilt, rubbing to extremities, spine shelf worn, marking to boards, hinges loosening, good. £35

Inscription reads “Dear George, with all good wishes... Smith 1943”.

580. DAVIS (H.W.C.) ed. Mediaeval England. A new edition of Barnard’s Companion to English History. Oxford University Press 1924 Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth, gilt design to front board and spine, this being shelf worn, foxing to endpapers, else a good copy. £32 581. DAWSON (Lawrence H.) Hoyle’s Games Modernized. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, in a unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, light shelf wear to top edge, very good. £18 582. DE JOHNSTONE (The Chevalier); RAWSON (Brian) ed. A Memoir of the ‘Forty-Five. London, Folio Society, 1958 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth, gilt design to front board and spine, light wear to spine, a fine copy in green slipcase. £34 583. DE JONNES (Moreau); HAMMOND (Cyril) trans. Adventures in the Revolution and under the Consulate. A volume in the series ‘Soldier’s Tales’.

London, Peter Davies, 1969

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Reissue. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, minimal shelf wear to spine tail, in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £16 584. DE MADARIAGA (Salvador). The Rise of the Spanish American Empire.

London, Hollis & Carter, 1947 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original brown cloth, worn & rubbed to extremities, Isle of Man Rural Libraries label to verso of front endpaper, otherwise a good reading copy. £20 585. DEFOE (Daniel); SCHONHORN (Manuel) ed. A General History of the Pyrates. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1972 First edition. Illustrations throughout. Large 8vo. Fine red publisher’s cloth, with light shelf wear, in a similar price clipped dustwrapper, a fine copy. £50 586. DODDRIDGE (P.) ed. Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of the Honourable Col. James Gardiner, who was slain at the Battle of Preston-Pans 21st September 1745. London, S. Crowder & F. Rivington, 1791 Small 8vo. Full calf, rubbed to spine and extremities, corners bumped, endpapers loosening, hinges weak, a good copy. £75 587. DONALDSON (William). Brewer’s Rogues, Villain’s & Eccentrics. An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages. London, Cassell, 2002 First edition. Inscribed from Caro Fraser to GMF to front endpaper. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, slightly faded to spine and light creasing near edges, very good. £30

Inscription reads “Dad, Xmas ‘02, from his affectionate Caro X” 588. EDGERTON (Robert B.) The Fall of the Asante Empire. The Hundred-Year War for Africa’s Gold Coast. New York, The Free Press, 1995 First impresison. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth-backed boards, in a slightly shelf worn dustwrapper, includes publisher’s review slip, typewritten review (pp.10), and handwritten notes (pp.5). £30 589. EGAN (Pierce) illus.; PRESTIGE (Dennis) ed. Boxiana. Sketches of Ancient & Modern Pugilism. London, Unwin Bros., 1971 Facsimile edition of 1812 edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original brown boards, in a white price-clipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed at the edges, else a very good copy. £40

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590. ERLANGER (Philippe). The Age of Courts and Kings. Manners and Morals 1558-1715. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, with minor shelf wear to spine, pages clean and bright, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities, very good copy. £25 591. FEATHERSTONE (Donald). MacDonald of the 42nd. London, Seeley Service, 1971 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, light shelf wear to spine head and tail, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a nice copy. £20 592. FORTESCUE (Hon. John) A History of the British Army... incomplete in seventeen volumes. London, Macmillan & Co., 1899-1930 First edition. 12 vols. of text (lacking third volume) plus 4 vols. of maps (lacking two vols: for eleven, twelve & thirteen). 17 vols. (of 20) in total. Folding maps, with numbered folding colour maps to companion volumes. 8vo. Original red cloth, soiling and fading to spines, ink stamp of The Glasgow Herald Library to be found frequently in all volumes, text is however clean and bindings sound, very much a working set, sadly incomplete. £495 593. – A Short Account of Canteens in the British Army. Cambridge University Press, 1928 First edition. Photographic frontis. 8vo. Fine publisher’s blue buckram, gilt, in a bright if slightly shelf worn printed dustwrapper. £60 594. FROISSART ( Jean); BOURCHIER ( John, 2nd Baron Berners) trans. Froissart’s Cronycles... in eight volumes. Vol. I. (in four parts); Vol. II. (in four parts).

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1927-28 One of an edition limited to 350 copies. 2 vols. bound in 8. Beautiful handcoloured armorials to titles & page margins, printed on hand-made paper at the Shakespeare Head Press. 8vo. Linen-backed boards, printed paper labels, fore & bottom edges untrimmed, some light soiling to spines, boards to final volume bowing ever so slightly, but generally a handsome near fine set, with a note of presentation to GMF from his wife tipped in to first volume. £1,300 595. – ; JOHNES (Thomas) trans. Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of England, France, Spain and Adjoining Countries. From the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV. Newly translated from the French editions... in twelve volumes. London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808

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Third edition (thus). 12 vols. Pictorial frontis. to first volume depicting the author handing his work to King Richard II. 8vo. Contemporary half calf marbled boards, gilt in compartments, black leather labels, some light soiling & spotting to prelims & titles, corners a bit worn, as well as detached boards to three of the volumes, overall a near good set in need of some repairs. £425 596. FROUDE ( James Anthony). Short Studies on Great Subjects... in four volumes.

London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1894-97 Mixed editions. 4 vols. 8vo. Near fine original uniform maroon cloth, silver lettered to spines, a clean bright set. £80 597. FURNEAUX (Rupert). Fact, Fake or Fable? Controversies and Arguments about Buried Treasure, Questions of Identity, Fraudulent Inscriptions, Forged Documents and Strange Ruins. London, Cassell & Co., 1954 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, in a black unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to top edge, very good. £22 598. GARDINER (Samuel R.) History of the Great Civil War... in four volumes.

1642-1644; 1644-45; 1645-47; 1647-49. London, The Windrush Press, 1987 8vo. Illustrated softcover, light creasing and ageing to spine, else a very good set. £40 599. GARDNER (Brian). The African Dream. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970 First US edition. Illustrated, maps etc. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper, publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £25

‘From Cape to Cairo, the Epic Adventure of the Conquest of Africa’.

600. GIBBON (Edward); BURY ( J.B.) ed. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire... in seven volumes. London, Methuen & Co., 1926 7 vols. Photographic illustrations, maps, charts, tables etc. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt to spine, occasional light spotting to edge of text block, corners a touch bumped, but overall a near fine bright set. £165 601. GIBBON ( J. Murray). Scots in Canada. London, Kegan Paul, 1911 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, chipped and creased to spine, illustrated frontis. loosely inserted in, evidence of separation, map and publisher’s adverts to rear, good. £22

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602. GOLDING (Louis). The Bare-Knuckle Breed. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1952 First edition. Loose GMF boxing notes slipped in. Illustrated throughout. 8vo.

Pale original cloth, fading and rubbing to edges, spine pushed, else a nice copy. £27 603. GOLESWORTHY (Maurice). The Encyclopaedia of Boxing. London, Robert Hale, 1965 Third edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, library record tipped in to front endpaper, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being in a clear protective sleeve, good. £20 604. GOOCH (G.P.) Recent Revelations of European Diplomacy. London, Longmans, 1927 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, blind tooled border to front board, light rubbing to extremities, shelf wear to spine, else a nice copy. £35 605. GORDON ( John Steele). The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 First edition. Inscribed by the author to GMF to front endpaper. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine cloth backed boards, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £40

Inscription reads “August 12, 1988. for George MacDonald Fraser, With best wishes [signature] John Steele Gordon” 606. GOWING (T.) A Soldier’s Experience. Or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863. Also Sketches of the Lives and Deaths of Sir H. Havelock, K.C.B., and Captain Hedley Vicars, together with some things not generally known. Nottingham, Thomas Forman & Sons., 1896 Illustrations throughout, author portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled design to front boards, back board starting, light rubbing to spine, this being shelf worn, corners lightly bumped, page edges gilt, very good. £38 607. GRICE (Frederick) Rebels & Fugitives. London, B.T. Batsford, 1963 First edition. Illustrations by William Stobbs. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine if lightly shelf worn dustwrapper. £16

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608. GRIFFITHS (Major Arthur). Mysteries of Police and Crime... in three volumes. London, Cassell & Co., c.1900 3 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Maroon cloth gilt, rubbing to spine edges and lightly to corners, minor dust soiling to top edge, else a smart set. £160 609. HAKLUYT (Richard). Voyages... in eight volumes. London, Dent/Everyman’s Library, 1962 8 vols. Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, lightly rubbed to extremities, in uniform pictorial dustwrappers, these being lightly rubbed, else a very good set. £95 610. HALEVY (M.); WATKIN (E.I.) trans. Halevy’s History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century... in six volumes. London, Ernest Benn, 1961 6 vols. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, spines browned, light bumping to corners, shelf wear to spine, else a nice set. £75

England in 1815; The Liberal Awakening (1815-1830); The Triumph of Reform (18301841); Victorian Years (1841-1895); Imperialism and the Rise of Labour (1895-1905); The Rule of Democracy (1905-1914).

611. HALL (D.G.E.) A History of South-East Asia. London, Macmillan, 1968 Third edition. Illustrated. Large 8vo. Original green cloth, very good, though lacking front endpaper and dustwrapper. £15 612. HARE (T. Lehman) ed. The World’s Greatest Paintings. Selected Masterpieces of Famous Art Galleries. London, Odhams Press, [1934] Illustrated throughout. Folio. Publisher’s blue cloth, light shelf wear to spine, light foxing to page edges in a tan unclipped dustwrapper, very good. £30 613. HARLAND ( John) & WILKINSON (T.T.) Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c. with an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract on the Lancashire Witches, &c. &c. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1873.

Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth bevelled boards with black design tooled in, sunning to spine, this being chipped to head, endpapers lightly foxed, back board starting, pages clean and bright, good. £42 614. HARRIS ( John). The Gallant Six Hundred. A Tragedy of Obsessions. New York, Mason & Lipscomb, 1973 First edition. Typewritten review by GMF loosely inserted. Illustrated throughout.

8vo. Original blue cloth, shelf worn, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, very good. £27

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615. HASBACH (Dr. W.); KENYON (Ruth) trans. A History of the English Agricultural Labourer. London, P.S. King & Son, 1920 Second impression. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled lettering to front board, shelf wear to spine, light dust soiling to top edge, publisher’s adverts to rear, very good. £17 616. HERBERT (A.P.) Mr. Gay’s London, with extracts from the Proceedings at the Sessions of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer for the City of London and County of Middlesex in the Years 1732 and 1733. London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1948 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, some markings to front and rear boards, corners pushed with bumping to head and tail of a darkened spine, otherwise a good copy. £16 617. HERODOTUS; RAWLINSON (George) trans.; BLAKENEY (E.H.) ed. The Histories of Herodotus... in two volumes. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1964 2 vols. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s black cloth, in a yellow unclipped dustwrapper this being sunned to spine and lightly scuffed to head and tail, minor dust spoiling to spine, else a very nice pair. £28 618. HOGARTH (William); HANNAY ( James) text. The Complete Works of William Hogarth; in a Series of One Hundred and Fifty superb Engravings on Steel, from the original pictures. London, The London Printing & Publishing Co., c.1870 New & revised edition. 150 steel-engraved plates. Large 4to. Contemporary half roan, gilt lettered to spine, t.e.g., some mild spotting to page margins, but not affecting the plates, very good. £125 619. HOGG (Garry). Lust for Gold. London, Robert Hale, 1960 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth, dust soiled to top edge, otherwise very good in a similar shelf worn dustwrapper, with publisher’s review card loosely inserted. £17 620. HUGGETT (Frank E.) Victorian England as seen by Punch. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, with typewritten review (pp.6) by GMF inserted. £18 621. HUGILL (Stan) ed. Shanties from the Seven Seas. Shipboard Work-Songs and Songs used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961 138

First edition. With music throughout. 8vo. Original navy cloth gilt, in a green unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities, but still a nice copy, uncommon. £50 622. INGRAM (Edward) ed. Two Views of British India. The Private Correspondence of Mr. Dundas and Lord Wellesley: 1798-1801. Bath, Adams & Dart, 1970 First edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, light browning to top edge, in a very good pictorial dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £25 623. JAMESON (Eric). The Natural History of Quackery. London, Michael Joseph, 1961 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being darkened to spine, near fine. £27 624. JOCELYN (Captain Arthur). The Orders Decorations and Medals of the World. The British Empire. London, Ivor Nicolson & Watson, 1934 Illustrated throughout. 4to. Publisher’s buff cloth, this being rather darkened and stained, with red lettering to spine and medal design to front, occasional water stains to otherwise bright pages, slight dust soiling to top edge, good. £34 625. JOHNSON (Boris). The Dream of Rome. London, HarperPress, 2006 First edition. Inscribed from the author to GMF to title page. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £50

Inscription reads “To George MacDonald Fraser, from Boris Johnson, a devoted admirer.

March 26 ‘06” 626. JOHNSON (Robert Underwood) & BUEL (Clarence Clough) ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War... in four volumes. New Jersey, Castle, 1983 4 vols. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, light shelf wear, in pictorial unclipped dustwrappers, a fine set. £55

The Opening Battles; The Struggle Intensifies; The Tide Shifts; Retreat with Honor.

627. KAY (F. George). The Shameful Trade. London, Frederick Muller, 1967 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s brown cloth, in a red unclipped dustwrapper this being faded to spine and lightly worn to extremities, very good £17

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628. KAYE (Sir John) & MALLESON (Colonel George Bruce). Kaye’s and Malleson’s History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 ... in six volumes. London, Longmans, Green, & Co., 1898 New impression. 6 vols. Folding maps throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, minimal shelf wear to spine, some colouring to untrimmed page edges, otherwise pages clean & bright, publisher’s adverts to rear of each volume, a very nice set. £475

An extremely important source of British-Indian history - Malleson combined Kaye’s earlier work with his, which not only levelled criticism at British administration where it thought it due, but contains numerous primary sources and anecdotal evidence of the event as it unfolded. Harry Flashman of course gets caught in the thick of things in ‘Flashman and the Great Game’ - surviving the besieged cities of Cawnpore and Lucknow, before being mistaken for a mutineer and strapped to the end of a cannon... yet another problem for him to wriggle out of.

629. KEARTON (Cherry). In the Land of the Lion. London, Arrowsmith, 1929 Photographs throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, spine shelf worn and lightly creased, corners bumped, dust soiled top edge, else a very good copy. £33 630. – Wild Life Across the World. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1914] First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth gilt, raised gilt medallion to front, shelf wear to spine, light rubbing to corners, slight dust soiling to top edge else very good, includes bookseller’s receipt. £55 631. KING (Horace). Before Hansard. A quaint collection of curious details from the story of the mother of parliaments, gathered from the ancient journals and from the diaries of former MPs. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1968 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt, very good in a worn & price clipped dustwrapper. £16 632. KIRK (George E.) A Short History of the Middle East. From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times. London, Metheun, 1963 ‘University paperbacks edition’. Maps. 8vo. Softcover, original wrappers, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted, tear to pp. 295-96, otherwise very good. £25 633. KNAPLUND (Paul). The British Empire 1815-1939. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1942 First edition. Folding maps throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf

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worn spine, marking to front board base, creasing to rear board, corners pushed, else pages clean and bright. £18 634. LAMB (G.F.) The Happiest Days. London, Michael Joseph, 1959 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Aged handwritten and typewritten notes

by GMF slipped in. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s black cloth, in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being chipped and lightly scuffed, pages clean and bright. £28 635. LANG (Andrew) ed.; VARIOUS illus. The True Story Book. London, Longmans Green, & Co., 1931 Twelfth impression. Illustrations throughout. Inscribed “G M Fraser” to front endpaper. 8vo. Original blue boards gilt, blind tooled image to front, rubbing to extremities, shelf wear to spine edge and tail, good copy. £30 636. LAY (G. Tradescant). The Chinese as They Are: Their Moral, Social, and Literary Characters; A New Analysis of the Language; with Succinct Views of their Principal Arts and Sciences. London, William Ball & Co., 1841 First edition. Illustration to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, blind tooled design to boards, occasional marks to pages, some of which are uncut, sunning and shelf wear to spine, top edge dust soiled, but overall a good example, scarce title. £400 637. LEA (Henry Charles). A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages... in three volumes. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887 First edition. 3 vols. With correspondence & notations between author, translator & publishers. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered to spines, t.e.g., lightly rubbed to the extremities, spine of second volume rather pushed, else a very good stout set, ex-libris Salomon Reinach with his annotations to paste downs & endpapers, also an interesting A.L.S. from Harper & Bros. publishers stuck to front paste down of first volume, and more interestingly an A.L.S. (7pp.) tipped in to rear paste down of same volume, from the author to Reinach. £175

Salomon Reinach (1858-1932) was a notable archaeologist who translated a number of texts into French.

638. LECKY (William Edward Hartpole). History of European Morals, from Augustus to Charlemagne. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1913 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. Original brown cloth, some pencil annotations to margins, else very good. £35

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639. LEE (Sir Sidney) & ONIONS (Mr.) eds. Shakespeare’s England An Account of the Life & Manners of His Age... in two volumes. Oxford University Press, 1916 2 vols. Illustrated frontis. and throughout. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt to front and spine, this being darkened and shelf worn, light dust soiling to top edge, corners lightly bumped, pages untrimmed, otherwise a very good pair. £95 640. LEECH (Margaret). Reveille in Washington 1860-1865. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942 First UK edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original blue cloth, red lettered, light spotting to prelims, else a very good clean copy, without dustwrapper. £20 641. LEES-DODS (Matilda). The Ideal Home. How to Find It, How to Furnish It, How to Keep It. London, The Waverley Book Co., c.1912 Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Very good publisher’s blind tooled cloth, hinges starting, rubbing to extremities else pages clean and bright. £36 642. LOCKHART (R.H. Bruce). The Two Revolutions. An Eye-Witness of Russia, 1917. London, Phoenix House, 1957 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a near fine bright dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £40 643. LOWERSON ( John) & MYERSCOUGH ( John). Time to Spare in Victorian England. Sussex, The Harvester Press, 1977 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine pictorial dustwrapper, typewritten letter to Martin Amis from GMF with handwritten notes on envelopes. £40 644. LUDOVICI (L.J.) The Itch for Play. Gamblers and Gambling in High Life and Low Life. London, Jarrolds, 1962 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being slightly darkened to a lightly scuffed spine, light dust soiling to top edge. £15 645. M.H.E. A Manual of Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen. London, George Routledge & Sons, [1907] 8vo. Publisher’s blue boards with lettering to front, spine creased and shelf worn, slightly faded, corners bumped, light dust soiling to top edge, pages clean, very good. £20

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646. MacDONALD ( John). Great Battles of the American Civil War. London, Michael Joseph, 1988 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Grey publisher’s cloth gilt, occasional bumping to edges, light dust soiling to top edge, very good in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being slightly creased to edge. £18 647. MACINTYRE (Captain Donald). The Privateers. London, Paul Elek, 1975 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, shelf wear to spine, in a pictorial dustwrapper, a nice copy. £35 648. MACKAY (Charles). Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London, George Routledge & Sons, c.1869 2 vols. in 1. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled boards, heavy rubbing to joints and extremities, stains to inner page edges, a good copy only, but an early edition of this classic title. £125 649. MACLEAN (Fitzroy). To the Back of Beyond. An illustrated companion of Central Asia and Mongolia. London, Jonathan Cape, 1974 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Original cloth in a pictorial dustwrapper, minimal creasing along edges, very good, includes typewritten review (pp.4). £62 650. McWATTERS (George S.) Knots Untied: or, Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives. Hartford, J.B. Burr & Hyde, 1873 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blind tooled boards gilt, sunning to a rubbed spine, rubbing and bumping to corners, front endpaper missing, hinges weak, a good copy only. £42 651. MAHAN (Captain A.T.) The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783.

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., c.1890 Maps throughout with folding map to rear. 8vo. Original cloth gilt, rubbing to a marked spine head and tail, splitting of front joints, light rubbing to corners, t.e.g., pages clean and bright, good. £40 652. MANUCCI (Niccolao); EDWARDES (Michael) ed. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. London, The Folio Society, 1957 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green design to yellow cloth, spine slightly darkened, a fine copy in a green slipcase. £24

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653. MARLOWE ( John). The Making of the Suez Canal. London, The Cresset Press, 1964 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, lightly dust soiled to top edge, in a shelf worn but unclipped dustwrapper. £28 654. MARTIN (Edward J.) The Trial of the Templars. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1928 8vo. Publisher’s pink cloth, spine pushed and creased, stain to front board, a good example only. £32 655. MARTINES (Lauro). The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 13901460. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963 First UK edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, a bit dusty along the top edge, dustwrapper lightly soiled to rear panel with ink splash, else a smart copy with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £57 656. MAY (Derwent). Critical Times. The History of the Times Literary Supplement. London, HarperCollins, 2001 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Inscribed to Kath from GMF. Large 8vo.

Fine publisher’s cloth in a pictorial price clipped dustwrapper, this being faintly scuffed to edges, a fine copy. £38

Inscription reads “To K, with love from G. Christmas 2001.”

657. MERCER (General Cavalie). Journal of the Waterloo Campaign. A volume in the series Soldier’s Tales, kept throughout the Campaign of 1815 by the Late General Cavalie Mercer, Commanding the 9th Brigade Royal Artillery. London, Peter Davies, 1969 Reissue. Illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with minor shelf wear, dust soiled top edge, in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, very good. £20 658. MILES (Alfred H.) ed. Fifty-Two Stories of the British Empire. London, Hutchinson & Co., c.1892 First edition (?). Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, pictorial bevelled boards, spine darkened, edges shelf worn, corners bumped, a.e.g., else very good. £45

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659. MILES (Henry Downes). Pugilistica... in three volumes. The History of British Boxing. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1906 3 vols. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth gilt, with black tooled design to front board, rubbing and shelf wear to extremities, boards starting, corners bumped, binding of first volume detaching, this need of repair, a good set only. £325

One is keenly reminded of the scene in ‘Royal Flash’ where our cowardly hero succesfully engineers a fight between his soon to be sworn enemy Otto von Bismarck, and the famous prize-fighter of his day John Gully (played by Henry Cooper in the 1975 film). It is however in his novel ‘Black Ajax’ that GMF dedicates his energy to the story of Tom Molineaux, a former plantation slave who forged a career from bare-knuckle fights, told through the fictional accounts of contemporaries.

660. MINTURN JR. (Robert B.) From New York to Delhi, by way of Rio de Janeiro, Australia, and China. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 First UK edition. Coloured folding map to front. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, label missing though fragments loosely inserted, contemporary inscription & light spotting to prelims, else a clean smart copy. £85

An American merchant’s account of travels in British India just before the mutiny.

661. MONCREIFFE (Ian) & POTTINGER (Don). WORKS... in four volumes.

Markinch, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1954-6 4 vols., one being limited edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Original cloth, light foxing along top edge, in unclipped pictorial dustwrappers, this being scuffed lightly to extremities, a fine group. £80

Simple Custom (2 vols.); Simple Heraldry; Blood Royal.

662. [MONTAGU (Lady Mary Wortley)] Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W---y M----e: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe which contain, among other curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks; drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers. London, printed for T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, 1763 Second edition. 3 vols bound in 1. 12mo. Nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label gilt, binding a little tight but otherwise a fine clean example. £175

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663. MOORHOUSE (Geoffrey). The Missionaries. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1973 First edition. Handwritten notes slipped in. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, fine, includes typewrittten review (pp.5) and letter to publisher. £27 664. MORHOUS (Sgt. Henry C.) Reminiscences of the 123rd Regiment, N.Y.S.V. Giving a Complete History of its Three Years’ Service in the War. Greenwich, People’s Journal Book & Job Office, 1879 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to boards, backstrip semi-detached, head of spine chipped, corners rubbed, fore-edge bumped, first page loosely slipped in, but pages clean, a scarce and unusual title. £195 665. MORRIS ( James). Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress [with] Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat. London, Faber & Faber, 1973 First edition. 2 vols. Illustrated, maps etc., the first volume with a John Piper design dustwrapper. 8vo. Original cloth, bindings a touch shaken, else very good in similar slightly shelfworn dustwrappers, with type-written reviews

by GMF inserted into each volume, as well as notes made, one on the back of an envelope, New Statesman compliments slip, with GMF annotations and message from then literary editor Martin Amis referring to re-reading ‘Flashman’s Lady’. £95

These two volumes are considered to be the first & third titles in the trilogy - the second volume: ‘Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire’ was in fact published earlier in 1968 and later incorporated into the trilogy. However between them, these two volumes cover the Empire during the entire period 1837-1965.

666. MOTLEY ( John Lothrop). The Rise of the Dutch Republic... in three volumes.

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1928-1930 3 vols. Small 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine, this being lightly worn, dust soiling to top edge, else a nice set. £60 667. NEWNHAM-DAVIS (Lieut.- Col.) The Gourmet’s Guide to Europe. London, Grant Richards, 1911 Third edition. Small 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth, sunning to a pushed spine, staining to front board, corners bumped else pages clean and bright. £58

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668. NORMAN (A.V.B.) & POTTINGER (Don). Warrior to Soldier, 449-1660.

A brief introduction to the history of English warfare. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966 First edition. Illustrated with decorations. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar dustwrapper, this with small closed tear to top edge. £20 669. NUTTING (Anthony). Scramble for Africa. The Great Trek to the Boer War. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1971 First US edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a lightly shelf worn dustwrapper. £22 670. ORCHARD (Vincent). Tattersalls. Two Hundred Years of Sporting History.

London, Hutchinson, 1953 First edition. Colour portrait to frontis. and photographs throughout. 8vo.

Publisher’s cloth, bumped to extremities, in a pictorial dustwrapper, with scuffing and small chips, else a nice copy. £25 671. PALMER (Alan & Veronica). Who’s Who in Shakespeare’s England. London, The Harvester Press, 1981 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Typed review by GMF slipped in. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine head and tail, in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being sunned to spine. £16 672. PARKMAN (Francis). Francis Parkman’s Works... in seventeen volumes.

Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1907 ‘Frontenac edition’. 17 vols. Portrait to frontis., illustrated throughout. Walton’s Television receipt loosely slipped in, ink notes by GMF to blank side. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth, with title label to spine, light rubbing to extremities, pages untrimmed, t.e.g., a fine set. £375

Vols. I-II: Pioneers of France in the World; Vols. III-IV: The Jesuits in North America; Vol V: Le Salle and the Discovery of the Great West; Vols. VI-VII: Old Regime in Canada; Vol. VIII: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; Vols. IX-X: A Half Century of Conflict; Vols. XI-XIII: Montcalm and Wolfe; Vols. XIV-XV: The Conspiracy of Pontiac; Vol. XVI: The Oregon Trail; A Life of Francis Parkman.

673. [PEARSON (Hesketh).] The Whispering Gallery. Being Leaves from a Diplomat’s Diary. London, John Lane, 1926 First edition. 8vo. Navy cloth gilt, pushed spine creased and lightly rubbed, corners bumped, pages clean and bright. £22

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674. PEPYS (Samuel); MATTHEWS (William) ed. Charles II’s Escape from Worcester. A Collection of Narratives Assembled by Samuel Pepys. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1967 First edition thus. Illustrated. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, corners a touch bumped, in a similar printed dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip inserted loosely. £30 675. PETRIE (Sir Charles). Diplomatic History... in two volumes. London, Hollis & Carter, 1946-9 First editions. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf wear, corners lightly rubbed, in heavily chipped and detached dustwrappers, these being reinforced with mylar and adhered to boards, reading copies. £32

Earlier Diplomatic History 1492-1713; Diplomatic History 1713-1933.

676. – The Stuarts. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958 Second edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, lightly dust soiled to top edge, stamp of the Glasgow Herald Library to front endpaper, very good in a slightly chipped & spine sunned dustwrapper. £25 677. PINNOW (Hermann); BRAILSFORD (Mabel Richmond) trans. History of Germany. People and State through a Thousand Years. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1933 First English edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered to spine, this slightly darkened, else a very good copy, with the Glasgow Herald Library stamp to title page. £27

First published in 1929 - it contains some rather sad passages about the ‘spirit of democracy’ and ‘constitutional unity’ - by the time this translated edition was issued Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany.

678. PITNER (Ernst). Maximilian’s Lieutenant. A Personal History of the Mexican Campaign, 1864-7. London, I.B.Tauris & Co., 1993 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a pictorial dustwrapper, as new. £33 679. PLAYFAIR (Giles). Six Studies in Hypocrisy. London, Secker & Warburg, 1969 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this with small tears to edges, chipping to front. £20 680. POLICE FORCE. First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire as to the Best Means of Establishing an Efficient Constabulary Force. London, W. Clowes & Sons, 1839 148

First edition. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, rubbing to joints, chip to spine head, corners bumped, slight dust soiling to top edge, good only, uncommon. £200 681. POLLARD (A.F.) The Reign of Henry VII, from Contemporary Sources. Vol I Narrative Extracts. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1913 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, rubbing to extremities, shelf wear to a darkened spine, dust soiled top edge, else a good copy, first volume only. £18 682. PRESCOTT (William H.) History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortes. London, George Routledge & Sons, c.1870 ‘Author’s authorised edition’. Frontis. portrait of Cortes. Small 8vo. Original decorative cloth, bevelled boards, gilt monogram to front board & crest on spine, with armorial designs tooled in black, spine slightly darkened but otherwise a near fine clean copy. £60 683. – History of the Conquest of Peru. With a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas. London, George Routledge & Sons, c.1890 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Green cloth gilt, shelf worn spine, corners lightly rubbed, spine pushed, rubbing to front board, hinges starting, endpapers loosening, good only. £20 684. –; KIRK ( John Foster) ed. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., c.1841 New and revised edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, corners bumped, shelf wear to spine, back board starting, pages clean and slight foxing to page edges, t.e.g., else a nice copy. £27 685. PRESTON (Hubert) ed. Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack. 1950. London, Sporting Handbooks, 1950 Small 8vo. Yellow soft cloth, curling slightly to corners, otherwise pages clean and bright, good. £25 686. PRICE (Harry). The End of Borley Rectory. ‘The Most Haunted House in England’. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1947 Reprint. Illustrated. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, minor wear & tear to dustwrapper, but overall very good. £35

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687.RANDALL (David). Great Sporting Eccentrics. London, W.H. Allen, 1985 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, pages clean and bright, slight sunnning to spine this being lightly shelf worn. £18 688. RAWLINSON (H.G.) India. A Short Cultural History. London, The Cresset Press, 1965 First paperback edition. Numerous photographic plates. 8vo. Fine publisher’s card wrappers, lightly dust soiled along top edge, very good. £16 689. REID ( J.C.) Bucks and Bruisers. Pierce Egan and Regency England. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971 First edition. Photographs throughout. 8vo. Purple cloth, in a pictorial price clipped dustwrapper, this being creased and lightly scuffed, very good. £20 690. RITCHIE (Robert C.) Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates. Harvard University Press, 1986 First edition. A typed review by GMF slipped in. Illustrated throughout. 8vo.

Publisher’s fine cloth-backed boards in a pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly shelf worn, else a fine copy. £17 691. ROBINS ( John D.); HYDE (Laurence) illus. A Pocketful of Canada. Toronto, Collins, 1950 First edition. Note to “Cathy and George” tipped in to front endpaper. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, light rubbing to corners, in a similar pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed, else a nice copy. £27 692. RUSSELL (William Howard). The Great War with Russia. The Invasion of the Crimea. A Personal Retrospect of the Battle of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and of the Winter of 1854-55, &c. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1895 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, rubbing and bumping to extremities, slight foxing to endpapers, bookseller’s label to front board, front endpaper attached to front panel, back board detached, a reading copy only. £33 693. SADLEIR (Michael). Blessington-D’Orsay. A Masquerade. London, Constable & Co., 1933 First edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, rubbing to top edge, shelf wear to spine, else a good copy. £17

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694. SAMHABER (Ernst); OSERS (E.) trans. Merchants Make History. How Trade has Influenced the Course of History throughout the World. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1963 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, spine pushed, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities. £38 695. SANDERSON (Edgar). The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century. Its Progress and Expansion at Home and Abroad Comprising a Description and History of the British Colonies and Dependencies... in six volumes. London, Blackie & Sons, 1897-8 6 vols. Illustrated throughout, & maps. . 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial bevelled boards, shelf wear to spine, rubbing to corners, pages clean, a very good set. £170 696. SCHILLER (Frederick); MORRISON (Rev. A.J.W.) trans. The Works of Frederick Schiller... two volumes. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1847 & 1846 2 vols only (of 4). Portrait frontis. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth, blind tooled design to boards, corners bumped, usual shelf wear, spine of first volume being pushed, top edges dust soiled, prospectus tipped in to front endpaper of first volume, evidence of separation, overall a good only half set. £40

Historical: History of the Thirty Years’ War, Complete [with] History of the Revolt of the Netherlands to the Confederacy of the Geux; Historical & Dramatic: History of the Revolt of the Netherlands continued [with] Wallenstein & Wilhelm Tell.

697. SCULLARD (H.H.) From the Gracchi to Nero. A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68. London, Methuen & Co., 1959 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, very good in a chipped dustwrapper. £22 698. SEWARD (Desmond). The Monks of War. The Military Orders. London, The Folio Society, 2000 First edition thus. Colour illustrations, inscribed “To G. with love K.” to half-title.

Large 8vo. Fine decorative cloth, gilt design of knights on horseback to front panel, in a near fine slipcase. £50 699. SHEPPARD (Major E.W.) Deeds That Held The Empire by Land. London, John Murray, 1939 First edition. Glasgow Academy Prize label tipped in, awarded to GMF for General Knowledge. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with gilt crest to front, darkening of a creased and shelf worn spine, bowing and occasionally stained boards, else good. £30 151

700. SHRINER (Charles A.) Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great. Together with Numerous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Characters of People and Their Rulers.

New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1918 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth gilt, blind tooled design to boards, shelf wear to a slighlty bumped spine, corners lightly rubbed, else fine. £17 701. SISMONDI ( J.C.L.) History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages... with a memoir of the author by William Boulting. London, George Routledge & Sons, [1906] Large 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt, extensive ink & pencil annotations to endpapers, as well as page margins, offset to pp.256-57 from a news clipping, binding slightly shaken, else a good copy. £20 702. SMITH (T. Roger) & SLATER ( John). Architecture... in two volumes. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1908 Reprint. 2 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Cloth backed boards gilt, heavily chipped to spine head exposing binding, rubbing to spine tail, corners bumped, light dust soiling to top edge else pages clean and bright, a good pair only. £30

Gothic & Renaissance; Classic and Early Christian.

703. SMITH (Vincent A.) The Oxford History of India. From the Earliest Times to the end of 1911. Oxford University Press, 1920 Illustrated throughout, colour folding map to rear prior to the index. 8vo.

Publisher’s navy blue cloth, gilt stamp hindu swastika to front panel, rubbing to extremities & slight crease to upper corner of text block, but overall a very good copy. £42 704. SPARRMAN (Anders); BEAMISH (Huldine) & MacKENZIE-GRIEVE (Averil) trans; BACON (C.W.) illus. A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution. London, Robert Hale 1953 ‘General edition’. Illustrated throughout, folding map to rear board. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, fading to top edge, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly worn to extremities, a very good copy. £22 705. – The Great Traitors. London, John Long, 1965 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, minimal shelf wear to spine, clean pages, in a red unclipped dustwrapper with chip to head of spine, else a very good copy. £18

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706. SPENCE (Lewis); WEIRTER (Louis) illus. Hero Tales & Legends of the Rhine.

London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1927 Illustrated throughout with folding map to rear. 8vo. Decorative cloth with classical design, gilt label to spine and front, shelf wear to spine, light rubbing to edges, t.e.g. pages untrimmed, very good. £20 707. SQUIRE ( J.C.) If It Had Happened Otherwise. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in an unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities, near fine. £30 708. STANLEY (Henry M.) Coomassie and Magdala. The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa. London, Samspon Low, Marston & Co., 1891 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, gilt and black tooling to front and spine, this being darkened, rubbed with tear down centre, corners bumped, publisher’s adverts to rear, good. £110 709. STEPHENS (Rev. W.R.W.) & HUNT (Rev. William) eds. A History of the English Church... in three volumes. London, Macmillan & Co., 1903-1924 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, gilt lettered to spines, slight staining to front board of third volume, with occasional pencil annotation to text, otherwise very good, a nice group from a body of work that eventually totalled nine volumes. £52

In the Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries (Vol. III); In the Sixteenth Century from the accession of Henry VIII to the death of Mary (Vol. IV); In the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I (Vol. V).

710. STOCQUELER ( J.H.) The British Officer: his Position, Duties, Emoluments, and Privileges; being a Digest and Compilation of the Rules, Regulations, Warrants, and Memoranda, relating to the Duties, Promotion, Pay, and Allowances of the Officers in Her Majesty’s Service and in that of the Hon. East India Company. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1851 First edition (?). 8vo. Original cloth gilt, marks to both boards, slight shelf wear, tail corners bumped, occasional foxing, a good copy of an uncommon title. £250

When Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1801-1886) discharged himself from the army he established himself as a newspaper editor in Calcutta. He wrote a number of successful books, however debts continued to plague him and he eventually fled an insolvency court to the U.S. under a false identity.

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711. [STONEHOUSE ( James).] Recollections of Old Liverpool. By a Nonagenarian. Liverpool, J.F. Hughes, 1863 First edition. Publisher’s adverts to front & rear, panorama illustration frontis.

Small 8vo. Contemporary green cloth, blind tooled, gilt lettered, a little shelf worn & dust soiled, hinges delicate, otherwise a very good copy of an uncommon title. £58 712. [STOREY ( John).] Manners and Rules of Good Society, or Solecisms to be Avoided... by a member of the Aristocracy. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1928 Forty-seventh edition. Small 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, with black lettering to front board and spine, this being sunned and lightly shelf worn, foxing to endpapers and page edges, very good. £17 713. TAYLOR (Stephen). Shaka’s Children. A History of the Zulu People. London, HarperCollins, 1994 First impression. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, review slip loosely inserted. £33 714. TEMPLE (A.G.) England’s History. As Pictured by Famous Painters. London, George Newnes, 1897 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to. Publisher’s pictorial bevelled boards, shelf wear to spine, rubbing to corners, else a nice copy. £24 715. TIME-LIFE BOOKS. The Civil War, 1861-65... in twenty-eight volumes.

Alexandria, Time-Life Books, 1983-7 Mixed editions. 28 vols. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Original grey pictorial boards, with blue title to spine, occasional bumping to spine tail, leaves loosely slipped in to ‘Brother Against Brother’, a fine set. £295

Confederate Ordeal; Lee Takes Command; The Coastal War; Gettysburg; Rebels Resurgent; Death in the Trenches; The Killing Ground; Twenty Million Yankees; The Struggle for Tennessee; Spies, Scouts and Raiders; Battles for Atlanta; Sherman’s March; War on the Frontier; War on the Mississippi; The Nation Reunited; Shenandoah in Flames; Pursuit to Appomattox; The Assassination; The Bloodiest Day; Tetting Tonight; The Road to Shiloh; The Blockade; First Blood; Brother Against Brother; The Fight for Chattanooga; Decoying the Yanks; Forward to Richmond; Master Index.

716. TREVELYAN (G.M.) England under Queen Anne: Blenheim. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1930 First edition. Folding maps to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s original green cloth, gilt, a

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little rubbed to extremities, Glasgow Herald Library stamp to front endpaper & title page, otherwise a good copy. £32 717. – English Social History. A Survey of Six Centuries, Chaucer to Queen Victoria. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1946 Second edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with fading to extremities, in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, this being scuffed. £17 718. TWAIN (Mark). A Tramp Abroad. London, Chatto & Windus, 1903 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth gilt, rubbing to joints, corners bumped, dust soiling to top edge, shelf wear. £36 719. UDEN (Grant) ed. Anecdotes from History, being a Collection of 1000 anecdotes, epigrams and episodes illustrative of English and World History.

London, Basil Blackwell, 1968 First edition. 8vo. Original cloth in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed along edges, else fine. £16 720. VANDERKISTE (R.W.) Notes and Narratives of a Six Years’ Mission, Principally among the Dens of London. London, James Nisbet & Co., 1853 Small 8vo. Cloth-backed marbled boards, spine head starting, extremities rubbed, page edge stained, fair copy of an interesting subject. £32 721. VARIOUS. London Opinion... in six volumes. London, George Newnes, 1945-53 6 vols. Illustrated throughout. Small 8vo. Pictorial softcovers, light scuffing with occasional creasing, else pages clean and bright, adverts throughout. £35

February 1945; October 1946; November 1951; January 1952; February 1952; August 1953.

722. VARIOUS. The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Original cloth, lightly shelf worn, dust soiling to top edge, pages clean and bright, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, lightly scuffed along extremities. £38

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723. VARIOUS. The Queen’s Gift Book. In Aid of Queen Mary’s Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors who have Lost their Limbs in the War. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1915] Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, corners bumped, light dust soiling to top edge, very good. £25 724. VARIOUS. They Saw it Happen... in six volumes. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1959-74 Mixed editions. 6 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf worn in pictorial dustwrappers, these being scuffed lightly along edges, all very good. £55

55BC -1485; 1485-1688; 1450-1600; 1689-1897; 1897-1940; They Looked Like This (Europe).

725. VARIOUS; FRASER (George MacDonald) intro. The World of the Public School. London, St Martin’s Press, 1977 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Near fine navy publisher’s cloth, with shelf wear to spine, silly title page missing, in a similar pictorial yellow unclipped dustwrapper. £50 726. VILLARI (Pasquale); VILLARI (Linda) trans. The Barbican Invasions of Italy.

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913 Second impression thus. Illustration to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, with gilt motif to front, spine darkened, corners bumped, pages untrimmed. £18 727. WALTER (Richard). Anson’s Voyage round the World in the Years 1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1744. London, Blackie & Son, c.1890 School Prize label tipped in, awarded to William Fraser. Illustrated frontis. 8vo.

Red cloth with pictorial design tooled in black to frontis. and backstrip, this detaching, rubbing to corners and head of spine, shelf worn, slight dust spoiling to top edge, text clean and bright. £30

William Fraser being GMF’s father.

728. WAR OFFICE. By Authority, the Army List for January, 1839. London, C. Roworth & Sons, 1839 Small 8vo. Recent red cloth backed binding, slight shelf wear, a fine copy. £65 729. ­– Infantry Second Leading 1938. London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1940

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Small 8vo. White paper wrappers stapled, chipping around fastening, corners folding. £22 730. WARD (A.W.), PROTHERO (G.W.), LEATHES (Stanley) eds. The Cambridge Modern History... in thirteen volumes [with] The Cambridge Modern History Atlas. Cambridge University Press, 1902-12 First edition. 13 vols., plus atlas. 8vo. Publisher’s original navy blue buckram, gilt lettered to the spines, some of these a bit sunned, with some of the front panels scuffed or blemished, t.e.g., Atlas volume former library copy with usual stamps, but overall a smart complete set of this famous historical reference. £425

The Renaissance; The Reformation; The Wars of Religion; The Thirty Years War; The Age of Louis XIV; The Eighteenth Century; The United States; The French Revolution; Napoleon; The Restoration; The Growth of Nationalities; The Lastest Age; Tables and General Index; [with] The Cambridge Modern History Atlas.

731. WARD (W.E.F.); MORISON (Ian T.) illus. The Royal Navy and the Slavers.

The Suppression of the Altantic Slave Trade. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1969 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth gilt, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper this being marginally shelf worn to spine. £16 732. WARNER (Philip). Sieges of the Middle Ages. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1968 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, with publisher’s review slip loosely inserted. £25 733. WASHBURN (Sherwood L.) Social Life of Early Man. London, Methuen & Co., 1962 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Original orange cloth, shelf worn with dust soiling to top edge in a white unclipped dustwrapper, this being darkened with small chips to spine head and tail. £18 734. WEST (Richard). Congo. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being slightly discoloured, light dust soiling to top edge, near fine. £20 735. WHELPTON (Eric). A Concise History of Italy. London, Robert Hale, 1964 First edition. Maps throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, light dust soiling to top edge, fine. £30

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736. WHISTON (William) trans. The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior, to which is added, Three Dissertations, concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God’s Command to Abraham, &c., &c. Halifax, Milner & Sowerby, 1861 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled decoration to boards, backstrip coming loose the second half of which is loosely slipped in, corners bumped, top edge dust soiled, pages clean, good only. £45 737. WHITE (T.H.) trans. The Book of Beasts. Being a Translation from a Latin Beastiary of the Twelfth Century. London, Jonathan Cape, 1954 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with red decoration to spine label and front board, darkening to head of spine where dustwrapper is chipped, spine pushed lightly, in a red dustwrapper, this being darkened and lightly scuffed along extremities. £52 738. WICKWAR (William H.) The Struggle for the Freedom of the Press, 18191832. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1928 First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered to spine, lightly dust soiled to top edge, else bright & clean, a near fine copy. £30 739. WILKINS (Vaughan). Endless Prelude. A survey of high events, great adventures, bloody tragedy, noble romance, queer happenings, and strange scandal; telling, in part, the history of the English-speaking peoples. London, George Routledge, 1937 Reprint. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf worn spine, corners bumped, else a nice copy. £20 740. WILLIAMS (Neville). Captain Outrageous. Seven Centuries of Piracy.

London, Barrie & Rockliff, 1961 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine original black cloth gilt, in a red pictorial unclipped dustwrapper with light scuffing to extremities, a nice copy. £32 741. WILLIAMSON ( James A.) A Shorter History of British Expansion. London, Macmillan & Co., 1922 Maps throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, spine darkened, occasional marking to boards, Glasgow Herald Library stamp to front endpaper and title page, good. £18

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742. WILSON (Peter). Ringside Seat. London, Rich & Cowan, c.1950 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original black cloth gilt, light rubbing to extremities, slightly dust spoiled top edge, else a nice copy. £25 743. YOUNG (G.M.) ed. Early Victorian England 1830-1865... in two volumes.

Oxford University Press, 1934 First edition. 2 vols. Photographic illustrations. Large 8vo. Publisher’s trademark blue cloth, gilt lettered, very good stout copies, with stamps of the Glasgow Herald Library. £140 744. YOUNG (G.V.C.) The History of the Isle of Man Under the Norse, or Now Through the Looking Glass Darkly Isle of Man, The Mansk-Svenska Publishing Co., 1981 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar unclipped dustwrapper. £58 745. ZOLA (Emile); VIZETELLY (Ernest Alfred) trans. Rome [&] Paris. London, Chatto & Windus, 1897 [&] 1898 New editions. 2 vols. 8vo. Original colourful pictorial boards, spines lightly pushed and shelf worn, corners bumped, top edge dust soiled, light foxing to endpapers and along page edges, publisher’s adverts to rear. £45

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746. ACT OF PARLIAMENT. An Act for the better Supressing of Theft upon the Borders of England and Scotland, and for Discovery of High-way Men and other Felons; At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656. London, printed by Hen: Hills & John Field, 1657 Pamphlet. 8vo. Black letter type, with woodcut armorial to title centre, this bordered, light offset to text, else very good indeed (pp.9) £225

Despite the Reivers being virtually outlawed by the beginning of the century, the borders were still very much a focus of lawlessness and brigandry in the wake of the Civil War. This pamphlet was printed during the Protectorate - Cromwell died just a year later leaving his son Richard as Lord Protector.

747. BAIN ( Joseph) ed. Calendar of Border Papers... in two volumes. Vol. I 15601594; Vol. II 1595-1603. Edinburgh, H.M. General Register House, 1896 First edition. 2 vols. 4to. Publisher’s blind tooled cloth gilt, sunning to spines these being rubbed along joints and edges, hinges weak, evidence of separation and detaching backstrip to first volume. £325 748. BINGHAM (Caroline). James V. King of Scots 1512-1542. London, Collins, 1971 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being shelf worn to a darkened spine, dust soiling to top edge, a very good copy. £17 749. BLACK (George F.) The Surnames of Scotland. Their Origin, Meaning, and History. New York, The New York Public Library, 1946 Reprint. Large 8vo. Original publisher’s red cloth, gilt title to spine, minor slightly shelf worn and bumped at the corners otherwise a nice copy, stamp of The Glasgow Herald Library on front endpaper, title page and rear panel, with a note in ink slipped in between pp 748-9. £55 750. BORLAND (Rev. R.); SCOTT (Tom) illus. Border Raids and Reivers. London, Thomas Fraser, 1910 Inscribed “G.M. Fraser” to front endpaper. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, spine pushed, evidence of separation towards rear, t.e.g. £60 751. BRANDER (Michael). Scottish and Border Battles and Ballads. London, Seeley Service & Co., 1975 160

First edition. Musical scores throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a typewritten review slipped in, a fine copy. £30 752. COOK ( J. Thornton). Their Majesties of Scotland. London, John Murray, 1928 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, fading to spine and edges of boards, foxing of page edges and endpapers, else a nice copy. £17 753. [CUMBERLAND] Mason’s Tourist Map of the Environs of Carlisle. Carlisle, printed for James C. Mason, c.1850 Map. Hand-coloured linen folding map, contained in original brown cloth casing, this gilt lettered & blind tooled to front board, detailing the railway lines etc., a lovely clean example with very little wear & tear. £55 754. DENT ( John) & McDONALD (Rory) eds. Christian Heritage in the Borders [&] Early Settlers in the Borders [&] Warfare and Fortifications in the Borders.

Melrose, Scottish Borders Council, 1997-2000 First editions. 3 vols. John Dent signed inside cover to ‘Christian Heritage’ and ‘Early Settlers’. GMF contributed Foreword to ‘Warfare and Fortifications’.

Illustrations and photographs throughout. 8vo. Pictorial laminated soft covers, as new. £35 755. DICKINSON (William Croft) & DONALDSON (Gordon) & MILNE (Isabel A.) eds. A Source Book of Scottish History... in two volumes. London, Thomas Nelson, 1958 Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth, spines lightly shelf worn and sunned to second volume, dust soiled along top edge, Glasgow Herald Library stamp to front endpaper, first volume in an unclipped dustwrapper this being lightly scuffed to edges, a very good pair though lacking the third volume (15671707). £25

Vol. I: From the Earliest Times to 1424; Vol. II: 1424 to 1567.

756. FERGUSON ( Joan P.S.) ed. Scottish Family Histories held in Scottish Libraries.

Edinburgh, The Scottish Central Library, 1960 First edition. Handwritten notes by GMF slipped in. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, bumping to corners, minor dust soiling to spine this being slightly pushed, in an unclipped dustwrapper, chipped to spine head and scuffed to tail, else a nice copy. £48

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757. FERGUSON (R.S.) & NANSON (W.) Some Municipal Records of the City of Carlisle, viz, The Elizabethan Constitutions, Orders, Provisions, Articles, and Rules from the Dormont Book, and the Rules and Orders of the Eight Trading Guilds. Carlisle, C. Thurnam & Sons, 1887 First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Publisher’s original cloth, gilt lettered, snag to head of spine, corners a bit bumped, pencil annotations throughout, with notes by GMF in short hand & Glasgow Herald annual Dinner Dance invitation (1966) loosely inserted, a good copy. £65 758. FORBES-LEITH (William). The Scots Men-at-Arms and Life-Guards in France. From their Formation until their final Dissolution... in two volumes.

Edinburgh, William Paterson, 1882 No. 189 of an edition limited to 312 copies. 2 vols. Inscribed to GMF from Kathleen on front endpaper. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, bevelled boards, rubbing to extremities with some shelf wear, a nice copy. £275 759. GLEADHILL (T.S.), FULCHER ( J.), THOMSON ( John) eds. Beauties of Scottish Song. London, Swan & Co., c.1880 Musical scores throughout. 4to. Green publisher’s cloth gilt, hinges weak, front joint tear, a.e.g., pages clean and bright. £45 760. GRAHAM (G.F.), MUDIE (T.M.) eds. The Songs of Scotland. Adapted to their Appropriate Melodies. Edinburgh, Wood & Co., c.1870 3 vols bound in 1. Musical scores throughout. Large 8vo. Half leather, cloth boards, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., slight sunning to spine, a nice clean copy. £80 761. HOWIE ( John). The Scots Worthies. Edinburgh, Johnstone, Hunter & Co., 1870 Revised edition. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Half cloth, foxing to endpapers, rear board a touch water stained and wrinkled, rubbing of extremities, else good. £28 762. HUTCHINSON (William). The History and Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, and its vicinity. Carlisle, printed by F. Jollie, 1796 First edition. Several engraved plates, including 1 folding map of city to front, and extra view tipped in to first page. Small 4to. Contemporary card wrappers, spine has nearly disintegrated with old tape marks, half-torn printed paper label to front: ‘Mainsforth’ [Library?] (Co. Durham), earlier engraved plate

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loosely inserted to rear, ink annotations to verso of title page, pencil mark to front suggests a missing plate but no evidence of this, overall a good but well thumbed copy. £250

William Hutchinson (1732-1814) produced a number of topographical works on the counties of northern England - hailing from County Durham, he worked very closely with George Allan of Darlington.

763. JOHNSTON (T.B.) & ROBERTSON (Col. James A.); DICKSON (William Kirk) ed. Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland. Edinburgh, W. & A.K. Johnston, 1894 Third edition. Folding map to front with further maps and illustrations throughout. 4to. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, bevelled boards, rubbing to extremities, top edge lightly dust soiled, else a very good copy. £72 764. JOHNSTONE (C.L.) History of the Johnstones. Supplement. Glasgow, Jackson, Wylie & Co., 1925 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s purple cloth gilt, spine darkened and pushed, dust soiling to top edge, pages untrimmed. £45 765. JUNIOR (Allan) ed. Humorous Scottish War Stories. Dundee, Valentine & Sons, 1930 First edition. Illustrated throughout, handwritten note and small painting to GMF slipped in. 8vo. Brown soft covers gilt, light creasing along edges, separation towards rear. £17 766. MACDONALD (Donald J.) Slaughter Under Trust. Glencoe-1692. London, Robert Hale, 1965 First edition. Illustrated with maps throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s purple cloth in pictorial unclipped dust wrappers this being scuffed to spine and corners, newspaper clipping slipped in. £18 767. MACK ( James Logan). The Border Line. From the Solway Firth to the North Sea, Along the Marches of Scotland and England. Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1926 Second edition. Ink note from previous owner to GMF, illustrated throughout.

8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt, spine sunned and pushed, occasional marking to boards, corners lightly rubbed, slight dust soiling to top edge, pages untrimmed. £52

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768. MACKAY (Maj. General Hugh). Memoirs of the War carried on in Scotland and Ireland. M.DC.LXXXIX-M.DC.XCI. Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club, 1833 Portrait to frontis. 4to. Half cloth marbled boards, rubbing to extremities, sunning to spine, pages clean and bright, pages untrimed, t.e.g., very good, uncommon. £235 769. MACKENZIE (Agnes Mure). The Scotland of Queen Mary: and the Religious Wars 1513-1638. London, Alexander Maclehose & Co., 1936 First edition. Folding family trees throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth gilt, shelf rubbing to spine head and tail, this being pushed, dust soiled top edge, good. £27 770. MACKINTOSH ( John). Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland. Aberdeen, W. Jolly & Sons, [1898] First edition. Typewritten note to GMF from MacLehose at Barrie Jenkins. 8vo.

Publisher’s brown cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, stain to rear board, else a very good copy. £50 771. MACLEOD (A.C.) & BOULTON (Harold) ed. Songs of the North. Gathered Together from the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland... in three volumes.

London, J.B. Cramer & Co., c.1920 Mixed editions. 3 vols. Musical scores throughout. Folio. Publisher’s cloth gilt, spines shelf worn and pushed, corners rubbed else pages clean and bright. £150 772. MACMILLAN (Donald). A Short History of the Scottish People. London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1912 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, this being faded, rubbing to spine head and tail also along joints, hinges weak, dust spoiled top edge, rubbing to corners, pages untrimmed. £16 773. MAIDMENT ( James). Letters and State Papers during the Reign of King James the Sixth. Chiefly from the Manuscript Collections of Sir James Balfour of Denmyln. Edinburgh, 1838 Large 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, label to spine, this being lightly faded and shelf worn, corners bumped, untrimmed pages bright, a nice copy. £75 774. McINTIRE (Walter T.); GRAY (Thomas) ed. Lakeland and the Borders of Long Ago. Carlisle, The Cumberland News, 1949 Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Original green cloth, lightly shelf worn, in a pictorial dustwrapper this being scuffed along edges, with tear to spine tail. £27 164

775. MILLAR (A.H.) Gregarach. The Strange Adventures of Rob Roy’s Sons.

London, Sands & Co., c.1930 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, fading to spine, light dust soiling to spine, slightly foxed page edges, else a nice copy. £25 776. OAKLEY (C.A.) The Second City. Glasgow, Blackie, 1975 Third edition. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Publisher’s brown cloth, sunned to upper part of boards, top edge lightly dust soiled, shelf worn in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being browned and lightly creased along edges. £20 777. PEASE (Howard). The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England and Scotland, being a Brief History of the Marches, the Laws of March, and the Marchmen Together with some Account of the Ancient Feud between England and Scotland. London, Constable & Co., 1913 Limited edition of 500 copies. Illustrations and maps throughout. Small folio.

Red publisher’s cloth gilt to spine and front, spine faded, light rubbing to joints, lower corners bumped, t.e.g., a very good copy £85 778. RAE (Thomas I.) The Administration of the Scottish Frontier. 1513:1603.

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1966 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, lightly shelf worn, in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being chipped to head and tail of spine with scuffing along edges. £37 779. RAMSAY (A.A.W.) Challenge to the Highlander. Montrose, Argyll, Johnstone of Wariston, Lochiel, Lord Lovat, Forbes of Culloden. London, John Murray, 1933 First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, near fine in a slightly chipped & rather browned printed dustwrapper, very good. £30 780. REED ( James). The Border Ballads. London, The Athlone Press, 1973 First edition. Illustrated throughout, with typewritten review by GMF slipped in.

8vo. Publisher’s cloth in pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being chipped to spine tail and creased at extremities, else a very good copy. £22 781. SAGE (Donald) Memorabilia Domestica. Parish Life in the North of Scotland.

Edinburgh, Albyn Press Ltd, 1975 No. 130 of a limited edition of 750 copies. GMF’s typewritten review slipped in.

8vo. Fine cloth in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £38

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782. SALMOND ( J.B.) Wade in Scotland. Edinburgh, The Moray Press, 1934 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red cloth, shelf wear to spine, chipped dustwrapper loosely slipped in, light dust soiling to top edge, good. £40 783. SCOTT ([Sir]Walter). Border Antiquities of England and Scotland... in two volumes. Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages... etc. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814 & 1817 First edition. 2 vols. 96 engraved plates of landscape & architectural subjects, tissue-guards present. Large 4to. Full straight-grained green morocco, intricate gilt tooled & blind-stamp borders, with panel design to front boards, gilt in compartments (first volume confusingly also labelled ‘1817’), a.e.g., front board joint of first volume coming loose, extremities considerably rubbed, with some light scuffing, but internally clean & bright, free from spotting, very good overall. cxxvii, 1-92; 209, ci, [11]pp. £875 784. – The Tales of a Grandfather. Being the History of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Rebellion 1745-46. London, A. & C. Black, 1925 Colour illustration to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth boards, black and gilt design tooled in, sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, corners pushed. £25 785. SLEE (Mary). Older Carlisle [&] Some Worthies of Older Carlisle. London, [privately printed], 1923 2 vols. Illustrations throughout. 12mo. Cloth-backed card, this being bumped and shelf worn to spine. Some Worthies contain a note from Caro Fraser slipped in, binding is tight. Older Carlisle missing several pages, and binding starting. £30 786. STUART (Prince Charles Edward); MOUNSEY (George Gill) ed. Authentic Account of the Occupation of Carlisle in 1745. London, Longman & Co., 1846 First edition. Engraved illustrations, and folding plate to front. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt embossed to front panel & blind tooled, binding has separated from the text block, preliminary pages have worked loose, there is a tear to folding plate, otherwise clean & bright, in need of recasing & general repair. £95 787. THOMSON (Rev. P.D.) The Gordon Highlanders. Being and Short Record of the Services of the Regiment. Devonport, Swiss & Co., 1921 Illustrated throughout. 12mo. Original cream cloth, tartan border design and crest to front, darkened to spine and marked to boards, corners bumped, heavy rubbing to head and tail of spine, else pages bright and clean. £27

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788. TOMSON (Graham R.) ed. Border Ballads. London, Walter Scott, 1888 Small 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with gilt design to spine and boards, light shelf wear, pages clean and bright, a.e.g., very good. £37 789. TOPPING (George). Memories of Old Carlisle. Carlisle, Steel Bros., 1922 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s teal cloth gilt, light rubbing to edges, else a fine copy. £22 790. TYTLER (Patrick Fraser). History of Scotland... in nine volumes Edinburgh, William Tait, 1841-43 Second edition. 9 vols. Original publisher’s green cloth, blind tooled border design to front & rear panels, gilt decorated spines, head & tails occasionally slightly pushed, but clean & tight throughout, a near fine set in its original binding. £395 An important work which covers the country’s history until the union of the crowns.

791. VARIOUS. Lines from Liddesdale. Carlisle, Brown & Brown, 1943 Small 8vo. Stapled red card, slight stains from stapling, edges lightly worn and scuffed, with minimal sunning to spine. £22 792. VEITCH ( John). The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border. Their Main Features and Relations... in two volumes. London, William Blackwood, 1893 Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with black and gilt design to front board and spine, this being shelf worn, rubbing to extremities, bevelled boards, a nice set. £62 793. WILLIAMS (Charles). James I. London, Arthur Barker, 1934 First edition. Portrait to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, rubbing to extremities, shelf wear to spine, this being pushed, library copy. £18

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794. CHUMS ANNUAL. Chums 1930-1931. London, The Amalgamated Press, c.1931 Illustrated throughout. 4to. Publisher’s red pictorial boards, front board bowing and hinge weak, shelf wear to spine, else a nice copy. £30 795. ANSTEY (F.) Vice Versa, or A Lesson to Fathers. London, John Murray, 1949 Reprint. 8vo. Original cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this in a clear protective sleeve, a nice copy. £18 796. BALLANTYNE (R.M.) Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines. London, Thomas Nelson & Sons., c.1900 Inscription to front endpaper. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Pubisher’s blue cloth with navy design tooled to front boards and spine, this being shelf worn and marked, pages clean and tight, a nice copy. £28

Inscription reads “To ‘G’. Many Happy Returns, from Daddy.”

797. – Martin Rattler; or, A Boy’s Adventures in the Forests of Brazil. London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1901 Inscribed “W. Fraser” to front endpaper. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green illustrated cloth, rubbing to extremities with shelf wear to spine head and tail, tear to rear hinge, boards starting, dust soiled top edge, a reading copy. £20 798. – World of Ice [&] The Gorilla Hunters. London, Dean & Son, c.1920 2 vols. Illustrations to frontis. Inscribed “George” to ‘The Gorilla Hunters’ title.

8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth, sunning to both spines, bumping to corners, staining to boards, occasional chipping of pages, these being foxed at the edges, both good only. £22 799. BENNETT (Rolf ). The Adventures of Lieut. Lawless, R.N. London, Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1916 8vo. Original blue cloth with black tooling to front board, sunning to spine, this being shelf worn and pushed, back board starting, colouring to page edges. £20

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800. BIRD (Richard) [BARRADELL-SMITH (Walter)]. WORKS... in seventeen volumes. London, OUP [&] Blackie & Sons., 1918-33 Mixed editions. 17 vols. Illustration to frontis. Signed “G.M. Fraser” to front endpaper of ‘Play the Game, Torbury!’ 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, with pictorial front and spine, this being shelf worn, light rubbing to corners, a set of very good reading copies. £200

Titles: The Liveliest Term at Templeton; The Ryecroft Rivals; Dawson’s Score and other School Stories; Thanks to Rugger; The Deputy Captain; The Wharton Medal; Queer Doings at Aldborough; Captain of Keynes; Carton’s Cap; The Third Jump & other Stories; The Boys of Dyall’s House; The Sporting House; The Ripswayed Ring; The Morleigh Mascot; The Rival Captains ; Play the Game, Torbury!; School House v. the Rest.

“Until I met him, I hadn’t thought of myself as a writer; indeed, I felt that English composition was something I wasn’t very good at” (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’). Walter Barradell-Smith, also known as Richard Bird and by his pupils at the Glasgow Academy as ‘Beery’ was one of the most important influences in GMF’s youth. He instilled a passion for Shakespeare and consistently marked him high on his work. It was his firm belief that GMF would eventually make a name for himself.

801. BOWEN (Marjorie). The Viper of Milan. London, John Long, c.1937 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, staining to front board, sunning and shelf wear to spine, publisher’s adverts to rear, clean pages, very good. £18 802. BOYS OWN PAPER MAGAZINE. Boy’s Own Paper... in four weekly issues.

London, 1912; 1913; 1943 4 issues. Illustrated throughout. First three issues, 4to., near fine pictorial wrappers, held in protective sleeves, with later issue, small 8vo. lightly worn pictorial wrappers, also in protective sleeve. £50 December 14th, 1912; March 1st, 1913; July 19th, 1913; October 1943.

803. BURROUGHS (Edgar Rice). WORKS... in six volumes. London, Methuen [& others], 1914-30 Mixed editions. 6 vols. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, black tooling to front board and spines, spines slightly sunned, backstrip detaching to ‘The Return of Tarzan’, good to very good copies. £85

Tarzan of the Apes; The Return of Tarzan; The Beasts of Tarzan; The Son of Tarzan; Tarzan Lord of the Jungle; Tarzan and the Lost Empire.

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804. BUZZER. Buzzer: No. 1 of World’s Biggest Boys Paper. London, George Newnes, 1937 Illustrated, comic strips etc., with ‘every Friday’ priced at 2d. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers, with a typical late empire scene, a very good copy. £20 805. CAMERON (Verney Lovett). In Savage Africa. London, Thomas, Nelson and Sons, c.1925 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth with pictorial design tooled in black, darkened spine pushed and shelf worn, dust soiling to top edge, page edges lightly foxed, tear to title page. £16 806. CROCKETT (S.R.) Red Cap Tales. Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1904 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original orange cloth, pictorial design tooled to front and spine, this being shelf worn, corners bumped, light foxing to endpapers, top edge dust soiled, else a smart copy. £28 807. – ; BROWNE (Gordon) illus. The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion, with those of General Napoleon Smith. An Improving History for Old Boys, Young Boys, Good Boys, Bad Boys, Big Boys, Little Boys, Cow Boys and TomBoys. London, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1897 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial green cloth, with darkening of a pushed and shelf worn spine, corners rubbed, publisher’s adverts to rear, pages clean and bright, t.e.g., a charming book. £34 808. – ; RICHARDS (Frank) illus. The Red Axe. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, spine slighty pushed and shelf worn, corners bumped, hinges starting, untrimmed pages, publisher’s adverts to rear, pages clean and bright, t.e.g. £22 809. CROMPTON (Richmal); HENRY (Thomas) illus. William Stories... in twentysix volumes [&] William - The Immortal. An Illustrated Bibliography. London, George Newnes [& others], 1928-84; 1993 Mixed editions. 26 vols. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, sunning and shelf wear to some spines, hinges occasionally weakening, very good reading copies, with the bibliography by David Schutte, 4to. Fine laminated wrappers. £350

Just-William; More William; William Again; William the Fourth; Still William; William the Conqueror; William the Outlaw; William in Trouble; William the Good; William; William the Bad; William’s Happy Days; William’s Crowded Hours; William the Pirate; 170

William the Rebel; William the Gangster; William the Detective; Sweet William; William the Showman; William the Dictator; William and A.R.P.; William and the Evacuees; William does his Bit; William Carries On; William and the Brains Trust; Just William’s Luck.

810. DEFOE (Daniel). The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. London, Blackie & Son, c.1920 Inscribed to GMF from his mother to inside front. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt, blind stamping to front board and spine, this being darkened, shelf wear and bumped corners. £18

Inscription reads “To George, From Mummie. Swimming Prize. July, 1932.”

811. DOUGLASS (Leslie). She Rides By Night. London, Overseas Enterprises, c.1948 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original red cloth, bumping to corners, spine sunned, light foxing to endpapers, fading to board edges, else a nice copy. £17 812. DU BOISGOBEY (Fortune); MARIE (Adrien) illus. An Ocean Knight; or, the Corsairs and their Conquerors. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1891 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth with pictorial design to front board and spine, shelf wear to spine, light rubbing to corners. £25 813. FARNOL ( Jeffery). WORKS... in four volumes. London, Sampson Low, 191050 First editions. 4 vols. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, light shelf wear, very good. £80

My Lord of Wrybourne; Charmian, Lady Vibart; The Ninth Earl; The Broad Highway.

814. – WORKS... in twenty four volumes. London, Sampson Low [& others], 191350 Mixed editions. 24 vols. Dustwrappers to ‘The Way Beyond’ and ‘The Loring Mystery’ by C.R. Brock. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, sunning to spines, these being lightly pushed, rubbing to extremities, boards starting, corners bumped. £350

Our Admirable Betty, A Romance; The Loring Mystery; The Way Beyond; The Crooked Furrow; The Ninth Earl; The Amateur Gentleman; Heritage Perilous; John O’the Green; Charmian, Lady Vibart; Sir John Dering; Beltane the Smith; Gyfford of Weare; The Definite Object; The High Adventure; Martin Conisby’s Vengeance; The Geste of Duke Jocelyn; The Happy Harvest; The Fool Beloved; Black Bartlemy’s Treasure; Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer; A Pageant of Victory; Winds of Fortune; Peregrine’s Progress; The High Adventure.

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815. FARRAR (F.W.) St. Winifred’s or the World of School. London, A & C Black, 1919 8vo. Original red cloth black lettering tooled to spine and front board, shelf wear, staining to back board, corners bumped, else pages clean. £20 816. GILLIAT (Edward). Stories of Indian Heroes. True & Stirring Records of the Bravery, Tact & Resourcefulness of the Founders of the Indian Empire. London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1916 Illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth, with pictorial design to front board and spine, this being shelf worn, corners pushed, foxing to endpapers, else a nice copy. £22 817. GOODYEAR (R.A.H.); WHITWELL (T.M.R.) illus. The Four Schools.

London, Blackie & Son, c.1937 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth, design in black to front board and spine, pages clean and tight, spine pushed, light shelf wear to spine, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being in a clear protective sleeve. £18 818. GRAEME (Bruce). Blackshirt the Adventurer, a New Blackshirt Adventure.

London, Hutchinson & Co., c.1930 Second impression. 8vo. Publisher’s orange cloth with black lettering, corners bumped, spine lightly faded and creased with some shelf wear, but nice & clean internally, very good, uncommon. £40 819. HADATH (Gunby). Carey of Cobhouse, a Public School Story. Oxford University Press, 1951 Third impression. 8vo. Original green cloth, minor shelf wear & bumping to corners, light sunning to spine, a very good copy without dustwrapper. £20 820. HAGGARD (H. Rider) WORKS... in four volumes. London, Hodder & Stoughton [& others], 1890-1957 Mixed editions. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Original cloth, ‘Ayesha’ in very good unclipped dustwrapper, shelf wear, light rubbing to corners, good copies overall. £135 Allan Quatermain; Allan’s Wife; Ayesha; Morning Star; Maiwa’s Revenge.

821. HARDING (Robert). The Land of the Arab. London, The Boy’s Own Paper Office, 1937 Colour illustration to frontis., this being detached and slipped in. 8vo. Original blue cloth gilt, shelf wear and creasing to spine, this being pushed, bumped corners, else a good copy. £17 172

822. HENTY (G.A.) At the Point of the Bayonet, a Tale of the Mahratta War. London, Blackie & Son, 1902 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, bevelled boards, pictorial front, spine tooled in gilt, this being pushed & shelf worn, corners rubbed, else a good copy. £95 823. – By Conduct and Courage. A Story of the Days of Nelson. London, Blackie & Son, 1905 First edition. With illustrations by William Rainey, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo.

Publisher’s red cloth, bevelled boards, with pictorial front board, sunning and light shelf wear to spine, corners bumped, some illustrations detached, a good copy. £80 824. – By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War. London, Blackie & Son, 1884 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, spine pushed, rubbing to extremities, staining to rear board, foxing to endpapers, a good copy of a scarce title. £150 825. – Held Fast for England. A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83). London, Blackie & Son, 1892 First edition. With illustrations by Gordon Browne. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, pictorial front boards and spine, this being shelf worn & slightly pushed, halftitle clipped, corners rubbed, boards starting, else good. £95 826. – In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence (18211827). London, Blackie & Son, 1893 First edition. With illustrations by W.S. Stacey, plus publisher’s adverts to rear.

8vo. Publisher’s brown bevelled boards, with gilt and black pictorial design, shelf wear & rubbing to extremities, spine pushed, a good copy. £80 827. – In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy. London, Blackie & Son, 1888 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Original green cloth, pictorial design to front and spine tooled in black and gilt, lacking front endpaper & with tear to rear endpaper, school prize label to front paste down, rubbing to corners and joints, spine pushed, front board starting, evidence of separation and water stains to lower corners, a fair copy only. £65

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828. – A March on London. Being a Story of Wat Tyler’s Insurrection. London, Blackie & Son, 1898 First edition. With illustrations by W.H. Margetson & publisher’s adverts to rear.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with pictorial front board, spine pushed and shelf worn, corners lightly rubbed, foxing to endpapers, good only. £65 829. – On the Irrawaddy. A Story of the First Burmese War. London, Blackie & Son, 1897 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Original cloth, with pictorial design to front & spine, heavy shelf wear to spine head & tail, corners bumped, evidence of separation, light foxing to endpapers, a good copy only. £85 830. – Out with Garibaldi. A Story of the Liberation of Italy. London, Blackie & Son, 1901 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, with pictorial design tooled in colour & gilt, a lightly pushed & shelf worn spine the head of which is slightly torn, rubbing to extremities, good overall. £70 831. – Through the Sikh War: A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab. London, Blackie & Son, 1894 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s bevelled boards, pictorial design in gilt and colour, rubbing to head & tail of spine, heavy chip to half title, foxing to rear endpapers, spine lightly pushed, else good, a smart copy. £125 832. – Through Three Campaigns. A Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashantee.

London, Blackie & Son, 1904 First edition. Illustrations by Wal Paget, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo.

Publisher’s red cloth pictorial design in black and gilt, bevelled boards, sunning to spine, this also being pushed, staining & rubbing to edges, however pages clean and bright, a good copy. £65 833. – The Tiger of Mysore. A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib. London, Blackie & Son, [1896] First edition. With illustrations by W.H. Margetson, publisher’s adverts to rear.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, bevelled boards, pictorial design tooled to front boards, foxing to endpapers, rubbing to extremities, sunning to spine, else a good copy. £95

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834. – To Herat and Cabul. A Story of the First Afghan War. London, Blackie & Son, 1902 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth gilt, spine pushed & shelf worn, corners bumped, else a very good copy. £95 835. – Under Wellington’s Command. A Tale of the Peninsular War. London, Blackie & Son, 1899 First edition. Illustrated throughout by Wal Paget, publisher’s adverts to rear.

8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, bevelled boards, pictorial design to front board and spine, this being pushed & shelf worn, rubbing to extremities, wear to boards, evidence of minor separation, but overall a good copy. £105 836. – When London Burned. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire.

London, Blackie & Son, 1895 First edition. With illustrations by J. Finnemore, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue cloth, bevelled boards, pictorial front board and spine gilt, rubbing to extremities, shelf wear to spine, marks to back board, though pages clean and bright, good only. £125 837. – With Buller in Natal or, A Born Leader. London, Blackie & Son, 1901 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Original blue decorative cloth, bevelled boards, pictorial colour design gilt, joints & corners rubbed, spine shelf worn, stain to front board, this starting, else pages tight, a good copy. £85 838. – With Frederick the Great. A Story of the Seven Year’s War. London, Blackie & Son, 1898 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, bevelled boards, gilt and black tooled design to front board & spine, this being sunned, rubbing to extremities, foxing to front, but overall a very good copy. £95 839. – With Kitchener in the Soudan. A Story of Atbara and Omdurman. London, Blackie & Son, 1903 First edition. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial red cloth, sunned spine pushed with rubbing to joints & corners, tape mark to rear board, else a good example. £95

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840. – With Roberts to Pretoria. A Tale of the South African War. London, Blackie & Son, 1902 First edition. Illustrated throughout by Rainey, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo.

Publisher’s pictorial red cloth, spine faded, general wear, rubbing & bumping to corners, evidence of separation, two plates detached, good only. £65 841. – With the Allies to Pekin. A Story of the Relief of the Legations. London, Blackie & Son, 1904 First edition. With illustrations by Wal Paget. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth bevelled boards, these being slightly water stained, pictorial front boards, shelf wear to spine, publisher’s adverts to rear, clean internally, but a good copy only. £75 842. – WORKS... in twenty-five volumes. London, Blackie & Son, c.1910-20 Mixed editions. 25 vols. Illustrated throughout, publisher’s adverts to rear. 8vo.

Original decorative cloth, with pictorial front boards, spine pushed, corners lightly bumped, all good to very good copies. £400

The Dragon and the Raven; The Young Franc-Tireurs; Tales of Daring and Danger; Won by the Sword; Berio the Briton; In the Heart of the Rockies; With Wolfe in Canada; Sturdy & Strong; In Times of Peril; At Aboukir and Acre; Maori and Settler; The Lion of the North; With Cochrane the Dauntless; Both Sides the Border; Winning His Spurs; True to the Old Flag; Captain Bayley’s Heir; Redskin & Cowboy; Jack Archer; The Bravest of the Brave; St. Bartholomew’s Eve; The Cat of Bubastes; By England’s Aid; By Right of Conquest; & Jacobite Exile.

843. HOTSPUR BOOKS. The Hotspur Book for Boys. London, D.C. Thomson & Co., c.1940 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 4to. Original decorative boards, depicting a boy on a motorbike, text printed on thick paper, spine sunned, rubbing to extremities, especially the spine, overall a very good copy. £27 844. HUNT (Cecil). Laughing Gas. The Best Jokes. London, Methuen & Co., 1940 First edition. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, this being lightly stained, corners bumped, shelf worn spine, page edge slightly marked. £20 845. IRWIN (Margaret). The Stranger Prince. The Story of Rupert of the Rhine.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1938 ‘Golden Library edition’. Portrait frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards, lightly dust soiled, in an edge worn but complete, printed gold dustwrapper, gold. £20

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846. JENKINS (Herbert). Adventures of Bindle. London, Herbert Jenkins, c. 1930 Sixth printing. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with black lettering to front board and spine, that being lightly pushed marked and bumped, page edges foxed. £20 847. KINGSTON (William H.G.) In the Wilds of Florida. London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c.1911 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth, pictorial design in black and gilt, spine shelf worn and pushed, light rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to page edges, pages tight and clean. £25 848. – Peter the Whaler. His Early Life and Adventures in the Artic Regions.

London, Blackie & Son, c.1920 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt, blind tooling to front and spine, darkening to spine, dust soiling to top edge, good. £22 849. – The Wanderers. London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c.1910 ‘Kingston Library edition’. 8vo. Original red cloth with black and gilt pictorial designs, a.e.g., light shelf wear to extremities, a lovely near fine bright copy. £45 850. LANE ( Jane). WORKS... in five volumes. London, Andrew Dakers & Robert Hale, 1943-1956.

Mixed editions. 5 vols. 8vo. All original cloth, four in dustwrappers, all fine to very good reading copies, frontis. of ‘King Covenant’ detached. £65 He Stooped to Conquer; His Flight is Ours; England for Sale; London Goes to Heaven; Parcel of Rogues; The Reign of King Covenant.

851. LOFTING (Hugh). Doctor Dolittle... in eleven volumes. London, Jonathan Cape, 1937-67 Mixed editions. 11 vols. Dustwrapper and illustrations throughout by Lofting.

8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to lightly pushed spines and corners lightly rubbed, all save three copies are in pictorial dustwrappers, these being lightly chipped to extremities. £275

The Story of Doctor Dolittle; The Voyagees of Doctor Dolittle; Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office; Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo; Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan; Doctor Dolittle’s Garden; Doctor Dolittle in the Moon; Doctor Dolittle’s Return; Doctor Dolittle & the Secret Lake; Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary.

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852. MASON (A.E.W.) The Broken Road. London, John Murray, 1919 ‘Cheaper edition’. Signed to front board and half title “A.S. Fraser”. 8vo.

Publisher’s blue boards gilt, with blind tooled tree design to front boards, sunning and creasing to spine, endpapers missing, corners bumped. £16 853. – Musk and Amber. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1942 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, this being lightly sunned to a pushed spine, slight rubbing to extremities, pages clean. £20 854. NICHOLSON (Sydney H.) British Songs for British Boys. A Collection of National Songs. London, Macmillan & Co., 1922 Reprint. Musical scores throughout. Large 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, black lettering tooled to boards, sunning to spine, corners bumped else a nice copy £20 855. PEACOCK (Max). Colonel Blood. London, Robert Hale, 1946 First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth slightly marked, dust soiled to top edge, corners a touch bumped, spine sunned & slightly creased, however pages clean and bright, very good without dustwrapper. £50 856. REID (Captain Mayne). The Guerilla Chief, and other Tales. London, George Routledge & Sons, c.1900 8vo. Original decorative cloth, front hinge a bit weak, else a very good clean copy. £28 857. – The Rifle Rangers or Adventures in Southern Mexico. London, Collins’ Clear-Type Press, c.1910 Illustration to frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, with black design tooled to front and spine, shelf wear to spine, this being sunned and lightly pushed. £33 858. – The Scalp Hunters or Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico. Oxford University Press, n.d.

Illustrations throughout. Small 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, sunning and wear to spine, rubbing at corners, ink notes to back board, publisher’s adverts to rear. £25 859. – The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico. London, J. & C. Brown & Co., c.1860 Illustrated. Small 8vo. Cloth backed boards, spine pushed, rubbing to edges, else a nice copy. £48

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860. ROGERS (Stanley). The Atlantic Buccaneers. London, Blackie & Son, 1939 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine red publisher’s cloth, spine pushed, in a pictorial clipped dustwrapper, this unfortunately missing the head and shoulder’s of a buccaneer. £22 861. ROYDE-SMITH (N.D.) Una and the Red Cross Knight, and other tales from Spenser’s Faery Queene. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1934 Reprint. Pictorial frontis. & title, illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, rubbing to front board and spine, corners slightly bumped, small stain to rear board, else a smart tight copy. £30 862. SABATINI (Rafael). The Banner of the Bull. Three Episodes in the Career of Cesare Borgia. London, Martin Secker, 1915 Illustrated to frontis. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, red lettering tooled to front, spine creased, pages untrimmed, stain to rear boards, corners rubbed, else pages clean and bright. £54 863. – Captain Blood. His Odyssey. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922 First US edition. Illustrated frontis. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettering tooled in red to spine and front, spine pushed, front hinge weakening, title page starting, else very good. £75 864. – Chivalry. London, Hutchinson & Co., [1935] First edition. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, spine leaning & backstrip attached to boards with strong tape, a reading copy. £20 865. – The Fortunes of Captain Blood. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1936 Invoice from Godspeed’s Bookshop to GMF slipped in. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth with red lettering to front and spine, this being pushed and lightly shelf worn, light rubbing to corners. £40 866. – Love-at-Arms. Being a Narrative excerpted from the Chronicles of Urbino during the Dominion of the High and Mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1907 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s original red cloth gilt, blindstamp to front board, rubbing to extremities, torn at spine head, yet very good. £250 A rare first edition of the author’s fifth novel.

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867. – The Minion. Being the Rise and Fall of Robert Carr of Ferniehurst, Earl of Somerset, Viscount Rochester, Baron Winwick, Baron Brancepeth, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a Member of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, etc., etc. London, Hutchinson & Co., c.1930 GMF handwritten note titled “Poppies” slipped in. 8vo. Publisher’s buff cloth with brown lettering, spine shelf worn and pushed, corners lightly rubbed, publisher’s adverts to rear. £37 868. – The Nuptials of Corbal. London, Hutchinson & Co., [1927] First edition. Illustrations throughout by Harold Brett. 8vo. Publisher’s maroon cloth, extremities bumped with staining to rear board. £37 869. – Turbulent Tales. London, Hutchinson & Co., [1946] First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in a price-clipped dust-jacket, this being torn in places, binding worn at extremities, hinges cracked. £20 870. – The Writings of Rafael Sabatini... in twenty-one volumes. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924-28 ‘Autograph edition’, no. 439 of an edition limited to 750 copies, signed by the author to first volume. 21 vols (of 34 eventually issued). Illustrations to frontis. and throughout. Large 8vo. Uniformly bound in publisher’s original half cloth, with printed paper labels on spines, occasional wear to extremities, some corners bumped and minor staining, sadly lacking volume thirteen from this run (vols. I-XXII), otherwise a very good set. £675 “And then when I was ten the thunderbolt struck. His name was Sabatini, and he opened up the past for me as he has done for millions” (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’).

871. – WORKS… in sixteen volumes. London, Hutchinson & Co. [& others], 1935--51 Mixed editions. 16 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s boards cloth and leatherette, very good to good reading copies, GMF’s signature to ‘The Lost King’, GMF’s British Airways boarding pass slipped in to ‘Bardelys the Magnificent’. £275

Anthony Wilding. A Romance; Bardelys the Magnificent; The Black Swan; Columbus: a Romance; The Gamester; Historical Nights’ Entertainment. Third Series; The Justice of the Duke; King in Prussia; The Lost King; The Marquis of Carabas: a Romance; The Romantic Prince; Scaramouche the Kingmaker: a Romance; The Stalking-Horse; The Strolling Saint.

Being the Confessions of the High & Mighty Agostino D’Anguissola, Tyrant of Mondolfo & Lord of Carmina, in the State of Piacenza; The Sword of Islam; Venetian Masque.

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872. STABLES (Gordon). Hearts of Oak. A Story of Nelson and the Navy. London, John F. Shaw & Co., c.1890 New edition. Illustrated frontis. 8vo. Original decorative cloth, depicting a soldier on a camel, bevelled boards, gilt, a.e.g., pages browned, binding weak, with snag to head of spine, a fair copy, with presentation inscription to GMF’s father from his grandmother (?). £24 873. VAN WYCK MASON (F.) Cutlass Empire. New York, Doubleday & Co., 1949 First edition. Map endpapers. 8vo. Fine publisher’s green cloth, gilt, without dustwrapper. £25 874. VARIOUS. The Rover Book for Boys. London, D.C. Thomson & Co., c.1929 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, spine heavily creased with large chip to tail, corners rubbed, front board starting, evidence of separation, a well-loved copy. £17 875. VICARY (Dorothy); MOORSOM (F.E.) illus. Niece of the Headmistress.

London, Blackie & Son, n.d.

Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with rubbing to extremities, spine creased and darkened, makings to boards, corners pushed, rear endpaper missing, back board starting. £18 876. WALKER (Rowland). Dastral of the Flying Corps. London, S.W. Patridge & Co., 1933 Frontis. illustration. Small 8vo. Original blue cloth with illustration in black to front board and spine, corners slightly bumped, spine lightly shelf worn. £22 877. WALLACE (Edgar). WORKS... nine volumes of the African Novels. London, [Various], 1941-52 Mixed editions. 9 vols. “G.M.Fraser” in pencil to front endpaper of Bones of the River. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, rubbing to extremities, fading to spine where not in pictorial dustwrappers, these being scuffed, else a nice set. £125

Sanders of the River; The People of the River; Bosambo of the River; Bones; The Keeper of the King’s Peace; Lieutenant Bones; Sandi, the King-Maker, Sanders; Bones of the River.

878. WALSH (Maurice). Blackcock’s Feather. A Plain Cloak-and-Sword Story Rendered from the Scots and Gaelic. London, W. & R. Chambers, 1932 First impression. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, faded slightly with pushed spine, markings to back board, pages clean and tight. £27

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879. WETJEN (Albert Richard). WORKS... in three volumes. London, The World’s Work, 1950-1 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf wear to spine, rubbing to extremities, ‘Shark Gotch of the Islands’ in a chipped pictorial dustwrapper, good reading copies. £37

Shark Gotch and Typhoon Bradley; The Chronicles of Shark Gotch; Shark Gotch of the Islands.

880. WEYMAN (Stanley). The Abbess of Vlaye. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1904 First edition. Pictorial frontis. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, half inch tear to head of spine, this leaning, some light scuff marks, else a very good copy. £50 881. – The House of the Wolf. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1895 New edition. Decoration to title page. 8vo. Original maroon cloth, silver lettered, rubbed, boards a bit marked, front endpaper has adhered to paste down, rear paste down with glue-like marks, lacks half-title, good only. £20 882. – Starvecrow Farm. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1905 First edition. Pictorial frontis., illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, spine shelf worn, some light scuff marks to boards, else a very good copy. £38 883. – The Wild Geese. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910 Illustrated, pictorial frontis. etc. Small 8vo. Original decorative publisher’s cloth, with pictorial front board & black lettering, lightly sunned spine but gilt lettering still bright, pages clean & tight, a near fine stout copy. £25 884. WHITE (T.H.) The Once & Future King. London, Collins, 1958 First edition thus. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth with minimal shelf wear, near fine in a shelf worn, heavily soiled dustwrapper, this however complete & unclipped, with “George M. Fraser” in ink on front endpaper, pages clean and bright, a very good example. £42 885. WILLIANS (Geoffrey) & SEARLE (Ronald). The Compleet Molesworth.

London, Max Parrish & Co., 1965 Fifth impression. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, lightly scuffed in a clear protective sleeve, very good. £34

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886. WISS (M.) The Swiss Family Robinson. The Journal of a Family Shipwrecked with his Wife and Children on an Uninhabited Island. London, Blackie & Son, c.1920 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooling to front and spine, this being shelf worn, corners bumped, light dust soiling. £22 887. WOOLF (Rose Yeatman); VREDENBURG (Edric) ed.; THEAKER (Harry G.) illus. Stories from the Arabian Nights. London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, c.1900 Illustrations throughout, one plate loosely slipped in. 8vo. Green pictorial cloth, bevelled boards, shelf wear to spine, this being darkened and rubbed to head, corners bumped, t.e.g., good only. £20 888. WREN (P.C.) The Disappearance of General Jason. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1940 First edition. 8vo. Orginial buff cloth this being stained to front board, shelf worn to spine and rubbed to corners, a good copy. £18 889. – Explosion. London, John Murray, 1935 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, spine pushed and darkened slightly, rubbing to corners else a nice copy, publisher’s adverts to rear, pages clean and bright. £25 890. – Mysterious Waye. The Story of “The Unsetting Sun”. London, John Murray, 1930 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, faded to spine and edges of boards, spine pushed and stained, small puncture to back board, corners bumped, publisher’s adverts to rear. £20 891. – Paper Prison. London, John Murray, 1939 First edition. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, fading to pushed and shelf worn spine, rubbing to corners, publisher’s adverts to rear, pages clean and bright. £32 892. – Spanish Maine. London, John Murray, 1935 First edition. 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a price clipped pictorial dustwrapper, this being scuffed lightly to extremities, publisher’s adverts to rear, front endpaper missing else a good copy. £32

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893. – Two Feet from Heaven. Philadelphia, Macrae-Smith Co., 1941 First US edition. 8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth, front board design and spine in red, spine shelf worn, pages untrimmed, a very good copy. £25 894. – Valiant Dust. London, John Murray, 1932 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, shelf worn spine sunned and pushed, foxing to page edges, publisher’s adverts to rear. £25 895. – WORKS... in seventeen volumes. London, John Murray [& others], 1928-58 Mixed editions. 17 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, shelf worn pushed spines, custom made dustwrapper adhered to ‘Flawed Blades’, light rubbing to extremities, conditions vary but overall a set of good reading copies. £220

Flawed Blades; The Uniform of Glory; Beggar’s Horses; Cupid in America; Sinbad the Soldier; Dew and Mildew; The Mammon of Righteousness; The Man of a Ghost; Stories of the Foreign Legion; Driftwood Spars; Port O’ Missing Men; Fort in the Jungle; Action and Passion; Soldiers of Misfortune; Sowing Glory; The Snake and the Sword; Father Gregory.

896. – Worth Wile. London, John Murray, 1937 First edition. Wren’s bookplate adhered to pasted down front endpaper, inscribed in ink to Captain & Mrs Needham. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, sunning to spine, light dust soiling to top edge, pages clean and bright, a very good copy. £195

Inscription reads “To Captain & Mrs Needham (with hope that no news is good news) from P.C. Wren”

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897. ANON. The Billy and Bunny Book. London, John Leng & Co., c.1920 Illustrations throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial boards, extremities rubbed, pages clean. £28 898. BARRIE ( J.M.); HUDSON (Gwynedd M.) illus. Peter Pan & Wendy.

Nottingham, Hodder & Stoughton, [1931] Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, with gilt and black pictorial front board and spine, this being pushed and sunned, fading to board edges, beautiful illustrations throughout. £130 899. BRYANT (Sara Cone); HOGAN (Inez) illus. [&] EGAN (Constance); KENNEDY (A.E.) illus. Epaminondas... in three volumes. London, George G. Harrap [&] Collins, 1939 [&] 1960 [&] 1959 First UK editions. Illustrated throughout. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly scuffed to extremities. ‘Tries to Be Brave’ is a small 8vo, pictorial boards with rubbing to extremities. £110 Epamindondas and His Auntie; Epaminondas Tries to Be Brave; Epaminondas and the Puppy.

900. CERF (Bennett); ROSE (Carla) illus. Try and Stop Me. London, Dennis Dobson, 1947 First edition. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Navy cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being protected in a clear sleeve, a very good copy. £18 901. CROCKETT (S.R.) Red Cap Tales. Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1904 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Original orange cloth, pictorial design tooled to front and spine, this being shelf worn, corners bumped, light foxing to endpapers, top edge dust soiled, else a nice copy. £37 902. DAVENPORT (A.H.) Scenes of the Olden Time. London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1874 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to lightly scuffed boards, colour illustration to front board centre, pushed spine with rubbing to extremities, evidence of separation. £25

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903. FAIRYLAND TALES. Fairyland Tales: The Kiddies’ Favourite Paper... in four issues. London, John Leng & Co., 1935-39 4 issues, ‘every Saturday’ priced at 2d. Illustrated. Square 8vo. Original red pictorial wrappers, staples to one deteriorated, otherwise a nice bright group. £50

No. 665 (The Monkeys’ Little Joke); No. 668 (In Pussy-Cat School); No. 683 (The Jungle Jokers); No. 882 (The Pussy-Cat Crew).

904. HARRIS ( Joel Chandler). Uncle Remus, or the Story of Mr. Fox and Brer Rabbit. London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c.1910 8 colour plates by Harry Rountree. Square 8vo. Original green cloth, decorated with freize of children, spine a touch faded, rear board marked, but still a very good copy, with GMF’s name in pencil to front endpaper. £22 905. KEARTON (Cherry). The Animals Came to Drink. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1932 First edition. Inscribed to GMF from William. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt this being marked to boards, spine pushed and shelf worn, light dust soiling to top edge. £20

Inscription reads “To George, from Daddy. Xmas 1932” 906. KINGSLEY (Charles). The Heroes. London, Ward, Lock & Co., c.1900 Colour illustrations throughout. Small 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth with black tooled design to spine and front board, this with a colour illustrated pasted down, corners bumped, light foxing throughout, spine darkening and shelf worn. £17 907. KIPLING (Rudyard). The Jungle Book. London, MacMillan & Co., 1939 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, spine pushed and lightly shelf worn, corners bumped, else a nice copy. £18 908. MEE (Arthur). Little Treasure Island. Her Story and Her Glory. London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1930 Fifth edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to front, spine shelf worn and pushed, slight dust soiling to top edge, light rubbing to corners, a nice copy. £20

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909. – ed. The Children’s Encyclopedia... in ten volumes. London, The Educational Book Company Ltd., c.1937 10 vols. Coloured illustrations and maps throughout. Large 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, blind tooled design to front, minor rubbing to spines and corners, pages clean and bright, a nice set. £295

In GMF’s own words: “Hour after hour I seem to have spent, prone on the carpet on summer afternoons when sunlight fell on the pages, and winter days with the rain lashing at the windows, lost in those marvellous volumes... haphazard, no doubt, disorganised and random, but if there is a name that I thanked God for, it is that of Arthur Mee, whose work influenced me more than any other”. (from ‘The Light’s on at Signpost’).

910. MILNE (A.A.); SHEPARD (E.H.) illus. Winnie the Pooh [&] The House at Pooh Corner. London, Methuen Children’s Books, 1978-9 Illustrated throughout. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth, in a pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, a fine pair. £25 911. MORRIS (William); BONUS (Isabel) illus. Tales from the Earthly Paradise.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1913 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth with black and gilt tooled design to front board and spine, rubbing to spine and corners, else a nice copy. £32 912. NASH (Odgen); SHILSTONE (Arthur) illus. A Boy is a Boy. The fun of being a boy. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 First edition. Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Publisher’s cloth in a pictorial price clipped dustwrapper, this being in a clear protective sleeve, very good. £27 913. OPIE (Iona & Peter) ed.; HASSALL ( Joan) illus. The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. Oxford University Press, 1975 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Fine original cloth in a similar unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. £20 914. PERRAULT (Charles); DULAC (Edmund) illus. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. London, The Folio Society, 1998 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth with pictorial gilt to front and spine, as new, in a fine slipcase. £55 915. PYLE (Howard). Twilight Land. London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 Illustrated throughout. Large 8vo. Original blue cloth, with pictorial gilt to front and to darkened spine, this being pushed, rubbing to extremities, t.e.g. £42 187

916. RACKHAM (Arthur). Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures, with an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London, William Heinemann, 1921 New impression. With tipped in illustrations by the author. 4to. Publisher’s original brown cloth, gilt embossed decoration to front board & spine, top corner of the front board bumped, otherwise a near fine copy. £275 917. READE (Charles). The Cloister and the Hearth. A Tale of the Middle Ages.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1902 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s teal cloth with gilt to front board and spine, this being pushed and darkened, rubbing to extremities, light foxing to page edges, a nice copy. £30 918. SHAY (Frank). Mary Read: The Pirate Wench. London, Hurst & Blackett, c.1936 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, occasional staining to boards, wear to spine, corners bumped, hinges weak, evidence of separation, pages clean and bright. £17 919. TEMPLE (Crona). Princess Louise. A Tale of the Stuarts. London, T. Nelson & Sons, 1901 First edition. Pictorial frontis. loose, tissue guard present. 8vo. Original decorative green cloth, gilt, rubbing to spine, overall a very good copy, with prize label to front endpaper. £18 920. VARIOUS Facsimile Editions from The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books... in twenty-seven volumes. London, The Bodley Head, 1981 27 vols. Illustrated throughout. Variously 4to. to 16mo. A beautiful set of stories and games held in decorative card slipcases, all as new. £500

A Descriptive Companion to a Selection from The Osborne Collection (M.C. Maloney); A Book of Nonsense (E. Lear); A New Year’s Gift (T. Bewick); A Visit to the Bazaar; Diamonds and Toads; Cinderella with Five Set Scenes and Nine Trick Changes; Goody Two-Shoes (C. Welsh); Hop-O’ My Thumb and the Seven-League Boots (G. Cruikshank); In Fairy Land (R. Doyle); Kate Greenaway’s Calendar for 1884; Old Nurse’s Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties (C.H. Bennett); Orbis Sensualium Pictus (J. Comenius); Sing-Song (C. Rossetti); The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls (B.H. Upton); The Alphabet of Old Friends & Puss in Boots; The Baby’s Own Aesop (W. Crane); The Birth-day Gift or the Joy of a New Doll (E. Upton); The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast (W. Roscoe) & The Peacock “At Home” (Mrs. Dorset); The Death and Burial of Cock Robin & The Moving Adventures of Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat; The Diverting History of John Gilpin & The Babies in the Wood; The Dog’s Dinner Party; The Gallant History of Bevis of Southhampton (W.J. Thomas ed.); The Mansion of Bliss (T. Newton); The 188

New Picture Book; The Nursery “Alice” (L. Carroll); The Ocean and Its Inhabitants with their Uses to Man; The Traditional Faery Tales (F. Summerly ed.); Under the Willow (K. Greenaway).

921. VARIOUS; BROOKE (L. Leslie) illus. Ring O’ Roses. A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book. London, Frederick Warne, 1976 Reprint. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s pink cloth in a similar pictorial unclipped dustwrapper, this being lightly faded to spine else a fine copy. £25

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922. A. & C. BLACK Titles and Forms of Address. A Guide to their Correct Use. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1972 Fourteenth edition. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth fine, in a printed dustwrapper. £25 923. BARTLETT ( John). Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. London, Macmillan & Co., 1937 Eleventh edition. 8vo. Publisher’s navy cloth gilt, light rubbing joints and spine, dust soiling to top edge, rubbing to corners, else a nice copy. £35 924. BENHAM (Sir Gurney). Benham’s Book of Quotations. Proverbs and Household Words. London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1958 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, this being darkened, sunning to spine and edge of front board with a few stains, front hinge starting, else pages clean & bright. £20 925. CHAMBERS (R.) ed. The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character... in two volumes. London, W. & R. Chambers, 1888 2 vols. Illustrated throughout. Handwritten notes tipped in to front endpapers.

4to. Original green cloth, gilt to spine and front board, pictorial design tooled in red, rubbing to head, tail, and joints, marking to rear boards, hinges starting, good only. £65 926. CHISHOLM (Hugh) ed. The Encyclopaedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information... in twenty-eight volumes.

Cambridge University Press, 1910-1911 Eleventh edition. 28 vols. Illustrations throughout. 4to. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt design to boards and spines, these being sunned & shelf worn, rubbing to extremities, lacking twenty-ninth volume (index) and subsequent three volumes (published 1912), but overall a good set. £750 927. FREEMAN (William) ed.; URQUART (Fred) rev. Everyman’s Dictionary of Fictional Characters. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1973 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, gilt, in a very good price clipped dustwrapper. £20

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928. GROSE (Capt. Francis); PARTRIDGE (Eric) ed. A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1963 Third edition. 8vo. Cloth backed boards in an unclipped dustwrapper, despite occasional scuffing this being in a clear protective sleeve, fine. £22 929. HAGBERG WRIGHT (Sir Charles) ed. Subject-Index of the London Library (1909-53)... in five volumes [with] Catalogue of the London Library: Supplement (1913-50)... in three volumes. London, Williams & Norgate 1909-55 8 vols. 4to. Original blue & red buckram, gilt stamped insignia of the Library to front boards, letter & numbered to spines, backstrip of first volume of the subject-index detached & loosely inserted, binding consequently weak, spines of first two volumes of the catalogue supplement are sunned, otherwise a smart enough set of a useful reference. £350 930. HARVEY (Sir Paul) ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1975 Fourth edition revised. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, lightly shelf worn in a price clipped dustwrapper, a small tear and creasing to spine head and tail, else a fine copy. £32 931. JOHNSON (A.J.) & FISHER (Richard Swainson). Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World, with Physical Geography, and with descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, including the latest Federal Census, a Geographical Index, and a Chronological History of the Civil War in America.

New York, Johnson & Ward, 1866 Atlas. Over 100 full page maps & charts, states, city plans etc., these coloured in, frontis. depicts a frontier scene with the title: ‘American Atlas’, also with numerous vignettes to accompany the text. Small Folio. Original half leather, blind-tooled cloth, gilt stamped to front board & spine, extremities a bit rubbed, head & tail a touch worn, corners bumped, ink inscription three times to title: ‘Lawhope, by Hollytown, January 16th 1866’, but overall a clean & tight copy, complete, a lovely item. £1,500

Beautiful hand-coloured maps and terrain charts, published just a year after the American Civil War came to a halt. This new edition contains extra plates originally published in the Colton’s General Atlas.

932. JOHNSTON (Alexander Keith). The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography, constructed from the most recent and authentic sources. Edinburgh, Cowan & Co., [c.1843] Atlas. 41 double page maps, hand-coloured. Large Folio. Original half leather,

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gilt lettered to front board, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., edges are considerably worn, backstrip chipped and parting from the spine, front joint held only by material, otherwise binding is sound, internally beautiful & clean, a lovely complete example of Johnston. £1,750 933. KNOWLES (Elizabeth) ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

Oxford University Press, 2000 First impression. 4to. Fine publisher’s cloth, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper. £45 934. LEE (Sir Sidney) et al. The Dictionary of National Biography... in ten volumes.

Oxford University Press, 1938-93 Various editions. 10 vols. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, all in similar cream dustwrappers, this being lightly shelf worn with occasional markings, but otherwise a handsome set. £450 935. LIDDLE (George) & PARDOE (F.E.) ed. Daily English. London, National Council for the Training of Journalists, 1964 First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth gilt, shelf wear to spine, dust soiled top edge, else pages clean and bright. £22 936. LOUDON ( J.C.) An Encyclopaedia of Gardening; Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, including all the latest Improbements; a General History of Gardening in all Countries; and a Statistical View of its Present State; with Suggestions for its Future Progress, in the British Isles. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, c.1834 Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Contemporary half leather to marbled boards, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, evidence of separation, light dust soiling to top edge, else pages clean. £65 937. MEE (Arthur) ed. I See All - The Pictorial Dictionary. 100,000 Pictures of People, Places & Things... in five volumes. London, The Educational Book Co., c.1930 First edition (?) 5 vols. Numerous illustrations, some in colour. 4to. Near fine original red cloth, gilt, spines lightly sunned, some hinges a touch delicate, but overall a handsome set. £275 938. MOORHEAD ( J.K.) & LEE (Charles). A Dictionary of Quotations. An Alphabet of Proverbs & a Full Subject Index. London, J.M. Dent, 1935 2 vols. in 1. Inscribed “George Fraser” to front endpaper, with typewritten note

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worn, corners bumped, a good copy. £50

Note reads: “Iain ‘Sponge’ Winning gave me this book at Glasgow Academy. He was a brilliant scholar (a linguist, I think) and I believe he shop-lifted the book – this was a popular pastime among the wilder youths, who did it for the thrill of not getting caught; the value of the book meant nothing.”

939. MURRAY ( James) et al. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.

Founded mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society... in ten volumes. Oxford University Press, 1888-1919 9 vols. in 10. Folio. Red cloth-backed boards, with light rubbing to extremities & shelf wear to spine, else a nice set, lacking tenth volume & supplement. £625 940. NICHOLLS (C.S.) et al. (eds.) The Dictionary of National Biography... in four volumes. 1971-1980; 1981-1985; 1986-1990; Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1986-93 Various editions. 4 vols. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth, in coloured pictorial dustwrappers, light shelf wear, overall very good. £135 941. OXFORD The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary... in two volumes. Vol I: A-O; Vol II: P-Z, Supplement & Bibliography. Oxford University Press, 1971 2 vols. 4to. Publisher’s cloth gilt, creasing to spines, light dust soiling to top edge, shelf wear, some markings to boards, evidence of separation, slipcase missing, else good. £125 942. PARTRIDGE (Eric). Origins. A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1958 First edition. Large 8vo. Cloth backed boards, shelf wear to creased spine this being lightly pushed, light rubbing to corners, else a very good copy. £25 943. PAYTON (Geoffrey) ed. Payton’s Proper Names. London, Frederick Warne, 1969 First edition. 8vo. Near fine publisher’s cloth, in a shelf worn & price clipped dustwrapper. £20 944. ROSE ( J. Holland) & NEWTON (A.P.) & BENIANS (E.A.) eds. The Cambridge History of the British Empire. Vol II. The Growth of the New Empire. 1783-1870.

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945. SHAW (Dr. Norton) intro. The Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography, with an introductory notice by Dr. N. Shaw, Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society &c. London, A. Fullarton & Co., [c.1862] Atlas. 66 hand-coloured plates, including full or double page maps, and vignettes of people & animals to regional title pages. Folio. Contemporary half leather, gilt titling to front board & spine, a.e.g., extremities heavily rubbed & worn, signs of both boards splitting from the bottom of the spine, light spotting to some of the earlier plates, with tiny ink splashes to bottom edge of first few leaves, but generally near fine & bright, complete, with just a handful of copies in national institutions. £1,500 946. SIMPSON ( J.A.) & WEINER (E.S.C.) eds. The Oxford English Dictionary... in twenty volumes. Oxford University Press, 1989 Second edition. 20 vols. Inscribed to GMF from his wife. 4to. Publisher’s cloth, in an unclipped dustwrapper, a fine set. £950 947. STEPHEN (Sir Leslie) & LEE (Sir Sidney) eds. The Dictionary of National Biography... in twenty-two volumes. Oxford University Press, 1968 22 vols. 8vo. Fine publisher’s navy cloth, in a similar dustwrapper, these being lightly shelf worn, a very good set. £575 948. – The Dictionary of National Biography... in twenty-two volumes. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1908-9 22 vols. complete. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt, blind tooled border design to boards, shelf wear to spine, corners rubbed lightly, t.e.g., a very nice set. £850 949. STRONG ( James). The New Strong’s Concordance of the Bible. Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985 ‘Concise edition’. Large 8vo. Fine publisher’s cloth in a similar unclipped dustwrapper, as new. £28 950. THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (A Member of ) ed. A Gazetteer of the World, or Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge... in seven volumes.

Edinburgh, A. Fullarton & Co., 1856 7 vols. Numerous engraved plates, with tissue-guards, depicting views, maps, portraits etc. 4to. Contemporary half roan, raised bands, compartments gilt lettered, a.e.g., some marginal spotting as is common, but overall a smart set. £425

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