Dominic Winter

Children’s & Illustrated Books Antique Fans, Toys & Ceramics Modern First Editions 18 DECEMBER 2014

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Lot 150 • Front Cover: Lot 153

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CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ANTIQUE FANS, TOYS AND CERAMICS MODERN FIRST EDITIONS Thursday 18 December 2014 Lots 1-372 commencing at 11am

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William Daniell, A Voyage Round Great Britain, volumes 1-4 & 6, 1st edition, 1814-1822. ÂŁ5000-7000 (Wednesday 17 December)

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CONTENTS Antiquarian Juvenile Books

1-18

Toys & Games

19-27

Fans

28-53

Valentine & Christmas Cards

54-68

Children’s & Illustrated Books

69-103

Original Artwork & Illustrations

104-152

Louis Wain

153-221

Private Press

222-227

Comics

228-231

Literary Autographs & Artefacts

232-248

Katherine Mansfield & Virginia Woolf

249-266

Modern First Editions

267-372

MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR DOMINIC WINTER A memorial service to celebrate the life of the company founder Dominic Winter will be held on Wednesday 21 January 2015, at The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AZ, at 2:30pm.

Members of the book and antiques trade, as well as friends and acquaintances, are invited to attend the event, at which refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to Claire Pitts (claire@dominicwinter.co.uk, or 01285 860006).

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have sent messages of condolence and support.

ANTIQUARIAN JUVENILE BOOKS To commence at 11am 2 Cock Robin. The Death and Burial of Cock Robin. With the Trial and Execution of the Sparrow, For Killing Cock Robin, printed for, and sold by, C. Sheppard, 1797, 30pp., twenty-nine woodcuts, scattered foxing, original hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, dust-soiled and with slight loss to lower return, early re-stitching to spine, upper cover depicting children playing leap-frog, lower cover showing children on a see-saw, 106 x 66mm, together with The Happy Courtship and Merry Marriage of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren. With the Doleful Death of the Bridegroom, printed by J. Davenport for C. Sheppard, c. 1797, 30pp., twenty-nine woodcuts, original hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, dust-soiled and a little edge-frayed in places, early re-stitching to spine, upper cover showing children playing at soldiers, lower cover depicting children sailing toy yachts, 110 x 66mm, plus Will Whistle, Will Whistle’s History of the Birds in the Air, printed for, and sold by, C. Sheppard, 1797, 30pp., twenty-nine woodcuts, some light spotting, corners creased, original hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, dustsoiled, early re-stitching to spine, upper cover depicting a rural village scene, lower cover mostly torn away, 103 x 63mm

1 Bogue (David, publisher). The Bachelor’s Own Book, being The Progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and also in Search of Health and Happiness, Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank, 1st edition, August 1st 1844, 2nd issue with ‘persuit’ corrected but ‘amusememt’ uncorrected on etched title-page, twenty-four etchings on twelve plates, foxed, one or two short edge-tears and creases, original etched upper wrapper bound in, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., early 20th century maroon morocco by H. Sotheran, signed on front turnin, rubbed, oblong 8vo Cohn 192. Scarce.

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Three extremely rare and attractive little chapbooks. We have been unable to trace copies of any of them. All 18th-century editions of Cock Robin are scarce: Osborne’s various copies are all 19th century, and Gumuchian lists only one 18th-century edition.

(3) £500-800

£150-200

3 Darton (William, publisher). Trial and Execution of the Sparrow, For Killing Cock Robin, c.1818, sixteen engraved illustrations each with verse above and below, printed on facing pages only, some short tears in blank fore-margins, some toning and foxing, contemporary ownership name on front pastedown, original buff wrappers, with engraved title and illustration of the sparrow on front cover, and engraved illustration of animals on rear cover, dust-soiled and some minor wear, 16mo Darton H259(4): corresponding to the Reading University copy which is also watermarked 1818 (but lacking the covers).

(1) £150-200

Lot 2

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4 Dean and Munday, publishers. The Surprising History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, [1815?], hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 1.25” split in edge of one fold, and small stain to lower margin, some toning throughout, original printed wrappers, some minor edgewear, slim 12mo, together with Newman (A.K., pub.), Aunt Ann’s Gift; or, Moral Emblems in Prose and Verse: with an Engraving to Each, c.1825, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and illustrations, printed on facing pages only, a few leaves with minor water-staining to lower outer blank corner, stitching broken and spine split, slim 12mo, plus The Children in the Wood: A Tale for the Nursery, revised and corrected, with additions, by Mary Elliott, pub. William Darton, 1822, engraved plates, but lacking frontispiece, original printed wrappers, slim 12mo (3)

6 Guild of Women Binders. Hawthorn and Lavender: Songs and Madrigals, by W.E. Henley, [1899], 13pp., one ink manuscript correction and author’s initialled presentation inscription to Henry Head dated 15 November 1899, a little soiling, old sellotape remains to inner margins, two contemporary sepia snapshot photos of Henley pasted to front endpaper, bookplates of Henry Head IV RN and R.G.E. Sandbach to front endpapers, t.e.g., contemporary tan morocco gilt by Guild of Women Binders, signed on front turn-in, covers with poppy and holly designs, heavily rubbed and darkened at borders, 8vo (1)

£100-150

7 [Johnson, Richard, ed.]. The Lilliputian Letter-Writer, being Vol. V of The Lilliputian Library; or, Gulliver’s Museum... the whole forming a complete system of Juvenile Knowledge for the Amusement and Improvement of all little Masters and Misses... by Lilliputius Gulliver, printed for W. Domville and Byfield and Hawkesworth, c.1779, engraved frontispiece, and twelve wood engravings on letterpress, woodcut tail-pieces, early manuscript signature and ink trials on endpapers and reverse of frontispiece, original Dutch floral boards, with early crude cloth reback, rubbed, printed paper label on upper cover (with some loss), 12mo, together with The Poetical FlowerBasket; or, The Lilliputian Flight to Parnassus, being Vol. VI of the Lilliputian Library, c.1779, engraved frontispiece, and ten wood engravings on letterpress, woodcut tail-pieces, lacking A2 (collective title), A4 (preface?), and A9 (pp.17/18), endpapers lightly foxed, early manuscript names on front free endpaper, original Dutch floral boards, rubbed, spine deficient, printed paper label on upper cover (chipped at lower edge, with no loss of text), 12mo

5* Fores (S.W., publisher). Five unused printed envelopes, comprising Courting (No.1), Musical (No.2), Dancing (No.3), Civic (No.6), Christmas (No.10), c.1840, together five etched envelopes with cartoon illustrations on the front, each titled to upper margin and with imprint to lower margin, some foxing and dust-soiling, generally toned, approximately 10 x 14cm (4 x 5.5ins), together with four other envelopes similar, entitled Poste-Restant - or Left at the Post, Awaiting Your Reply, Accept My Apologies, and In Haste, c.1870, etched with cartoon illustration on the front incorporating a place for a postage stamp, initialled A.G., all unused but with gummed flap adhered, 9.5 x 12cm (3.75 x 4.75ins) (9)

£100-150

£500-800

Roscoe J218. Volumes from Johnson’s Lilliputian Library very rarely appear on the market. There are no volumes from the set listed in Osborne or Gumuchian; Cambridge and Oxford are the only locations given on COPAC for a complete set. There were two further ten-volume editions, one published in Berlin in 1782, and the other published in Dublin in 1788. Roscoe notes the small number of survivors of any series, saying, ‘It may well be that the total number printed was only small; and it would seem not to have been a very successful venture’.

(2) £300-500

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8 Langley (E. publisher). Cries of London; History of Cinderella and Her Glass Slipper; Robinson Crusoe; Four Seasons, c.1820s, together four volumes, each with hand-coloured engraved illustrations, printed on facing pages only, some toning and foxing, Robinson Crusoe with tear in lower margin throughout, original printed wrappers, spines split or splitting, and all but Four Seasons with old stitched repair (Cinderella with rear cover detached), slim 8vo Langley published a number of juvenile pamphlets in this ‘Sixpenny Coloured Books’ series, all of which are uncommon.

(4) £200-300

9 Marshall (John, publisher). The Frisking, Barking, Lady’s LapDog. A New Game of Questions and Commands. Embellished with Fourteen Coloured Engravings, [1819?], 16ff., watermarked 1818, frontispiece, vignette title-page, and twelve leaves with engraving and verse below, all hand-coloured, lower outer corner of title-page torn away, clipping imprint and with loss of date and price, one or two short edge-tears, early manuscript name on front pastedown, original blue wrappers, rubbed and spine worn, hand-coloured pictorial title label mounted on front cover, slim 8vo Rare: not in Osborne; COPAC records just a single copy of the 1822 edition only (Opie Collection); OCLC locates one 1819 copy (Indiana University and College of William & Mary); Gumuchian (3557) lists the earliest known copy of 1817. A game of memory in the form of an accumulative rhyme with forfeits, including a leaf of directions for play.

(1) £150-200

Lot 8

10 Newman & Co., publishers. The Water Cure Illustrated. Twelve Subjects, c.1870, twelve humorous etched plates, each with caption below, some light marginal spotting and staining, upper joint splitting, monogrammed label on front pastedown, original blindstamped brown limp cloth, mottled and faded, gilt titled on upper cover, slim oblong 8vo Rare. COPAC lists only the Wellcome Library copy. Twelve comical plates, sending up various hydrotherapy treatments, with titles such as ‘The doctor says “I shall enjoy the steam box bath”. Does it look like enjoyment?’ and ‘The Ascending Douche... “Now sir, do sit still”‘.

(1) £80-120

Lot 9

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Lot 11

11* Panorama. Robins’s Panoramic Representation of the Queen’s Coronation Procession in Westminster Abbey, on the 28th June 1838, Delineating every Personage in that Grand and August Ceremonial, with the various Decorations of the Abbey on that Occasion, [1838], hand-coloured lithographed panorama in 20 sections (9.5 x 300cm), linen-backed, a few creases and occasional spotting and light dust-soiling, folding into publisher’s original cloth gilt with printed title and adverts to front and rear pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscription to upper pastedown, covers soiled and somewhat faded, a little fraying and upper cover detached, oblong 8vo

12 [Perrault, Charles]. Cinderella; or the Little Glass Slipper. A Tale for the Nursery. From the French of C. Perrault, Sixth Edition, With Three Copperplates, printed for Tabart and Co., 1804, pp.36, three hand-coloured plates, including frontispiece (tiny hole in blank gutter margin, and contemporary manuscript name on reverse), stitching partially broken, original pink wrappers, with printed paper label mounted on upper cover, generally soiled, 13 x 8cm (5 x 3ins) Moon, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, 125(1). Extremely rare: the sixth edition is the earliest listed by Moon (Worldcat also lists a sixth edition).

COPAC lists four later editions - 10th (Leeds), 11th and 12th (Cambridge) and 14th (V&A). Osborne lists only a 16th edition lacking two plates, and there is no Tabart edition listed in Gumuchian. The story was first published by Charles Perrault in ‘Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé’ in Paris in 1697. The first edition in English did not appear until Robert Samber’s translation of ‘Histoires’ in 1729. Benjamin Tabart published the first separate printing of ‘Cinderella’ in 1804; this sixth edition was published in the same year, and we have been unable to trace any earlier printing.

(1) £700-1000

A companion panoramic strip view to ‘The Queen’s Coronation Procession from the Palace to the Abbey’; see Abbey, Life, 541.

(1) £150-200

Lot 12

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13 Phillips (Watts). [The Model Republic, or Cato Potts in Paris, D. Bogue, c.1848], twenty-four hand-coloured etchings with text beneath, on twenty linen-backed leaves bound concertina style, lacking title-page, some soiling, first leaf browned, contained in near contemporary pink cloth, stained and worn, split in two at lower joint, 16mo Abbey, Life, 582. Extremely rare satire on the French Republic (only the British Library copy on COPAC), which was available uncoloured as well as coloured. Watts Phillips (1825-1874), playwright and artist, was the only pupil of George Cruikshank, an early contributor to Punch, and the founder of a short-lived periodical entitled ‘Journal for Laughter’. He ultimately abandoned caricature and illustration and found success as a dramatist and, to a lesser extent, as a novelist.

(1) £150-200

Lot 13

14 Richardson (Thomas, pub.). Punch and Judy, c.1838, eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations, each with verse below, printed on facing pages only, corners curled, first page with manuscript ownership signature dated 1838, original hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, minor edge-fraying in places, some soiling to rear cover, spine with old stitched repair, slim 8vo Scarce. Not listed in Osborne or Gumuchian.

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£200-300

15 Roberts (George). A Catechism of Drawing; in which the Rules for Attaining a Knowledge of that Accomplished Art are given in language adapted to the comprehension of the Youthful Student, by G. Roberts, Master of Rodden Classical and Commercial Seminary, near Frome, Newbury [Eng.]: Printed at the Mentorian Press, by S. Maunder, for W. Pinnock, c.1814, engraved frontispiece (loose, with juvenile signature to verso), 8pp. publisher’s advertisement list at rear, bound without A1 (half-title?), front pastedown with contemporary inscription “Sarah Jane Mary Brooke, Dewsbury”, some curling to corners and slight wear, dust-soiling and a few marks, original wrappers, worn and soiled, slim 18mo (13.5 x 8.5cm) (1)

£100-150

16 Stokes (Whitley). Gwreans an Bys. The Creation of the World, a Cornish Mystery, Edited, with a Translation and Notes, London & Edinburgh, 1864, advertisement leaf at rear, some spotting to first leaves, original cloth gilt, 8vo

Lot 14

Uncommon; first English edition published in Berlin a year prior.

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£70-100

18 Wallis (J., publisher). The Interesting Story of the Canary Bird, and the History of the Negro Girl, c.1810, 24pp., three wood engraved illusts. and two tail-pieces on letterpress, some light foxing, original printed wrappers, somewhat rubbed and soiled, 130 x 86mm, together with Newbery (E., pub.), The Curiosities of London and Westminster Described... Embellished with elegant Copper Plates..., vol. 3 (of four), 1st edition, 1770, five engraved plates (of 6), incl. frontispiece, two plates trimmed to platemark, and another re-attached (tipped-in to gutter margin of G3), 3pp. publishers advertisements at rear, contents generally foxed/ browned, gutter margin of frontispiece/title with minor surface abrasion as a result of pages adhering together, early manuscript ownership name on front pastedown, original Dutch floral boards, rubbed, spine extremities slightly frayed, small 8vo, together with a later edition of the same work, vol. 2, 1786, with two (of six) engraved plt., later cloth-backed marbled boards, plus London Almanack, for the Year of Christ 1792, two circular engravings of coats of arms, the second engraved partly adhered to following text leaf, and final two leaves adhered together, gilt hatched edges, original gilt decorated vellum (rubbed), 32 x 30mm, matching slipcase rubbed and slight damaged on one side, (frontispiece not called-for in this scarce square format almanack, see Bondy, p.41), plus other 19th century children’s books and chapbooks, incl. Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat, T. Hughes, April 7 1812, eleven (of 12) hand-coloured engraved plates, original printed wrappers

17 Tabart (Benjamin). Popular Fairy Tales; or, A Liliputian Library; containing twenty-six choice pieces of Fancy and Fiction, by those renowned personages King Oberon, Queen Mab, Mother Goose, Mother Bunch, Master Puck, and other distinguished personages at the court of the fairies. Now first collected and revised... with twenty-six coloured engravings, published by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, Price Six Shillings bound, 1st edition, 2nd issue, c.1820, 2nd issue with twenty-four hand-coloured engravings on twelve plates, including frontispiece, frontispiece and title-page dusty and torn with slight loss to blank margins repaired, Preface leaf with closed tear to lower outer corner, blue sprinkled edges, original green roan gilt, rubbed, large 12mo Moon 166[2], but with twelve (not thirteen) plates and without the wood engraved illustration on p.353 as usual. There are a number of variations of this publication, and instead of the two plates listed as depicting Fortunatus/Diamonds and Toads, and Tom Thumb/Prince Fatal and Prince Fortune, we have one plate illustrating Tom Thumb/Diamonds and Toad, presumably as issued. Rare: one of the most elusive early fairy tale collections. The first issue, with only four plates, was thought to have been published in 1818, but Sir Richard Phillips wasn’t at Bride Court until 1820.

(1) £300-400

Sold with all faults, not subject to return.

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£150-200

TOYS & GAMES 19* Doll’s House. A large American Folk Victorian-style doll’s house, late 20th century, a three-storey wooden doll’s house, painted blue, with white pedimented moveable sash windows (some panes missing) and white balustraded veranda and balconies, grey tiled roof with balustraded skylight and red brick chimney stack, both sides and one side of roof hinged, on casters, some minor damage, ground floor with hallway and three reception rooms, staircase leading to a landing and two bedrooms, and a second staircase leading to a further landing and another two bedrooms, with a loft hatch giving access to a spacious attic room, wallpapered, and with electric lighting throughout (currently not functioning), several internal doors detached, containing approximately thirty pieces of assorted furniture, including tables, chairs, sideboards, sofa, folding screen, fire surround, rugs, brass bed, basin, etc., and a few smaller items, e.g., china, cutlery tray, tiffany lamp, glassware, pictures, height 127cm (50ins), width 59cm (23.25ins), depth 75cm (29.5ins) (1)

£300-400

20* Vintage Dolls. A collection of six dolls, 1930s and later, including a composite baby, the rear of head stamped Sur 1357/3, rubber arms and legs, in knitted jumper and shorts, 44cm high, a composite Plastex doll with bonnet and silk nightdress, 48cm high, a plastic North American Indian doll in traditional costume with child, 26cm high, plus a stuffed lion cub toy (7)

£100-150

21* Armand Marseille. An Edwardian bisque head doll, with articulated eyes and rear of head incised Made in Germany Armand Marseille 390 A5/OXM, composite body with remains of bonnet, silk dress and undergarments, 28cm high (1)

Lot 19

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£200-300

24* Puzzle. A set of Victorian talking picture blocks, c.1890, set of six colour lithographed pictorial blocks, each with a string which makes an animal noise when pulled (all but one working), the blocks forming pictures of six different farm animals when put together (cockerel, sheep, goat, dog, cow, donkeys), each block 8 x 10 x 8cm (3.25 x 4 x 3.25ins), five of the pictorial guide sheets present (torn and frayed, one with loss), including one mounted on hinged lid of the original paper-covered wooden box, box 9.5 x 34 x 20cm (3.75 x 13.25 x 8ins) Rare set of puzzle blocks, with the additional unusual feature of a pull string to each block which activates an interior bellows to sound an animal noise.

(1) £200-300

22 Neal (J., publisher). Wheel of Life. Neal’s Penny Games.

Shadows, Models, Dissected Puzzles, No. 8, c.1850, large folding sheet with three rows of silhouettes (gardener with a wheelbarrow, man with mechanical arm, and acrobat balancing a ball), offsetting and two vertical folds split, original printed wrappers, edge-frayed and spine split, front cover depicting a magic lantern show and other pastimes, rear cover with instructions (and publisher’s advertisements on recto), 8vo (folding sheet 28 x 89.5cm/11 x 35.25ins) The silhouettes were intended for use with a homemade zoetrope, as detailed in the instructions on the reverse, and therefore are rarely found in their original uncut form as here. This set was no. 8 in a series, each sold for a penny by J. Neal who also supplied the completed zoetrope for an extra shilling.

(1) £100-150

23* [Potter, Beatrix]. Peter Rabbit’s Race Game, A Very Amusing & Interesting Game Introducing the Famous Characters created by Miss Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne, c.1930s, folding colour-printed game board 51 x 73.5cm (20.5 x 29.25ins), lead figures of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Squirrel Nutkin and Jeremy Fisher, printed instruction sheet (soiled and slightly frayed), with dice and red plastic shaker, in original cardboard box (some minor wear) (1)

£80-120

25* Rocking Horse. A child’s rocking horse by Swallow Toys, c.1950s, painted wood with stenciled details, leather bridle with bells, leather stirrups (worn with one detached), leather seat (worn), pine swing stand, small amount of historic worming, red painted metal rockers, animated head and tail, maker’s label to front ‘Swallow Toys, G. W. & Co., London N17’, stamped patent number to stand, 74 x 91 x 28cm (29 x 36 x 11ins) (1)

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£80-120

27* Advertising. A three-dimensional advertising model for Ladybird children’s wear, c.1950s, a large resin toadstool house with a yellow door, heart-decorated blue shuttered windows, and a chimney stack, height 32cm (12.5ins), on a plywood base with rounded corners, 33cm (13ins) square, with five anthropomorphic ladybird figures wearing hats, two attached to the base, each 20cm (8ins) high, some damage The Ladybird brand was owned by Adolf Pasold & Son, and sold through various well-known high street retailers, including Woolworths and Littlewoods. According to legend, company founder Johannes Pasold had seen a ladybird in a dream when first starting the family firm in the 18th century, but it wasn’t until 1938 that Ladybird branded clothing began to appear. In the 1950s a concerted effort was made to bring the brand to life, using anthropomorphised ladybird characters in advertising. The imagination of the public was captured and Ladybird clothing achieved a measure of commercial success which didn’t wane until the importation of cheap clothing in the 1960s.

(1) £70-100

26 Webb’s Juvenile Drama. The Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman, A Military Spectacle. Written expressly for and adapted only to Webb’s Characters & Scenes in the same, printed and published by H.J. Webb at his wholesale and retail Theatrical Print Warehouse, 124, Old Street, St. Luke’s, Finsbury, [cover-title], late 19th century, sixteen hand-coloured lithographed plates, comprising seven plates of characters (one incorporating title), seven plates of scenes, one set piece, and one plate of wings, all with imprint of W. Webb, Bermondsey Street, all 17 x 21.5cm (6.75 x 8.5ins), together with 18pp. booklet, title-page with small hole, original printed wrappers (with H.J. Webb imprint), slightly edge-frayed, rear wrapper with contemporary manuscript note, together with Pollock’s Juvenile Drama, The Battle of Waterloo, late 19th century, 16pp. printed booklet and fourteen hand-coloured lithographed plates (incomplete), one with vertical tear repaired with adhesive tape on verso H.J. Webb took over his father’s business and re-issued many of the earlier sheets and accompanying booklets.

(2) £100-150

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FANS

28* Acts of Union. The United Sisters, Publish’d by Ashton and Hadven, Little Britain, Jan. 1801. Enter’d at Stationers Hall, folding paper fan, the leaf a stipple engraving by George Wilson, depicting three female figures with linked hands representing England, Scotland, and Ireland, with entwined rose, thistle, and shamrock motif above, and flanked by a unicorn and a lion, with the royal arms below and four lines of verse ‘Fair Sister Isles... blest as free’, a few fox spots and one or two faint stains, mounted on wooden sticks, 25.5cm (10ins) Schreiber Collection 36, p.71 (silk; unmounted). Commemorating the Acts of Union passed on 2nd July 1800 and 1st August 1800; the twin Acts united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The union came into effect on 1st January 1801.

(1) £100-150

29* Advertising Fans. Cherry-Rocher, Paris: E. Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fontage fan, obverse with chromolithograph of cherries in a basket, verso with text, slightly rubbed in places, mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins), together with Liqueurs F. Cazanove, Bordeaux, Paris: E. Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fontage fan, obverse with chromolithograph of a monk seated at a desk with a bottle of liquor, entitled Liqueur du Père Kermann, verso printed in brown, with illustration of a bottle of Black Head Rum picturing a negro boy on the label, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.75ins), plus Martell Cognac, French, c.1920s, folding paper fan, the leaf with chromolithograph illustration by Rossi of an 18th century picnic scene, with two ladies and two gentlemen and a coach in the background, mounted on bone sticks, sticks and guardsticks gilt decorated, and one guardstick gilt lettered, 21.5cm (8.5ins), and L’Anis de Toro, Paris: Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fan, obverse with tinted lithograph by Thor, of a lady and gentleman sharing a drink at an al fresco table, verso with text, mounted on wooden sticks, 23cm (9ins) (4)

Lot 29

£100-150

Lot 30

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31* Advertising Fans. Hotel Westminster, Paris, 1809-1909, Paris: Francolin, Gilet & Cie., 1909, folding paper fan commemorating the centenary of the hotel, obverse of leaf with chromolithograph illustration showing the exterior of the hotel in 1809 and in 1909, with a carriage and horses outside the former, and motor cars outside the latter, signed L. Gando, patterned verso, some short edge-splits, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.5ins), together with a folding paper fan advertising Hotel Dieudonne, obverse with colour-printed silver leaf depicting cherubs, swans, and flowers, mounted on decorated wooden sticks, 21cm (8.25ins) plus a fan advertising Sociéte des Hotels de L’Étoile, Paris, Buissot, c.1910, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromolithograph of landscapes and pastoral scenes with figures, verso listing a number of hotels, mounted on wooden sticks, sticks and guardsticks with gilt decoration, 22cm (8.5ins), and Cafe des Beaux-Arts, New York, and Chateau de Beaux-Arts, Huntington, c. 1910, folding paper fan, obverse with chromolithograph of landscapes and pastoral scenes with figures, verso listing a number of hotels, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.5ins), plus Olympia’s Taverne, Paris: Chambrelent, c.1910, folding paper fan, with images of the restaurant interior on both sides, one side with several contemporary names in pencil, mounted on wooden sticks, slightly frayed in a couple of places, 23.5cm (9.25ins), and Paris: Maquet, c.1920s, folding paper fan, the leaf with chromolithograph illustration to obverse showing ladies in a classical landscape, verso with volutes, swags, and musical trophies, slightly rubbed in places, mounted on bone sticks, sticks and guardsticks gilt decorated, A. Risler Carre on brass loop, 21.5cm (8.5ins), contained in a Maquet cardboard fan box, pull-off lid gilt lettered, extremities a little rubbed, and a decorative fan in “Kardomah” box, folding silk fan, the leaf with painted and embroidered floral decoration on both sides, mounted on shaped ivory sticks, with tassel on loop, 15cm (6ins), contained in cardboard fan box, pull-off lid with printed label ‘“Kardomah” Teas and Coffees.

Your kind recommendations will be esteemed’, slight wear, plus two other fans, one advertising the Savoy Hotel, another Rittner’s Parkhotel & Villa, both early 20th century, mounted on wooden sticks

30* Advertising Fans. A fan advertising Seiden-Greider, Zurich, early 20th c., folding paper fan, the obverse with chromolithograph of a garden scene with musicians and courting couples, verso with photographic image of the department store and street with tram, mounted on wooden sticks stained green, 22cm (8.75ins), together with a fan advertising Madame Louise Milliners, 266 Regent Street and at Paris, c.1910, folding paper fan, both sides printed in purple with four photographic head and shoulder portraits of ladies modelling hats, with borders of swags and bows, mounted on wooden sticks stained purple, 22cm (8.75ins), and a decorative rose fan, Paris: Duvelleroy, early-mid. 20th c., folding paper fontage fan, the leaf picturing a pink rose, mounted on lacquered wooden sticks with floral gilt decoration, 28.5cm (11.25ins), plus a similar folding paper fontage fan picturing the head of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, mounted on lacquered wooden sticks with floral gilt decoration, 22cm (8.5ins), and an Advertising Calendar 1893 presented by the Grafton Fur Company Ltd., 164, New Bond St., Manufacturing Furriers & Fur Importers, Mounted in Austria, [1892], folding paper fan, obverse with sepia lithograph showing calendar for 1893 and winter scene of carriages and riders, verso with a montage of photo. reproductions of well-known figures, entitled 'Louis Felbermann's Celebrity Fan', printed in Photo-Mezzotype by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co. Ltd., some splitting to folds, mounted on wooden sticks painted gold, 34.5cm (13.5ins) picturing Ellen Terry, Mrs. Langtry and Henry Irving, amongst others (5)

£100-150

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£100-150

Lot 32 32* Bartholomew Fair. Bartholomew Fair, 1721, Published as the act directs by J.F. Setchel, 23, King-Street, Covent-Garden, [1824], an unmounted paper fan leaf, aquatint washed with Indian ink, attributed to Thomas Loggon, with a view of the fair with numerous figures, booths, a theatre production of ‘Judith and Holophernes’ by Lee & Harper, and a peep-show of the siege of Gibraltar, with semicircular letterpress description overlaid, one or two closed tears, 57cm (22.5ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 104, p.81 (unmounted). The Bartholomew Fair was one of London’s pre-eminent summer Charter fairs, which took place each year from 1133 to 1855. A trading event for cloth and other goods as well as a pleasure fair, the event drew crowds from all classes of English society, and it featured sideshows, prize-fighters, musicians, wire-walkers, acrobats, puppets, freaks and wild animals. One of the most popular performers in the early 18th century was conjuror Isaac Fawkes, who is shown here demonstrating his famous Egg Bag trick, entitled ‘Faux’s dexterity of hand’, with ‘Faux’s Famous Posture Master’ (his son) demonstrating various contorted poses beneath. Faux is recorded to have died worth £10,000, which he had accumulated during his career. The fair was suppressed in 1855 by the City authorities for encouraging debauchery and public disorder.

(1) £2000-3000

33* Christmas Fan. A floral bouquet Christmas card fan, Goodall, c.1870s, embossed chromolithograph Christmas card, shaped as a posy of roses (a trifle rubbed), with silk ribbon tab at the top which when pulled reveals five sections which fan out and can be retracted by a cord with tassel, each section decorated with lily-of-the-valley, violets, and roses, and bearing a line of poetry about flowers by Wordsworth, Keats, Thompson, and John Scott, verso of holder gilt embossed with musical trophy and decorative border, length when closed 13.5cm (5.25ins), length when open 17.5cm (6.75ins), together with The Language of Flowers, c.1870s, a chromolithograph greetings card fan in the shape of an arrow, with eight double-sided sections joined with purple silk ribbon, the first section titled and with ‘A Happy New Year’ and a cupid on the front, remainder with a flower illustration and associated meaning with accompanying verse on obverse and verso, contained in original chromolithograph card slipcase (slightly rubbed and faded), 15.5cm (6ins) (2)

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£100-150

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36* Country Dance Fan. A pictorial folding paper fan, French, late 18th c., folding paper fan, the leaf with a hand-coloured etching of musicians and dancers in a landscape with a villa to the right, lower margin printed ‘Depose a la Bibliotheque’, two short tears to lower edge, mounted on wooden sticks, guardsticks with ivory filet, 24cm (9.5ins) (1)

£150-200

34* Christmas Fan. An embossed Christmas card fan, c.1870s, with case resembling the handle of a fan, with message ‘A merry Christmas and a happy New Year’, with chromolithograph of two child angels framed by roses, lily-of-the-valley, and forget-me-nots, some minor damage at edges, silk cord at top of card which when pulled fans out six sections joined with a cord, each section embossed in gilt and with a chromolithograph cameo picture of an angelic child, with a seasonal verse running across the sections, silk cord at bottom of case to retract the fan, length when closed 16.5cm (6.5ins), length when open 25cm (9.75ins) (1)

£100-150

37* Cycling Fans. Three advertising fans featuring cycling maps, Paris: Blondel La Rougery, c.1930s, together three folding paper fans, two advertising Cinzano (numbered 1 and 14), the other advertising a Parisian shop ‘Salon de Thé des Trois Quarters’, all printed in black, red, and blue, with cycling maps of parts of France, all mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins) and slightly smaller (3)

35* Cochin (Nicolas). Gli diporti della villa, Bassano: Remondini & Daman, late 17th/early 18th century, etched and engraved leaf for a hand-screen fan, showing a large gathering of people in a park, with three couples performing a country dance in the centre, 22 x 29cm (8.75 x 11.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 270, p.109 (unmounted).

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£150-200

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£100-150

38* French Fans. The French Line, c.1919, folding printed first-class paper fan with colour-lithograph illustration of a young girl playing a guitar, with a villa and a liner (thought to be the Perou) in the background, lettered ‘Cie. Gle. Transatlantique, Vapores Correos Franceses’, signed G. Campi, mounted on wooden sticks, 21.5cm (8.5ins), together with a similar folding printed first class paper fan for The French Line, c.1914, leaf with colour lithograph illustration of a family deck scene with the vessel’s sister ship passing in the background, lettered ‘Cie. Gle. Transatlantique, Vapores Correos Franceses’, signed A. Lelong, mounted on wooden sticks, 23cm (9ins), plus a folding printed paper fan for the French Line, Paris & Nice, c.1920s, obverse of the leaf with colour-lithograph classical scene of a huntsman and hounds abandoning his beloved, mounted on gilt decorated bone sticks, the verso with ‘Compliments of The French Line’ and signed by Maquet, with borders of swags and volutes, 23cm (9ins), another folding printed paper fan for The French Line, Paris & Nice, c.1920s, fontage fan, the obverse of the leaf with colour illustration of a pastoral scene with shepherdess and her beau, the verso with ‘Compliments of the French Line’ and signed

by Maquet, with borders of swags and volutes, mounted on gilt decorated bone sticks, 25.5cm (10ins), another identical (faded and rubbed), three French Line celluloid brise fans, including one from the S.S. Normandie (a troop carrier which caught fire and was only in service from 1936-1939) another folded printed first class paper fan for the French Line, Spain, 1912, the leaf with colour lithograph illustration of three Spanish figures, comprising a young man and two young ladies grouped on a terrace with a liner in the background, lettered with the name of the company as above, mounted on green-painted wooden sticks, with ink date stamp on side of leaf visible when fan is closed, 22cm (8.75ins), and two other French Line fans, c.1950’s (11)

Lot 38

£150-200

39* Frederick, Duke of York. A fan leaf depicting Frederick, Duke of York, Published as the Act directs, May 13th 1791, by A.P. Birman, an unmounted paper fan leaf, engraved in stipple with etched arabesques, with a central cartouche depicting a bust of Frederick, Duke of York, suspended by two putti, and allegorical figures of Fame, Commerce and Britannia, with a tripod inscribed ‘The Heart of the Nation’, against a ground of putti, birds, foliage, sphinx motifs, crowned canopies with the Duke of York’s monogram, and other designs, border of swags and birds, some near-contemporary handcolouring in blue, 46cm (18ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed Schreiber Collection 4, p.66 (uncoloured, unmounted).

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£150-200

40* Harrogate. The North Prospect of Harrogate, Sulphur Spaws, Taken upon ye Spot, Engrav’d & Publish’d 1739, according to Act of Parliament by T. Ord, an unmounted paper fan leaf, with an engraving depicting a pastoral landscape of houses, cottages, horse and cart, and people, with later hand-colouring, toned, 39cm (15.25ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed

Lot 38

Not in the Schreiber Collection.

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£150-200

41* Italian. A pictorial folding paper fan, Italian, c.1795, folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured stipple-engraving of two young ladies in a garden pouring water into a large glass urn containing two small children, with a dolphin fountain on one side, and a villa in the distance on the other, a few discreet repairs, mounted on pierced dark wood sticks, 26cm (10.25ins) (1)

£150-200

43* English and French Fans. Ironmongers Hall with a View of Fenchurch Street, Duvelleroy, c.1930s, folding paper fan, the obverse with hand-coloured lithograph view of the hall in the 18th century, verso with the coat of arms of the company, mounted on bone sticks, sticks and guardsticks gilt decorated, 20cm (8ins), together with Hastings, c.1900, folding paper fan, obverse with photographic views of Hastings Beach (showing bathing machines), The Memorial, Hastings Castle, London Road, Fairlight Glen, and St. Leonards, one or two short edge-tears, mounted on wooden sticks, 34cm (13.25ins), plus One Hundred Years Ago Ball, June 6th 1912, Royal Albert Hall, 1912, booklet shaped as a fan, with 4pp. listing quadrilles and their participants, and a menu, colour-printed card wrappers to simulate a fan, blue silk ribbon tie, 11.5 x 23cm (4.5 x 9ins), and Menu of Dinner in celebration of the marriage of Miss Phillis Konasky to Mr. Israel Maizel on Tuesday, Aug. 19th, 1922, at Monnickendam Rooms, Gt. Alie Street, E.1., 1922, triangular card menu with three sections which fan out, each section with embossed border of fuchsias, first section with circular sepia photographic double portrait, second section with menu, and third section with a list of music to be played during dinner (by the “Famous Jazz Pickers”), first section toned, length 18.5cm (7.25ins), and The Palace Theatre, London, B.G. Vienna, c.1910, folding paper fan, leaf with chromolithograph illustration by R. G. Mathews, showing the interior of the theatre, mounted on wooden sticks, 23.5cm (9.25ins), a Programme for the Theatre Marigny, Champs-Elysees, Paris: G. Bataille, c.1900, lithograph shaped card programme, with five sections which fan out, printed in blue on both sides with illustrations and information, designed by L. Berge, length 22.5cm (8.75ins), a fan advertising Casino de Villers-sur-Mer, Paris: J. Ganné, c.1920s, folding paper fan, the obverse with chromolithograph illustration of three 18th century figures in a landscape (two young ladies and a young gentleman playing a violin), minor damage and repair to lower edge, verso with text, mounted on wooden sticks, 21.5cm (12.75ins), and a fan advertising Vichy, Paris: Verger & Baret, c.1910, folding paper fan, the chromolithograph leaf with various scenes of Vichy (‘casino’, ‘celestins’, ‘grande-grille’, ‘hopital’), some slight damage, mounted on wooden sticks, 26cm (10.25ins), etc

42* King George IV. Fan commemorating the christening of George, Prince of Wales, n.p., [1762], folding paper fan, the pierced and embossed leaf with hand-coloured engraving of Queen Charlotte holding George, Prince of Wales, with a frigate above, flanking by vigns. of a ram, a stook, a goddess holding a cornucopia, and another holding a goblet and a flagon, within a rococo border, the verso engraved with a prayer on a rococo-bordered cartouche, surmounted by the Prince of Wales feathers, one or two old sewn repairs, mounted on pierced bone sticks, some sticks broken and replaced, 28.5cm (11.25ins) Exhibited: The World of the Fan, at The Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, 1976, catalgue number 89; Fan Makers’ Hall, 1980, catalogue number 17. Not in the Schreiber Collection. See: Fans, Helene Alexander, 2002, p.19, for an illustration of an uncoloured copy.

(1) £200-300

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£150-200

44* Louis XVI. Testament de Louis Seize, Ne Le 23. Aoust 1754.

Mort Le 21. Janvier 1793, English, c.1793, folding paper fan, the engraved leaf with central medallion containing eight bust portraits of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Mme. Premiere, La Comtesse de Provence, La Comtesse d’Artois, Le Comte d’Artois, Le Comte de Provence, and Le Dauphin, flanked by the text of Louis XVI’s will, lightly toned, short tear and repair to lower edge, mounted on bone sticks (one lacking and associated section strengthened on verso with paper), 25cm (9.5ins) Schreiber Collection 122, p.26 (printed in red and mounted on wooden sticks).

There is also a copy in the Musee Carnavelet in Paris (printed in red).

(1) £300-500

46* Maritime Fans A handscreen fan for the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Line, late 19th century, a fixed printed paper fan, the obverse with a flag bearing an anchor, key, and wreath device, with the name of the line in black above, stained, the verso with oriental design of mountain, trees, and birds, chipped and frayed at edges, painted wooden handle, 37.5cm (14.75ins), together with a folding crêpe paper masquerade gala fan from BMS Oslofjord, c.1930s, the leaf composed of five scallop-edged ovals of crêpe paper, printed with a mask, with viewing holes, and scattered dots of glitter, the first oval lettered in gilt, mounted on wooden sticks, 22cm (8.75ins), plus a folding colour-printed fan for the Hamburg-America Line, c.1920, the concertina card leaf depicting five steam ships and signed Mollowitz on the obverse, with nine cartouches on verso showing dances from different nations (lightly toned), mounted on gilt-patterned formica sticks, 27.5cm (10.75ins), and a printed card handscreen fan for the Navigazione Generale Italiana Line, Genoa: Barabino & Graeve, c.1930s, a fixed octagonal fan, with a view of people round a swimming pool on the obverse (signed F. Romoli), and a coastal scene on the verso, leather handle, slightly rubbed, 26cm (10.25ins), plus three similar printed card fans for the Italia Flotte Riunite Cosulich, c.1920s-30s, an American advertising handscreen, Pennsylvania, Myers Mfg. Co., Calendars and Fans, c.1917, card handscreen, the obverse with a colour lithograph illustration of a sailor on a boat beside a large US flag with warships and planes in the background, lettered ‘305 America First’, the verso printed ‘When Fanning Remember H. B. Strauss Funeral Director and Embalmer, Also Dealer in Furniture and Stoves, Jonestown, Penna’, some light foxing and marks, a little rubbed to extremities, wooden handle, 34cm (13.25ins), and six other maritime fans including five celluloid brise fans, of which four are illustrated with maps of the route undertaken by the vessel

45* Lusitania. A first class wood and crepe paper folding fan, c.

1910, the leaves composed of pieces of scalloped peach crepe paper (edges a little creased and faded, one or two light marks), with ‘R.M.S. Lusitania’ in gold glitter, mounted on white-painted wooden sticks with ‘R.M.S. Lusitania’ in gilt, with the addition of ‘Cunard’ on the guardsticks, 23cms (9ins) Rare. The Lusitania was identified and torpeoed by the German U-boat U-20 on 7 May 1915 and sank in 18 minutes, off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 of the 1,959 people aboard. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, and is often cited as the cause of America’s entry into the war.

(1) £300-500

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£100-150

48* Maritime Fan. A folding printed First Class paper fan for the S.S. Lutetia, The French Line, early 20th century, the obverse of the leaf with monochrome illustration of a female figure on deck waving a handkerchief to the passing Lutetia, signed J. de la Neziere and dated 1913, verso with ‘Cie. de Navigation Sud-Atlantique’ and decorative border, 23cm (9ins) The lack of detail in the illustration of the ship suggests that this fan may have been made for the vessel’s inaugural voyage.

(1) £100-150

47* Maritime Fans. A folding printed paper fan from the Tourane, Messageries Maritime, late 19th/early 20th century, the colourprinted leaf with some hand-finishing, the obverse with ‘Tourane’ in centre and three young women (two oriental), the verso with a stern view of the vessel steaming towards Mount Fuji, and ‘M.M.’ printed in red, both sides signed John Lancelin, some minor staining, mounted on decorated painted wooden sticks, 21cm (8.25ins), together with A folding printed paper fan for Messageries Maritime, c.1910, the colour-printed leaf with an art nouveau design surrounding company motif on both sides, mounted on shaped wooden sticks, 26cm (10.25ins), plus Ulysses S. Grant, fan commemorating General Grant’s visit to Nagasaki in 1879, Japan, 1909, folding paper fan, the leaf printed with oval portrait of Grant, a facsimile letter from him, and images of a stone monument to the General and the banyan tree he planted during his visit, with Japanese stamp dated 29.12.1909, speckled verso, mounted on wooden sticks, 27cm (10.5ins), five fund-raising programme fans from Djibouti, 1944, paper handscreen fans, each with a colourprinted Japanese landscape and figures on the obverse (two identical), and lettered on verso ‘Cinema - Dancing, Olympia, Djibouti’, with programme label in French mounted below (three dated 1st May 1944 and two dated 13th July 1944), all with some damage, wooden handles, 37.5cm (14.75ins), five printed menu fans for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line, 1933-37, of which four are folding paper fans mounted on wooden sticks, with printed menus for the S.S. Hakozaki Maru, Friday April 7th 1933, S.S. Kashima Maru, Saturday May 11th 1935, S.S. Taiyo Maru, Friday April 3rd 1936, & S.S. Tatsuta Maru, Monday November 16th 1936, the fifth being a printed handscreen fan for the S.S. Taiyo Maru, September 19th 1937, and five other later Japanese maritime fans, including three boxed (18)

49* Moralist Fan. The New Moralist Fan or the way to Wealth, Enter’d at Stationers Hall by the Proprietor, Octr. 1. 1796, folding paper fan, the leaf a hand-coloured stipple engraving with twelve roundels illustrating maxims, lightly toned, a few short edge-splits, mounted on wooden sticks, 26.5cm (10.5ins) Not in the Schreiber Collection. Illustrations include: card players, with the cautions ‘Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the want great’ and ‘What maintains one vice would bring up two children’; a rural scene with horse and plough, entitled ‘He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive’ and ‘The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands’; and a haberdashery shop, entitled ‘Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee’ and ‘If you would have your business done go, if not send’.

(1) £600-800

£100-150

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50* Napoleon. Ntre. Dme. de Lorette envoyee a Paris par le General en Chef Buonaparte, n.p., c.1797, folding paper fan, the leaf a handcoloured etching of the figure of the Virgin Mary at Loreto, flanked with views of the Santa Casa and various relics, with descriptions and a history above, toned, some rubbing to folds, and one or two minor repairs, mounted on pierced wooden sticks, 24cm (9.5ins)

52* Royal Concert. Publish’d as the Act directs, Octr. 16 1781, by J. Preston at his Music Warehouse No.97 near Beaufort Buildings Strand, folding paper fan, the etched leaf depicting on the obverse ‘Representation of a Royal Concert at Buckingham Palace’, copied from an engraving by Barlow after a drawing by Cruickshank, showing a musical party with a quartet comprising harpsichord, flute, violin, and cello (played by the Prince of Wales), flanked by four pieces of vocal music entitled ‘Canone’ by Giordani, ‘French Canzonet’, ‘Canzonet’ by Giordani, and ‘Venetian Canzonet’, verso etched with a trompe l’oeil of five pictures lying on a length of lace, the central illustration of a girl dancing between two officers, flanked by oval bust portraits of Admiral Rodney and possibly General Clinton, and pictures of a military camp and a naval battle, toned, slight edge-frayed, mounted on wooden sticks, 27.5cm (10.75ins)

Schreiber Collection 129, p.88. Napoleon’s conquests in Europe were followed by a systematic attempt to take the finest works of art of conquered nations back to the Louvre in Paris; the image of the Black Madonna in Loreto was one such looted item, which remained in Paris until the signing of the Concordat, when it was returned to Pius VII. Unfortunately a modern copy now stands in its place as the original was destroyed by fire in 1921.

(1) £300-500

Schreiber Collection 6, pp.2/3. Provenance: the great grandson of Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Exhibited: Fan Makers’ Hall, 1980, catalogue no. 23.

(1) £1200-1500

53* World War I. A miniature pen & ink propaganda fan, c.1916, folding paper fontage fan, the leaf with pen & ink caricature of Kaisar Wilhelm II in ragged uniform, being comforted by German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, inscribed in ink ‘Reconfort Guillaume Bethmann’, gilt edge slightly rubbed, mounted on pairs of bone sticks alternating with black wooden sticks, 8cm (3ins)

51* Robert [de Vaugondy, Gilles]. L’Italie et ses Isles circonvoisines, Sicile, Sardaigne, Corse &c., c.1770, a French card handscreen, the obverse painted in blue and with garlands of flowers and musical trophies, and a hand-coloured etching of a lady and two gentlemen in an arbour mounted in centre, the verso with engraved map of Italy, hand-coloured in outline, dusty and some marks, edges a little rubbed, wooden handle (slight loss to finial), overall length 39.5cm (15.5ins) (1)

Provenance: Acquired by the Brazilian art collector Lacerda de Menezes in 1930. When he divorced his wife Mirandolina, a sugar cane heiress, in 1945, she kept the fan collection. Exhibited at ‘In Memoriam’, held at the Imperial War Museum in 2008.

(1) £200-300

£200-300

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VALENTINE & CHRISTMAS CARDS

54* Valentines. A pair of rare handmade leaf Valentines, c.1790, the first featuring two gentlemen in cavalier costumes wooing a lady in a garden with manuscript verse above and below, the second similar by the same hand, a little creased and soiled, both approximately 17 x 13cm, plus a ‘Puzzle’-opening Valentine by Rock of London, early 19th century, watermarked date of 1812, a little soiling and fold wear, folding down to 7cm (3)

56* Valentine. A rare handmade ‘sailor’s’ Valentine, c.1750, handcoloured vignette of a woman, ship and birds with printed verse set within a floral border, some soiling, edge-wear and small tears to blank areas, 15 x 15cm (1)

£60-80

57* Victorian Paper Lace Valentines. A selection of nine cards including an oval chromolithograph of a young girl upon a pink ground, lozenge mark for April 1876, a Dobbs, Kidd & Co. card featuring ‘The Rivals’, c.1860, both approximately 19 x 13cm and slightly smaller, plus a forget-me-not Stevengraph sachet by Mansell, a ‘silvered’ lace Valentine sachet by J.T. Wood & Co., c.1840s, plus 5 others by Wood and Mansell

£60-80

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£70-100

58* Victorian Paper Lace Valentines. A selection of lace cards, including a paper lace card by Dobbs, c.1840, with intricate workmanship with added scraps, 23.5 x 19cm, an unusual folding card by George Meek, c.1850, containing 2 sachets with hidden Registered love message, a triple-fold ‘Stevens’ silk cachet card by Mullord Bros, and three small German lace cards, c.1860 (6)

£70-100

59* Valentine Paper Lace Valentines. A triple-fold silk sachet card, probably by Mullord, c.1860, floral oval chromolithograps against a silver and white ground, printed verse, 12.5 x 25.5cm, together with an early embossed card with hand-coloured lithograph, c.1840, an embossed colour-lithographic card by Mullord, c.1870, a Dobbs ‘Drink to me only with thine eyes’ paper lace card by Dobbs & Co., c.1830, plus 4 other paper lace cards including 2 sachets 55* Valentines. A handmade Valentine, c.1800, depicting a colour lithograph of a young lady set within a blue and gold envelope with decorated and shell frame border, manuscript verse at head and foot, 18.5 x 13cm, together with a fine hidden colour lithograph Valentine ‘Duty of Love’, c.1870, a crude hand-coloured cut-out ‘vindictive’ Valentine by Robert Cruikshank, plus 2 smaller handpainted and embossed Valentine cards by Mansell, c.1860 (5)

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£60-80

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£70-100

60* Valentines. A selection of nine ‘Vindictive’ Valentines, c.1840/60, including examples by Robert Canton, Kershaw and A. Park, mostly embossed with stencilling and woodblock colouring, each with printed verse (sometimes rude), a little spotting and dust soiling, approximately 18.5 x 11.5cm and slightly smaller (9)

£70-100

61* Valentines. A group of 9 ‘Vindictive’ one penny Valentines by A. Park, c.1840-50, including various tradesmen caricatured with lewd and vindictive rhymes, all with stencilled watercolour, some spotting, mostly approximately 12 x 22cm (9)

£70-100

62* Valentines. Two ‘Vindictive’ Valentines by McLoughlin Bros of New York, c.1880-90, titled ‘French Nurse’ and ‘An Awful Bust’, stencilled colours, the second card laid down, each 17 x 22cm, together with a George Cruikshank ‘Curiosities of Ornithology’ Valentine (tipped on to card), a Shell Petrol Valentine card from 1953, plus 11 other Valentine postcards including some ‘Vindictive’, c.1930s and earlier, some postally used (15)

£70-100

63* Valentines. A group of 3 ‘Mechanical cards’, c.1850/60, ‘Love is Heaven and Heaven is Love’, ‘Loves Blind They Say’, ‘There are Two Sides to Everything’, each with flap/door and hidden message, plus other Victorian Valentines including ‘Vindictive’ cards, smaller format, embossed, engraved and lithographic cards, two by Rock Bros and one rare Kate Greenaway card (14)

£70-100

64* Victorian Paper Lace Valentines. A selection of 13 Valentines, including a Walter Crane ‘Quiver of Love’ card, c.1880-90, with rhyme inside, a rare ‘Mother’ Valentine by Meek, c.1850, with steam train and viaduct as part of decoration, two circular ‘pin prick’ decorations, a ‘Stevens’ silk sachet and other mostly smaller format paper lace cards

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£70-100

65* Valentine Fan. A rare colour lithographic Valentine fan by Farr, c.1880, with four leaves illustrating the language of love through flowers, 22.5cm (open) (1)

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£70-100

67* Cremorne Rose Fan. A pierced and shaped paper fan by Joseph Myers, c.1855, unfolded showing 28 engraved vignettes of the Isle of Wight and 2 colour roses, folding to form the ‘Cremorne Rose Fan’, 13.5 & 26.5cm (folded and unfolded) See illustration on page 26 of ‘Book of Fans’ by Nancy Armstrong.

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£60-80

66* Stand-up Valentines. A three-dimensional pull-out and standup Valentine by Hallmark, 1923, featuring a cupid in a forget-me-not and rose-decked motor car, 22.5 x 16.5cm, plus another published

by Photo Production, 1923, featuring two cupids in a balloon within a forget-me-not frame, 19.5 x 19cm, plus a pull-out and stand-up figure of a young lady with moveable bonnet and ribbon, published Raphael Tuck, 1920, plus six other stand-up cards, approximately 16 x 11cm and similar (9)

£70-100

68* Christmas Stand-Up Cards. A three-dimensional colour lithograph stand-up Christmas card, c.1890, showing the Holy Family stable scene with Bethlehem in the background, 15 x 20cm, another three-dimensional card featuring the Holy Family with 2 angels within a bell-shape frame, 16 x 13.5cm, and a third stand-up Christmas card of a stable scene, circa 1890, 13.5 x 11 x 4cm (3)

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£70-100

CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 69 Ainslie (Kathleen). “What I did”, [1905]; “Catharine Susan and Me’s Coming Out”, [1907]; Catherine Susan’s Calendar for 1910, [1909]; Catherine Susan in Hot Water, [1910]; all 1st editions, Castell Brothers, together 4 volumes, colour illustrations throughout, some foxing and toning, all original pictorial wrappers, some rubbing and marks, all small 4to, together with four others by Ainslie, comprising At Great-Aunt Martha’s, Mops Versus Tails, Catharine Susan’s Little Holiday, and “Me and Catharine Susan” (latter with wrappers detached), and two Kate Greenaway Almanacks, for 1883 and 1924 (10)

£100-150

70 Aldin (Cecil). Cecil Aldin’s Letter Book series, 6 parts (complete), [1921], a complete set, all with colour illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, contained in publisher’s original card box with pictorial upper cover, minor marks and scratches to base An uncommon and attractive set in the very rare original book box. The series comprises: Black Billy, Pale Peter, Ugly Duckling, Cock-o-Lorum, White Rabbit and Puss-Puss.

(1) £250-350

71 Alphabet book. Baby’s Linen Alphabet Book with Large Full Page Pictures in Colours, Frederick Warne, [1903], duotone titlepage, twenty-four full-page colour illustrations, printed on rectos only, comprising twelve pages with the alphabet illustrating items such as an ark, a drum, an elephant, a fairy, a hoop, a jack in the box, a muff, a rocking horse, a rattle, a train, etc., followed by twelve pages with the alphabet illustrated with nursery rhymes, plus two additional duotone pages of alphabet, all leaves mounted on linen, some creasing and soiling (especially to first and final leaf), endpapers renewed, original glazed pictorial boards, with cloth spine and corners renewed, folio, together with Stevens (Thomas), Babes of the Empire, An Alphabet for Young England, pictures by A.H. Collins, 1st edition, William Heinemann, 1902, twenty-six fullpage colour illustrations, endpapers foxed, upper hinge split, contemporary manuscript inscription on front free endpaper, original pictorial red cloth, spine lightly faded, 4to

Lot 70

Two scarce alphabet books, the first listed only once on COPAC (British Library copy), and the second with four COPAC locations (latter with each illustration depicting a child from a different nation or creed).

(2) £150-250

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Lot 72 72 Barrie (J.M.). Peter Pan Picture Cards, by Flora White, n.p., c.1914, twenty cards (complete), each with a colour illustration by Flora White on the left with text on the right, first card dusty, pin holes at corners, and some light finger-soiling, 20 x 31.5cm (8 x 12.5ins)

74 Brunhoff (Jean de). Histoire de Babar le Petit Elephant, 1st edition, 1st issue, Paris, 1931, 1st issue without list of titles and without elephant on copyright page, colour illustrations throughout, title-page with some faint spotting and finger-soiling, pictorial endpapers, stitching slightly strained, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, spine faded, folio, together with Le Voyage de Babar, 1st edition, Paris, 1932, colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, folio, together with Le Roi Babar, 1st edition, Paris, 1933, colour illustrations throughout, contemporary pencilled name at head of title-page, pictorial endpapers, stitching strained, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, folio, plus The Story of Babar the Little Elephant, 1st UK edition, Methuen, 1934, original cloth-backed boards, edge-rubbed, folio

A rare set of Peter Pan merchandise. A volume entitled ‘Peter Pan’s A B C’ with colour illustrations by Flora White was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1914; this set of twenty cards was clearly produced at around the same time. Not listed on COPAC. The only other set we have been able to trace was sold at Sotheby’s in 2007.

(1) £1000-1500

73 Blyton (Enid). Mary Mouse and the Dolls’ House; More Adventures of Mary Mouse; Little Mary Mouse Again; Hallo, Little Mary Mouse; Mary Mouse and Her Family; Here Comes Mary Mouse Again; How Do You Do Mary Mouse?; We Do Love Mary Mouse; Hurrah for Mary Mouse; Mary Mouse and Her Bicycle, 1st editions, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, [1942-1952], together ten volumes, duotone illustrations throughout, all in original linen-backed pictorial wrappers, some minor rubbing and marks, 7 x 15cm (2.75 x 6ins), together with five other strip-books by Enid Blyton (one Noddy, three Mandy, and one Mr. Tumpy) (15)

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£150-200

75 Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’). Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, Oxford: Emberlin, 1890 [but later], comprising 40pp. booklet (with ad. for ‘Feeding the Mind’, first published in 1907), stamp-case, verso with words ‘published by Emberlin and Son, 4, Magdalen Street, Oxford’ printed above the Cheshire cat, and below ‘(post free, 13d.) price one shilling’, containing stamp-holder with twelve separate pockets, each containing a postage stamp (mostly franked), and original printed envelope (slightly frayed and creased), together with another copy similar, comprising 40pp. booklet, stamp-case, stamp-holder (without stamps), and printed envelope, plus an additional stamp-case and stamp-holder

£100-150

See Williams, Maddan, Green 223.

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£80-120

77 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, 1931, half-title (with 1.5” closed tear in foremargin neatly repaired), numerous b & w illustrations, 8pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, foxing to first and final leaves and edges, original map endpapers, top edges green, recent green quarter morocco, gilt wavy line decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder with gilt dragonfly tool, contained in green cloth slipcase, with gilt vignette from original cloth binding inset on front, 8vo, together with Norton (Mary). The Borrowers, 1st edition, J.M. Dent, 1952, half-title present, colour frontispiece, text and endpaper illustrations in sepia, recent blue morocco, dotted line decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder gilt panelled with central fleur-de-lys tool, covers with gilt single fillet border, upper cover with gilt illustration, 8vo The 1931 edition of ‘Wind in the Willows’ is the first edition illustrated by Shepard.

(2) £300-400

76 Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold

by Laurence Housman, 1907, fifty tipped-in colour plates, a few faint spots to tissue guards, t.e.g., original vellum gilt, silk ties, 4to Limited edition, 60/350 copies, signed by the artist. A good copy.

(1) £500-800

78 Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 38th edition, Methuen, 1931, b & w illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, occasional light spotting to a few leaves, illustrated endpapers, original green cloth gilt in bright condition, d.j., spine darkened and general toning, extremities rubbed and a little frayed, 8vo This is the first edition with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.

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£300-500

79 Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Violet Fairy Book, New Impression, Longmans, Green and Co., 1933, colour frontispiece, further illustrations throughout, publisher’s original decorative dark blue cloth (overall very bright), a little rubbed at extremities, 8vo, together with Clarke (Harry, illust.), Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen, George Harrap & Co., 1930, colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations throughout, original cloth, a little rubbed and slightly scuffed to upper joint, 4to Lot 77

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£100-150

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80 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 2nd edition, 1924; Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House At Pooh Corner, 1928, 1st editions, half-titles, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, front decorative endpapers bound in (close-trimmed, Winnie-thePooh with small presentation inscription), original cloth covers and spines bound-in at rear (Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner upper covers and spines only), a.e.g., recent full burgundy morocco, covers with gilt single fillet rule and cornerpieces, spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, housed in a cloth slipcase, 8vo An attractive rebound set of all the Winnie-the- Pooh books.

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£800-1200

81 Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, Methuen, 1926, numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers lightly foxed and browned, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, original green cloth gilt, spine ends a trifle rubbed, but a bright copy, 8vo (1)

£200-300

82 Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, Methuen, 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, half-title with contemporary ink inscription at head, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers partially browned, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, original salmon cloth gilt, in d.j., spine and folds rubbed and darkened with small chips at ends, 2cm closed tear in top edge of rear panel, 8vo (1)

£200-300

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83 Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 7th edition [1st deluxe edition], Methuen, 1925, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, title-page with circular ink stamp ‘The Federal Rubber Stamp Co., Malaya’, endpapers lightly foxed, front free endpaper with contemporary ink inscription, a.e.g., original gilt decorated olive green limp roan, upper cover with a few minor marks, but overall a good copy, 8vo Rare. The only ‘Pooh’ title not to be issued in a deluxe edition at the time of publication of the trade edition; this seventh printing is therefore the first deluxe issue of ‘When We Were Very Young’.

(1) £300-500

84 Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, 12 colour woodblock plates, some offset to text leaves facing, some spotting at front and rear, inner hinges weak, original linen-backed pictorial boards, some soiling and edge wear, 4to (1)

£150-200

85 Peake (Mervyn, illust.). Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, 1st issue, Chatto and Windus, 1940, first issue (without the dedication leaf), fifteen plates, including ten handcoloured, endpapers partially toned, original pictorial cream boards (corners slightly bumped), in d.j., a little dusty with minor fraying at head of spine, 4to (1)

£200-300

86 Perpetua Press. Fifteen Old Nursery Rhymes with New Linocuts

by Biddy Darlow, Bristol, 1935, sixteen full-page hand-coloured linocuts, untrimmed, original two-tone cloth, spine a little darkened and margins of covers slightly faded, large 4to, (limited edition of 150 copies), together with The Little Chimney Sweep, Bristol, 1936, silhouette illustrations, free endpapers partially browned, original black cloth with printed label on upper cover, in slightly chipped and dusty d.j., large 8vo, (limited edition of 300 copies), plus Wander Birds, by Eric Walter White, with ten silhouettes cut by Lotte Reiniger, Bristol, 1934, letterpress illustrations, front free endpaper with inscriptions to Mr. Gordon by the author and the artist, original boards in chipped glassine wrapper, slim 8vo, (limited edition, 58/200 copies, signed by the author), plus five others published by or relating to the Perpetua Press

Lot 83

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£100-150

87 Piper (John, illust.). English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c.1860, chosen by John Betjamen and Geoffrey Taylor, F. Muller, 1944, twelve full-page colour autolithograph plates, presentation inscription in ink to front free endpaper, original printed boards with printed d.j., jacket a little rubbed and scuffed with repaired tear to head of spine, 8vo, together with Nash (John, illust.), Men and the Fields, by Adrian Bell, Batsford, 1939, six fullpage lithograph plates, black and white line illustrations to text, presentation inscription to front free endpaper, original cloth in d.j., price clipped, 8vo, plus Jones (Barbara, illust.), English Fairs and Markets, Batsford, 1953, three full-page colour lithograph plates, further black and white full-page illustrations and line drawings to text, original cloth in d.j., a little scuffed and fraying, 8vo, plus other illustrated books, most with autholithograph illustrations, including some by Edward Ardizzone, Cecil Keeling, Clarke Hutton etc., mainly original cloth in d.j.s, all 8vo (14)

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£150-200

Lot 88

88 Potter (Beatrix, illust.). Comical Customers, At the New Stores of Comical Rhymes and Stories, Ernest Nister, [1896], nine initialled line drawings on 3pp. by Beatrix Potter, illustrating a poem entitled ‘A Frog he would a fishing Go’ by ‘C.B.’ (Clifton Bingham), mounted colour frontispiece and numerous other b & w letterpress illustrations, including some by Louis Wain, contents generally toned, and one or two minor marks, patterned endpapers, hinges splitting, original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, edge-rubbed, some soiling and staining, 4to

Jeremy Fisher, wondering if her story could be made into a booklet.

Robert Mack wrote back ‘I am doubtful whether we can take it, we certainly cannot make a booklet of it as people do not want frogs now... the days of these booklets are quite gone out, they do not pay to produce, people are so utterly tired of them and want some novelty’.

After lengthy negotiations, in which Beatrix Potter stood firm over the sum she wanted for her illustrations, the publishers purchased nine of Potter’s drawings and used them to accompany Clifton Bingham’s verse in their Annual for 1896 and in this title of the same year. Much later Potter was to write ‘Nister was an unattractive German (?) Firm - but it was my first start at anything published’. (Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter’, pp.175-78) (1) £1000-1500

Rare Nister publication containing Beatrix Potter’s first published illustrations. In 1894 Beatrix Potter wrote a picture letter to the publishers Ernest Nister in which she described the adventures of a frog called

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91 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ring of the Niblung: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, and Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods,

by Richard Wagner, 2 volumes, Heinemann, 1910-1911, sixty-four tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, a little offsetting, some toning to pages facing plates, first volume with minor dampstaining to lower outer blank corners, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, blue crushed morocco (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), volume two with one corner slightly bumped, gilt dot-roll decorated raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second and third compartments, remainder with oval floral tool, date lettered at foot, sides with single gilt fillet border, inner dotted roll border with floral cornerpieces, turn-ins with gilt fillets, 4to Riall, pp.103 & 109. A handsome set. Limited deluxe edition 559/1150 and 665/1150 respectively, signed by Arthur Rackham.

(2) £1500-2000

89 Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st deluxe edition, Warne, [1902], ‘wept’ for ‘shed’ on p.51, thirty-one full-page colour illustrations, some soiling and creases, grey leaf-patterned endpapers, remains of old adhesive tape repairs to hinges, t.e.g., original olive green boards lettered in red with rectangular pictorial panel to upper board, some rubbing and marks, 16mo Linder, p.421; Quinby 2. Rare: 8000 copies were printed for the first trade edition of ‘Peter Rabbit’, and it is believed that 2000 of these were bound up in this deluxe format, which was succeeded by a second deluxe edition, with gilt lettered upper cover, in 1904 (Linder).

(1) £800-1200

90 Puffin Picture Books. A collection of forty-three Puffin Picture Books, c.1940s, including Waterways of the World, Country Holiday, Animals of Australia, etc., all with autolithograph illustrations, original wrappers, some with juvenile ownership inscriptions to covers, oblong 8vo, together with nine illustrated books from Pere Castor’s Wild Animal Books series, and other illustrated books including illustrators James Holland, Clarke Hutton, Edward Ardizzone and others (82)

£200-300

92 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, some light toning to pages facing plates, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, near contemporary blue half morocco (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), gilt decorated spine, 4to Riall, p.87. Deluxe limited edition, 609/1000 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham.

(1) £700-1000

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96 Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, 1st trade edition, Heinemann, 1905, half-title with original pen & ink sketch of Rip Van Winkle’s head, signed by the artist and dated 27/11/07, foxed, text with fifty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, scattered foxing, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine faded and frayed to extremities, corners showing, 4to Riall, p.69/70.

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£300-500

93 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, Heinemann, 1905, fifty tipped-in colour plates (including one double page), with captioned tissue guards, some spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original vellum gilt, upper cover slightly bowed, lightly dust-soiled, lacking ties, 4to Riall, p.69. Limited deluxe edition 30/250 signed by Arthur Rackham.

(1) £1000-1500

94 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, neat contemporary inscription at head of title-page, some toning to text, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated vellum, lacking ties, lightly dust-soiled (especially to spine), 4to Riall, p.87. Deluxe limited edition, 709/1000 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham.

(1) £400-600

95 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, Dent, 1907, twenty-four colour plates mounted on dark-green paper, captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, numerous black and white letterpress illustrations, some toning to text, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original gilt decorated vellum, lightly dust-soiled, spine somewhat darkened and a little bumped at foot, lacking silk ties, 4to Riall, p.83. Deluxe limited edition, 394/560 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham.

(1) £300-500

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97 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Constable & Company, 1909, forty tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, occasional minor mark, endpapers slightly toned, original cloth gilt, spine repaired and relaid, a few minor marks to covers, 4to Riall, p.97.

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£150-200

98 Rackham (Arthur, illust.). A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, a few light spots, contemporary presentation inscription, original beige cloth gilt, 4to A bright copy.

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£100-150

101 Steadman (Ralph, illust.). Steam Press Portfolio No. 2, 1974, six broadside poems by Lyman Andrews, Asa Benveniste, Lawrence Durrell, Ruth Fainlight, Sylvia Plath and Alan Sillitoe, each illustrated by Ralph Steadman, signed by author and illustrator (excepting Sylvia Plath), in folding portfolio, all contained in original blue cloth foldover box, edges a little rubbed, folio, limited edition, 48/50 copies, together with Israel. Poems on a Hebrew Theme, by Alan Sillitoe, Steam Press, 1981, 14 poems by Alan Sillitoe, b & w lithograph illustrations by Ralph Steadman bound opposite, both in folding black buckram portfolio, slipcase, folio, limited edition, 12/98 copies, signed by author and artist.

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£300-400

102 Wain (Louis, illust.). To Nursery Land, edited by Edric Vredenburg... with Verses by Clifton Bingham, S.K. Cowan, etc., etc., Raphael Tuck, c.1909, colour frontispiece, b & w and duotone illuststrations throughout, toned, hinges repaired, original pictorial blue cloth, some faint dust-soiling and discreet spine repairs, 4to Gant 105.

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£100-150

99 Robinson (Gordon, illustrator). Pat-a-Cake, Dean & Son, c.1911, six full-page colour illustrations, letterpress vignettes, lightly toned, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, surface chipping to edges, upper cover with some minor worming in joint (going through to first few leaves), folio, together with An Alphabet Picture Book, “Won’t Tear” Series, Blackie, c.1935, colour illustrations throughout, some marks, including stain to fore-margins, inside front cover with contemporary inscription, original pictorial card covers, soiled, spine reinforced, slim 4to, plus five other illustrated children’s books, including pop-ups and a shaped book Both items scarce: only one copy of each listed on COPAC (Cambridge Univeristy and Oxford University respectively).

(7) £100-150

100 Rupert Bear. The New Adventures of Rupert, 1st edition, Daily Express Publications, [1936], illustrations printed in red and black, full-page illustrations to pp. 36 and 37 with juvenile colour, occasional small mark or stain, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original decorative cloth, slightly stained, spine a little faded, 4to, together with More Adventures of Rupert, The New Rupert Book, More Rupert Adventures and A New Rupert Book, c.1940s, all with occasional juvenile inscription, small stain or mark, original printed wrappers, all slightly worn to edges with some fraying, 4to

103* Williams (Pam, 20th century). Four portraits of Louis de Bernieres, Pat Barker, Clive James and Emily Perkins, pencil on paper, each signed by subject and artist, additional ink inscription by Emily Perkins, Louis de Bernieres mounted, framed and glazed, the largest 29 x 21cm

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£100-150

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£200-300

ORIGINAL ARTWORK All lots unframed unless otherwise stated

104 Angel (Marie, c.1923). Puss in Boots, 1950, pp.[ii]+12+[1], original manuscript written throughout in a neat calligraphic hand, illustrated title-page with dedication on verso, three full-page pen, ink, and watercolour drawings, plus decorative colophon, roughtrimmed, some faint creasing, sheet size 28 x 20cm/11 x 8ins), original sewn grey wrappers, with decorative manuscript label on front cover, some minor creasing and slight fraying to edge, tall 4to (1)

£100-150

105* Benatar (Molly, fl.1919-1929). “Hanging Lanterns” (original illustration for inside colour plate for Pamela’s Pet, published by Birn Bros in 1935), gouache on board, signed to lower right, publisher’s stamp and manuscript printer’s instructions to verso, 37 x 26.5cm (14.5 x 10.5ins) image size (1)

£70-100

Lot 104

106* Birn Brothers. Two original illustrations for Birn Brothers children’s books, c.1950s, including Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, watercolour and gouache, signed ‘Fel’ to lower right corner, and Royal Horse Guard, watercolour and gouache, 33.5 x 24cm (13 x 9.5ins) and similar, both framed and glazed (2)

Lot 105

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£80-120

109* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). “In the Days of our Youth”, c.1980, watercolour with pen and ink, 15.5 x 21.5cm (6 x 8.5ins) aperture size, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from the estate of the artist.

(1) £150-200

107* Biro (Balint Stephen, “Val”, b.1921). Seven original illustrations for Worzel Gummidge, King of the Scarecrows, published by Purnell Books, 1983, together seven pen, ink and watercolour illustrations on heavy paper, largest sheet size, 30 x 47cm (12 x 18.5ins), together with a copy of the published title (8)

£150-200

108* Brock (Charles Edmund, 1870-1938). “She looked and spied and searched all about”, 1892, pen & ink, showing a girl kneeling on the grass under a spreading tree by a stream, signed and dated lower right, 8 x 12cm (3 x 4.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed

110* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). Original cover design for “A Puffin Book of Verse”, compiled by Eleanor Graham, published 1985, fine pen, ink and gouache illustration for the cover of A Puffin Book of Verse, signed and dated ‘86 lower right, 18.5 x 12cm (7.25 x 4.75ins) aperture size, framed and glazed

An original illustration for ‘Scenes in Fairyland or Miss Mary’s Visits to the Court of Fairy Realm’ by Canon Atkinson, published by Macmillan in 1892.

(1) £100-150

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£150-200

Lot 113

111* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). Original cover design for “Vice Versa”, published by Puffin in 1985, pen, ink and gouache cover design for Vice Versa, signed and dated ‘84 to lower right, 18.5 x 12cm (7.25 x 4.75ins) aperture size, framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

112* Brown (Barbara, 1942-2005). “A World of Imagination”, c.1980, watercolour with pen and ink, 17 x 27cm (6.75 x 10.5ins) aperture size, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the vendor from the estate of the artist.

(1) £150-200

Lot 114

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113* Brunhoff (Jean de). A collection of mounted colour illustrations of Babar, 1933-48, thirty-one colour illustrations taken from the original Babar books, six large format, approximately 27 x 51cm (10.5 x 20ins) and slightly larger, remainder various sizes, 35 x 25cm/13.75 x 9.75ins and smaller, all mounted (31)

115* Cobb (Ruth, fl. 1902-1953). A complete set of original pen and ink and watercolour drawings for the book ‘Three Little Adventurers’ by Madeleine Grant Richards, [1917], all signed to lower margin, each 12.5 x 8cm (5 x 3ins), mounted in order of appearance in the story in two panoramic matching frames, glazed, each 20 x 142cm (8 x 56ins), together with a second larger original pen, ink and watercolour illustration used as the fourth illustration in the book, short closed tear to lower margin, 19.5 x 12.5cm (7.75 x 5ins), framed and glazed, plus a first edition copy of the book, some light toning, inner hinges broken and leaves coming loose, original pictorial cloth in bright condition, d.j. somewhat soiled and worn and relined, 8vo, Mrs Grant Richards publisher’s contract and two royalty receipts (1918) loosely inserted

£100-150

114* Clarke (Harry, 1889-1931). “Though Many Come I Will Gather Them In”, pen & ink on paper, showing Father Time in a graveyard, surrounded by spirits, mourners, and animals, titled on scythe blade, contemporary pencil inscription on verso ‘purchased from Harry Clarke, 33 North Frederick St. Dublin’, 41.5 x 22.5cm (16.25 x 8.75ins) (1)

£700-1000

Most of Cobb’s book illustrations were drawn for children’s books, including those she wrote herself. She also contributed to magazines such as Chatterbox and Punch.

(7) £400-600

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Lot 116

116* Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957). “Jewels of the Deep”, 1925, etching with aquatint, printed in colours and finished by hand, showing a variety of fish with coral behind, signed in pencil to lower right margin, initialled in pencil to lower left margin ‘E.J.D. imp:’, image size 33.5 x 42cm (13 x 16.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, old Museum Galleries label on backboard with title in contemporary manuscript Produced in a limited edition of only twelve, this being an artist’s proof copy before edition number. The British Museum holds No. 4/12 (museum number 1927,0225.1).

(1) £2000-3000

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117* Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957). Chick on a lily pad, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, showing a juvenile wading bird, signed lower right, 16 x 11.5cm (6.25 x 4.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)

119* Folkard (Charles, 1878-1963). “Romeo and Juliet” (original illustration from Tales from Shakespeare published by Dent in 1926), watercolour with pen and ink, 34.5 x 22cm (13.5 x 8.75ins) aperture size, framed and glazed

£100-150

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118 Educational Posters. A collection of approximately 300 schoolroom posters, Macmillan, c.1950s, comprising thirteen Enid Blyton Nature Plates illustrated by Eileen Soper, The Enid Blyton Bible Pictures (Old & New Testament), 59/60 plates, History Class Pictures Sets 1-3, 177/180 plates, Geography Class Pictures, Set I, 53/60 plates, plus approximately 30 other Macmillan schoolroom posters, all colour-printed on thick paper, each with a bold and bright illustration, depicting games and pastimes, other nations, trades, animals, fairy tales, transport, castles, jousting, etc., margins with the usual pinmarks, and occasional edge-creasing and fraying (with some adhesive tape repairs), 43 x 53cm (17 x 21ins), five sets contained in original cardboard portfolio (worn), plus twelve other colour posters similar, 1966 (approximately 300)

£300-500

120* Gilbert (Sir John, 1817-1897). In Doubting Castle, watercolour, depicting Christian and Hopeful captured by Giant Despair, 21 x 16.5cm (8.25 x 6.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with art dealer’s old label on backboard ‘John Magee of Belfast’ For an edition of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ edited by George Offor and published

by George Routledge in 1858, for which John Gilbert provided forty illustrations.

(1) £200-300

£150-200

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121* Gill (Eric, 1882-1940). “Who Were The First to Cry Nowell?

Animals All As It Befell”, [1916], woodcut on laid paper with watermark of ‘Vincent Press, B’ham’, a little spotting, 39 x 43cm (15.5 x 17ins) Physick 51. This is a variant of Physick 50 (published in ‘The Philosophy of Art’) where the composition is inverted and the lettering extends around all four edges, rather than three. The Vincent Press, a small press in Birmingham, appears to have published only two books, an edition of Sammuel Johnson’s ‘Rasselas’ (1898) and ‘Five Ballads about Robinhood’ (1899).

(1) £500-800

Lot 122 122* Kennedy (A. E., illustrator). Original illustration for the cover of Animal Land: Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales and other Stories, published by Birn Bros, c.1940, original illustration in watercolour and gouache, 28.5 x 19cm (11.25 x 7.75ins), framed and glazed (1)

£150-200

123* McGill (Donald Fraser Gould, 1875-1962). “Aint you running your ass, Bill?” “No mate, I’m scratching it!”. watercolour, signed by artist to lower left, laid on contemporary card, with the caption to verso, 225 x 165 mm (1)

£200-300

124* Milne (A.A., and Shepard, E.H., illustrator). [Six Drawings, Illustrating Poems from ‘When We Were Very Young’ by A.A. Milne, Methuen, 1926], together a complete set of six hand-coloured lithographs, each with a poem surrounded by vignettes, image size 48 x 38cm (19 x 15ins) and smaller, each with pencilled limitation to lower right margin, without the original portfolio (as usual), mounted, in matching frames, glazed Limited edition 126/250 copies. Produced only two years after the book from which the poems are taken, and before publication of ‘Now We Are Six’ and ‘The House at Pooh Corner’. The six poems are: ‘Vespers’; ‘Lines and Squares’; ‘Happiness’; ‘Teddy Bear’; ‘Hoppity’; and ‘The King’s Breakfast’. An extremely rare suite of hand-coloured broadsides, the set commonly being broken up, framed and dispersed. The only set listed on COPAC is that held at Cambridge University.

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127* Mortimer (Anne, 1958- ). A Pussycat’s Christmas, by Margaret Wise Brown, Harper Collins, 1994, original watercolour illustration, of a black and white cat surrounded by snowflakes, signed lower right, 13.5 x 14cm (5.25 x 5.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed This illustration was used on the front cover of the book as well as on the title-page.

(2) £150-250

125* Mortimer (Anne, 1958- ). “Tumbling Cats”, watercolour of two playful cats, signed, 21 x 20cm (8.25 x 8ins), mounted An original illustration used for ‘I Love Cats’ by Sue Stainton (Katherine Tegen Books, 2007), a copy of which is included with the lot (signed by Anne Mortimer).

(2) £300-400

126* Mortimer (Anne, 1958- ). Santa’s Snow Cat, by Sue Stainton, Katherine Tegen Books, 2001, original watercolour illustration, of a white cat looking up at Father Christmas beside a decorated tree, signed lower left, 24.5 x 16cm (9.5 x 6.25ins), mounted, together with a signed copy of the book for which the illustration was drawn

128* Mortimer (Anne, 1958- ). “Christmas Eve”; “Christmas Morning”, a pair of watercolours, one showing a black cat surveying the snowy rooftops of a village under a starry sky, the other of a black and white cat in a snowy garden with children and a snowman in the background, both signed, 17.5 x 3cm (7 x 1.25ins), mounted, together with a watercolour design for a Christmas card by Anne Mortimer entitled Squirrels in the Snow, showing two squirrels in a winter landscape, signed to right-hand margin, 16.5 x 10.5cm (6.5 x 4.25ins), mounted

This illustration appears on the front cover and dustjacket of the book as well as in the text.

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Two original illustrations for ‘A Pussycat’s Christmas, by Margaret Wise Brown, published by Harper Collins in 1994.

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131* Pearse (Susan Beatrice, 1878-1980). Five original illustrations for The Magic Fishbone, pub. The Saint Cathedral Press and James Nisbet, 1911, together five watercolour illustrations on paper, two colour, one showing two small boys hauling a large sack along a chequered floor (‘Two chubby-legged princes tugged at the Royal Ragbag and lugged it in’), the other showing a small boy being chased by a dog (‘The snapping little pug next door chased one of the little princes as he was coming home from school’), the other three grisaille watercolour, one depicting a line-up of children (‘They had 19 children ... and were always having more!’), slightly edge-frayed, one showing a small girl trying to do up the dress of another girl while a small boy looks on (‘Several of the children were growing out of their clothes’), and the other of a king sitting with his head in his hands, watched by several children (‘“What is the matter, Papa?” I am dreadfully poor, my child”‘), each with pencilled caption to margin below image, some minor dust-soiling, 25 x 39cm (10 x 15.5ins) and smaller

129* Parker (Gretel, 20th century). “Queen for a Day”, 2004, watercolour on paper, titled, signed and dated, 22 x 44cm (8.75 x 17.25ins) aperture size, framed and glazed, together with “Goose” and “Cloth Horse”, 2007, both signed or initialled and dated, largest 27 x 28cm (10.5 x 11ins), plus “Velveteen Rabbit”, 2005, titled, initialled and dated, 41 x 29.5cm (16 x 11.5ins), framed and glazed (4)

£150-200

British illustrator of children’s books, Susan Beatrice Pearse was best-known for her images of Ameliaranne.

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130*@ Parker (Gretel, 20th century). Seven original illustrations of Winnie the Pooh, 2006, together seven original watercolours with pen and ink, all signed in pencil, some dated, 31 x 23cm (12 x 9ins) and similar, two framed and glazed (7)

132* Pinky and Perky. “Learning to Fish”, c.1970, original gouache illustration showing Pinky and Perky fishing, 36 x 29cm (14 x 11.5ins) aperture size (1)

£300-500

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£70-100

134* Rupert Bear. Original artwork for a Selfridges Christmas poster, by Alfred Bestall, 1982, watercolour with pen & black ink, heightened with bodycolour, on artist’s board (slightly bowed), showing a snowy scene with Rupert, Bill Badger, and Algy Pug building a snowman, watched by Dinkie, Pong-Ping and Willie, signed lower right, in bright fresh condition, image size 50 x 33cm (19.75 x 13ins), together with a copy of the print for which it was done, inscribed by the artist to lower margin ‘With all good wishes Alfred E. Bestall. 16.XI.’82’ Provenance: The collection of a graphic designer who worked at the design studio of Selfridges in Oxford Street in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Each year Selfridges put on a large Christmas exhibition, and in 1982 the theme was Rupert Bear. Arthur Bestall was commissioned to paint this special artwork, which was based on the 1954 annual cover.

(2) £2000-3000

135 Scrap album. A nicely presented and complete album of chromo scraps, circa 1900, subjects include figures, flowers, animals, boats, Derby day panoramas, etc., pasted as multiples on fifty-two pages (27 leaves), a little dust soiling and occasional browning, upper hinges broken, presentation inscription dated 1909 to front pastedown, original gilt and black pictorial cloth, rubbed and soiled, folio (1)

£150-200

133* Reynolds (Warwick, 1880-1926). Bojun the Mad, charcoal heightened with bodycolour, signed lower left, 27 x 19cm (10.5 x 7.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, label on backboard with title and artist’s name in ink (1)

£100-150

136* Scutt (Marion Winifred, 20th century). Five original illustrations to The Second Book of Lullaby Nursery Rhymes, published by Juvenile Productions, [1951], together five original pen, ink and watercolour designs on artist’s board, four with monogram to lower right or left corner, printer’s annotations in pencil to outer margins, sheet size 29.8 x 21.7cm (11.75 x 8.5ins), together with another unidenitified early/mid 20th century children’s book illustration in black ink on artist’s board, depicting an fisherman seated on a bank, similar size The illustrator Marion Winifred Scutt was active in the 1940s and 50s, and wrote and illustrated Tales Told by the Fireside, also published by Juvenile Productions.

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139* Smythe (Reg, 1917-1998). ‘Andy Capp’ cartoon strip, two panel cartoon, signed by the artist to lower right, overall size 160 x 265mm, laid on contemporary card, backing card creased with slight staining The first panel reads:- ‘It’s nearly closin’ time - I’m off to the pub’. Flo replies ‘All right Pet, mind yer don’t catch cold’. The second panel shows Flo talking to a friend. ‘The pub? Closin’ time? - I thought yer said ‘e was off the Booze?.

Flo replies ‘’E is Bless ‘im. ‘E just pops over and ‘angs about outside - in case there’s a fight goin’.

(1) £50-80

137* Sharp (George, 20th century). “Death in Berlin” (original cover illustration for the M. M. Kaye novel published by Viking in 1985), oil on canvas, signed and titled to lower margin, 42.5 x 61cm (16.75 x 24ins) image size, framed and glazed (1)

£200-300

138* Sharp (George, 20th century). “Trade Winds” (original cover design for M. M. Kaye’s novel, published by Penguin in 1982), oil on board, signed lower left, slight surface scuff to upper left corner, 56.5 x 86.5cm (22 x 34ins), framed (1)

140* Studdy (George Ernest, 1878-1948). The Rakes Progress: A Study in New Year Resolutions, 1913, original pen, black ink and grey wash cartoon on paper, heightened with white bodycolour, signed and dated lower left, title inscribed to verso, 46.5 x 33cm (18.25 x 13ins), framed and glazed

£200-300

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£200-300

141* Tourtel (Mary, 1874-1948). “At the Bakery”, Rupert and the Little Prince outside the baker’s shop (original illustration for Rupert and the Little Prince, published by Sampson Low in 1930), pen and ink with blue pencil highlights on Reeves and Sons Bristol board, some white corrections by the artist, initialled to lower right, pencil printers instructions to margin, few small pin holes to extreme corners (not affecting image), 11 x 15.5cm (4.5 x 6ins) image size

143* Tourtel (Mary, 1874-1948). “The Witch watches on”,The Witch watching Rupert and the Little Prince, (original illustration for Rupert and the Little Prince, published by Sampson Low in 1930), pen and ink with blue pencil highlights on Bristol board, some corrections in white by the artist, pencil printer’s instructions to margin, pin holes to extreme corners of board (not affecting image), 11 x 15.5cm (4.5 x 6ins) image size

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£500-800

142* Tourtel (Mary, 1874-1948). “On the Road” Rupert and the Little Prince meet a man on the road, (original illustration for Rupert and the Little Prince, published by Sampson Low in 1930), pen and ink with blue pencil highlights on Bristol board, some white correction by the artist, signed to lower right, printer’s instructions and some small marks to margin, pin holes to extreme corners (not affecting image), 11 x 15.5cm (4.5 x 6ins) image size (1)

£500-800

144* Tourtel (Mary, 1874-1948). “The Rat Chase” (original illustration for Rupert and the Little Prince by Sampson Low, published 1930), pen and ink on Reeves & Sons’ Bristol board, with some white corrections by the artist, signed lower left, printer’s instructions to margin, two small pin holes to left-hand margin (not affecting image), 11 x 15cm (4.25 x 6ins) image size (1)

£500-800

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£200-300

145* Wheelhouse (Mary V., fl.1895-1947). “The Most Supreme Stew of the Century” (original illustration for The Slowcoach by E. V. Lucas, published by Darton & Co, 1908), watercolour with pen and ink, signed lower left, 27 x 16.5cm (10.75 x 6.5ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

147* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “The Making Up Department”, c.1951, watercolour and gouache, 37 x 30.5cm (14.5 x 12ins) aperture size, framed and glazed (1)

£400-600

£200-300

146* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “A Growing Business”, c.1951, watercolour and gouache, 37 x 30.5cm (14.5 x 12ins) aperture size, framed and glazed

148* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “The Shape of Things to Come”, c.1951, watercolour and gouache, 37 x 29cm (14 x 11.5ins) aperture size, framed and glazed

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£400-600

149* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “Morning Delivery”, c.1951, watercolour and gouache, 40 x 31cm (15.75 x 12ins) aperture size, framed and glazed

151* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “Logging Off”, c.1951, watercolour and gouache, 37 x 29.5cm (14.5 x 11.75ins) aperture size, framed and glazed

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£400-600

150* Wood (Lawson, 1878-1957). “Fan Mail”, c.1951, watercolour and gouache, 40 x 30.5cm (17.75 x 12ins) aperture size, framed and glazed (1)

£400-600

152* Wright (Cliff, 1963-). “Harry Pottery & Hippogriff”, 2002, pen and ink on paper, titled, signed and dated April 2002 to lower left, presentation inscription to upper left ‘To Louis-Charles all best wishes from Cliff’, 29 x 20cm (11.5 x 8ins) aperture size, framed and glazed (a little damage to right-hand edge of frame)

£400-600

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£300-500

WATERCOLOURS & DRAWINGS BY LOUIS WAIN FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION All lots unframed unless otherwise stated

153* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). “The Ambush”, gouache heightened with bodycolour, showing a large group of kittens in a forest, armed with knives and pistols, ambushing a portly gentleman cat, who has dropped all his parcels in great surprise, signed lower right, 36.5 x 29.5cm (14.5 x 11.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Exhibited at the Michael Parkin Fine Art Gallery, York, and illustrated in ‘Louis Wain’s Cats’, by Michael Parkin, Thames and Hudson, 1983. An excellent, lively picture, perhaps one of the best examples of Louis Wain’s work to come on the market in recent years.

(1) £10000-15000

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154* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). “Rich Man’s Gout”, watercolour heightened with bodycolour, showing a brown cat sitting in a chair, with his foot bandaged, smoking a cigar and looking annoyed at the sight of a group of mice running up the curtain and cavorting around his portrait and tumbler on the table beside, signed lower right, 34 x 46cm (13.5 x 18ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Sold in these rooms, 16th June, 2005.

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£3000-4000

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155* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). “Poor Man’s Gout”, watercolour and bodycolour, showing a grey and white cat sitting in a chair in humble surroundings, his foot bandaged, smoking a clay pipe and looking in astonishment at a mouse who has had the temerity to appear before him, signed lower left, 34 x 46cm (13.25 x 18ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Sold in these rooms, 16th June, 2005.

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£2000-3000

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156* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). “A Choir, Mice Mice Beautiful Mice”, pen, ink, and grisaille watercolour, showing a group of kittens singing with great gusto, with conductor cat holding a baton aloft, signed lower right, 26.5 x 34.5cm (10.5 x 13.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with a print of the same Provenance: Chris Beetles Gallery; Bonhams, London, 8th November 2005, lot 182.

(1) £2000-3000

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157* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). Smiling Cat with Bow, red chalk drawing of a smiling cat with a large neck bow, signed lower left, with pencil inscription to lower margin ‘with many good wishes to Miss Brooklin’, some overall toning and faint spotting, 23.5 x 16.5cm (9.25 x 6.5ins) (1)

£700-1000

158* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). “Little Bow Puss”, pencil drawing of a smiling cat with large neck-bow, signed lower left, and with inscription lower right ‘With many good wishes to Mrs Ridout from Louis Wain. Feb 10. 1905’, some faint toning, 20 x 16.5cm (8 x 6.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Michael Parkin Gallery, ‘Louis Wain 1860-1939, Cats of Fame and Promise’, December 1986 (where purchased by Mrs. M. Evans); Bonhams, London, 8th November 2005, lot 186.

(1) £500-800

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159* Wain (Louis, 1860-1939). Winking Cat, pen & ink drawing of a winking cat wearing a high collar and bowtie, signed lower left, with inscription to lower margin ‘We know each other, don’t we’, lightly toned overall, 22 x 16.5cm (8.75 x 6.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed (1)

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£500-800

LOUIS WAIN & FELIX THE CAT CERAMICS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

162* Felix the Cat. A group of whimsies and miniature vases decorated with Felix the Cat, c.1920s, comprising a moulded porcelain whimsy in the form of a telephone, transfer printed with image of Felix, captioned ‘Felix the film Cat’, and on reverse ‘Pathe Presents’ mark, detailed in gilt, maker’s mark to base; a porcelain whimsy in the form of a keg, similarly decorated; a porcelain miniature vase with scalloped rim, similarly decorated and additionally captioned ‘A present from Tintern’; a porclain miniature vase, similarly decorated over lustre glaze, additionally captioned ‘Comes to Blackpool’; a porcelain whimsy in the form of a cat, similarly decorated, hand-finished in green and orange, captioned ‘From Norwich’ and ‘My word if you are not off!’, base completely restored; a porcelain miniature vase transfer printed with image of Felix, captioned’I’m Felix’ and ‘From Ryde’, hand-finished in orange, unmarked, largest 11cm (4.5ins) high

160* Felix the Cat. A rare porcelain bowl, Glasgow: Britannia Pottery Company, 1920s, with a design after Pat Sullivan of Felix the Cat in the centre and black silhouetted mice running round the edge, red rimmed, maker’s mark on base, diameter 18cm (7.25ins) (1)

£70-100

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161* Felix the Cat. Baby’s Plate, early 20th century, heavy oval porcelain baby’s plate, with designs after Pat Sullivan of Felix the Cat, comprising three captioned vignettes in the centre (Now Felix Keep on Walking; Will You Walk with Felix?; Felix Takes a Walk), and three other images of Felix, ‘Baby’s Plate’ lettered in black on rim, lightly rubbed in places, indistinct maker’s mark on base, length 23.5cm (9.25ins), together with thirteen other Felix the Cat pieces, comprising five plates (of various size), two saucers, three mugs, a small bowl, and a miniature cup and saucer, various maker’s marks and some unmarked, various sizes and condition (14)

£100-200

163* Felix the Cat. A group of whimsies and miniature vases, decorated with Felix the Cat, c.1920s, a moulded porcelain whimsy in the form of a long-case clock, transfer printed with dial, an image of Felix, captioned ‘Felix the film Cat comes to Lynton & Lynmouth’, and ‘Make use of time let not advantage slip, Shakespeare’, and with ‘Pathe Presents’ mark to verso, maker’s mark to base, detailed in gilt; a moulded porcelain whimsy in the form of an open-topped coal wagon, similarly decorated; a moulded porcelain whimsy in the form of a barrel, similarly decorated and additional captioned ‘From Porthcawl’; a miniature vase in the form a two-handled amphora, similarly decorated and additionally captioned ‘Keeps on Walking’; a miniature slender vase, similarly decorated; a pair of miniature asymetic vases, both transfer printed with an image of Felix, one captioned ‘All Kiddies Love Me’, the other ‘Where’s that Bally Dog’, both ‘From Bristol’, both hand-finished in orange, unmarked, largest 13.5cm (5.25ins) high

£100-200

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£150-200

166* Felix the Cat. Two Carlton crested ware whimsies in the form of Felix walking across an armchair and a sofa, 1924, a moulded porcelain armchair with moulded figure of Felix walking across the seat, pearl lustre glaze, transfer printed with emblem of British Empire Exhibition, Wembley 1924, captioned ‘Felix Kept on Walking’, maker’s mark and retailer’s mark to base, hand-finished; a moulded porcelain whimsy modelled as a sofa, similarly decorated, with crest for Dover, largest 7.5cm (3ins) high (1)

164* Felix the Cat. A Carlton crested ware whimsy in the form of Felix the Cat, c.1920s, hand enamelled in black and white, transfer printed with the arms of High Wycombe and captioned ‘Felix Kept on Walking’, hand-finished in orange, detailed in gilt, maker’s mark to base, 8cm (3ins) high (1)

£200-300

167* Felix the Cat. A group of Carlton crested ware whimsies decorated with Felix the Cat, c.1920s, a moulded porcelain whimsy in the form of Felix the Cat, base in pearl lustre glaze, hand-finished, captioned ‘Lucky White Heather from Morecombe’, and maker’s mark to base; a moulded porcelain whimsy of Felix on an oval plinth, similarly decorated, with crest of the City of London and captioned ‘Felix Kept on Walking’, hand-finished in orange and green; a moulded porcelain whimsy with a moulded figure of Felix, similarly decorated with matte glaze and captioned ‘Lucky White Heather from Brighton’, unmarked, largest 8cm (3ins) high

£100-150

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£150-200

165* Felix the Cat. A group of miniature vases and whimsies by Wilton China, Stoke-on-Trent, decorated with Felix the Cat, c.1920, comprising a small porcelain beaker with orange lustre glaze, transfer printed with an image of Felix and captioned ‘Felix the film Cat’ with ‘Pathe Presents’ mark to verso, maker’s mark to base, gilt rim; a pair of moulded porcelain whimsies in the form of Welsh hats, similarly decorated; a miniature porcelain vase, similarly decorated and additionally captioned ‘Comes to Tobrecon’; a miniature porcelain bell-shaped vase, similarly decorated and additionally captioned ‘Comes to Builthwell’; a miniature porcelain vase with lemon lustre glaze, similarly decorated, largest 7.5cm (3ins) (6)

168* Felix the Cat. A celluloid recoil tape measure in the form of Felix the Cat’s head, probably German, c.1920s, moulded celluloid and printed fabric tape, 4.5cm (1.75ins) high, together with a wool winder, plywood, printed with an image of Felix and captioned ‘Felix Keeps on Knitting’, ‘Pathe Presents’ mark to centre, 16.5cm (6.5ins), plus an embroidered pale-blue handkerchief with oversewn edges, embroidered with an image of Felix, plus a Felix flickerbook (Felix on the Cinema, printed in Bavaria) and fifteen Spanish chocolate cards showing scenes from Felix cartoons

£80-120

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£150-200

171 Felix the Cat. The Felix Annual, Picture Stories of the Famous Film Cat, Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic, [1927], four colour plates, numerous monochrome illustrations, pictorial endpapers (free endpapers toned), original red cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, edge-rubbed, 4to, together with four other Felix items, plus Studdy (G.E.), A Lucky Dip, 1st edition, John Swain & Son, c.1924, six double-sided colour plates, b & w illustrations, foxed, original clothbacked pictorial boards, spine faded, small 8vo, together with two Bonzo Annuals, for 1949 and 1951, and six others cat/dog related (14)

£150-200

169* Felix the Cat. A painted hollow-cast figure of Felix the Cat in typical walking pose, possibly by Britains, c.1935, painted hollowcast lead figure, enamelled in black and white, small amount of chipping and flaking commensurate with age, 7.5cm (2.75ins) high, together with a brass figure in a similar pose, plus a lithograph on tin clicker showing Felix the Cat, German, c.1920s, pressed tin, lithograph printed with Felix and smaller cat and captioned ‘Come on Felix - risk it!’, plus three white metal bar brooches, each enamled in black with an image of Felix the Cat, (one badly worn), plus a black enamelled badge in the form of Felix and a white metal charm also in the form of Felix (8)

£100-150

172* Irving (Mary). Curious Pussy in Her Aeroplane, Paragon, c.1920, porcelain mug and plate, each with a captioned handfinished transfer design by Mary Irving, showing a black cat and a bi-plane, both with Mary Irving’s signature, mug with additional name ‘Sopwith’, green rimmed, maker’s markings (including star mark) on base, plate diameter 18cm (7.25ins), mug diameter 7cm (2.75ins), height 7cm (2.75ins) Rare.

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173* Nurseryware. A collection of transfer printed porcelain decorated with scenes from nursery rhymes and cats, 20th century, including a Paragon porcelain baby mug transfer printed and coloured by hand with Hey Diddle Diddle pattern, maker’s mark to base; a Paragon porcelain trio, transfer printed with ‘Lucky Cats’ motifs, hand-finished in red and blue, makers’ marks to base; a Shelly porcelain cup and saucer, transfer printed with a scene from Puss in Boots, maker’s mark to base; a porcelain nursery teapot with moulded decoration, transfer printed with scenes from Hey Diddle Diddle; plus other cups and saucers, dishes and sideplates similarly decorated

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170* Felix the Cat. A black plush Felix toy, c.1920s, flexible plush toy, with white muzzle, black and white button eyes, embroidered teeth and whiskers, wire skeleton, and wood-wool filling, height 24cm (9.4ins) (1)

£150-250

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174* Nurseryware. A group of four porcleain baby mugs transfer printed with cats, English, c.1880s, including a soft-paste porcelain mug, transfer printed with scene of cats at school and captioned ‘Can’t spell Cat? Disgraceful, Why I could spell it with only three mistakes long before I was your age!’; a similar soft-paste porcelain mug, transfer printed with scene of cats bathing, captioned ‘I always have my bath outside the tub instead of inside when Nurse isn’t here. Then I dont get wet you see and there isn’t so much danger of taking cold’; a similar soft-paste porcelain mug, transfer printed with scene of cats frolicking, extensively crazed, interior stained; a porcelain mug transfer printed with scenes from the History of the House that Jack built, captioned ‘This is the Cat that killed the Rat that eat the Malt that lay in the House that Jack built’, fleabits to rim, hairline crack running down from rim opposite handle (5)

176* Nurseryware. A collection of scarce porcelain nurseryware including part breakfast and coffee sets and part children’s miniature tea service, all decorated with two cats exchanging greetings, c.1900, comprising a bread and butter plate, a pair of lidded preserve pots (one with restoration to rim), five milk or cream jugs, a candlestick, six cups and saucers (varying sizes), miniature covered cheese dome, miniature sugar bowl, table bell and side plate, all printed with an illustration showing two cats and captioned either ‘Bonjour’, ‘Bonsoir’ or ‘Bon Nuit’, plus a rare cup and saucer and side plate (small chip to rim), similarly decorated but showing Manx cats and captioned in Manx ‘Slaynt Mie!’, all unmarked

£100-150

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£200-300

175* Nurseryware. A group of nurseryware porcelain decorated with cats, late 19th/early 20th century, including a rare Goss porcelain mug, transfer printed with a cat and kitten, captioned ‘Shopping’, printed monogram for Margaret ‘Peggy’ Goss and dated 1922, hand-finished, maker’s mark to base; a Goss porcelain mug, c.1880s, transfer printed with ‘Cat and Wasp’ motif, captioned ‘Contemplation’, ‘Investigation’ and ‘Exasperation - Phtss!!!’, maker’s mark and registration number 27753 to base; an Aynsley porcelain mug, transfer printed with a kitten and a sewing basket, captioned ‘Mischief’, hand-finished, maker’s mark to base; plus an Hammersley & Co. part tea service decorated with cats and kittens, comprising a trio and four sandwich plates, all transfer printed and hand-finished For Goss ‘Cat and Wasp’ mug see Batkin, Gifts for Good Children part II, pp.75-6, Margaret Goss ‘Shopping’ mug not in Batkin.

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177* Nurseryware. A small collection of “Black Cats” stoneware, Stoke on Trent: Grimwades Ltd., 1920s, comprising a heavy baby plate, teaplate, bowl, tall mug, and short mug, showing silhouetted black cats at play, the short mug, teaplate and bowl with balls handfinished in red and ribbons in blue (and latter two with yellow), tall mug with small glaze flaw, factory markings on base, various sizes Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, pp.80-81.

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180* Nurseryware. A pair of mugs with lithophanes, c.1900, two porcelain mugs, both with a transfer design of two black cats, one holding an umbrella, captioned ‘Bon Nuit’, both with a lithophane in the base, one depicting a small child and a dog, the other depicting a small boy and girl, both green rimmed, and with green line on handle, diameter 7cm (2.75ins), height 7cm (2.75ins), unmarked

178* Nurseryware. A small collection of Black Cats porcelain, Longton: Allertons Ltd., 1920s, comprising two teacups, three saucers, a teaplate, a bowl, and a beaker (broken and repaired) showing silhouetted black cats, with ribbons hand-finished in red, all gilt rimmed, factory markings on base, various sizes (8)

Rare.

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£100-150

£70-100

179* Nurseryware. Three miniature three-handled cups, two with lithophanes, c.1900, three porcelain tygs with transfer designs of black cats, comprising one of larger size showing a female cat sewing and a male cat smoking a pipe, captioned ‘Bon Jour’, diameter 5.5cm (2ins), height 6cm (2.25ins,), one of medium size showing two kittens, captioned ‘Bon Soir’, diameter 5cm (2ins), height 4.5cm (1.75ins), and one slightly smaller, with the same design as the first, diameter 4.5cm (1.75ins), height 4cm (1.5ins), the two smaller tygs with a lithophane in the base of Queen Alexandra and Edward VII respectively, all with green scalloped rim and green line on handles, unmarked Rare.

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181* Suffrage. A small collection of rare satirical porcelain models of cats, c.1910, four hard-paste porcelain figures, each showing a mewling cat seated on an oval base, each glazed in a different colour (grey, blue, cream and brown), all with moulded lettering at foot ‘Votes for Women’, except the cream model which is lettered ‘I want my Vote’, height 8cm (3.25ins) Rare. Cats were commonly used in anti-suffrage propaganda, which often portrayed the women as mewling kittens or harridans screeching for a vote.

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£100-150

182* Vesta Cases. A pair of silver-plated vesta cases, with Black Cat Carreras Cigarettes printed celluloid panel, c.1920, silverplated case with printed celluloid panel showing four black cats in an early 20th century automobile, both in good, though used condition, with some fading to decorative panels 6cm (2.5ins) wide (2)

Lot 180

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£150-200

184* Wain (Louis). Lucky Futurist Cat spill vase, Max Emmanuel & Co., c.1914, slipcast, modelled in the form of a stylised cat in cubist form, seated with one paw raised, glazed in green and yellow, with hand-finished face and ‘meow, meow’ notes on the body, Louis Wain signature impressed and painted to side, impressed registered number ‘637134’ and Louis Wain trident stamp to base, height 12.5cm (5ins) Rare. A contemporary reviewer wrote ‘The futurist cat is the very latest thing in freak ornaments. It has been evolved from the fertile brain of Mr. Louis Wain, the inimitable cat expert, whose idea of applying the tenets of futurism to the construction of china cats has resulted in the creation of some truly wonderful feline fancies... It can be said at once that if not exactly things of beauty, they are a joy for ever.’ (see Dale, pp.77-79) (1) £1500-2000

183* Wain (Louis). The Louis Wain Mazawattee tea box, c.1910, rectangular paper-covered cardboard tea box, with lift-up lid depicting cats at a tea dance with orchestra, and all four sides showing couples dancing, others in conversation, the lady cats with attractive neck ruffs, some holding fans, the gentleman cats wearing bow ties and one sporting a monacle, the interior of the box lined with gold paper and inside lid printed ‘Delicious Mazawattee Tea. Genuine Only in Sealed Packets & Tins’, rubbed, with edges showing in places, 13 x 24 x 5.75cm (5 x 9.5 x 5.75ins)A rare and important item of Wainiana.

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£200-300

185* Wain (Louis). Lucky Black Cat spill vase, Max Emmanuel & Co., c.1914, slipcast, modelled in the form of a stylised cat in cubist form, seated, glazed in black, with hand-finished detailing, Louis Wain painted signature on the back, base with Louis Wain trident stamp, painted registered number ‘638313’, and ‘Made in England’ stamp, height 13.5cm (5.5ins) Rare. See Dale, pp.77-79.

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Lot 184

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£1500-2000

187* Wain (Louis). Lucky Haw-Haw Cat spill vase, Max Emmanuel & Co., c.1914, slipcast, modelled in the form of a winking stylised cat in cubist form, glazed in blue and green, with hand-finished face and ‘meow, meow’ notes on front and one side, Louis Wain signature painted on front legs, base with Louis Wain trident stamp, painted registered number ‘638134’ and ‘Made in England’ stamp, height 13cm (5.25ins) Rare. See Dale, pp.77-79.

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£700-1000

186* Wain (Louis). Lucky Bully Bulldog spill vase, Max Emmanuel & Co., c.1914, slipcast, modelled in the form of a stylised dog in cubist form, glazed in green and yellow, with hand-finished face and black swirls on the body, some very small areas of surface loss, Louis Wain signature impressed and painted to leg, original neck ribbon tied in a bow, side with ‘Made in England’ stamp and remains of original ‘stick to me’ sticker, painted registered number ‘638315’ below, Louis Wain trident stamp beneath tail, height 8.5cm (3.25ins), length 13.5cm (5.25ins) Rare. See Dale, pp.77-79.

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£1000-1500

188* Wain (Louis). Lucky Pig spill vase, Max Emmanuel & Co., c.1914, slipcast, modelled in the form of a stylised pig in cubist form, resting on its haunches, glazed in green and yellow, with handfinished details and black swirls on body, some superficial rubbing, hindquarters with Louis Wain trident stamp and Louis Wain painted signature, base with painted registered number ‘638320’ and ‘Made in England’ stamp, height 12cm (4.75ins) Rare. See Dale, pp.77-79.

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Lot 187

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£400-600

189* Wain (Louis). A rare double-handled tall vase, The Bristol “Dog & Cat” Pottery, Pountney & Co., early 20th century, earthenware vase painted in black and green, with silhouette of a dog and cat seated facing each other, lettered above ‘It is years since last we met’, and with Louis Wain’s signature below, green-scalloped rim, double handle with green dashes, some very minor superficial chipping to green paint at foot, base with maker’s mark, height 25cm (10ins), diameter 10cm (4ins) (1)

191* Wain (Louis). A pair of vases, The Bristol “Cat & Dog” Pottery, Pountney & Co., early 20th century, two straight-sided earthenware vases painted in black and green, both with a silhouette of a dog and cat facing each other, lettered above ‘It is years since last we met’ and ‘Oh chase me’ respectively, both with Louis Wain’s signature below, green-scalloped rim to each (with some rubbing to the green paint), former with a few short hairline cracks descending from rim (only one visible on exterior), both with maker’s mark to base, and with faintly impressed number ‘210’, height 16.5cm (6.5ins), diameter 7.5cm (3ins)

£250-350

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£200-300

190* Wain (Louis). A pair of tall vases, The Bristol “Cat & Dog” Pottery, Pountney & Co., early 20th century, two straight-sided earthenware vases painted in black and green, both with a silhouette of a dog and cat facing each other, lettered above ‘Good gracious how you frightened me’ and ‘A regular Cat and Dog life’ respectively, both with Louis Wain’s signature below, green-scalloped rim to each (with some very minor superficial chipping to the green paint), both with maker’s mark to base, and with faintly impressed number ‘215’, height 20cm (7.75ins), diameter 9cm (3.5ins)

192* Wain (Louis). A teapot and milk jug, The Bristol “Cat & Dog” Pottery, Pountney & Co., early 20th century, earthenware teapot and small jug painted in black and green, with silhouette of a dog and cat facing each other, lettered above ‘Oh chase me’ and ‘How dare you’ respectively, and with Louis Wain’s signature below, both with green-scalloped rim, and handle with green dashes, teapot with crazing overall and some professional restoration to spout, each with maker’s mark to base, teapot height 11.5cm (4.5ins), length 19cm (7.5ins), jug height 6cm (2.5ins), diameter 4cm (1.5ins)

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£250-350

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£150-200

195* Wain (Louis). The Laughing Cat, Wilkinson’s Royal Staffordshire Pottery, c.1930s, black pottery figure modelled as a cat, seated, with yellow eyes and neck bow, lettered on tail ‘The Laughing Cat’ and with Louis Wain’s signature, height 19cm (7.5ins), factory marks on base and ‘register applied for’, height 19cm (7.5ins)

193* Wain (Louis). A bulbous-shaped jar, The Bristol “Cat & Dog” Pottery, Pountney & Co., early 20th century, earthenware jar painted in black and green, with silhouette of a dog and cat, lettered above ‘I wonder were we lovers then’, and with Louis Wain’s signature below, green rim, maker’s mark to base, height 12.5cm (5ins), diameter 9cm (3.5ins)

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£600-800

In the shape of a ginger jar, but without a lid or stopper. We have been unable to trace another such jar ever being offered at auction.

(1) £150-200

194* Wain (Louis). A cup, saucer and plate trio, The Bristol “Cat & Dog” Pottery, Pountney & Co., early 20th century, earthenware trio, the cup and plate painted in black and green, with silhouette of a dog and cat facing each other, lettered above ‘How dare you’ and ‘It is years since last we met’ respectively, and with Louis Wain’s signature below, the saucer plain (with hairline crack), all three items with green rim, cup handle with green dashes, together with a sugar bowl, milk jug and small mug in the same series, generally discoloured and with some rubbing, all but the mug with maker’s mark to base, various sizes (6)

196* Wain (Louis). The Aeroplane Journey, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain plate with a hand-finished transfer design

by Louis Wain, showing two cats in suits steering an early flying machine, Louis Wain’s signature lower right, green rimmed, maker’s markings (including star mark) on base, diameter 18cm (7ins) Rare. Illustrated in Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, p.120.

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£100-150

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£500-800

197* Wain (Louis). The Aeroplane Journey, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain heavy baby’s plate with a hand-finished transfer design by Louis Wain, showing two cats in suits steering an early flying machine, Louis Wain’s signature lower right, ‘Baby’s Plate’ lettered in black on rim, prop marks and discoloured crazing to interior edge, maker’s markings (including star mark) on base, diameter 17.5cm (7ins) Rare. See Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, p.120.

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£400-600

198* Wain (Louis). The Puppys Punishment, Austria: Alexandra Porcelain Works, early 20th century, heavy porcelain baby’s plate with a hand-finished transfer design by Louis Wain, showing a cat seated in a chair spoon-feeding a puppy sitting on her lap, with kittens in a wicker cradle looking on, captioned beneath “‘You do not like it’? Well, you know I cannot alter that; You should not tease the kittens so”, said merry Mrs. Cat”, base with maker’s markings and ‘By special permission of Messrs James Clarke & Co. and of Mr. Louis Wain’, diameter 20.5cm (8ins) Rare: we have been unable to trace another example of this attractive and well-preserved plate.

(1) £100-150

Lot 197

199* Wain (Louis). First in the Fight, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain plate, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of a cat in full Highland dress and holding a rifle, with Louis Wain’s signature lower left, green rimmed, with maker’s mark (including star mark) to base, diameter 15cm (6ins) Scarce. Illustrated in Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, p.120.

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£100-150

200* Wain (Louis). The Busy Tailor, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain plate, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of a seated cat wearing a red jacket and blue trousers, with fabric on his knee, threading a needle, with Louis Wain’s signature lower left, green rimmed, with maker’s mark (including star mark) to base, diameter 15cm (6ins) Scarce. Illustrated in Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, p.120.

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£100-150

201* Wain (Louis). The Busy Tailor, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain plate, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of a seated cat wearing a yellow jacket and green trousers, with fabric on his knee, threading a needle, with Louis Wain’s signature lower left, green rimmed, some minor rubbing and marks, with maker’s mark (including star mark) to base, diameter 15cm (6ins) Scarce. Illustrated in Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, p.120.

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Lot 198

Lots 200, 202, 199 & 201

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£100-150

202* Wain (Louis). Off for a Ride, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain plate, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of a clothed cat mounted on the back of a larger cat, with a string in its mouth for reins, with Louis Wain’s signature lower left, green rimmed (rubbed), with maker’s mark (including star mark) to base, diameter 15cm (6ins) Scarce.

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£100-150

204* [Wain, Louis]. Jack at Sea, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain saucer, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of a young sailor cat dancing a hornpipe, diameter 13cm (5.25ins), together with associated small porcelain mug, showing a mother cat tying a neckerchief around her sailor son’s neck, captioned ‘His Mother’s Present’, diameter 6.5cm (2.5ins), height 6.5cm (2.5ins), both green rimmed, both with maker’s mark (including star mark) to base (2)

£80-120

203* Wain (Louis). A Morning Trim, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain teacup, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of a cat clipping her whiskers, watched by two kittens in bed, with Louis Wain’s signature, green rimmed, maker’s mark (including star mark) to base, diameter 8.5cm (3.25ins), height 7cm (2.75ins), together with Hauling the Rope, Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, porcelain saucer, with captioned hand-finished transfer design of three cats taking part in a tug-of-war, with Louis Wain’s signature to lower margin, green rimmed (slightly rubbed), maker’s mark (including star mark to base), diameter 13.5cm (5.25ins) (2)

£80-120

205* Wain (Louis). A collection of nurseryware from the Tinker Tailor Series, Paragon, c.1918, comprising a beaker with handle captioned ‘Out for a Sail, a mug captioned ‘Going to Market’ (faint hairline crack in base), and two plates of differing sizes captioned ‘In the Park’, all with hand-finished transfer designs of anthropomorphic cats, and all with Louis Wain’s signature, plus two others with Louis Wain illustrations (unsigned), comprising a beaker with handle captioned ‘First in the Fight’ (base profesionally restored), and a mug captioned ‘The Collision’, all green rimmed, and with maker’s mark (including star mark) to base, various sizes See Batkin, Gifts for Good Children, II, p.120.

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£150-200

206* [Wain, Louis]. Summer Sports in Catland Baby’s Plate, early 20th century, heavy porcelain baby’s plate, with a transfer design after Louis Wain, showing cats leap-frogging, green rimmed, unmarked on base, diameter 19cm (7.5ins), together with a beaker with a transfer design after Louis Wain entitled ‘Pussy Primpaw’s Pets’, with hairline crack going down from rim, green rimmed, unmarked on base, diameter 6.5cm (2.5ins), height 9cm (3.5ins), plus four pieces of Burleigh Ware, 1960s, comprising two heavy baby plates, a shallow dish and a small plate, all printed with illustrations of cats and with maker’s mark on base, various sizes (6)

£100-200

207* [Wain, Louis]. A wooden pokerwork tray, early 20th century, with a coloured pokerwork picture after an illustration by Louis Wain entitled ‘What’s This!’ published in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News in 1892, showing eight cats apprehensively watching a large beetle crawling past, tray with handles at each end, 17 x 43cm (6.75 x 17ins), together with a Cat’s Orchestra set of eleven hand-painted wooden figures of anthropomorphic cats, late 20th century, comprising a conductor (with wind-up musical mechanism not working) and ten various musician cats, each on a wooden plinth, height 30.5cm (12ins) and smaller (1)

£70-100

209 Wain (Louis). Kits and Cats, Father Tuck’s Hurrah Series, [covertitle], Raphael Tuck, c.1930s, four full-page colour illustrations, b & w illustrations to text (some faint lead pencil colouring), minor waterstaining to edges of pastedowns, original shaped colour pictorial boards, rubbed and chipped, upper cover with crease to top outer corner, slim folio

LOUIS WAIN BOOKS

Dale 96; Gant 64. A scarce title and one of the most desirable Wain items.

(1) £200-300

208 Wain (Louis). Life in Catland, Verses by Norman Gale, Father Tuck’s Nursery Series, 1st edition, Raphael Tuck, c.1912, four fullpage chromolithographs, ten duotone illustrations to text, some spotting and browning, early manuscript name on inside front cover, original colour pictorial card wrappers, slightly chipped and rubbed to extremities, spine reinforced with red cloth tape, oblong 4to Dale 101. Rare. Not in Gant, and we have been unable to trace an institutional copy.

(1) £150-250

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210 Wain (Louis). Pussies at Work, Father Tuck’s Little Pets’ series, [cover-title], c.1900, four full-page chromolithographs representing trades (sailor, painter, carpenter and kitchen maid), numerous illustrations to text in blue and black, original colour pictorial stiff wrappers, some minor rubbing and faint creases, slim 4to Scarce: not listed in Dale, Gant, or on COPAC. A good copy of a somewhat flimsy and fragile production.

(1) £150-200

211 Wain (Louis). Pussies and Puppies, 1st edition, S. W. Partridge & Co., [1899], colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations, many full-page, half-title partially toned, advertisements to endpapers, prize bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, original pictorial boards with Cadbury’s advertisement on rear cover, minor chipping to edges, 4to Dale 179; Gant 94. Scarce early work.

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£80-120

212 Wain (Louis, illust.). “Tinker, Tailor”, Stories by Edric Vredenburg, 1st edition, Raphael Tuck and Sons, [1914], twelve colour plates (one slightly edge-frayed and re-attached), numerous letterpress illustrations, some full-page, endpapers and first and last leaves browned and foxed, upper hinge split, original cloth-backed pictorial boards with mounted colour plate to upper cover, extremities rubbed, 4to, together with The Kings and the Cats, Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old, written by John Hannon... with a Preface by Father Matthew Russell, S.J., and a Verse for the Children by Katherine Tynan, 1st edition, Burns & Oates Ltd., 1908, eleven b & w illustrations (including frontispiece), scattered spotting, endpapers browned, original red cloth, spine faded and slightly frayed at ends, 4to, plus Souvenir of Louis Wain’s Work, 2nd edition, Louis Wain Fund, [1925], numerous monotone illustrations, original green yapp-edged wrappers, soiled and edge-frayed, 26.5 x 10.5cm (10.5 x 4ins), together with Exhibition of Drawings by Louis Wain, Brook Street Galleries, 1931, printed catalogue of Wain’s work including ‘An Appreciation of Louis Wain and his Work’ by Gustave Tuck, original grey wrappers, slim 8vo (4)

Lot 213

£150-250

213 Wain (Louis, illust.). The Cat Scouts, A Picture-Book For Little Folk, Cats by Louis Wain, Verses and Tales by Jessie Pope, 1st edition, Blackie and Son, [1912], numerous colour illustrations, eight full-page, occasional light spotting and marks, pictorial endpapers, free endpapers browned, original cloth-backed boards with colour illustration mounted on upper cover, rubbed and one or two marks, 4to Dale 25; Gant 36.

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£100-150

214 Wain (Louis, illust.). Cats At School... with Verses by S.C. Woodhouse, 1st edition, George Routledge, [1911], twenty-one colour plates, each with text below illustration, frontispiece creased along gutter margin, occasional finger-soiling and short edge-tears, ownership inscription and drawing on front free endpaper, original cloth-backed colour pictorial boards, rubbed and soiled, with corners showing, 4to Dale 36. Not listed in Gant.

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£100-150

215 Wain (Louis, illust.). Seaside Joys, by Mabel Mackintosh, John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd., c.1920, two full-page colour plates, letterpress illustrations, including two full-page, ink stamp of a lady cat in a gown and hat with walking cane to title-page and verso of frontispiece, original printed grey stiff wrappers, front cover with mounted circular colour illustration, and contemporary inscription to upper margin, slim 8vo An unrecorded work illustrated by Wain. The frontispiece, depicting quite ferocious looking cats with knives and pistols ambushing a gentleman cat in a forest, is curiously at odds with the title.

(1) £100-150

Lot 215 69

LOUIS WAIN EPHEMERA 216* Advertising. A Black Cat Carreras Cigarettes counter-top advertising cut-out showing a cat smoking a cigarette, c.1950s, colour lithograph, heightened with gilt, a little bumped at extremities, plus a later facsimile of the same, together with a Clarke’s Cat Melox counter-top advertising cut-out showing a cat with three kittens, c.1940s, lithograph, slightly rubbed with a little loss to lower right hand corner, largest 36.5cm (14.5ins) high (3)

£80-120

217* Calendars. A collection of calendars, published by Raphael Tuck and others, late 19th and early 20th century, mostly depicting cats, including shaped, moveable, and collage calendars, various sizes and condition (approximately 45)

£200-300

218* Fans. Pussies Fan Calendar, 1906, embossed colour lithographed card brisé fan, with six sections, each with an illustration of kittens and forget-me-nots, threaded with cream silk ribbon, with silk cord tassel, 16cm (6.25ins), together with another calendar fan similar, for 1909, the six sections depicting alternating puppies and kittens, some minor edge-rubbing and silk cord lacking tassel, plus a pretty pierced card brisé fan, the ten sections each with a mounted silk oval, embroidered with floral motifs and finished with hand-colouring, threaded with green silk ribbon, green silk cord tassel, 11.5cm (4.5ins)

Lot 217

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£200-300

219* Greetings Cards A collection of greetings cards, scraps, advertising cut-outs and lantern slides, late 19th and early 20th century, mostly depicting cats, including Christmas cards, Valentines cards, blotting pad advertising Hoffman’s Starch, and a collection of twenty-four magic lantern slides, twenty of which after Louis Wain (a carton)

£150-200

220* [Wain, Louis]. From Catland, Calendar for 1908, colour lithographed shaped card pop-up, after Louis Wain, showing seven anthropomorphic cats in a car, incorporating a calendar, some creasing, verso with contemporary inscription, 15 x 11cm (6 x 4.25ins), together with two others similar, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., one showing cats in a paddle steamer named The Seamew, with a calendar for 1910, some creases reinforced on verso, and the other of kittens playing on a wooden pull-along horse, entitled ‘Playtime Calendar for 1909’ The paddle steamer calendar is illustrated in Silvester & Mobbs, A Catland Companion, p.61.

(3) £70-100

221* Wain (Louis). A collection of picture stamp scraps, Raphael Tuck, c.1917, four sets of colour lithographed stamp scraps, each with three perforated squares (all separated), entitled Cock-aDoodle-Doo, The Ratcatchers, Tim and the Tortoise, and The Tennis Set, first stamp of latter series with Louis Wain’s signature, each stamp 6 x 6cm (2.5 x 2.5ins) Extremely rare, and in bright condition.

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Lot 218

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£100-150

PRIVATE PRESS

Lot 222

222 Gill (Eric, illust.). The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Authorised Version of King James I, Folio Society, 2007, numerous black and white illustrations to text, a.e.g., black morocco gilt, volume of essays bound seperately (as issued), contained within original publisher’s clamshell case, folio

224 Gregynog Press. Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc [Visions of the Sleeping Bard], translated by T. Gwynn Jones, limited edition 81/1175, Newtown: The Gregynog Press, 1940, black and white wood-engraved frontispiece (by Blair Hughes-Stanton), scattered light spotting, edges untrimmed, quarter morocco over decorative cloth (by Gregynog Press Bindery), gilt decorated spine very slightly worn to extremes, 4to

Limited edition 443/2750. A handsome facsimile of the 1931 Golden Cockerel Press edition.

(1) £100-150

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223 Golden Cockerel Press. Mabinogion, A New Translation from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, with illustrations by Dorothea Braby, Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, twenty full-page wood engravings, edges untrimmed, original half morocco over gilt decorated cloth, folio Limited edition 249/550.

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£200-300

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£100-150

Lot 225 226 Kipling (Rudyard). Collected Verse, 1912, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original brown pigskin gilt with circular elephant device on upper cover, bruised at foot of spine touching imprint, 4to

225 Kelmscott Press. Two trial pages for the projected edition of Lord Berners’ Translation of Froissart’s Chronicles, Hammersmith, September 1897 [issued October 7, 1897], vellum bifolium, first page with colophon, double-page opening in red and black Chaucer type, with title in Troy type, large and small initials, and wood-engraved borders bearing the arms of France, the Empire, England, Reginald Lord Cobham, Sir Walter Manny and Sir John Chandos, final page blank, slight toning, mainly to margins, and a few minor marks to first and final pages, folio (42 x 28.5cm/16.5 x 11.25ins)

Edition de Luxe, 64/100 on Japanese vellum, signed by the author.

(1) £300-400

227 Swift (Jonathan). Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, Newly illustrated by Peter Suart, Folio Society, 2011, original etching by Peter Suart, numbered 200 and signed in pencil by the artist, and seventeen tipped-in colour illustrations, decorative endpapers, t.e.g., quarter vellum, vellum tipped corners, upper board with illustration in colour and gilt, gilt lettered spine, contained with original publisher’s clamshell box, folio

Limited to 160 copies on vellum at one guinea, these two trial pages were, according to the colophon, printed ‘to preserve the designs made for the work by William Morris’. Morris had intended to produce a two-volume folio of ‘almost his favourite book’, as a companion to the Kelmscott Chaucer. Trial pages were begun early in 1893, and in the list for March 9th of that year the book is stated to be in the press, the number to be printed given as 150.

However, the printing of the Chaucer had begun, and as it was impractical to print two such works simultaneously, production of the Froissart was delayed.

Only thirty-two copies of sixteen of the pages were ever printed (and given to personal friends) before Morris’s death in 1896. These two pages were subsequently finished by C.E. Keates and printed by Stephen Mowlem from preparatory designs.

(1) £4000-6000

Limited edition of 1000 copies.

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£200-300

COMICS 228 Science Fiction Magazines. Science Fiction Quarterly, 22 original issues, [1951-1953], all British editions, including stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Irving E. Cox Jr., Philip K. Dick, Milton Lesser and others similar, some duplicates, all in original printed wrappers, occasional small mark or stain, a little rubbed with some creasing to spines, 4to, together with Super Science Stories, 20 original issues, [1942-1951], mostly British editions (six Australian editions), including stories by John D. MacDonald, Poul Anderson, Fredric Brown, Charles R. Tanner and others, some duplicates, all in original printed wrappers, some slight rubbing, a little fraying to some corners, 4to, plus Dynamic Science Fiction, 8 original issues, [19521954], mostly American editions (one British and one Australian), all in original printed wrappers, some rubbing and a little fraying to corners, 4to (50)

£150-200

229 Science Fiction Magazines. Astounding Science-Fiction 59 original issues, Street & Smith Publications, 1940-1953, mostly British editions, including stories by Phil Nowlan, Manly Wade Wellman, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Harry Bates and others, all in original printed wrappers, some with booksellers ink stamp to upper covers, occasional small mark, some rubbing and fraying to corners and spines, 4to, together with Astounding Stories, 25 original issues, magazines, Street & Smith Publications, 1936-1938, including stories by Thornton Ayre, Arthur J. Burks, Eando Binder, Jack Williamson, H. P. Lovecraft and others, all in original printed wrappers, some with booksellers ink stamp to upper covers, a little rubbed at corners, occasional small mark or stain, 4to

Lot 226

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£100-150

230 Science Fiction Magazines. Galaxy Science Fiction, approximately 115 original issues, c.1950s, including stories by Philip K. Dick, Isaav Asmiov, Frederik Pohl, Willy Ley, Margaret St. Clair and others, all in original printed wrappers, some with booksellers ink stamp to upper cover, slightly worn at corners, few with a little loss to spine, 8vo, together with Astounding Science Fact & Fiction/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, approximately 115 original issues, c.1950-1960s, all in original printed wrappers, some slightly rubbed and fraying slightly at corners, 8vo (approximately 230)

£100-150

231 Science Fiction Comics. A collection of approximately 700 Judge Dredd and 2000 AD comics, c.1988-1990s , all in original printed wrappers, generally good or very good condition, occasional crease or small stain, folio (approximately 700)

Lot 227

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£100-200

LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS & ARTEFACTS 232* Britton (Lionel (1887-1971)). Three autograph letters, each signed ‘Lionel Britton’, 38 Sackville Street, London, dated May 28, June 4 & June 14, 1935, all to Allan Monkhouse, discussing his plays and philosophy: “Men and Women are interesting; but the men of a million years from now are going to be quite different from the men of a million years ago. You would be surprised if you knew how different you are from pre-Stone Age man. We do not think about it; but here it is and “Animal Ideas” is one of the signs of the new change”, together with a short note signed with his distinctive initials, saying his was off to Russia, old folds Lionel Britton was a left-wing author and playwright, his main novel Hunger and Love (with an introduction by Bertrand Russell) published in 1931. The recipient, an author and playwright was literary editor and drama critic at the Manchester Guardian at the time.

(4) £100-150

233* Chesterton (Gilbert K., 1874-1936). Autograph list on ruled paper, signed (“with sadness”) ‘G.K. Chesterton’, undated, c. 1910, 19 books listed on left side, with self-deprecating comments on the right: ‘Greybeards at Play - Totally forgotten’, ‘The Defendant Unfortunately still known’, The Wild Knight - Poems. Lord! What Poems!’, ‘Robert Browning - Mostly lies’, ‘Twelve Types - Quels types!’, ‘The Napoleon of Notting Hill - Well Meant. Badly written’...

‘What’s Wrong With the World - Totally Unreadable’, ‘William Blake Totally Unread’, old folds, one with short tear, one page, small 8vo Humorous and disparaging critique of the author’s own works.

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£150-200

234* Conrad (Joseph, 1857-1924). Autograph letter, signed ‘Joseph Conrad’, Capel House, Orlestone, nr Ashford, dated 10 October 1917, to Mr Donald: “I can’t possibly write for you the sort of article you obviously would expect. I am convinced that the views you indicate in your letter are held by you with absolute sincerity.

Well - give me credit for the same sort of sincerity in mine. One of us is wrong, on that particular question and I hope with all my heart it isn’t you... P.S. I am glad you are pleased with P.G. I have a great affection for him and a great opinion of his abilities. Dr Williams’ knowledge, insight and judgement displayed in his correspondence are quite admirable. Undoubtedly the best from that quarter.”, old folds, 2pp., 8vo (1)

235* Sherlock Holmes. A Coxmoore smoking jacket, worn by Peter Cushing in the role of Sherlock Holmes, circa 1965, red wool with braided black collar, original belt, retailer’s label for Simpsons and Coxmoore label to interior, some minor wear commensurate with age and use, 79cm (31ins) long, together with a press photograph of Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock as Holmes and Watson with Cushing wearing the smoking jacket, 18 x 23cm (7 x 9ins), framed and glazed

£300-500

Provenance: Phillips July 1996, lot 13, the Peter Cushing Collection, with signed certificate of authenticity and a copy of the sale catalogue.

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236* Gibbings (Robert John, 1889-1958). Five autograph letters signed, addressed to Samuel Spencer, dated from 5th March 1938 to 20th December 1940, each on headed paper (either Waltham Saint Lawrence or Reading University), on one or two sheets, generally written to recto and verso, together with six volumes of Gibbings' illustrated works: Sweet Thames Run Softly, Dent, 2nd edition, 1940 (signed by Gibbings on the title-page), Iorana!, A Tahitian Journal, 1st edition, Duckworth, 1932, Coconut Island, 1st edition, Faber, 1936, A True Tale of Love in Tonga, 1st edition, Faber, 1935, John Graham (Convict) 1824, An Historical Narrative, 1st edition, Faber, 1937, & Beasts and Saints, reprinted, Constable, 1942, all original cloth, slightly rubbed and some marks to edges (generally in good condition), the last title in d.j., all with woodcut bookplate of Samuel Spencer to front pastedown of each volume, all 8vo An interesting and detailed sequence of letters from Gibbings to the collector and bibliophile Samuel Spencer, giving information and opinions on the artist's current work, exhibitions, and broadcasts. The first letter discusses Gibbings' sculptural work in March 1938: 'Herewith a photo of the torso which was bought by A. Crooks-Ripley. The big one is meant to represent "Earth", holding up her hands for the rain which will fertilize her.

The figure itself has many phallic forms so that it will combine both male and female. I wish to Heaven I had time to get on and finish it'. Gibbings mentions the sculpture again in December 1940: 'I am afraid "Earth" is still unfinished as my studio got overlaid with prams and mowing machines but when the war is over I may be able to make a clearance and get down to it again.', and he goes on to say 'At the moment I am planning a book on the Wye. As I seem to be incompetent for any form of war service I may as well help the home morale by distracting their thoughts'. In the letter dated 26 November 1938, Gibbings discusses Blue Angels and Whales: 'It was great fun to do and if any of that has "got over" it will give an idea of the glories down below. We haven't done anything yet about a fine edition but that may happen later when I have managed a trip to the Barrier Reef and collected some more experiences. Yes, I think you're right that it is better than Typee, being very much more complete as an entity and much richer in illustration. I only wish the writing was up to Melville's'.

(11) £200-300

237* Haggard (Henry Rider, 1856-1925). A Victorian study swivel chair, curved slat back, with shaped arms and a solid seat on four curved supports, 87cm (34ins) tall Provenance:Rider Haggard’s favourite writing chair, signed in ink and dated 1886 [the year of publication of ‘She’] by the author under seat base. Now offered for sale by author and Haggard collector Sydney Higgins, who recounts the story about his acquisition of the chair and its provenance in the preface to his biography, ‘Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller’ (1981).

(1) £1500-2000

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238 Haggard (Henry Rider, 1856-1925). Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller [by] D.S. Higgins, [1981], author’s original corrected typescript, approximately 450 pp., typed to rectos only, together with signed first UK and US editions of the work, London & New York, 1981, original cloth in d.j.s, a little chipped and soiled, plus a signed new revised paperback edition of 1913, VG, plus a signed copy of ‘The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard 1914-1925’, edited by D.S. Higgins, 1980, original cloth in d.j., all 8vo Sydney Higgins’ biography was winner of the Silver medal for Biography in the eLit Awards, 2011.

(5) £200-300

239* James (Henry, 1843-1916). Autograph letter signed ‘Henry James’, 21 Carlyle Mansions, London, dated December 4, 1914, to his friend Hagberg Wright: “Would Monday coming next for our dinner at the Reform? Simply cause a word to be telephoned to me at above”, old folds, 1 page, 8vo Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright (1862-1940) was Secretary and Librarian at the London Library from 1893.

(1) £100-150

240* Keller (Helen, 1880-1968). Typed letter signed, Arcan Ridge, Westport, Conn., December 1943, to Dr. [Francis] Miller, ‘Confidence is what human nature needs for its noblest victory universal peace and good-will, and Christmas is that Confidence.

Strong in this faith Polly and I wish you a blessed Christmas prophetic of an age that shall wipe the tears from all eyes and cause mans’ face to shine with brotherhood’s radiance’, signed in pencil ‘Helen Keller’ and directly beneath in ink ‘Polly Thomson’, two small spots and light marginal toning, one page, small folio, together with original stamped and postmarked envelope dated 17 December 1943, addressed to Dr. Miller in New York in her assistant Polly Thomson’s holograph, plus three related books, a copy of Keller’s ‘Midstream: My Later Life’, 1929, and two books by Miller with signed presentation inscriptions from the author, ‘The Fight to Conquer the Ends of the Earth: Byrd’s Great Adventure’, 1930, and a copy of the autographed first edition of ‘General Douglas MacArthur’, 1942, all original cloth, the first and second somewhat worn, all 8vo

Lot 238

Helen Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, and numerous other causes. She was a suffragist, a pacifist, a radical socialist and a birth control supporter. In 1919 the silent film ‘Deliverance’ was made and tells the story of her life and that of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. The film was written by the recipient of this letter, Francis Trevelyan Miller (1877-1959) an American writer and film-maker.

(4) £200-300

241* Larkin (Philip, 1922-1985). Two 1 pp. typed letters, each signed “P.A. Larkin”, dated 25 August 1976 and 15 March 1978, both to Philip Plumb, Librarian at the North East London Polytechnic, one enclosing photographs of the University of Hull library and referring a request of a photograph of himself to his publisher Faber and Faber: “There are plenty of photographs of me, but they are all by professional photographers who get very testy if their work is reproduced without proper acknowledgement...”; the other letter making arrangements for Philip Plumb to visit and talk to the staff at the University Library about the Library Association, together with associated letters from Plumb requesting the above from Larkin and follow-up letter reporting the outome of his meeting with Larkin in Hull, old folds, both one page, 4to (8)

Lot 241

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£150-200

Lot 242

misery are in my case identical. Just the same thing happens inside me on getting the good or the bad news)’, and concluding with a ps. ‘Don’t you know the disappointment when you expected joy from a piece of music and get only pleasure: Like finding Leah when you thought you’d married Rachel!’, light smudge at foot of letter not affecting legibility or sense, 2 pp., 8vo, together with A Problem of Pain, reprint, 1945, original cloth with printed paper label to spine, rubbed and soiled, 8vo

242* Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963 ). Autograph letter signed, ‘C. S. Lewis’, Magdalen College, Oxford, 19th August 1945, to Mrs Ellis on the subject of joy, ‘but by “everything going well with us” I didn’t mean Joy’, illuminating his ideas with examples and later continuing, ‘In fact I meant by “things going well” just that security - or illusion of security - which you also regard as unhealthy. Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. It jumps under ones ribs and tickles down ones back and makes one forget meals and keeps one (delightedly) sleepless o’ nights. It shocks one awake when the other puts one to sleep. My private table is one second of joy is worth twelve hours of Pleasure. I think you really quite agree with me. (nb. The physical sensations of joy and

The subject and philosophy of joy was something that Lewis was to spend much time on. He wrote ‘Surprised by Joy’ over a seven-year period (1948-1955). The book is an autobiographical account of Lewis’s life until his conversion to Christianity in 1931. The Searching for Joy was a continual theme throughout his life.

(2) £1200-1500

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by him inscribed to the book dealer Stanley Noble; plus approximately 15 other books and pamphlets by Manning, including some signed limited editions with some additional proofs, cards, letters and other material; plus other material not by Manning including a collection of manuscripts, typescripts and other material relating to Dylan Thomas including ‘Dylan Thomas: Some Memories’, autograph manuscript by John Galsworth, 14 pp., and Daniel Jones, composer and friend of Thomas, ‘Chameleon’, autograph manuscript, 4 pp.; plus fair copy autograph manuscript poems by James Kirkup (approximately 17 pp.), signed typescript poems (approximately 24pp.), prose typescripts, letters and postcards to the poet and publisher Barry Tebb, cuttings and printed matter, photographs (mostly in Japan); plus approximately 22 miscellaneous other books, probably residual stock of Stanley Noble and many relating to Dylan Thomas

243* Manning (Hugo, 1913-1977). An archive of books, documents, manuscripts and pictures, including a group of 9 autograph manuscript fair copies of works by Manning: ‘A Man to Remember: A Piece about Samuel Beckett’, 11 pp.; ‘Vienna’, 16 pp.; ‘The Devil and the Drudge’, 20 pp.; ‘W.H. Hudson’, 40 pp., ‘Storm over Eskwadilly’, 45 pp., the first 4 illustrated by Manning, all original cloth, the remaining 4 unbound: ‘Dylan Thomas’, 31 pp.; ‘Woman at the Window’, 12 pp.; ‘Nocturne’, 7 pp.; ‘Tread Gently Now’, 1 page; plus 2 portraits by Manning: ‘The Young Dylan Thomas’, coloured inks and pencils, signed lower right, framed and glazed (frame size 352 x 270 mm), and ‘Sketch of Stanley Noble’, crayon, 250 x 180 mm; plus a group of carbon copy typescripts of works in verse and prose by Manning, each signed by the author and with an introductory note addressed to Stanley Noble: ‘A Time to Unweep’, ‘The Secret Sea’, ‘Encounter in Crete’, 2 versions, ‘Madame Lola’, ‘A Man to Remember’, ‘Faith Love Fun with Henry Miller’, approximately 250 pp., plus several pieces in verse and prose on Dylan Thomas, both autograph manuscript and typescript, altogether approximately 60 pp.; plus a bundle of correspondence between Manning and Derek Stanford, an autograph manuscript review by Stanford of ‘The Secret Sea’ by Manning, and related material; a group of approximately 25 books inscribed by Hugo Manning, mostly works

Hugo Manning was an Anglo-Jewish poet. He became a journalist, emigrating to Argentina in 1939 (where he befriended Borges), and returning to Britain in 1942 when he joined the Intelligence Corps. After the War he jointed Reuters and combined his journalism with writing poetry, short stories, translating and lecturing on literary subjects. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, holds an archive of Manning’s papers. (an archive) £800-1200

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245* Ransome (Arthur, 1884-1967). Autograph ‘Swallows & Amazons’ postcard initialled, 1939, to Harold Dobinson, giving information on the places mentioned in his “Swallows & Amazons” series of books, ‘Rio is Bowness on Windermere but you will find that I have done a lot of scene-shifting, mixing somethings from Coniston with Windermere, partly for the sake of disguise. E.g. While Cat Island’s Harbour is really taken from the harbour at the South. end of Peel Island on Consiton, and given to a Windermere island. An the Old Man is Kanchenjunga. I am not sure if the shelter is still at the head of Windermere. It used to be’, written and initialled within message panel to card verso with printed green, red and black pictorial vignettes to borders, addressed, stamped, and postmarked (indistinct) to verso, a little dust soiled and bumped, together with the first ten books in the Swallows & Amazons series, all but three (We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea/Secret Water/Missee Lee) contemporary reprints, all original cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, three in frayed and torn d.j.s (The Big Six/Secret Water/Missee Lee) all 8vo

244* O’Casey (Sean, 1880-1964). A group of five autograph letters signed, ‘Sean’, London, Buckinghamshire and Devon, 1931/50, all to his friend Jack Daly, various subjects including writing and meeting, ‘Forgive me ignoring your letters - I answer 2 per cent, and you are one of the centages. I couldn’t give an opinion about a play. I never read plays in M.S., it isn’t my passion. Since the play is the first written, it is certain to be a bad one, though the author is positive, I am sure, that the play’s one o’ the best ever written. I thought so of my first and worst work; I now see the defects in my last and best work. The more experienced we become the more we tremble. One who knows nothing about a subject roars out his opinion; one who knows a lot speaks with hesitations. That’s why politicians are eternally talking, bad playwrights continually writing plays. It is the great men who know most who are constantly saying, “I know not”‘ (31 January 1931); ‘Thanks ever so much for your copy of “The Freethinker”, containing the life, or part of the life of Bradlaugh, who, if honesty and courage be anything, isn’t far from the right hand of God’ (6 October 1933); ‘I suppose the present Government will make everything safe for us poor buggers in some way. Have you got your gas mask, allright? Is it functioning? Poor aul’ Darwin. If he were alive today, he would have something to study’ (20 March 1940); last letter ending ‘I’ve been very busy, and am very busy still, doing damn all’, a total of 8 pp., 4to/8vo (5)

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£200-300

246* Ratushinskaya (Irina, 1954-). Two autograph letters signed, ‘Irina’, 15 Crothall Close, Palmers Green, London N13, 16 & 17 May 1991, both to Lanny, the first thanking her for the ‘beautiful little poem’ which she enjoyed enormously and telling that she is sorry she cannot express all her feelings due to her English, the second letter, telling that she does go to schools sometimes but due to a forthcoming long programme of hospital treatment is unable to plan ahead for the time being, and asking if they can discuss the kind offer in the autumn when she hopes to give a more positive answer, both one page on printed letterhead, the first with a small green and yellow sketch of a flower upper left, 8vo

£500-800

The Ukranian poet Irina Ratushinskaya was one of the last prominent dissident writers to be imprisoned by the Soviet regime.

(2) £70-100

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247* Rendell (Ruth, b. 1930) Typed letter signed ‘Ruth Rendell’, dated May 26, 1996, to Bevis Hillier, regarding an outline for a mystery novel: “I would never tell anyone that an idea was a nohoper because I believe that anything is publishable, potentially successful and even destined for greatness if it is well-enough handled. If it is carried out with great talent. If it is done with care and sensitivity. But obviously the better the idea to start with, the more the chances of success... Now to your plot outline. It is clever, it is brilliantly innovative and inventive, but I don’t think it in the slightest bit suitable for today’s market... Today’s readers in this country don’t like crime novels that are funny. Crime is a serious matter and murder is very serious. I feel this so much myself that I would never touch a plot that depended on humour. To the majority of readers serial killers cannot be made amusing... Your palindromes are brilliant. I’ve said that before. They are too clever. Serial killers aren’t clever. They are almost invariably mentally disturbed inadequates or psychopaths who wouldn’t know a palindrome from a hippodrome.” Together with a typed note from Bevis Hillier outlining the plot and with comments on Ruth Rendell’s reply, old folds, 2pp. on two sheets, 8vo

KATHERINE MANSFIELD & VIRGINIA WOOLF The Working Library of B.J. Kirkpatrick (1919-2007)

Brownlee Jean Kirkpatrick, librarian and bibliographer, was born Grahamstown, South Africa, 27 January 1919. For most of her professional life she worked as Librarian at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London (1948-76), being appointed MBE in 1975. In her spare time she worked as a bibliographer with Rupert Hart-Davis as publisher in the "Soho Bibliographies" series. Her first contribution was 'A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf', published in 1957, reaching a second edition in 1967, and a third (with Stuart Clarke) in 1997. She produced further bibliographies of Edmund Blunden, E.M. Forster and her last book, the 'Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield', came out in 1989.

The books and papers offered here represent the entire working library for the Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf projects.

Bevis Hiller is an art historian and biographer of Sir John Betjeman. An interesting and constructively critical insight from Ruth Rendell, one of Britain’s foremost crime writers.

(3) £150-200

248* Rowling (J. K., born 1965). A fine autograph letter signed, ‘Newt Scamander / a.k.a. J K Rowling’, ‘By Owl Post’, no date, received 29 May 2001 (endorsed in pencil), to Howard [Brayton], and in response to a letter from Brayton (original included with lot and addressing Rowling as Professor Scamander), who had been inspired in his profession as educational consultant by the publication of ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ (2001), published under the name of Scamander, Brayton pointing out that the mythical Wyvern has been omitted from the book and suggesting that it should be included in the ‘53rd edition’, Brayton paraphrasing and expanding on the dictionary definition of wyvern that ‘It would appear that the wyvern was first sighted by muggles in 1610, as the representation of a fanciful animal; a winged dragon with two feet like those of an eagle, and a serpent-like barbed tail.

It was believed to be real in 1700, and sighted again in 1863, when it was described as a “monster”‘, also making the point that Robert Browning makes reference to the wyvern, and in her thirteen-line response Rowling’s reply takes the game further: ‘Ah yes, the fabled “wyvern”. Well, naturally I had heard the rumours - the poet Browning’s allusion had not escaped me ... Extensive research, however, has convinced me that the beast in question was a Common Welsh Green whose legs were counted by a Muggle with a very shaky grasp of numeracy ... It is always a blow to have a cherished part of one’s life dismissed as a figment of the imagination ... but we wizards have to deal with that every day’, one page on Owl Post letterhead with author’s name printed at foot, both one page, folio A very fine letter by Rowling. ‘Fantastic Beasts’ purports to be Harry Potter’s copy of the textbook on the subject.

(1) £1000-1500

249 Mansfield (Katherine). In a German Pension, 1st edition, 1st impression, [1911], 4 + 32 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, bookplate of C.L. Lazarus to front pastedown, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, minor marks and rubbing to lower cover, 8vo, preserved in purpose-made quarter morocco gilt book box (upper cover slightly damp stained) Kirkpatrick A1a, noting there were three impressions of probably 500 copies each in December 1911, January, and May or June 1912. A fine copy of a scarce book.

(1) £500-800

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250 Mansfield (Katherine). In a German Pension, 1st edition, 3rd impression, [1912], cancelled title with variant device and new address, 4 + 8 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, bookplate of Richard M. Davison tipped on to front free endpaper, original blindstamped green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and darkened on spine, minor wear to extremities, together with a copy of the first American edition, New York, 1926, original cloth with printed paper label to spine, d.j. slightly chipped and soiled with old water stain to upper margins, both 8vo Kirkpatrick A1a & A1b.

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£200-300

251 Mansfield (Katherine). Prelude, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, Richmond, [1918], some occasional spotting and scattered damp spots to lower margins, original dark blue wrappers lettered in black, some splitting and creasing to extremities, spine damp stained, 8vo Kirkpatrick A2, noting that approximately 300 copies were printed and ‘a few copies have a line-block by J.D. Fergusson printed in dark brown or black on the upper and lower wrappers’ (here absent).

(1) £300-400

252 Mansfield (Katherine). The Garden Party and Other Stories, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1922, ‘sposition’ for ‘position’ on p. 103, ‘hss’ for ‘his’ on p. 134, both with pencil corrections, original trial binding in sky blue cloth lettered in dark blue, 8vo Kirkpatrick A5a quoting: ‘There were 25 copies so issued, lettered in blue; the greater part was taken by travellers or sent to Australia, as this was merely a binders’ trial issue. It was decided that the colour did not show well enough, and the lettering on the later issue of the First Edition was in ochre’.

This copy purchased from Paul Rassam is also noted by Kirkpatrick when offered for sale in his Minerva Rare Books Catalogue 9 (1983), item 271, suggesting that perhaps as few as 11 or 12 copies had been submitted by the binders as samples. A fine copy of a very rare item.

(1) £300-500

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256 Mansfield (Katherine). Stories by Katherine Mansfield, a Selection Made by J. Middleton Murry, with the Designs by Zhenya Gay, New York, 1930, original cloth with printed paper label to spine (rubbed), spine a little faded, large 8vo, together with Poems, 1st US edition, New York, 1924, original cloth in slightly chipped and browned d.j., 8vo, plus The Open Window, the Second Volume, April-September 1911, b & w plates, original cloth-backed boards, spine darkened and a little nicked at head and foot, small 4to, plus other mostly reprint editions of Mansfield books (including paperbacks), letters, diaries and a few volumes with contributions

by Mansfield, mostly 8vo (approximately 160)

£200-300

257 Mansfield (Katherine). Letters to John Middleton Murry 19131922, 1st US edition, New York, 1951, portrait frontispiece, original cloth gilt, together with The Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield, Selected and Edited by C.A. Hankin, 1st edition, 1983, original cloth in d.j., plus Alpers (Antony), The Life of Katherine Mansfield, 2nd printing, New York, 1980, inscribed by the author for Brownlee Kirkpatrick to title, original cloth in d.j., all 8vo, plus other biographies, criticism etc. relating to Mansfield and her circle including J.M. Murry, D.H. & Frieda Lawrence, a mixture of hardbacks and paperbacks, mostly 8vo (approximately 90)

253 Mansfield (Katherine). Something Childish and Other Stories, 1st edition, Canadian issue, Toronto, [1924 or 1925], original blue cloth stamped in violet with pale grey d.j. printed in navy blue, d.j. chipped, soiled and partly damp stained with old adhesion mark from label at foot of spine faintly showing through on to cloth beneath, 8vo

258* Mansfield (Katherine). An archive of correspondence, pamphlets and ephemera compiled by B.J. Kirkpatrick in relation to her Mansfield bibliography and research, mostly circas 1950s/1990s, including a box file of correspondence with individuals, libraries and archives, publishers and printers, a second box file of correspondence relating to OUP Auckland, portraits, grants, translations, bookshops, illustrations for the bibliography, catalogues, reviews of Mansfield books, etc., both files including typed carbon copies from B.J. Kirkpatrick, other partly organised files include bibliography, pamphlets (Landfall, Adelphi, Adam, Turnbull Library Record, etc.), auction catalogues, cited articles, reviews, news clippings, magazines, a few posters and 2 boxes of index cards, etc.

Kirkpatrick A8c. Referring to the first issue, published by Constable & Co., London, only 34 copies escaped destruction, these being used as travellers’ samples, sent to Australia or given for early review. The second issue bears the notice ‘First published, 1924’ on title verso. Of the bound copies supplied to Macmillan of Canada between November 1924 and February 1925, with Kirkpatrick estimating that possibly 200-300 copies being supplied.

(1) £200-300

254 Mansfield (Katherine). Bliss and Other Stories, 1st edition, 1920, p. 13 printed as ‘3’, small split at foot of half-title, original red cloth stamped in black, a little rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with Poems, 1st edition, 1923, bookplate of C.L. Lazarus to front pastedown, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, original cloth-backed boards with red leather spine label, spines spotted and browned, original cream d.j., some spotting and marginal chipping, large 8vo, plus The Aloe, 1st edition, 1930, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original buckram gilt, a little rubbed, (one of 750 copies), plus a copy of the first American edition, New York, 1930, edges untrimmed, original boards with printed paper label to spine, a little rubbing and minor wear, large 8vo, (limited edition 789/950) Kirkpatrick A4a, A7, A11a & A11b respectively.

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(4 cartons)

£300-500

£150-200

255 [Mansfield, Katherine & John Middleton Murry]. The Bet and Other Stories, by Anton Tchekhov, Dublin & London, 1915, 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, signed ‘Katherine Mansfield, 191-’, to front free endpaper, a little spotting throughout, original cloth gilt, slightly nicked at head and foot of spine, together with Mansfield (Katherine), In a German Pension, 2nd edition, 1926, a little spotting, original cloth in d.j., spine darkened and nicked at head, plus ten other contemporary English translations of Russian books, all original cloth, mixed condition, all identified in pencil by Kirkpatrick as books from the library of Mansfield and Murry (Sotheby’s, 6 December 1984, lot 242, via Peter Jolliffe), plus others similar and/or

by Murry, not from the library of Mansfield and Murry, all 8vo (28)

£150-200

259 Woolf (Virginia). Granite and Rainbow, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1958, signed and inscribed ‘From Leonard Woolf [for B.J. Kirkpatrick] with gratitude, June 1958’ to front free endpaper, original cloth in d.j., a little rubbed and soiled, together with a copy of the 1st American edition, New York, 1958, a letter dictated by Leonard Woolf on Hogarth Press headed paper loosely inserted, dated 16 September 1958, presenting the copy of this book to B.J. Kirkpatrick, original cloth in d.j., a little nicked at corners and spine slightly browned, both 8vo Kirkpatrick A34a & A34b.

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£200-300

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£150-200

262 Woolf (Leonard & Strachey, James, eds.). Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey, 1st edition, 1956, portrait frontispiece, original cloth in chipped and slightly soiled d.j., together with Woolf (Virginia), Roger Fry, A Biography, 2nd impression, Hogarth Press, 1940, portrait frontispiece, original cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, plus The Common Reader, Second Series, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1932, some spotting, original cloth, slightly rubbed and marked, a little nicked at head and foot of spine, plus other Virginia Woolf books, mostly reprints in original cloth, some in d.j.s, many earlier editions somewhat rubbed and soiled, all 8vo (48)

£150-200

263 Woolf (Virginia). The Letters, 6 volumes, 1st editions, Hogarth Press, 1975-80, portrait frontispiece to each, original cloth in d.j.s, together with The Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Olivier Bell, 5 volumes, 1st editions, Hogarth Press, 1977-84, original cloth in d.j.s, plus The Essays of Virginia Woolf, edited Andrew McNeillie, 4 volumes, 1st editions, Hogarth Press, 1986-94, original cloth in non-matching d.j.s, plus others related, all published Hogarth Press, all original cloth in d.j.s, 8vo (32)

264 [Woolf, Virginia]. The Charleston Newsletter, nos. 1-24, 198289, b & w illlustrations, contained in two modern binders, gilt-titled on spines, three stapled indexes loosely inserted, 8vo, together with the journal's continuation, The Charleston Magazine, nos. 124, 1990-2001, colour and b & w illustrations, original printed wrappers, large 8vo, plus Canvas, News from Charleston, nos. 113, June 2001 to August 2005, monochrome illustrations, various coloured papers, original printed and stapled wrappers, slim 4to, plus Virginia Woolf Miscellany, nos. 3-67, 1975-2005, a total of 63 issues, lacking nos. 1, 2, 59 & 66, stapled as issued, slim folio, plus other Woolf-related journals, pamphlets, bibliographies, booksellers' catalogues, etc

260 Woolf (Virginia). A Moment and Other Essays, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1947, some pencil annotations by B.J. Kirkpatrick, original cloth, slightly damp stained, d.j. somewhat soiled, taped and repaired with loss, together with The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, 1950, B.J. Kirkpatrick’s pencil marginalia and notes, original cloth in slightly chipped and soiled d.j., plus A Writer’s Diary... , 1st edition, 1953, original cloth in soiled and slightly frayed d.j., plus Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters, 1st edition, 1956, portrait frontispiece, original cloth in slightly chipped and soiled d.j., plus The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, 5th impression, 1947, some pencil notes [by B.J. Kirkpatrick] to contents leaf, original cloth in d.j., torn with loss, all with dated ownership signatures of B.J. Kirkpatrick to front free endpapers, wrappers with designs after Vanessa Bell, 8vo

(2 cartons)

£150-200

265 Woolf (Virginia). Letters, 6 volumes, 1st editions, 1975-80, together with The Diary, edited by Anne Olivier Bell, 5 volumes, 1st editions, 1977-84, all original cloth in d.j.s, large 8vo, plus other books by and about Virginia Woolf including paperbacks and reprints, mostly 8vo, VG

Kirkpatrick A29-32 & A27. Kirkpatrick’s pencil initialled first edition copy of her bibliography of Virginia Woolf is included with the lot.

(6) £150-200

(4 shelves)

261* Woolf (Virginia, 1882-1941). An archive of correspondence relating to B.J. Kirkpatrick’s bibliography on Virginia Woolf, mostly 1950s/1960s, including 70 typed letters signed and 1 postcard signed from Leonard Woolf, all 1 page, mostly oblong 8vo, largely replying to bibliographical queries by Kirkpatrick and together with 59 typed carbon copies from Kirkpatrick to Woolf, plus a similar quantity of correspondence from a variety of other writers and librarians including Vanessa Bell (5 autograph letters signed and 1 postcard signed), Nancy Cunard, typed letters signed, 14 October 1956, recounting a conversation with Virginia Woolf about James Joyce’s writings whereh Cunard stated that she understood “Anna Livia Plurabelle” better ‘with a whisky and soda... Virginia stopped the conversation in the room, saying: “Leonard, do you hear what Nancy says? She says we ought to be drunk when reading Joyce!” so, on the spot, there was the deformation of a perfectly serious remark on my part... ‘, Quentin Bell (3 typed letters signed), Olivia Bell (9 typed letters signed and 2 autograph letters signed), Vita Sackville-West (5 typed letters and 1 autograph letter signed), Harold Nicolson (typed letter signed), F.B. Adams, Gisele Freund, John Heywood, Edward G. Howard, John Lehmann, John Mavrogordato, A.N.L. Munby, George Rylands, etc., plus some related ephemera, mostly one or two page short letters and notes to bibliographical enquiries, circa 1947-80, contained in three card folders (4 folders)

£150-200

£150-200

266 DeSalvo (Louise & Leaska, Mitchell A., eds.). The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, 1st edition, 1984, together with Garnett (David, ed.), Carrington: Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries, 1st edition, 1970, plus Spalding (Frances), Duncan Grant, 1st edition, 1997, plus Bell (Quentin), Elders and Betters, 1st edition, 1995, all original cloth in d.j.s, 8vo, plus other Bloomsbury circle biographies and related material, mostly original cloth in d.j.s (4 shelves)

£150-200

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£500-800

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267 Amis (Kingsley). One Fat Englishman, 1963; Ending Up, 1974, 1st editions, Ending Up with the d.j. from The Riverside Villas Murder bound-in at end, bookplates of Bryan Forbes, t.e.g., uniform red half morocco gilt, 8vo

270 Amis (Kingsley). The Fantasy Poets. Kingsley Amis, Number Twenty Two, Fantasy Press, Swinford, 1954, original wrapper, one or two light marks, 8vo, together with Dear Illusion, Covent Garden Press, 1972, original wrapper, 4to, limited edition, 42/100 copies signed and numbered by Kingsley Amis, plus The Darkwater Hall Mystery, Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1978, illustrations by Elspeth Sojka, original marbled wrapper, 8vo, limited edition, 44/165, together with others related including Socialism and the Intellectuals, Fabian Tract 304, 1957, A Case of Samples. Poems, 1946-1956, 1956, Wasted/Kipling at Bateman’s, single signed sheet from the Poem-ofthe-Month-Club series, 1973 and a one-page autograph letter, signed ‘Kingsley Amis’ to Bevis Hillier (art historian and biographer of John Betjeman), 1st October 1975: “Would 500 words on having had the festival completely pass me by (I was living in Wales then) be any good? Very personal stuff? It’s a shame to make you write again, but you’d have had to anyway, because you don’t mention a fee, and since I earn my living entirely by writing, etc.”

Presentation copies to Bryan Forbes from Kingsley Amis. One Fat Englishman inscribed: “A first edition at last to good old Bryan from Kingsley”, Ending Up inscribed: “To Bryan, just in time, from Kingsley”, and additionally to title: “Kingsley Amis raises his glass to Bryan Forbes”. Bryan Forbes got to know Kingsley Amis after he had been commissioned to write a screenplay based on That Uncertain Feeling. The film was retitled Only Two Can Play, by the producers, starring Peter Sellers, going on to be a commercial success.

(2) £100-150

268 [Amis, Kingsley]. A group of eight books owned by Kingsley Amis, including seven inscribed by the author, 1920s/30s, including Cicero Pro Milone, edition A.B Poynton, 2nd edition, 1927, inscribed ‘K.W. Amis. Cl VI J’, Sermo Latinus, 1934, inscribed ‘K.W. Amis. Cl VI J’, Plato’s Apology of Socrates, edition, H. Williamson, 1934, inscribed ‘K.W. Amis. Cl VI J, 1938’, Blaise Pascal’s Pensees, 1931, inscribed ‘K.W. Amis. April 1938’, Bien Ecrire. A French Book for Senior Students, by M.F. Dufour, 1937, inscribed, with doodles, plus E.S. Shuckburgh’s The Epistles of Horace Book I., 1930, unsigned but with pencil notes, a cartoon of an aircraft and heads, some covers a little rubbed and stained, 8vo

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271 Amis (Kingsley). That Uncertain Feeling, 1955; I Like it Here, 1958; Take a Girl Like You, 1960; One Fat Englishman, 1963, 1st editions, a few light spots, original cloth (Uncertain spine a little faded), d.j.s, Uncertain spine a little darkened with light spots, 8vo, together with the rest of his novels, from The Egyptologists, 1965 to The Biographer’s Moustache, 1995, all 1st editions, plus some non-fiction and short stories, and stories published in Playboy & Penthouse magazines 1960’s-70’s

Interesting collection of school books used by the young Kingsley Amis whilst at the City of London School.

(8) £300-400

269 [Amis, Kingsley]. A group of seven books owned by Kingsley Amis of which five are inscribed by the author, 1920s/50s, including Dorothy L. Sayers’ Clouds of Witness, Literary Press edition c.1930, inscribed in pencil to half title: ‘K.W. Amis, September 1937’, Selections from Thomas Love Peacock, 1928, inscribed to front endpaper ‘K.W. Amis. January 1938’, Tom Moore’s Diary, edition J.B. Priestley, 1933, inscribed ‘K.W. Amis. March 1939’, C. Day Lewis’ A Hope for Poetry, 5th edition, 1942, inscribed’ K.W. Amis. High Wycombe, December 1943’, with pencil notes, Charles Edward Eaton’s The Greenhouse in the Garden, New York, 1955, with a presentation inscription from Eaton to Amis, 1959 (with a juvenile cartoon), and a University College of Swansea Prospectus 1952-1953, a few copies a little rubbed and stained, 8vo (7)

£200-300

(approx 60)

£300-500

272 Bacall (Lauren). Lauren Bacall by Myself, 1st UK edition, 1979, half-tone illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 8vo Inscribed by the author to front endpaper: “For Marilyn - thank you for your patience above & beyond the call of duty - at least we got through - fondest - Betty. London 9 Feb. 1979”. Marilyn Edwards was the publicity director at publisher Jonathan Cape and accompanied Bacall on her UK promotional tour.

Additionally inscribed to front pastedown by Tom Maschler, head of Cape at the time.

(1) £100-150

£300-400

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275 Berlin (Sven). The Dark Monarch. A Portrait from Within, 1st edition, Galley Press, 1962, b & w illustrations by the author, one or two light spots, original yellow cloth, slight lean, d.j., small chips and tears at spine ends, 8vo

273 Ballard (J.G.). Crash, 1st edition, 1973, a few light spots to fore-edges, original blue cloth, d.j., one or two tiny nicks, light spotting to flaps, 8vo (1)

£200-300

Scarce copy of a controversial book by Sven Berlin (1911-1999), a member of the St Ives School of artists. The book is one of around 100 surviving copies, after it was withdrawn from sale due to libel actions from at least four other members of the movement, as a result of thinly-veiled character assassinations.

(1) £150-200

274 Banville (John). The Infinities, London Review Bookshop Limited Editions, 2009, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 16/35 signed by the author, together with Miriam Macgregor. The Engraver’s Cut, Primrose Academy, Bicester, 2005, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, large 8vo, limited edition, 65/135 signed in pencil by the artist, plus From A to X. A Story in Letters, by John Berger, 2008, original clothbacked boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 35/50 signed by the author, with three other signed limited editions by Paul Muldoon, Alice Oswald and Geoffrey Hill (6)

276 Betjeman (John). Continual Dew, 1st edition, 1937, illustrations, a few light spots, a.e.g., original cloth gilt, d.j. (designed

by E. McKnight Kauffer), tiny nicks at foot of spine, 8vo, together with First and Last Loves, 1st edition, 1952, b & w illustrations, original cloth, one or two spots, d.j., loss at head of spine, a few marks, 8vo, plus New Bats in Old Belfries, 1st edition, 1945, original red cloth (small hole to spine), d.j., small hole to spine, tear and loss at foot of spine, 8vo, with other first editions by Betjeman including A Few Late Chysanthemums, 1954, Vintage London, 1942, Murray’s Buckinghamshire & Murray’s Berkshire, 1949 (with John Piper), and High and Low, 1966

£150-200

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277 Betjeman (John). Summoned by Bells, 1960, etched frontispiece, t.e.g., original green calf gilt, spine ends rubbed and a little frayed, small 4to Limited edition, 125/125 signed by the poet.

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281 Blyton (Enid). The Secret Seven, 1949; Secret Seven Adventure, 1950; Well Done Secret Seven!, 1951; Secret Seven on the Trail, 1952; Go Ahead Secret Seven, 1953; Good Work Secret Seven, 1954; Secret Seven Win Through, 1955; Three Cheers Secret Seven, 1956; Secret Seven Mystery, 1957; Puzzle for the Secret Seven, 1958 (2 copies); Secret Service Fireworks, 1959 (2 copies); Good Old Secret Seven, 1960; Shock for the Secret Seven, 1961 (2 copies); Look Out Secret Seven, 1962; Fun for the Secret Seven, 1963, 1st editions, colour and b & w illustrations, scattered light spots, a few previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, d.j.s, a few price-clipped, some chips, tears and repairs, 8vo

£80-120

278 Blyton (Enid). The Island of Adventure, 1st edition, 1944, illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, original pictorial cloth in bright condition, d.j., one or two tiny nicks or closed tears, 8vo A good copy of the first ‘Adventure’ series book.

(1)

£500-800

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279 Blyton (Enid). The Mountain of Adventure, with Illustrations

by Stuart Tresilian, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1949, letterpress illustrations, some full-page, including frontispiece, endpapers foxed, hinges split, front free endpaper inscribed ‘Tim, love from Enid Blyton’ and with traces of label removed below, original pictorial cloth, cocked, spine and lower return faded, 8vo, together with The Ship of Adventure, with Illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1950, letterpress illustrations, some full-page, including frontispiece, free endpapers partially browned, original pictorial cloth, in dustjacket, torn and chipped, with repairs on verso, spine faded, 8vo, plus five others, including four by Enid Blyton, (first editions of The Castle of Adventure, The Valley of Adventure, and Enid Blyton’s Sunny Story Book, and a later edition of The Children of Cherry Tree Farm)

282 Blyton (Enid). Five Get into Trouble; 1949; Five on a Hike Together, 1951, 1st editions, illustrations by Eileen Soper, previous owner inscriptions to Five Get into Trouble, original cloth, d.j.s, a few chips and tears, mainly to first title, 8vo, together with The Rat-A-Tat Mystery, later edition, 1959 (3)

£100-150

283 Boyd (William). A Good Man in Africa, 1981; An Ice-Cream War, 1982; The New Confessions, 1987; Brazzaville Beach, 1990, 1st editions, light toning and previous owner signature to New Confessions, original Cloth, d.j.s, Ice Cream and New Confessions price-clipped, A Good Man spine a little faded, 8vo, with eight others

by Boyd

Provenance: From the family of Tim Brooke-Taylor, three volumes bearing the ownership signature of his sister Carolyn. Tim Brooke-Taylor writes of ‘The Mountain of Adventure’: ‘I remember the signed book. I haven’t seen it for years and years. I was under 10 at the time. My parents had met Enid Blyton somewhere and knew I was a huge fan...’.

(7) £150-200

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£150-200

284 Brent-Dyer (Elinor M.). Joey Goes to the Oberland, 1954; A Problem for the Chalet School, 1956; The New Mistress at the Chalet School, 1957; Excitements at the Chalet School, 1957; The Comingof-Age of the Chalet School, 1958; The Chalet School and Richenda, 1958; Trials for the Chalet School, 1959; Theodora and the Chalet School, 1959; Joey and Co. in Tirol, 1960, all 1st editions, monochrome frontispiece to each, a few volumes toned, all original boards in dustjacket (not price-clipped), some minor creasing and fraying to extremities, some with pencilled number at foot of spine, 8vo, together with The Chalet School Club membership leaflet, 4pp., in fine condition, and twenty-nine other Chalet School books, 1950s/60s reprints (two undated), all original boards, all but two volumes in dustjacket, some edge-fraying and tears, and some with pencilled number to spine

280 Blyton (Enid). The Sea of Adventure, 1948; The Mountain of Adventure, 1949; The Ship of Adventure, 1950; The Circus of Adventure, 1952, 1st editions, illustrations by Stuart Tresilian, a few light spots to endpapers, original pictorial cloth, one or two light spots to Mountain and Cicus spines, d.j.s, neat restorations or repairs at spine ends to verso, 8vo (4)

£200-300

£200-300

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£300-500

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285 Brent-Dyer (Elinor M.). Ruey Richardson - Chaletian, [1960]; A Leader in the Chalet School, 1961; The Feud in the Chalet School, [1962]; Redheads at the Chalet School, 1964; Summer Term at the Chalet School, 1965; Challenge for the Chalet School, 1966; Althea Joins the Chalet School, 1969; Prefects of the Chalet School, 1970, 1st editions, frontispiece to each, one or two light spots, original cloth (a couple of small bumps to edges, Prefects spine a little faded), d.j.s, Feud & Redheads price-clipped, Challenge price erased, edges a little rubbed, a couple of light stains and small scribbles, 8vo, together with The New House Mistress, 1st edition, 1928 and Jo of the Chalet School, 1988 reprint (10)

287 Carey (Peter). His Illegal Self, London Review Bookshop Limited Editions, 2008, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 52/75 signed by the author, together with The Chemistry of Tears, by Peter Carey, 2012, original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 29/45 signed by the author, plus American Smoke, by Iain Sinclair, 2013, original cloth-backed boards, loose signed postcard and folding prospectus, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 4/5 hors serie, signed by the author, and All That Is,

by James Salter, 2013, original blue morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 46/50 signed by the author, plus Jonathan Coe’s The Rain Before it Falls, 2007, 44/50 inscribed by the author

£300-500

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286 Burroughs (William). Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, by William Lee, New York: Ace Double Books, 1953, bound dos-à-dos with Helbrandt (Maurice), Narcotic Agent, browning throughout mostly to margins (with dampstain to edge of outer corner of few leaves), original printed wrappers, lightly creased to joints and spine, very slightly rubbed to extremities, 8vo

£150-200

288 Carnac (Carol, really Edith Caroline Rivett). The Missing Rope, 1st edition, London: Skeffington & Son, [1937], scattered spotting, original cloth in d.j., frayed and slightly torn to edges, dustsoiled, old paper label removed from spine, 8vo (1)

Using his pen name William Lee, this is the author’s first published book.

(1) £300-500

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£100-150

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plus a later handwritten postcard from 'Lawrence' to Dick McBride, 8th April 2006, plus four vintage small-format colour postcard flyers for events at City Lights bookstore, including Grateful Dead (18/19 November 1966), Quicksilver, The Youngbloods and Avalon Heirloom, plus five vintage City Lights ballpoint pens and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 'secret' phone number on the back of a shopping list [in the hand of Betty McBride], plus a memory stick with MP3s of the reel-to-reel recording

289* City Lights - Beat Poets. Selections from "The Incredible Poetry Reading" at Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco, 8 June 1968, a BASF 7" reel-to-reel half inch tape of approximately 46 minutes 35 seconds duration, the tape selection introduced by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and comprising 1) Allen Ginsberg chanting, 2) San Francisco Mime Troupe Guerrilla Marching Band - rendition of national anthem, 3) Dave Haslewood, M.C., poetry readings by: 4) Lew Welch (begins 'I want the whole thing'), 5) Philip Whalen (begins 'Two ancient tiny ladies... '), 6) Michael McClure (begins 'I am the silhouette that moves in black'), 7) David Meltzer (begins 'Tish above 1952'), 8) Lawrence Ferlinghetti reciting 'Assassination Raga' with Indian raga music accompaniment, 9) John Wieners (begins 'Should I wear a shadowed eye'), 10) Allen Ginsberg 'Reading chronologically Poems in the Last Twelve Months' and beginning with 'Wales visitation written first draft with key perceptions in the fifth hour of an LSD trip', a few unrelated noises and guitar playing coming after the selections end, contained in vintage card reel-toreel box with manuscript details of tape contents written by Ferlinghetti and identifying copyright with City Lights Books 1968, together with a City Lights Books typed card [from Ferlinghetti] to Dick McBride, postmarked 13 June 1957, 'dear dick, thanks for letter... yes, glad to have your magazi[ne] from Alan Swallow... They have not arrived yet. Am in jail on account of HOWL. HOWL seized

by SF police and me and Shig with it. Obscene dad. - famous editor',

Provenance: Dick McBride and his wife Betty. Dick McBride worked at City Lights bookstore in the 1950s/1960s and was friends with Ferlinghetti, Shig, Ginsberg and other Beat poets and artists. Dick himself was a poet, novelist and playwright. When Ferlinghetti read his 'Assassination Raga' for the first time that evening, 8 June 1968, it had only been completed a few hours earlier while Ferlinghetti watched Senator Robert Kennedy's funeral on television. The postcard from Ferlinghetti sent in 1957 concerns Ginsberg's infamous poem 'Howl'. Due to its many references to illicit drugs and sexual practices customs officials seized 520 copies of the poem being imported on 25th March 1957. On 3rd June Shig Murao, the bookstore manager, was arrested and jailed for selling 'Howl and Other Poems' to an undercover San Francisco police officer. City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti was subsequently arrested for publishing the book. At the obscenity trial, nine literary experts testified on the poem's behalf and, the Judge deciding that the poem was of 'redeeming social importance', Ferlinghetti won the case. It is not known how many copies of this reelto-reel tape were made or how many survive.

(14) ÂŁ400-600

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290 Colophon Press. Harper and Wilton, by Muriel Spark, 1996, original goatskin-backed boards, large 8vo, limited edition, 84/100 signed by the author, together with A to Z, by Alan Wall, 1997, original cloth, glassine wrapper, 8vo, 46/50 with holograph quotation, plus other Colophon Press signed limited editions including William Trevor’s Death of a Professor, 1997 and Low Sunday, 1950, 2000, Muriel Sparks’ A Hundred and Eleven Years without a Chauffeur, 2001 and Fay Weldon’s A Question of Timing, 1992 (9)

£100-150

292 Crompton (Richmal). Still William, 1st edition, [1925], illustrations

by Thomas Henry, original red cloth (wormtrack to upper cover), d.j., a few chips and tears, losses at head of spine and front panel, 8vo (1)

£400-600

291 Conrad (Joseph). Chance. A Tale in Two Parts, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1913, half title (detached), intergral title with ‘First published in 1913’ to verso (and with blue ‘Colonial Library’ inkstamp at foot), 8 pp. Methuen’s Popular Novels list dated Autumn 1913 and 31 pp. list dated September 1913 at end, scattered light spotting, pencil previous owner signature to front pastedown, original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, with misspelling ‘Methven’ at foot, spine ends slightly rubbed, a few light marks, 8vo Scarce, one of only 50 or so first issue copies, with the intergral title. The book was intended to be published in the Autumn of 1913, and a few were issued with the 1913 title, but the book was in fact published in 1914, due to a strike and cancels, dated 1914, were issued to be stub-mounted to already printed copies.

(1) £400-600

293 Crompton (Richmal). William the Conqueror, 1st edition, [1926], illustrations by Thomas Henry, one or two light spots, lacking front endpaper, original red cloth (foot of spine a little faded), d.j., a few chips and tears, losses to spine ends and front panel, 8vo (1)

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£400-600

294 Crompton (Richmal). William - in Trouble, 1st edition, [1927], illustrations

by Thomas Henry, a few minor spots, original red cloth, d.j., small chips and tears, mainly to spine ends and rear panel (1)

£400-600

295 Crompton (Richmal). William - the Good, 1st edition, [1928], illustrations by Thomas Henry, original red cloth, d.j., small chips and tears, loss at foot of spine, 8vo (1)

£400-600

296 Crompton (Richmal). Just William’s Luck, 1948; William the Bold, 1950; William and the Tramp, 1952; William and the Moon Rocket, 1954; William and the Space Animal, 1956; William’s Television Show, 1958; William the Explorer, 1960; William’s Treasure Trove, 1962; William and the Witch, 1964; William and the Pop Singers, 1965; William and the Masked Ranger, 1966; William the Superman, 1968; William the Lawless, 1970, 1st editions, illustrations by Thomas Henry and Henry Ford, one or two light spots, Moon Rocket & Witch with presentation inscriptions, Television Show & Masked Ranger with vertical adhesion marks to pastedowns, original cloth, one or two spines with fading to lettering, d.j.s, Television Show, Explorer, Treasure Trove & Masked Ranger priceclipped, Bold spine faded, one or two other spines a little faded, Television Show with adhesion marks to flaps (with some loss of text), a few small chips, closed tears and creases, 8vo (13)

Lot 294

£500-800

297 Crompton (Richmal). William Again, 5th impression, 1924; William the Outlaw, 2nd impression, 1927; William, 1st cheap edition c. 1929?; William the Bad, 1st cheap edition, 1930; William the Pirate, 1st cheap edition, 1932; William’s Crowded Hours, 1st cheap edition, 1932, illustrations by Thomas Henry, a few light spots, William lacking front endpaper, original red cloth, William again with small wormtrack to upper joint, d.j.s, a few chips, tears and losses, 8vo, together with 16 other first cheap edition and reprint William titles in d.j.s including William’s Happy Days, 1933, William the Gangster, 1934, William the Detective, 1935, Sweet William, 1936, William the Showman, 1937, William the Dictator, 1938, William and A.R.P., 1939, Just William. The Story of the Film (1st edition, 1939) and William and the Evacuees, 1940 (22)

£300-500

298 Dahl (Roald). [Collected Works for Children], 15 vols., Commemorative edition, Harper Collins, 1991, b & w illustrations by Donald Chaffin, Joseph Schindelman, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, William Pene du Bois, Jill Bennett and Quentin Blake, t.e.g., original blue morocco-backed patterned boards, matching individual slipcases, contained in cloth slipcase (some splits along edges), 8vo Limited edition, 2/500.

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£300-500

299 Deighton (Len). The Ipcress File (2nd impression), 1962; Horse Under Water, 1963; Funeral in Berlin, 1964; Billion Dollar Brain, 1966; An Expensive Place to Die, 1967; Only When I Larf, 1968, 1st editions, Ipcress with contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, Horse without loose crossword competition slip, Expensive without document wallet, original cloth (Horse spine a little faded), d.j.s, Horse price-clipped, Expensive a little chipped with edgewear, one or two light stains and small chips, 8vo (6)

£150-200

300 Dexter (Colin). Last Bus to Woodstock, 1st US edition, 1975; Service of all the Dead, 1979; The Dead of Jericho, 1981; The Riddle of the Third Mile, 1983; The Secret of Annexe 3, 1986 (2 copies); Morse’s Greatest Mystery, 1993; The Daughters of Cain, 1994; Death is Now My Neighbour, 1996, 1st editions, Last Bus textblock browned (as usual) with rear endpaper excised, light marginal toning to Riddle and Secret, one or two stains to fore-edges, original cloth, marginal fading to Service, d.j.s, Morse’s Greatest Mystery price-clipped, one copy of Secret of Annexe 3 signed by the author to title (d.j. without price or barcode), together with a Book Club edition of Last Bus to Woodstock, 1975 and Last Seen Wearing, 1988 reprint Lot 300

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£400-600

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301 Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, 1st edition, 1938, scattered light spotting, bookplate, original black cloth, spine faded, d.j., lacking over half of spine (paper reinforcement to verso), 8vo (1)

£300-400

302 Fainlight (Ruth, Ted Hughes & Alan Sillitoe). Poems, Rainbow Press, 1971, original patterned endpapers, top edge stained green, original green calf gilt, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 108/300 signed by all three poets, together with The Rats and Other Poems, 1st edition, 1960, small previous owner inkstamp to rear pastedown, original cloth (small faded patch), d.j., slight edgewear, 8vo, plus Barbarians and Other Poems, 1973, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, limited edition, 16/100 signed by the author, and Poems for Shakespeare 7, Selected and Introduced by Alan Sillitoe, 1979, original contrasting green cloth, glassine wrapper, 8vo, limited signed edition of 50, together with other poetry by Alan Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight, including signed limited editions in wrappers, including Ruth Fainlight’s A Forecast, A Fable, 1958, her first published poems, an a 1 pp. autograph letter from Fainlight to a publisher, dated 1961 (35)

£200-300

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303 Finnemore (John). Three School Chums, 1st edition, [1907], six b & w illustrations (one a loose photocopy), scattered spotting, previous owner inscription, original green pictorial cloth, joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, together with six others by Finnemore, including Teddy Lester in the Fifth, two early Chambers reprints (one in facsimile d.j.), another copy of Three School Chums, early reprint c. 1924, Teddy Lester’s Chums, Teddy Lester’s Schooldays & Teddy Lester in the Fifth, 1949 Latimer House reprint eds (7)

£70-100

304 Fleming (Ian). From Russia With Love, 1st edition, 1957, light marginal waterstain and a few spots, original black cloth, small bookseller ticket, upper cover with gun design blocked in silver and red, professionally restored d.j., one or two light marks to rear panel, 8vo (1)

£400-600

305 Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1st edition, 1961, one or two light spots, previous owner signature to front endpaper, original cloth, d.j., short tear along one fold, 8vo (1)

£150-200

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306 Fleming (Ian). On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965, 1st editions, scattered light spotting, original cloth, d.j.s, a few spots to You Only Live Twice spine, 8vo (3)

£150-200

307 Fleming (Ian). You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man With the Golden Gun, 1965; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966, 1st editions, original cloth, d.j.s, Octopussy price-clipped, Golden Gun with two ring stains and a few to front panel, 8vo, plus On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1st edition, 1963 (d.j. covered with clear tape) (4)

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£100-150

308 Freeman (R. Austin). John Thorndyke’s Cases, Related by Christopher Jervis, edition R. Austin Freeman, 1st edition, 1909, b & w illustrations by H.M. Brock, 32 pp., publishers list at end, a few foredges with insect damage, original brown pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight lean, 8vo, together with The Penrose Mystery, 1st US edition, 1936, original cloth (a little faded at ends), d.j., losses at spine ends, tears and repairs, 8vo, plus The Great Portrait Mystery, 1st edition, [1918], some toning and light spotting, original blue cloth, short tears to spine ends, rubbed with some stains, 8vo, with others

by R. Austin Freeman including The Puzzle Lock, 1st US edition, 1926, Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke, 1931 and When Rogues Fall Out, 1932 (26)

£150-200

310 Gardner (John). Goldeneye, 1st edition, 1996, light marginal toning (as usual), original boards, d.j., price-sticker to upper panel, 8vo A fine copy of one of the more scarce Bond titles.

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309 Furniss (Harold, editor). Famous Crimes, Past and Present, Police Budget Edition, Nos. 1-63, c.1890s, sixty issues, all with illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, some browning, fraying, and tears (No. 36 with significant loss), slim small folio A large and unbroken run of an extremely rare periodical, each issue with a striking - and often gory - cover, in which issues 15-18 give an early account of the crimes of Jack the Ripper.

(60) £300-500

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£400-600

Lot 311 311 Gardner (Erle Stanley). The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom, 1949; The Case of the Restless Redhead, 1954; The Case of the Nervous Accomplice, 1955; The Case of the Lucky Loser, 1957; The Case of the Daring Divorcee, 1964, pub. William Morrow, 1st US editions, labels and adhesion marks to endpapers of Dubious Bridegroom, previous owner signature to Restless Redhead, original cloth, d.j.s, Lucky Loser price-clipped, a few chips, Dubious with sellotape repair, 8vo, together with 22 other Perry Mason Mysteries, 1st UK editions, including The Case of the Careless Kitten, 1944, The Case of the Buried Clock, 1945, The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito, 1946, The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse, 1948, The Case of the Borrowed Brunette, 1951, The Case of the One-Eyed Witness, 1956, The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink, 1958, The Case of the Grinning Gorilla, 1958, The Case of the Angry Mourner, 1958, The Case of the Hesitant Hostess, 1959, The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister, 1959, The Case of the Fugitive Nurse, 1959, all in d.j.s (a few early titles a little rubbed and chipped), plus Grosset & Dunlap reprints of the Case of the Velvet Claws and The Case of the Sulky Girl etc (40)

314 Greene (Graham). Nineteen Stories, 1947; The Heart of the Matter, 1948; The Third Man and the Fallen Idol, 1950; The End of the Affair, 1951; Loser Takes it All, 1955; The Quiet American, 1955, 1st editions, one or two spots, presentation inscription to Third Man, original cloth, d.j.s, Heart spine faded, a few chips, tears and repairs, 8vo (6)

315 Greene (Graham). The Potting Shed, 1st edition, 1958, previous owner signature, original cloth, spine a little faded, d.j., a few small nicks and creases, 8vo, together with Our Man in Havana, 1st edition, 1958, slight marginal toning, original blue cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened with closed tears and nicks, 8vo, plus The Spy’s Bedside Book, 1st edition, 1957, one or two light spots, original cloth, priceclipped d.j., some fading to spine, 8vo, with others by Graham Greene including The Living Room, 1st US edition, 1954, May We Borrow Your Husband?, 1967 and Travels With My Aunt, 1969 (33)

316 Gunn (Thom). The Fantasy Poets Number Sixteen, 1st edition, Fantasy Press, 1953, original wrapper, 8vo, approximately 300 copies printed, the poet’s first collection, together with Fighting Terms, 1st edition, 1st issue, Fantasy Press, 1954, with final letter ‘t’ missing from ‘thought’, first line on p.38, original yellow cloth (light marginal waterstain), 8vo, Gunn’s second book, plus The Sense of Movement, 1st edition, 1957, original cloth, d.j. with Poetry Book Society wraparound band, 8vo, with others by Thom Gunn including Sunlight, Albondocani Press, New York, 1969, limited signed edition, 34/150, Undesirables, Pig Press, Durham, 1988, signed, Selected Poems 1950-1975, 1st paperback edition, 1979, signed, The Man With Night Sweats, 1992, signed, and 1st editions of My Sad Captains, 1961, Positives (with Ander Gunn), 1966, Touch, 1967, Moly, 1971, To the Air, 1974 and Jack Straw’s Castle, 1976

£150-200

313 Greene (Graham). The Lawless Roads. A Mexican Journey, 1st edition, 1939, half-tone illustrations, map endpapers, original red cloth, spine darkened with small nicks at end, together with Stamboul Train, 1st edition, 2nd issue, 1932, a few minor spots, original black cloth, a few stains, 8vo, plus The Confidential Agent, 1st edition, 1939, scattered spotting, original blue cloth, spine rubbed and faded, a few stains, 8vo, with four others by Graham Greene including The Basement Room and Other Stories, 2nd issue, 1935, England Made Me, 1935 (ex-libris) and A Gun For Sale, 2nd issue, 1936 (with renewed endpapers) (7)

£150-200

£300-400

312 Greene (Graham). Brighton Rock, 1st edition, 1938, some light spotting and toning, original red cloth, a few light stains, 8vo (1)

£150-200

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£200-300

317 Hardy (Thomas). A Pair of Blue Eyes, Wessex Novels, vol. IV, 1895, etched frontispiece, map, light toning, light spotting to endpapers, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, head of spine re-adhered, light stain to lower cover, later cloth solander box, morocco label, 8vo Presentation copy, inscribed to title: “Frederic Harrison, from Thomas Hardy”.

Frederic Harrison (1831-1923) was a British historian and friend of Thomas Hardy. Hardy was influenced by aspects of Comtean Positivism, initially promoted by Harrison, especially in his more altruistic characters, contrasting with his overiding ‘tragic vision’.

(1) £200-300

318 Hardy (Thomas). Jude the Obscure, 1st US edition, Harper, 1896, 12 b & w illustrations, a few light spots, original dark green cloth, upper cover with gilt emblem, 8vo, together with Tess of the D’Urbervilles, later US edition, Harper, c. 1893 (2)

£70-100

319 Heaney (Seamus). Door Into the Dark, 1st edition, Faber, 1969, one or two faint spots, original black cloth, d.j., spine darkened with small chip at head, 8vo (1)

£100-150

320 Hemingway (Ernest). A Farewell to Arms, 1st edition, 2nd issue, Charles Scribner’s, New York, 1929, disclaimer on p. x, scattered light spotting, original black cloth gilt, a few small wormholes mainly to upper joint, a few chips and tears, some toning and two small wormtracks to rear panel, 8vo

Lot 316

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£100-150

321 Hodgson (William Hope). The House on the Borderland. From the Manuscript, discovered in 1877 by Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, in the Ruins that lie to the South of the Village of Kraighten, in the West of Ireland. Set out here, with Notes, 1st edition, Chapman and Hall, 1908, half title, 300 pp., 4 pp. publishers list at end, scattered light spotting, light toning to endpapers, hinges a little tender, original red cloth, spine lightly faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo Spectrum of Fantasy, p.114: “Weird novel of an ancient house in Ireland besieged by strange creatures, a spirit voyage to a planet around another star and an apocalyptic vision of the future which includes the concept of a huge, central intelligent sun round which the cosmos revolves.” An early science fiction classic.

(1) £700-1000

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324 James (P.D.). An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972; The Black Tower, 1975; Death of an Expert Witness, 1977, 1st editions, original cloth, d.j.s, Death price-clipped (but with replacement price-sticker), Unsuitable with loose colour postcard signed by the author, the other two signed by the author to titles, Death dated 1 March 1987

322 Hopkins (Bill). The Divine and the Decay, 1st edition, 1957, original cloth, d.j., spine slightly faded and a little rubbed with tiny nicks at ends, one or two light marks, 8vo, inscribed by the author to Stuart [Holroyd]: “To Stuart, a writer and contemporary whom I’m proud to call a close ally and a dear friend. Whatever he undertakes, whether in philosophy, the theatre or the novel, I’m confident he will accomplish consummately..., November 1957”, together with another copy of the same book, pencil inscribed to an artist friend Zsuzsi and a reissue of the same work, retitled ‘The Leap’, 1984, also inscribed by the author

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£200-300

Bill Hopkins (1928-2011) was one of the Angry Young Men group of authors, and this controversial novel was withdrawn and pulped by the publisher on the grounds of its fascist overtones. The author shared a house in London in the 1950’s with fellow authors Stuart Holyroyd and Colin Wilson.

(3) £200-300

325 Johns (Captain W.E.). The Camels are Coming, pub. Hamilton, c. 1935, colour frontispiece, b & w illustrations, 15 titles listed, 38pp. catalogue at end dated Autumn 1935, a few light spots, original blue cloth, sundial device at foot of spine, a little faded, facsimile d.j., 8vo, with a loose publisher’s slip of an unknown book for review, dated 7 September 1932, together with “Biggles” of the Camel Squadron, c. 1936, colour frontispiece, four b & w plates, 35pp. catalogue at end dated Autumn 1936, a few light spots, original blue cloth, a little rubbed and faded, facsimile d.j., 8vo, plus Biggles Flies North, 1st edition, 1939, colour frontispiece, b & w illustrations, scattered spotting, original cloth, facsimile d.j., 8vo

323 Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1932, one or two small marginal spots, t.e.g., original yellow buckram, spine darkened with light stains, small chip to spine label, 8vo Limited edition, 27/324, signed by the author.

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£1000-1500

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£400-600

328 Kipling (Rudyard). Works, Bombay Edition, 31 vols. (complete), Macmillan, 1913-1938, spare spine labels tipped-in at end of each vol., a few scattered spots, some toning to half titles, vols. XXVIII & XXXI rear endpapers with insect damage, t.e.g., original cloth-backed boards, some stains, a few spine labels rubbed away, chipped and spotted, vols. XXVII-XXXI in d.j.s, some tears and dampstains, 8vo Limited edition of 1050 copies volumes I-XXV, 1000 copies volume XXVI and 500 copies volumes XXVII-XXXI. Volume I half title signed by the author.

(31) £500-800

326 Johns (Captain W.E.). Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea, 1st edition, Brockhampton Press, 1968, lacking front free endpaper, original burgundy cloth, d.j., 8vo (1)

£150-200

329 Larkin (Philip). The Whitsun Weddings, 1964; The North Ship, 1st Faber edition, 1966; High Windows, 1974, 1st editions, one or two spots, previous owner inscription to Whitsun front endpaper, original cloth, d.j.s, 8vo, together with Oxford Poetry 1942-1943, edition Ian Davie, Blackwell, Oxford, 1943 original wrapper, closed tear at foot of spine, 8vo (contains three poems by Larkin, his earliest appearance in print), plus others including Poetry from Oxford in Wartime, edition, William Bell, 1945, New Lines. An Anthology edition Robert Conquest, 1956, Listen, edition George Hartley, Spring 1958 & Spring 1960, All What Jazz. A Record Diary 1961-68, 1970, Collected Poems, 1988, Andrew Motion’s Philip Larkin. A Writer’s Life, 1993, other biography, selected letters, periodicals etc including several issues of About Larkin. Journal of the Philip Larkin Society, 1997-2012 (approx 75)

327 Johns (Captain W.E.). Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D, 1946; Biggles’ Second Case, 1948; Biggles Breaks the Silence, 1949; Biggles Gets his Men, 1950; Biggles Works it Out, 1951; Biggles Makes Ends Meet, 1957; Biggles Goes Home, 1960; Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy, 1961 (2 copies), 1st editions, colour and b & w illustrations, a few spots, one or two previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, a couple of covers and spines a little rubbed, d.j.s, a few price-clipped with small chips and tears, 8vo, together with Biggles Learns to Fly, 2009 (limited edition, 87/300), Worrals Down Under, 1948, Worrals in the Wastelands, 1949, Gimlet Mops Up, 1947, Gimlet’s Oriental Quest, 1948 and Gimlet Off the Map, 1951, 1st editions, and 15 other Biggles and Worrals reprints (30)

£200-300

330 Lawrence (T.E.). Revolt in the Desert, 1927, port. frontispiece, col. and b&w illusts., folding map at rear, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, original qtr. morocco gilt, rubbed and a little faded, 4to Limited Large Paper edition, 13/315.

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£200-300

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£300-400

334 Mansfield (Katherine). Prelude, 1st edition, Hogarth Press, [1918], some spotting, heaviest at front and rear, partly untrimmed, original dark blue wrappers with J.D. Fergusson’s line-block design in dark brown to upper and lower wrappers, wrappers chipped and soiled, preserved in near-contemporary cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

331 Lawrence (T.E.). Crusader Castles. The Letters, 1st US edition, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1937, 29 pp., preface by Mrs Lawrence, small stain to last leaf (showing through to rear wrapper), original buff printed wrapper, spine splitting with small chip at foot, staple rust, 8vo

Kirkpatrick A2, noting that approximately 300 copies were printed and ‘a few copies have a line-block by J.D. Fergusson printed in dark brown or black on the upper and lower wrappers.

(1) £300-400

O’Brien A191. One of 56 copies. Originally published the previous year in the UK, this very small US edition was produced to secure the American copyright.

(1) £500-800

335 McEwan (Ian). The Cement Garden, 1978; The Comfort of Strangers, 1981; Saturday, 2005; On Chesil Beach, 2007, 1st editions, original cloth, d.j.s, Cement Garden with a tiny closed tear at head of spine, 8vo, each signed by the author, Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers additionally signed by Paul Vaughan (1925-2014), journalist and radio presenter, with his bookplates

332 [Lawrence, T.E.]. City of Oxford High School For Boys.

Proceedings at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Lawrence of Arabia, 3 October 1936, 1st edition, J. Thornton, Oxford, 1937, half-tone frontispiece (marginal offsetting onto title), 23 pp., original buff printed wrapper, a little toned with edge creases, small 4to O’Brien E117.

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336 McEwan (Ian). On Chesil Beach, 1st edition, 2007, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 61/100 signed by the author, together with Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre, 1st UK edition, 2003, original boards, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, plus Waterland, by Graham Swift, 1st edition, 1983, bookplate, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by the author, and An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1986, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with other Booker Prize and shortlisted authors and titles, some signed, by Ali Smith, Aravind Adiga, John McGahern, Alice Munro, Monica Ali, Beryl Bainbridge, A.S. Byatt, David Lodge, Kiran Desai, Yann Martel, Zadie Smith et al

£100-150

333 Le Carre (John). Our Kind of Traitor, London Review Bookshop Limited Editions, 2010, original morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 49/75 signed by the author, together with Solar,

by Ian McEwan, 2010, original full black morocco, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 45/100 signed by the author, plus The Chemistry of Tears, by Peter Carey, 2012, original full grey morocco, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, xxx/xxx signed by the author, and Nothing to be Frightened of, by Julian Barnes, 2008, original red morocco-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 48/100 signed by the author (4)

£200-300

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£300-400

337 Naipaul (V.S.). The Mystic Masseur, 1st edition, 1957, original cloth, d.j., a little rubbed at spine ends, short closed tear, 8vo, the author’s first book, together with two others by Naipaul: The Middle Passage, 1962, and The Mimic Men, 1967

£200-300

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£150-200

338 O’Neill (Eugene). All God’s Chillun Got Wings, Desire under the Elms and Welded, 1925, original cloth in dust-soiled d.j., together with Conrad (Joseph), Laughing Anne and One Day More, with an Introduction by John Galsworthy, 1924, original cloth in d.j., a little dust soiled, darkened on spine, plus Eliot (T.S.), The Confidential Clerk, 1st edition, 1954, original cloth in d.j., a little spotted and browned on spine, plus Pinter (Harold), Old Times, 1st edition, 1971, original cloth in d.j. with two closed tears, all 8vo, plus other mostly first edition hardback plays, playwrights include Christopher Fry, Laurence Houseman, J.M. Barrie, John Masefield, Eugene O’Neill, etc.

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341 Pratchett (Terry). A collection of all the ‘Discworld’ novels, 1st editions, 1983-2010, comprising: The Colour of Magic, 1983 (ink number stamped to title, a few lower corners with insect damage, endpapers replaced), The Light Fantastic, 1986, Equal Rites, 1987, Mort, 1987, Sourcery, 1988 (with bookplate), Wyrd Sisters, 1988, Pyramids, 1989, Guards! Guards!, 1989, Eric, 1990, Moving Pictures, 1990, Reaper Man, 1991, Witches Abroad, 1991, Small Gods, 1992 (inscribed by the author) and 22 others in the series from Lords and Ladies, 1992 to I Shall Wear Midnight, 2010 (Thief of Time, 2001 & Wintersmith, 2006 both 4th impressions), original cloth (The Colour of Magic edges rubbed), d.j.s, Colour of Magic with reviews to front flap (spine a little faded, edges rubbed with a few light creases), together with The Dark Side of the Sun, 1st edition, 1976 and Strata, 1st edition, 1981 (with previous owner sticker to front endpaper), Carpet People, revised edition, 1992, inscribed by the author, Truckers, 1989, Diggers, 1990, Wings, 1990, Only You Can Save Mankind, 1992 and Johnny and the Dead, 1993, all 1st editions signed or inscribed by the author, The Unadulterated Cat (illustrated

by Ray Jolliffe), 1989, others illustrated by Paul Kidd, Graham Higgins, Paul Kidby, Steven Ross and Josh Kirby, The Amazing Maurice, 2001, The Wee Free Men, 2003, Discworld Calendar and Invaluable Facts box, Collector’s Edition for 1999 (unopened), Discworld Diaries for 1999 and 2000, and others related, one or two duplicates

£100-150

339 Poem of the Month Club. A part set of thirty-four broadside printed poems, published by Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1970-77, including Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, Stevie Smith, C. Day Lewis, Roy Fuller, Stephen Spender, Peter Porter, W. H. Auden, George Barker, Thom Gunn, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Ruthben Todd, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and others, each signed by the respective poet, sheet size 38 x 28.5cm (15 x 11ins), with a number of printed order forms and biographical notices relating to the series, loose without the original publisher’s portfolios (33)

£250-350

340 Pound (Ezra). Ta Hio, The Great Learning of Confucious, Newly rendered into the American Language by Ezra Pound (New Directions Pamphlet No. 4), 1st edition, Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1939, signed presentation inscription on titlepage from Ezra Pound to Norman di Giovanni, dated 1952, original yellow card wrappers in slightly faded d.j., slim 8vo (1)

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£400-600

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£2000-3000

342 Pratchett (Terry). A collection of 47 mostly ‘Discworld’ novels, 1st editions, 1983-2011, comprising The Colour of Magic, 1st US edition, 1983, Mort, 1987, Sourcery, 1988, Wyrd Sisters, 1988, Pyramids, 1989, Guards! Guards!, 1989, Moving Pictures, 1990, Reaper Man, 1991, Witches Abroad, 1991, Small Gods, 1992, Lords and Ladies, 1992, plus 22 others in the series, from Men at Arms, 1993 to Snuff, 2011 (Night Watch 2nd impression, Wintersmith 10th impression), original cloth, d.j.s (Colour of Magic edges a little rubbed and creased with short closed tears), together with Carpet People, 1992 revised edition, Truckers, 1989 (inscribed by the author), Diggers, 1990, Wings, 1990, The Unadulterated Cat, 1989 and a few others

344 Ransome (Arthur). Missee Lee, 1st edition, 1941, b & w illustrations, previous owner signature, map endpapers, original green cloth, one or two small bumps, d.j., spine a trifle faded and rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with Great Northern?, 1st edition, 1947, illustrations, previous owner inscription, map endpapers, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., 8vo, plus a reprint set of all the other ‘Swallows and Amazons’ titles, 1940’s-60’s in d.j.s, plus Arthur Ransome’s Coots in the North & Other Stories, 1988 and other books illustrated by Jill Barklem etc

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345 Richards (Frank). A complete set of all 38 ‘Billy Bunter’ books, 1st editions, 1949-1965, Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School, 10 thousand, & Billy Bunter’s Banknote, 11 thousand, colour frontispiece to each by R.J. Macdonald, a few light spots, several with presentation or previous owner inscriptions, a couple of endpapers with sellotape marks, original cloth, one or two spines a little faded at ends, d.j.s, Banknote chipped and laid down, Bunter the Bad Lad, Just Like Bunter & Thanks to Bunter price-clipped (Thanks to Bunter with sellotape repairs, a few others with darkened spines, chips tears and stains, together with Bessie Bunter of Cliff House School, written as ‘Hilda Richards’, 1st edition, 1949 (in chipped d.j.)

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£200-300

343 Rankin (Ian). Hide & Seek, 1st edition, 1991, some light marginal toning (as often), original red cloth, d.j., 8vo, together with a good copy of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1969 (2)

£100-150

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£150-200

£600-800

346 Rowling (J.K.). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1st edition, 1998, previous owner signature to front pastedown, original boards, d.j., some slight fading, 8vo (1)

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£150-200

347* Rushdie (Salman, 1947-). Typed letter signed, ‘Salman Rushdie’, 3rd March 1982, to Patricia and John Stroud, thanking them for their ‘extremely kind and generous letter about my “Midnight’s Children”. It’s a great pleasure to know that the book is being so knowledgeably read. And as for Mrs Fernandes turning out to be a man, and even bald - I wished I’d known that before I was interviewed by the BBC and told them that Mrs F. was a little old lady!’, one page, 8vo ‘Midnight’s Children’ was Rushdie’s second novel and won the Booker Prize in 1981. Rushdie explains the context of this letter in ‘Conversations with Salman Rushdie’ edited by Michael R. Reder (University Press of Mississippi, 2000). In the first ‘Contemporary Author’s Interview’ by Jean W. Ross Rushdie answers a question about mail from readers and explains that this was the funniest letter he had got in terms of the letter’s implications.

Referring to the bits in the book about the pickle factory, he explains that they were based on a memory from his childhood of a pickle factory called Fern’s Pickles. These labels stated that the pickles were made from the original recipes of Mrs N. Fernandes, who became a kind of myth figure for Rushdie.

‘I imagined this little old lady sitting in a corner making these wonderful pickles and sending her recipes to the factory and getting rich and famous. I suppose what happens to Mary Pereira in the book is an expression of that fantasy of mine. I was interviewed here on television about the book, and I told them that as far as I knew, Mrs Fernandes was this little old lady who had sold her formulas to the pickle factory’ (p. 5). Rushdie explains that the day after the programme was aired he got a letter from an English lady who had spent most of her youth in India and that one day she and her husband had visited the factory and discovered that Mrs Fernandes was a very fat, bald old man. ‘I was furious. I wished the letter had arrived two days earlier; then I wouldn’t have made a fool of myself on television’ (p. 5).

(1) £150-200

348 Scott (Paul). Johnnie Sahib, 1st edition, 1952, manuscript numbers to rear endpaper, original cloth (one or two tiny bumps), d.j., edges a little rubbed, light stains to rear panel, 8vo, inscribed by the author to his wife’s aunt, Maud Waterhouse, together with The Alien Sky, 1st edition, 1953, a few light spots, original cloth, d.j., some chips and tears, 8vo, inscribed by the author to his wife’s cousin Rene and her husband Alfred, with a loose folded 1 pp. typed letter from Hilary Spurling to Mrs Hayes asking her for her impressions of Paul Scott, plus A Male Child, 1st edition, 1956, original cloth, small bumps, d.j., small chips and tears, 8vo, inscribed by the author to Rene and Alfred Hayes, with The Jewel in the Crown, 1st edition, 1966, light toning front and rear, original cloth, small hole to upper joint, small dent to lower cover, d.j., a few chips and tears, rear flap with small abrasions affecting text, 8vo, inscribed

by Scott’s wife Nancy to Rene Hayes, with a loose 3 pp. autograph letter from the author to Rene Hayes, dated 9 May 1975, discussing the publication of a book, reviews in newspapers and his appearance on the Kaleidoscope programme (short tears and old fold marks), together with After the Funeral, Whittington Press, 1979, limited edition 5/200 signed by Sally Scott (Paul’s daughter) and Roland Gant, additionally inscribed by Sally Scott to her mother’s sister Mollie (5)

£700-1000

349 Scott (Paul). The Jewel in the Crown, 1966; The Day of the Scorpion, 1968; The Towers of Silence, 1971; A Division of the Spoils, 1975, all first proof copies of ‘The Raj Quartet’, a few spots, original wrappers, one or two small chips and stains, 8vo, with a loose 1 pp. typed letter from Paul Scott to Harry Keating, dated 1 May 1975, thanking him for his review of A Division of the Spoils in Country Life, light spot and old folds (the letter mentioned in Hilary Spurling’s biography Paul Scott, a Life p.369) (4)

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£200-300

350 Shaw (Bernard). Saint Joan, 1st edition, Constable, 1924, sixteen tipped-in colour and b & w plates, some minor cornercreasing, original linen-backed boards with paper spine label, slightly rubbed and toned to extremities, in soiled and defective dustjacket, folio, together with two printed programmes for a performance of Saint Joan at the Regent Theatre, King’s Cross Signed on the half-title by nineteen members of the cast, including Sybil Thorndike in the title role (Shaw had written the play with her in mind), Ernest Thesiger and Raymond Massey.

(1) £200-300

Lot 352

351 Sillitoe (Alan). Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, 1958; The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner, 1959; The General, 1960; The Key to the Door, 1961; The Ragman’s Daughter, 1963; Road to Volgograd, 1964; The Death of William Posters, 1965; A Tree on Fire, 1967, 1st editions, The General signed by the author, a few minor spots, original cloth, d.j.s, Saturday Night with loss at spine head, a few small ships and stains, 8vo, together with other novels, plays, children’s and travel books by Alan Sillitoe, all 1st editions, including a first US edition of Guzman Go Home, a duplicate of The Second Chance, signed by the author, The Flame of Life inscribed to Kevin McCourt, The City Adventures of Marmalade Jim a presentation copy with a loose letter from Ruth Sillitoe (i.e. Ruth Fainlight), one or two others also inscribed (50)

353* [Sillitoe, Alan]. An original dust-jacket design by Val Biro for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1958, original pen, ink and watercolour on paper, signed ‘Biro’ lower right, together with an accompanying letter from Jeffrey Simmons at W.H. Allen & Co., the publisher of the book, rejecting the design and suggesting he submits another. The book was published with a jacket designed by Mona Moore Balint Stephen ‘Val’ Biro (1921-2014) was born in Budapest and studied at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts and was a prolific book jacket illustrator.

(1) £150-200

£300-400

354 Simenon (Georges). M. Gallet Decede, 1st edition, 1st issue, Paris, 1921, together with Une Crime en Hollande, 1st edition, Paris, 1931, both with some paper toning, original printed b&w wrappers, first volume a little rubbed and chipped at extremities, the second volume slightly worse and spine cocked, 8vo

352 Sillitoe (Alan). Without Beer or Bread, 1st edition, Outposts Publications, Dulwich Village, 1957, 12 pp., p.9 with manuscript correction (probably by the author), original cream printed wrapper, a few minor spots, 8vo

The first book named was the first Maigret book ever published, and the first publication by Simenon under his onw name. This is the first printing with black outline letters within blocked white lettering to upper covering, the second book, according to the author, has artwork by Man Ray. (2) £200-300

Inscribed “Best wishes, Alan Sillitoe”. Scarce first poetry book by Alan Sillitoe, his first publication, preceeded only by his 1955 translation of Luis Ripoll’s Chopin’s Winter in Majorca 1833-1839.

(1) £150-200

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355 Simenon (Georges). Maigret a New-York/La Pipe de Maigret/Maigret et l’Inspectur Malchanceux/Maigret et son Mort, all 1st editions, Paris: Presses de la Cite, 1947-48, some paper toning, all original printed card wrappers in colour pictorial d.j.s, a little rubbed and chipped at extremities, together with three later none-Maigret first French editions (Les Volets Verts/La Vieille/Les Autres, 1950-62), all original cloth in d.j.s, slightly rubbed and soiled, all 8vo, plus one related

360 Simenon (Georges). Pedigree, 1st UK edition, 1962, together with The Glass Cage, 1st UK edition, 1973, plus The Bottom of the Bottle, 1st UK ed., 1977, plus other books by and about Simenon, a total of approximately forty books in original cloth, (mostly with d.j.s, and VG), plus approximately sixty Penguin and similar paperbacks, all 8vo

(8)

361 Smith (Dodie). I Capture the Castle, 1st edition, 1949, b & w illustrations by Ruth Steed, top edge stained red, original blue cloth, spine a little faded, small chips, lower joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo

(approximately 100)

£150-200

356 Simenon (Georges). The Patience of Maigret/Maigret Abroad, both 1st US editions, New York, 1940, original cloth in d.j.s, a little rubbed and soiled, together with Tidal Wave, 1st US edition, New York, 1954, original cloth in d.j., spine a little darkened and nicked at head and foot, plus thirteen other Simenon novels, all US printings, many later editions, original cloth and all but one in d.j.s, mixed condition (16)

(1)

£100-150

£100-150

£150-200

357 Simenon (Georges). Maigret Abroad/Escape in Vain/The Shadow Falls/Lost Moorings/Magnet of Doom, all 1st UK editions, Routledge, 1940-48, all original cloth and all but first and fourth in d.j.s, plus thirteen further first UK editions of Simenon novels (including Maigret On Holiday), all published R.K.P., 1949-54, original cloth in d.j.s, a little occasional rubbing and soiling but generally VG, all 8vo (18)

£300-500

358 Simenon (Georges). My Friend Maigret/Maigret and the Burglar’s Wife/Maigret Goes to School/Maigret’s Little Joke/Maigret’s First Case/Maigret Has Scruples/Maigret and the Reluctant Witness, all 1st UK editions, 1956-60, together with other mostly first UK edition Maigret novels published by Hamish Hamilton, mostly c. 1960s/1970s, all original cloth in d.j.s, occasional rubbing, but mostly VG or better, 8vo (48)

362 Stevenson (Robert Louis). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1886, half title (with titles listed to verso), title (with neat previous owner inscription of Ursula FitzSimon, 2 Dec. 1911 at head), single leaf advert at end, stitches weak (one broken but others holding), original wrapper printed in red and blue, lacking most of spine, light dampstain, 8vo

£300-500

Scarce first issue, with the date hand-corrected in ink to the upper wrapper.

Originally scheduled to be published in December 1885, the publisher, concerned the book would be overlooked amongst a glut of Christmas offerings, postponed its release to the following January. The wrapper was already printed, and the printed date was changed by hand from 1885 to 1886.

(1) £1000-1500

359 Simenon (Georges). Danger Ahead/The Judge and the Hatter/The Little Man from Archangel/Inquest on Bouvet/The Son/The Negro/Striptease, all first UK editions, 1955-59, together with other non-Maigret UK first editions by Simenon, all published Hamish Hamilton, mostly 1960s, all original cloth in d.j.s, some occasional rubbing and a few with splits and chips to extremities, but mostly VG, 8vo (35)

363 Thomas (Dylan). Under Milk Wood, advance proof copy, Dent, 1954, original wrapper, ‘Advance Proofs Only’ stamped to upper wrapper, light edge wear, 8vo

£200-300

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£70-100

Lot 364

364 Tolkien (J.R.R.). Tree and Leaf, 1st edition, 1964, original wrappers, a little spotted and toned, 8vo Hammond A7a. Signed by the author to preliminary leaf. Simultaneously published with the hardback edition.

(1)

106

ÂŁ1500-2000

Lot 366

Lot 368

365 Waugh (Evelyn). Men at Arms, 1952; Officers and Gentlemen, 1955; Unconditional Surrender, 1961, 1st editions, presentation inscription to Officers, original cloth, d.j.s, Men at Arms spine a little faded with small nicks, Officers price-clipped with repairs and light stains to verso, Unconditional spine a trifle faded, 8vo, together with four others by Waugh: Scoop, 1938 (2nd issue), Put Out More Flags, 1st US edition, 1942, Love Among the Ruins, 1953 and The Ordeal of Gilbert, 1957 (7)

370 Williams (Gordon M.). The Last Day of Lincoln Charles, 1965; The Camp, 1966; The Man Who Had Power Over Women, 1967; The Seige of Trencher’s Farm, 1969; Walk Don’t Walk, 1972; Big Morning Blues, 1974, 1st editions, one or two spots, original cloth, Man Who Had Power spine faded, d.j.s, a few small chips and tears, 8vo, together with an inscribed proof copy of The Last Day of Lincoln Charles, 1965 The Camp, Walk Don’t Walk and Big Morning Blues inscribed by the author.

The film Straw Dogs was based on The Seige of Trencher’s Farm.

(7) £150-200

£200-300

366 Waugh (Evelyn). Black Mischief, 1st edition, 1932, map frontispiece, small abrasion to front pastedown, original cloth, d.j., spine a little darkened with small chips at ends, repairs to verso, 8vo (1)

371 Wodehouse (P.G.). Something Fresh, 1st edition, 1915, half title, some light toning, bound without publishers list, upper cover and spine bound-in at end, t.e.g., recent full green morocco, spine with raised bands and lettered and decorated in gilt, 8vo

£200-300

McIlvaine A18b. The scarce first title in the ‘Blandings’ series.

(1)

367 Waugh (Evelyn). A Tourist in Africa, 1st edition, 1960, half-tone illustrations, original blue cloth, d.j., some slight toning to rear panel, 8vo, together with Black Mischief, 1st edition, 1932 and Scoop, 1st edition, 2nd issue, 1938 (both without d.j.s) (3)

Lot 371

£500-800

372 Zangwill (Israel). Children of the Ghetto, 3 vols., 1st edition, 1892, half titles, one leaf detached in vol. I, some spotting and closed tears, original red cloth, upper covers with Mudie’s Select Library labels to upper covers, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo

£70-100

368 Wheeler (Terence). The Conjunction, 1969; From Home in Heaven, 1971; The Wreck of the Rat Trap, 1973, 1st editions, original cloth, d.j.s, The Conjunction spine faded and rubbed at ends and folds, 8vo

Influential novel by Anglo-Jewish writer Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), about Jewish life in the slums of London’s East End. (3) £100-150

From Home in Heaven and The Wreck of the Rat Trap inscribed by the author.

The Conjunction was the 1970 Booker Prize runner-up.

(3) £300-400

369 Wilde (Oscar). The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Presented by Mr George Alexander, 1910, light marginal toning, t.e.g., original green cloth gilt, spine a little darkened, 8vo One of 1200 copies for George Alexander as a souvenir of the twentieth year of his management of the St. James’s Theatre.

(1) £80-120

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Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS Libraries & Archives Nathan Winter & Chris Albury Paintings & Prints Nathan Winter

A photograph of a Japanese lady in full dress, circa 1870,

by Pyor Floyd, from a rare album of Chinese photographs and watercolours of the 1860s and 1870s. Sold in these rooms 9 October 2014 for ÂŁ48,000.

Antiques & Furniture Henry Meadows Medals & Militaria Henry Meadows Aviation & Transport Collections Chris Albury & Henry Meadows Atlases, Maps & Prints John Trevers Antiquarian Books Colin Meays Modern First Editions Paul Rasti Children's Books, Toys & Games Susanna Winters Sports Books & Memorabilia Paul Rasti Taxidermy, Fossils & Field Sports John Trevers Vintage Photography & Cinema Chris Albury Manuscripts, Autographs & Ephemera Chris Albury For free valuations without obligation, please contact any of the above specialists for further advice.

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12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.

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