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1 Peter Harrington london Christmas 2017

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4 2 1 ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster. With the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul s, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ s Hospital. London: R. Ackermann, 1816 Large quarto ( mm). Mid 20th-century straightgrain red morocco by Bayntun, flat bands gilt to spine, title gilt to second compartment, two-line frames and fan cornerpieces gilt to remaining compartments, concentric fillets gilt to sides enclosing a broad hop and vine-leaf roll and an inner dotted roll gilt, large cornerpieces built up from fan and floral tools, gilt edges, broad foliate roll gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bound brown silk page-markers. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase. 44 aquatints after Gendall, Mackenzie, Pugin, and Westall, and 4 line-engravings of costume after Uwin, all handcoloured, watermarked Joints very lightly rubbed in sections, a few faint, almost imperceptible scores to front board, small spot to margin of frontispiece, tissue guard creased, mild foxing to title page, more heavily to binder s blanks, occasional, very light offsetting, small spray of pale mottling to plate 24, tiny fore-edge nick to plate 25, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks. An excellent copy with generous margins. first edition, second issue as usual, plate 26, Charter House from the Playground, with cricketers instead of washerwomen, and plates 5 and 23, Winchester College, from the Meadow and Westminster School Room, both in the preferred first state. With a copy of the very rare first issue, second state of the Charter House plate laid in, retaining the washerwomen, the title erased. (Tooley considered the first issue, first state, with the washerwomen and the original title, Charter House School..., to be extraordinarily rare ; he had only ever seen one copy.) Abbey, Scenery 438; Hardie pp. 106 & 311; Tooley 3. 3,000 [118891] 2 ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publ.) A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes... illustrated with forty-eight coloured views drawn during a two year residence among the Lakes. London: R. Ackermann, Large quarto ( mm). Recent blue crushed morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), raised bands to spine, compartments richly gilt with floral sprays, second and fourth lettered in gilt, rolled floral border gilt to covers within twin gilt fillets either side, beaded role gilt to board-edges, broad turn-ins gilt with floral and fillet rolls, top edge gilt, other untrimmed, marbled endpapers. 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates, similar vignette to the title page. Light foxing to preface and contents leaves, otherwise a few trivial spots or marks, faint crease across upper outer corners from half-title to sig. C2, the images never affected. An excellent copy with bright and attractive plates. first edition, possibly one of 100 large-paper copies (similar to Abbey s copy measuring 14 by 11 inches) from a total print-run of 850, originally issued in 12 monthly parts; all watermarks pre-publication (the plates 1818 and 1820, the text 1818). Abbey, Scenery 192; Hardie pp ; Tooley 219; Prideaux ,250 [115759] 3 ADAMS, Richard. Watership Down. Illustrated by John Lawrence. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books & Kestrel Books, 1976 Large octavo. Original dark green crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands forming compartments to spine, titles direct to second and third in gilt, 2 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

5 3 5 fleurons to first and fifth and rabbit motifs to fourth and sixth in gilt, rabbit vignette to front board in gilt, edges and turn-ins gilt, green and yellow endbands, marbled endpapers. In the marbled slipcase as issued. Original watercolour by the artist to the first blank, colour frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text in colour and black and white, folding colour map tipped-in at rear. Spine very slightly faded; an excellent copy. first illustrated edition, limited issue, this copy with a fine original watercolour by the illustrator, initialled by him in the bottom right-hand corner of the first blank, and with his full signature on the frontispiece (uncalled for in the limitation). Number 183 of 250 specially bound copies. This extremely popular animal story was initially turned down by all major publishing houses. When finally issued by Rex Collings in 1972, sales exceeded 100,000 in the first year and Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children s fiction. 3,750 [120651] 4 APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. The Argonautic Expedition. Translated from the Greek into English verse... London: printed for Thomas Payne and Son, vols. bound as 1, octavo ( mm). Late 19thcentury green half morocco, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. 18th-century ownership inscription partially erased from front blank. Pencil shelf-marks and bookplate of Henry S. Deming, over an ink inscription, to front free endpaper verso. Slight rubbing to extremities, minor wear to tips, spine lightly faded, occasional faint foxing. A very good copy. first edition, one of the first two english translations of the argonautica. The editio princeps was published in Florence in This translation by E. B. Greene (d. 1788), and a translation by Francis Fawkes were published in the same year, prompting the Gentleman s Magazine to note, It cannot rain but it pours, after a long death of translations of this admired Egyptian, two now appear at once (vol. 50, p. 384). Greene demonstrates a lively interest in the processes of translation, an interest which is reflected in the wide range of verse forms he employs, adapting his style to suit different authors (ODNB). This edition, although reasonably wellheld institutionally, is uncommon in commerce. Harris, The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics, p. 11; Lowndes, vol. II, pt. II, p ,250 [120913] 5 (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) BURTON, Richard F. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments... Benares [London]: printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only, vols., octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary green crushed half morocco by Stikeman, green marbled paper sides, titles and decorations gilt to spines in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, red silk page marker laid in. Title pages printed in red and black. Extraillustrated with frontispieces and 90 plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Binder s stamps to front free endpaper versos. Spines uniformly toned; an excellent set. first edition, the authentic benares edition, issued in a limited subscription of 1,000 copies. The book was not in fact published in Benares and the Kamashastra Society was a cover for Burton and his friend Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot. Burton s celebrated translation has become the preeminent English translation of the Middle Eastern classic. It is the keystone of Burton s literary reputation (ODNB). Though this edition was not illustrated, this set is extra-illustrated with plates commissioned by the publishers of the several reprints that appeared in the succeeding decades. Casada 74; Penzer pp ,500 [120211] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 3

6 7 6 ARDIZZONE, Edward. Original illustrations and layouts for Paul, the Hero of the Fire; together with a copy of both the 1948 and 1962 editions. London: Constable & Company Limited, [1962] Pen and ink vignette title (measuring mm), 20 pen and ink illustrations, 13 pen and ink and watercolour illustrations (3 double-page) by Ardizzone (each illustration signed EA ), on 15 sheets (measuring mm), numbered 1 30; accompanying letterpress cut and either taped or pasted in place. A few small colour splashes and some minor tape marks, general light signs of handling, a few marginal printer s annotations, one small section of letterpress lost from p. 3. In excellent condition. original mock-up for the 1962 edition, inscribed by the author-illustrator and presented to his godson, inscribed on the title page: To Edward Booth-Clibborn, from Edward Ardizzone, with love. This is one of Ardizzone s most delightful books, first published by Porpoise (a short-lived imprint of Penguin) in September and illustrated solely in colour. For the 1962 edition he added a number of pen-and-ink illustrations in his trademark black-and-white, reworked the colour pictures and transformed some colour work into black-and-white; Ardizzone described it in his dedication as a new version of an old story. This is a typically charming and beguiling work by one of the great British illustrators of the 20th century, showcasing Ardizzone s complete mastery of the drawn line (ODNB). 22,500 [116637] 7 AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. A novel. In three volumes. By the author of Pride and Prejudice. Second edition. London: printed for J. Murray, vols., duodecimo ( mm). Rebound to style in brown half calf, red morocco labels to spines, ruled and decorated in gilt in compartments, marbled paper sides, edges speckled brown. Top edges dust toned, very light foxing to text throughout; an excellent, bright set. second edition of Austen s third novel, first published by Egerton in May By November 1814 Austen wrote to a friend reporting that all 1,250 copies of the first edition had been sold, and that the question of a second edition had therefore been raised. However Austen is believed to have been dissatisfied with Egerton as a publisher, both in terms of the print quality of the first edition and in his abilities as a salesman (Gilson, p. 59). She therefore decided to change publisher for the second edition, sending a corrected copy of the work to John Murray in December The second edition contains a number of changes to the text, most noticeably in the technical details probably on advice from one of the sailor brothers (ibid.). Gilson A7. 5,000 [120264] 8 AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. London: Richard Bentley, 1833 [but 1832] Octavo. Original purple glazed linen boards, twin black spine labels lettered in gilt, green silk page marker. Engraved vignette title and frontispiece by William Greatbach after Ferdinand Pickering (tissue guards intact). Armorial bookplate of J. B. Gibson to front pastedown. With the 8 pp. publisher s ads, including advert for an edition Shakespeare to appear in January 1883 (not noted 4 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

7 by Gilson). Spine very slightly faded, a few marks to covers, odd faint spot to contents. An excellent copy. first bentley edition, in the first issue binding, the third edition, and the first English edition to be illustrated. Gilson D1. 3,000 [120843] 9 AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Richard Bentley, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary calf skilfully rebacked with original decorative gilt spines laid down (corners refurbished), dark green twin labels, sides with concentric blind and gilt tooled ornamental panels, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved vignette titles and frontispieces by William Greatbach after Ferdinand Pickering (tissue guards intact). Several vols. with a contemporary pencilled presentation inscription dated 1835 (signed with initials only). Some light abrasions and scratches to covers, customary touch of foxing to engravings, bound without the half-titles, final blanks in vol. I, and advertisement leaf at end of vol. III (almost certainly discarded by the binder). A very good set. first collected edition, in a most appealing contemporary binding. In Richard Bentley bought the copyright of Pride and Prejudice from the executors of Thomas Egerton and of the remaining novels from Henry and Cassandra Austen. Austen s novels had not been reissued since 1818 so these printings published in Bentley s Standard Novels series constitute early editions: Sense and Sensibility, third edition (pre-dating the first American by a few months); Pride and Prejudice, fourth edition; Mansfield Park, third edition; Emma, second edition (omitting the dedication to the Prince Regent included in the first edition); Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, second edition. These are also the first English editions to be illustrated. The Bentley illustrations, by the obscure Ferdinand Pickering, played an integral part in the reception of Austen s novels; according to one Austen scholar, they promoted a sense that her novels were best understood as familial, female focused, and sensational. For decades, these illustrations would have served to steer readers away from the conclusion that Austen s fiction ought to be understood as social, comic, or didactic (Davoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen, 2017, p. 20). Complete sets in such attractive contemporary bindings as these are decidedly uncommon. Gilson D1 5; Sadleir 3735a. 12,500 [120347] 10 AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1907 Octavo. Original vellum, elaborate decoration and titles in gilt to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette title page, and 22 colour plates by Brock. Front cover a little bowed, browning to endpapers, slight nicks to endpaper edges; an excellent copy. first colour illustrated brock edition, deluxe vellum issue. Brock had previously illustrated Pride and Prejudice without colour for Macmillan s series, for which Hugh Thomson illustrated the other five titles. A decade later J. M. Dent, realising Brock s potential as a colourist, commissioned him to redo the Pride and Prejudice suite and to create colour illustrations for the other five Austen titles. Brock s illustrations showed a sharp eye for characterisation and the ironic humour of Jane Austen s world. His drawings were well-researched; he and his brother collected antique furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists in their Cambridge studio. Gilson E114. 1,750 [121405] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 5

8 11 BAGEHOT, Walter. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873 Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine and boards lettered and ruled in gilt and black, dark green endpapers. Contemporary ownership inscription of American judge H. L. Richmond to half-title, a few annotations to contents and rear free endpaper recto. Spine ends and hinges professionally restored, corners a little worn, rear board creased, pastedown cracked but firm; a very good copy. first edition, scarce in commerce. Described by J. M. Keynes as an undying classic, Lombard Street analyses the operation of the British financial system, focusing on the economic role of the Bank of England. Bagehot s recommendation that the Bank alter gold reserves based on economic cycles was highly influential, and the book was considered authoritative into the 20th century. The wonderful clearness of Bagehot s power of statement, his exact knowledge of the subject treated on, together with his firm grasp of economic theory, have caused this volume to exert an influence which few books on a subject naturally so dry have possessed (Palgrave I, p. 81). See Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 5 7; Masui, p ,500 [118457] BAKST, Léon. The Designs for The Sleeping Princess. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Music by Tchaikovsky. Preface by André Levinson. London: Benn Brothers Limited, 1923 Folio. Original vellum-backed blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Mounted colour lithographs to title and list of illustrations, 54 similar plates with captioned tissue guards, lithographed portrait of Bakst after Picasso. Bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister to front pastedown. Head of spine lightly bumped, tips a little bumped and rubbed, front inner hinge sometime reinforced, faint tape-marks to mounts (from manufacture), tissue guard to Picasso plate slightly creased. A very good copy with bright plates. first edition in english, number 64 of 1,000 copies, of which 500 were for distribution in the USA; first published in French by Brunoff, Paris, Sergei Diaghilev s Ballet Russes production of Sleeping Beauty, for which Leon Bakst designed the costumes and set, was first staged in London in 1921 at the Alhambra Theatre, as The Sleeping Princess. Bakst s designs were a significant contribution to the modern art movement, as much as to theatre or costume design, and the expense of realising them nearly bankrupted Diaghilev. 2,250 [118924] 13 (BAKST, Léon.) Léon Bakst. 42 Tafeln und 6 Abbildungen mit einer Einleitung von Carl Einstein. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, [1927] Large quarto. Original japon-backed brown paper boards, gilt vignette to front, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 6 tipped-in lithographic illustrations in the text, 19 mounted lithographic colour plates, 23 pochoir plates of which 19 coloured, many heightened by hand in gold or silver, captioned tissue guards. Bookplate of Danish writer and filmmaker Axel Breidahl ( ). Small mark to backstrip, upper outer corners bumped, a few other small dents to extremities, faint staining to front board, remains an excellent copy, the plates bright and fresh. first edition, number 201 of 330 copies only. The plates include some of Bakst s most celebrated costumes and stage designs for the Ballets Russes, and a small number of separate sketches. The text is by Carl Einstein ( ), author of the important Expressionist novel Bebuquin (1912). 2,750 [118927] 14 BALLARD, J. G. Crash. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973 Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, light foxing to top edge; an excellent copy in the jacket with minor rubbing to extremities. first edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, To John, J. G. Ballard, together with an original signed watercolour drawing by the dust jacket illustrator Bill Botten on the front free endpaper. Crash was the first of the six dust jackets Botten designed for Ballard s works; the drawing echoes the design of the dust jacket spine panel. Pringle A114. 2,000 [120110] 13 6 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

9 BARRIE, J. M. Peter and Wendy. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1911 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, fore edge untrimmed, others trimmed. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard, pictorial title page, and 11 plates, all by Bedford. Spine gently rolled, very slight rubbing to extremities, top edge lightly dust toned; a very good copy in the jacket with expert restoration to head of spine, panels a little soiled, nicks to extremities, minor loss to fold of rear flap and to head of spine and rear panel, short closed tear to head of front panel. first u.s. edition, in the uncommon dust jacket, of the expanded adaptation into novel form of the story first made popular in the 1904 stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn t Grow Up. It tells the familiar story of the stage version, with Peter as an older child flying off with Wendy and the other Darling children to battle Captain Hook 14 and his pirates, but Barrie added a final chapter to the book in which Peter returns for Wendy years later, when she is grown with a child of her own. It was first published in the UK earlier the same year; the stage play was not published until ,500 [115977] 16 (BARTLETT, William H.) PARDOE, Julia. The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and its environs, from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett; [and:] BEATTIE, William. The Danube: Its History, Scenery, and Topography. Splendidly illustrated, from sketches taken on the spot, by Abresch, and drawn by W. H. Bartlett. London: George Virtue, [c.1854] 2 works in 1 vol., large quarto ( mm). Nearcontemporary red morocco for the Newcastle bookseller George Rutland, titles and decoration to spine gilt in compartments, ornamental frames to covers gilt, edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. With portrait frontispieces and engraved vignette title pages with tissue guards and 168 engraved plates. Binder s stamp to front pastedown. Minor rubbing to extremities, foxing to outer leaves; an excellent copy. omnibus edition of two works illustrated by w. h. bartlett: Pardoe s Beauties of the Bosphorus (an expanded edition, with an appendix and six additional plates) and Beattie s Danube. The additional plates in Pardoe s work depict sites connected with the Crimean War, and the omnibus volume was probably issued by Virtue to capitalise on renewed interest in the region. Both works were originally published serially: The Beauties of the Bosphorus in 1838; The Danube between 1842 and Bartlett spent most of the 1830s travelling across Europe, the Middle East and North America providing illustrations for a number of highly popular travel books, most of which were published by Virtue. The Bosphorus was published to capitalise on the great success of the author s City of the Sultan (1837) and to provide a text for Bartlett s engravings, which were among the earliest of his Eastern series to appear, and demonstrated his skill in architectural drawing, and... an ability to handle more open landscape work (Hunnisett, p. 114); five of the plates are in fact by John Cousen, including The Column of Theodosius, which well indicates the variations in tone he was able to achieve (ibid., p. 96). Atabey 922; Blackmer 1254; Hunnisett, Steel-Engraved Book Illustration in England. 1,450 [120001] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 7

10 BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1902 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front cover green and white, decoration to front cover, green, white and brown, pictorial endpapers. Housed in a red crushed morocco slipcase, green and black crushed morocco onlays. In a custom green cloth chemise. Colour title page, illustrated dedication and contents page, and 19 colour plates. Contemporary Christmas gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, an excellent copy. first edition, signed by the author on the title page. Uncommon signed, with only one other copy traced at auction. Baum is best known for his Oz books, in two of which Santa Claus features as a guest. 8,750 [117789] 18 BEARD, Peter. The End of the Game. The last word from paradise, a pictorial documentation of the origins, history & prospects of the big game in Africa. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988 Octavo. Original brown-green cloth, titles to front board and spine stamped in blind, brown patterned endpapers resembling elephant skin. With the original photographic dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Small ink splotches to front and back boards, likely from the inscription. Five original photographs to the front endpapers. An excellent copy in the very mildly rubbed jacket, with a small nick to head of spine. first edition thus, presentation copy, elaborately inscribed by Beard on the half-title, with original ink drawings and his hand-print, and ink splatters on the front free endpaper verso: Larry warmest Greetings and inestimable Salaama, your fan, Peter (Beard) Tues. July 25th Montauk Point This is Teddy Roosevelt Country! The recipient was Larry Wilson, a noted firearms author and close friend of Peter Beard, with whom he collaborated on six books on firearms. This edition is revised and updated from the book first published in ,500 [118608] 19 BEATON, Cecil. Cecil Beaton s Scrapbook. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1937 Octavo. Original japon, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt, white, pink, green and gilt blossom patterned endpapers. Title page printed red and black, text printed in blue and black on white and pink paper, 10 colour illustrations, numerous halftone photographic reproductions, black and white illustrations to text. Ownership inscription to halftitle. Library stamp to frontispiece recto and p. 69. Spine lightly toned, slight rubbing to extremities, light soiling to boards, light foxing to outer leaves; a very good copy. signed limited edition, one of 150 copies signed by the author. 3,750 [118364] 19 8 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

11 20, 21, BECKETT, Samuel. Ill Seen Ill Said. Translated from the French by the author. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982 Octavo. Original blue quarter calf, gilt lettered spine, marbled paper sides, untrimmed. Title page printed in blue and black, opening sentences printed in blue. An excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 226 of 299 copies signed by the author; originally published as Mal vu mal dit (1981) and in Beckett s English translation by Grove Press (1981). 1,000 [115939] 21 BECKETT, Samuel. Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Edited by Eoin O Brien and Edith Fournier. Foreword by Eoin O Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992 Octavo. Original blue watered silk, spine lettered black, publisher s device to the front board in blind, black marbled endpapers. With the green silk slipcase. Spine slightly faded; an excellent copy. first edition, limited issue. Copy D of 20 lettered copies, specially bound to mark the publication of the author s first novel; 130 numbered copies were also produced. It was written in Paris in 1932, though not published for 60 years. 975 [116618] 22 BECKETT, Samuel, & Georges Duthuit. Proust; [with:] Three Dialogues. London: John Calder, 1965 Octavo. Original white calf-backed green cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover, facsimile signature gilt to front cover, gilt edges. Housed in the green cloth slipcase. Spine lightly toned, minor rubbing to extremities; an excellent copy. first edition, signed limited issue, number 10 of 100 copies. 1,250 [120249] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 9

12 24 23 BEETON, Mrs Isabella. The Book of Household Management... London: S. O. Beeton, 1861 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary diced calf, red morocco label to spine lettered in gilt, gilt raised bands to spine, blind tools to spine, brown endpapers, red edges. Colour frontispiece, engraved colour title-page, 12 illustrated colour plates. Black and white illustrations to text throughout. Bookseller s ticket to rear pastedown. Tips skilfully refurbished, small bump to front cover, hinges repaired, odd spot of foxing to contents. An excellent copy. first edition, first issue, of the domestic bible of the Victorian age, in an attractive contemporary binding. It was the first book to supplant the household culinary authority, Hannah Glasse s Art of Cookery (1747). In its first year of publication Beeton s Book of Household Management sold 60,000 copies, and two million by Despite its author s death four years after publication (at the age of only 28, a fact which must snuff out any sense of Beeton s passionate, energetic book as being the product of middle-aged housewifery), the book has been constantly updated and its popularity has lived on to the present day. Comprising over 900 pages of recipes, illustrated with colour plates (for the first time in this genre of book production), Beeton s boldly comprehensive text also contains guidance on home economics, general home life, and even some philosophical passages on the ethical role of women in the world of the Victorian male: For Mrs Beeton, a people s way of taking their meals, as well as their way of treating women were marks of civilisation (ODNB). 3,000 [119998] BEHAN, Brendan. The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1956 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece. Spine rolled, light soiling to rear cover, a very good copy in the jacket with small closed tears to head of spine and rear panel, creasing to edges and spine, light mark to bottom edge of rear panel. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Eamonn, from Brendan, 1st Aibreán [April] This is the author s first book and his key play, and is uncommon inscribed. It is also the origin of the song The Auld Triangle, now a staple of Irish music. 1,250 [117804] 25 BERRY, Chuck. The Autobiography. New York: Harmony Books, 1987 Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, title in red foil to the spine, red endpapers. With unclipped dust jacket. Numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Boards a little bowed, jacket slightly loose, but overall very good. Provenance: Clarence Richmond; bequeathed on his death his wife Loretta; on her death to her brother Gerald Snipes who made the decision to sell it. 10 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

13 26 first edition, presentation copy, warmly inscribed on the title page by Berry to his high school friend Clarence Richmond, who loaned him his first guitar, and was later the best man at his wedding: The best to you, Clarence, and thanks for my first guitar, that one started it all. From school mate Charles Chuck Berry, Dec Will be at your next retirement for sure! Berry relates 25 the loan of the guitar on p. 34: Clarence Richmond, a classmate of mine, became more friendly and loaned me his father s abandoned four-string tenor guitar to learn on. It was my first touch of the string instrument... The first song I practised and sang with was to be the backing for many, as it was the chord changes of the blues. Accompanied by Richmond s Honorable Discharge certificate from the US Navy in 1946; his St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant s badge and the gold watch presented to him in September 1987 upon his retirement from the SLMPD. 5,000 [119976] (BIBLE; NT, English, Tyndale s version.) The New Testament. Translated by William Tyndale, A reprint of the edition of 1534 with the translator s preface and notes and the variants of the edition of Edited for the Royal Society of Literature by N. Hardy Wallis, with an introduction by Isaac Foot. Cambridge: printed for the Royal Society of Literature, 1939 Large quarto ( mm). Contemporary red crushed morocco, titles to spine in gilt in compartments, royal coat of arms in gilt to front cover, yellow silk page markers, brown endpapers, top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Text printed within single rule frame. Frontispiece facsimile of original 1534 title-page and 23 plates. Pasted to the first blank is The Times obituary for Tasker. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to extremities, slight soiling and a couple of scratches to covers, faint offsetting to prelims, foxing to edges; a very good, bright copy. first edition thus, limited issue, number 58 of 500 copies. Hardy Wallis s translation was first published, without illustrations, in Tippedin is a presentation letter from the British architect and Conservative politician Sir Robert Tasker ( ) to the headmaster of his alma mater Ardingly College, 7 February 1959, and a photocopied letter of thanks from the headmaster George Snow. 575 [121217] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 11

14 (BIBLE; OT; English, Douai version.) The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other Editions in divers languages... By the English College of Doway. Douai: by Laurence Kellam, vols., quarto ( mm). Contemporary limp vellum, recased on new tawed leather slips, new leather ties, new endleaves, old flyleaves preserved. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Early ink signature at the foot of the title And[rew] Cross his Booke and heavily deleted inscription in the centre Thomas Parry de [?Roylage] / Ex dono Maria Cross [ ]. Titles and last few pages a little dusty, occasional small marks, minor worming in the fore-margin of Vol. II in places, a few neat paper repairs to the extremities at front and back, overall a very good copy. first edition of the old testament in the english catholic version. In 1578 the Roman Catholic priest Gregory Martin (1542? 1582), recently recalled from Rome to the English College at Rheims (itself newly transferred from Douai), embarked on an English translation of the Bible. [Cardinal] Allen announced the project in September He, Richard Bristow, and William Reynolds were involved primarily as revisers: the work was Martin s. Between September 1578 and July 1580 Martin translated the entire Vulgate. The New Testament of Iesus Christ with Bristow s notes was published at Rheims in For financial reasons ( our poore estate in banishment ) the Old Testament did not appear until the two volumes of The Holie Bible were published at Douai in The appearance of a Catholic Bible in English undermined traditional protestant criticism that the Roman church kept scripture out of the hands of the laity. Instead protestant theologians such as Thomas Cartwright, William Whitaker, and William Fulke attacked the credentials of the translators and denounced their work as filled with error. Despite such criticism, revised versions of Martin s translation remained extremely popular throughout the English-speaking world for nearly four hundred years (ODNB). Darlow & Moule, The English Bible, 300; STC ,500 [118652] 28 (BLOOMSBURY.) The Hogarth Letters. London: The Hogarth Press, 1933 Octavo. Original orange cloth-backed boards, illustration and titles in brown to front cover. Bookplate to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled and faded, minor foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. first collected edition, one of 500 copies. Early in the 1930s, Virginia and Leonard Woolf asked 12 writers to compose letters to whomever they wished, fictional or actual persons. The letters included in this edition were first published individually during 1931 and 1932, and include pieces by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and Hugh Walpole, among others. Woolmer [120625] 29 BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Waggoner and other Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1920 Octavo. Original purple cloth, printed paper label to spine, edges uncut. With the dust jacket. With the spare label tipped-in at the rear. Spine very lightly faded, faint offsetting to endpapers, an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with browned spine and short closed tear to front panel. 12 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

15 first edition, first issue, one of 250 copies bound in purple cloth for immediate issue from an edition of 500, of which 100 sets of sheets were sent to New York for Knopf s American edition, and the remaining 150 bound up in green cloth later in Blunden s first trade publication, The Waggoner was issued with the encouragement and assistance of Siegfried Sassoon to whom Blunden had sent some of his work in his capacity as literary editor of the Daily Herald. 1,250 [119791] 30 [BRONTË, Anne.] The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. London: T. C. Newby, volumes, octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century green straight-grain morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spines gilt-tooled in compartments with titles direct, french fillet border gilt to sides, gilt-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Half-title to vol. 1 only, as called for. Bound without terminal advert leaf. Bookplates of George Evelyn Cower to pastedowns. Some corners bumped, a few minor marks to sides, internally clean, minor paper repairs done at the time of binding to a few small tears to some outer leaves, light mark to first title, but an excellent copy, smartly bound, retaining untrimmed fore and lower edges. first edition, first issue, of Anne Brontë s last and only separately published novel, which reverberated throughout Victorian England (May Sinclair, Brontë biographer) with its realistic and disturbing portrayal of alcoholism and debauchery. Thomas Cautley Newby was a notoriously shifty publisher who had taken an advance deposit for the earlier publication of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey but failed to publish until the reviews of Jane Eyre proved favourable, then printed fewer than the agreed number, leaving most errors uncorrected. His behaviour on this occasion was no better: he offered it to Harper Brothers of New York for publication in America implying it was by Currer Bell, and printed reviews of Jane Eyre on the half-title verso with the same intent; and published only about 250 or 300 copies, instead of the agreed 500, leaving the remainder to be sold, with a cancel title and preface, as the second edition. Copies of the first issue are accordingly scarce. Michael Sadleir, whose collection of 19th-century literature remains unparalleled among private collections, considered it the scarcest of the Brontë sisters works and never found an adequate copy for his collection. 30 Smith (Brontë) 4; no copy in Sadleir but listed in comparative scarcities p ,500 [121127] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 13

16 31 31 [BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne.] Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [i.e. 1848] Octavo. Original green blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities, slight wear to spine ends, spine and edges of covers browned, top edge dust toned; a very good copy. first edition, second issue, with the cancel title page and a facsimile errata slip. The slim volume was first published by Aylott and Jones in an edition of 1,000 copies on 26 May 1846, but was not a commercial success. However, after the huge success of Jane Eyre, published in 1847, the unsold stock of Poems, consisting of 961 copies, was bought by Smith, Elder & Co. in September 1848 and reissued the following month with a cancel title page, but retaining the original date. The collection contains 19 poems by Charlotte Brontë ( Currer ), and 21 each by Emily ( Ellis ) and Anne ( Acton ). Smith I. 2,500 [120999] BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. Poems Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984 Octavo. Original patterned cloth spine with printed title label, grey boards with titles and decoration in blue, black, grey, orange, red and yellow, orange endpapers. With the original clear plastic dust jacket. Title page printed in black, grey, red, orange, and blue; photographic portrait of Bukowski at end. Gentle bump to the top edge of back cover, the acetate jacket very slightly creased in places, but an excellent copy. first and limited edition, presentation copy, with an original painting and thumbnail sketch by bukowski, inscribed in characteristic marker pen on the blank facing the title page, For Arthur Applebaum I always feel like a bum around a gentleman like you. If the world had more like you we wouldn t be in such a bad fix. Sincerely, Charles Bukowski, and accompanied by an original sketch: Bukowski s Thurberesque self-portrait thumbnail little man with bottle. Applebaum was Bukowski s attorney and friend. One of 126 copies hand-bound in boards by Earle Gray, this copy not numbered but inscribed Presentation Copy and signed by Bukowski. This was the last Black Sparrow book Bukowski for which did original paintings. 4,750 [120437] 33 (BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord, & Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke.) ARM- STRONG, John. The Art of Preserving Health. A New Edition. To which is prefixed A Critical Essay on the Poem by J. Aikin. London: printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1803 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary streaked calf, sensitively rebacked to style preserving original morocco Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

17 33 title label, gilt roll to borders of boards and to board edges, marbled endpapers, blue speckled edges. With 4 engraved plates by Stothard. Some rubbing to the extremities, excellent condition. Provenance: a later pencil annotation to the front free endpaper verso verifies Milbanke and Byron s inscriptions, and notes that the book was given by Lady Noel-Byron to Sophia Coussmaker, 22nd Baroness de Clifford ( ). fascinating association copy: the copy of anne isabella, lady byron (née milbanke), with her autograph ownership inscription to the first blank, with a slip pasted over it bearing her married name in Byron s hand. The association is notable in light of Lord Byron s hypochondria and Milbanke s concerns for his physical and mental health. It is also perhaps indicative of the combative relationship that typified their brief marriage, Byron here literally papering over her identity with his. The Art of Preserving Health, first published in 1744, is considered one of the best didactic poems in the language. This copy, with the half-title, is a reprint of the new edition of 1795, which was the first to include the Stothard plates and critical essay by Aikin. 2,250 [119546] 34 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co, 1866 Octavo. Original pictorial cloth gilt, dark green endpapers, binder s label on rear pastedown, gilt edges. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wood-engraved illustrations after John Tenniel. Contemporary ownership signature dated 1866, small shelf label to front pastedown. Worn at extremities with loss to head and foot of spine, minor splitting to front joint, some spotting to contents. first published edition. The publication of the first Alice book set a pattern for many of Dodgson s succeeding publications. The book was 34 originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June On 19 July 1865, Dodgson heard that the book s illustrator John Tenniel was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing, so decided to suppress the whole edition of 2,000 copies. He recalled the few pre-publication copies he had sent out to his friends and donated them to hospitals, where most perished. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for this authorized Macmillan edition which, although dated 1866, was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market. The unused Oxford sheets were sold to Appleton s for use in their New York edition, published the following summer. This Macmillan edition was published in an edition of 4,000 copies. 22,500 [115987] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 15

18 CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872 Octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary red crushed morocco by Cross & Beckwith, titles to spine gilt in compartments, floral frame to covers gilt, gilt edges, floral patterned turn-ins gilt, green marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, 49 illustrations by John Tenniel in text. Slight wear to tips, an excellent copy, attractively bound. first edition. As with the first edition of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass was published for the Christmas market in December 1871 but bears the following year s date in its imprint. Williams Madan Green Crutch 84. 2,250 [117871] 36 CASATI, Gaetano. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha. Translated from the Original Italian Manuscript... London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., vols., octavo. Original dark red cloth blind-stamped with overall crocodile-skin pattern, titles and authorial portrait gilt to spines, titles in black and pictorial decoration in black, gilt, and silver to front boards, brown coated endpapers, top edges untrimmed. 60 plates including frontispieces, from sketches, paintings and photographs, and variously coloured, tinted, or in black and white, 104 black and white illustrations in the text, 4 folding maps in end-pockets, of which 3 partially coloured. Contemporary prize label (Kidderminster and District School of Science and Art) to front pastedown of vol. 1. Trivial rubbing to extremities, light spotting to endpapers, prelims, and one of the folding maps ( Map of the Return Journey ). A superb copy. first edition in english. Most books on Emin Pasha and Stanley have something to say about Casati, but do little justice to the work of this important explorer (Howgego). Casati ( ) set out for Sudan in 1879 to join the expedition of Romolo Gessi, who was in need of a surveyor. He was an early European visitor to Azande and Mangbetu lands, and his account greatly expanded contemporary European geographic and ethnographic knowledge of equatorial Africa. During the Mahdist revolt in 1883 he joined the beleaguered Emin Pasha at Juba. In 1886, following news of Stanley s relief expedition, he was despatched by Emin on a reconnaissance mission south to Bunyoro, during which he was constantly harassed by the despotic King Kabarega, and was with the Ottoman governor when Stanley finally arrived two years later. Casati s account, which is extremely critical of Stanley, was originally published in Italian earlier the same year. Howgego IV C [119278] 37 CERVANTES, Miguel de. The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. The third edition. London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and R. and J. Dodsley, vols., quarto ( mm). Contemporary mottled calf, titles gilt to green and black labels to spines, spines richly gilt in compartments, single rule frame gilt to covers, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges black, others green, green page marker. Frontispiece to vol. I and 68 copper engraved plates by Vandergucht and Virtue, after John Vanderbank. Single leaf of card with amateur pencil drawing of plate laid in. Expert restoration to inner hinges. Slight rubbing to extremities, occasional light foxing; an excellent set. a handsomely bound copy of the third jarvis edition. Charles Jarvis, a friend and onetime art tutor of Alexander Pope, was primarily an artist and an art collector. This translation, his 16 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

19 37 major literary undertaking, published posthumously and frequently reprinted, is generally considered to be close in spirit to the original. The illustrations were originally commissioned in 1723 by J. and R. Tonson to illustrate Don Quixote in the original Spanish; this eventually appeared as a lavish four-volume quarto edition in 1738, the plates used repeatedly by the publishers. 3,750 [119541] 38 (CHARLES, Prince of Wales, & Diana, Princess of Wales.) Official Christmas card. [1990] Single folded sheet of white card ( mm). Gilt royal crests to front of card. Text printed in red. Glossy colour photograph of Charles and Diana with Princes Harry and William mounted to inside recto within red frame. In excellent condition with just a couple of tiny faint marks to covers. christmas card signed by both prince charles and princess diana, inscribed in Charles s hand with Diana adding her name, Eugenie [wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year] and lots of love from Charles and Diana. Princess Eugenie of York (b. 1990) is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and of Sarah, Duchess of York. She is eighth in line of succession to the British throne. 1,500 [120570] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 17

20 39, 40, 41, CHRISTIE, Agatha. Poirot Investigates. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and geometric ruling to spine and front board in dark blue. Bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. Spine slightly faded, a few faint marks to covers, ink spots to top edge, a little foxing to contents. A very good copy. first edition of the first collection of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. 2,000 [120389] 40 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1926 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in red, double rule frame to front cover in red. Spine gently rolled and lightly faded, rubbing to extremities, wear to very tips, a couple of faint marks to edges of text block, light mottling to rear cover; an uncommonly bright copy. first edition of Christie s first book published by Collins. It is Christie s third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. 1,800 [121394] 41 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Body in the Library. London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1942 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the supplied dust jacket. Spine faded, slight fraying to ends, slight wear to outer tips, a very good copy in the bright jacket with a few nicks to spine ends and short closed tear to foot of front flap. first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Katharine Woolley on the front free endpaper, Katharine, from Agatha, May Katharine Woolley and her husband Sir Leonard were good friends of Christie and her second husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, whose archaeological career began as an assistant to Leonard Woolley at the excavations at Ur in southern Iraq. Through this friendship and tutelage Christie met his wife Katharine, on whom the character of Louise Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia is purportedly based. A superb association copy of Christie s second book, first published in the US in February 1942 (preceding the UK edition by a month). Wagstaff & Poole p ,750 [117924] 42 CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Hollow. London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. Spine gently rolled, light fading to spine ends and onto rear panel, slight rubbing to extremities, an excellent, unusually bright copy. first uk edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Sir Leonard Woolley on the front free endpaper, Len, with best wishes, from Agatha, Xmas (See previous item.) It was first published in the US in the same year. Wagstaff & Poole p ,750 [117922] 18 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

21 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New Chamber of the House of Commons by the Speaker 26th May London: printed for H.M. Stationery Office by the Curwen Press Ltd, 1948 Foolscap folio. Original green buckram over bevelled boards, title gilt to spine and front board, quadruple fillet gilt panel to both boards, Palace of Westminster portcullis centre-tool in gilt on the rear cover. 5 collotype plates with 2 images per plate, title page printed in green. Gift inscription to civil servant Catherine Elfrida Barson to the front free endpaper. Very slightly rubbed, spine perhaps a touch dulled, a very good copy. first and only edition. The text reprints Churchill s speech as Leader of the Opposition: The House of Commons is a living and deathless entity; it survived, unflinching, the tests and hazards of war; it preserved our constitutional liberties under our ancient monarchy in a manner which has given a sense of stability, not only in this island, but as an example to nations in many lands. He features in all but two of the images. Cohen states that the normal edition of the work, for distribution to the Members of Parliament, was in wrappers. By order of the Speaker, however, 24 copies were printed and bound in full green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for presentation. This is the third such copy handled by us, who have never encountered a wrappered copy. Cohen D132; Woods D(b)70/2. 1,250 [121025] 44 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, vols., octavo ( mm). Recent dark red morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With diagrams and tables throughout the text. Minor spotting to a few leaves, an excellent set. first editions of churchill s masterpiece, the single most important historical account of the Second World War. As Max Beloff observed, there was no statesman of the 20th century whose retrospective accounts of the great events in which he has taken part have so dominated subsequent historical thinking. Cohen A240.4; Woods A123(b). 1,500 [119747] 45 CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company Ltd, vols., octavo ( mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in dark blue crushed morocco, titles to spines gilt, gilt rules to covers, turn-ins and gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with maps and genealogical tables. Spines a touch browned; an excellent set, handsomely bound. first editions. Churchill began his history of the British Empire and the United States during his period in the political wilderness in the early 1930s, but did not complete it until after his retirement in the late 1950s. The events of the Second World War, the major interruption in the writing process, had reconfirmed his belief in the special relationship between Britain and the United States. Consequently he gave considerable attention to the key events of American history: around a quarter of the third volume, The Age of Revolution, is dedicated to the War of Independence, and a full third of the final volume, The Great Democracies, contains a detailed study of the American Civil War. Cohen A267.1(I) (IV); Woods A138(a). 2,500 [119465] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 19

22 46 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition; [together with:] The Collected Essays. Centenary Limited Edition. London: Library of Imperial History in association with the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, Together, 38 vols., octavo. Original full vellum with 22 carat gold blocking, including titles to spines, armorial device to front boards and ruling to spines and front boards, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, printed on Archive Long-Life Text Paper. Housed in the original green leatherette slipcases stamped with the Churchill arms in gilt. Illustrations throughout, as plates and in the text. Typical natural variation to the tone of the vellum bindings; a couple of the slipcases a little rubbed at extremities. An excellent set. first complete collected edition, number 312 of 1,750 sets published. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. The specifications were titanic: five million words in 19,000 pages, weighing 19 lbs, taking up 4½ ft of shelf space. To achieve publication, 11 publishing houses in Great Britain, the United States and Canada released their individual copyrights in exchange for the promise that no other complete edition of Churchill works would be published until the expiration of international copyright in 2019 (Richard M. Langworth). The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets were ever published (Cohen). This set is accompanied by the four-volume Centenary Limited Edition of Churchill s collected essays and journalistic writings, again intended to be limited to 3,000 sets, not always present, together with a publisher s prospectus for both the Collected Works and Collected Essays. Cohen AA1; Langworth ICS AA1; Woods p ,750 [117880] 20 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

23 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Christabel; Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep. London: printed for John Murray, by William Bulmer and Co., 1816 Octavo. Original plain wrappers. Housed in a russet cloth folding case and chemise. With the half-title, and with publisher s advertisements to the rear dated April Morocco ownership label A-L to front wrapper, some manuscript numbers to front wrapper, spine discreetly restored, a few minor marks, some rubbing and creasing to the extremities, internally clean, an excellent copy. The chemise has the gilt morocco bookplate of Hannah D. Rabinowitz, and the paper bookplate of Elis West Ames. first edition, attractively preserved in the original wrappers, of the publication which prints for the first time three of Coleridge s best poems: the gothic Christabel (composed but excluded from the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads on Wordsworth s advice and unpublished until here); the hallucinatory Kubla Khan, accompanied by Coleridge s myth-making account of its composition; and The Pains of Sleep, considered a description of opium withdrawal symptoms. 6,000 [120749] 48 COLLODI, Carlo. The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M. A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 Small octavo. Original patterned cloth printed in blue, titles to spine and front cover in blue, patterned edges and endpapers. Half-title and title printed in red and black, frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrations throughout by C. Mazzanti. Extremities rubbed, minor wear to tips, cloth a little darkened, text block cracked in a couple of places but holding firm; a very good copy. first edition in english of the most popular children s book to come out of Italy. The story was written for a Rome children s magazine, Giornale dei bambini, with the first instalment appearing on 7 July It was published as a book in 1883 under the title Le Avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un burattino, and quickly became a best-seller. 3,000 [119778] 46 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 21

24 52 DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise... translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary... the second edition, corrected. With the life of Dante, additional notes, and an index. London: Taylor and Hessey, CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900 Octavo. Original light green cloth, titles to spine in gilt and to front board in black. Prize inscription to front free endpaper. An excellent copy in bright cloth, contents slightly foxed. first edition in book form, with all the points of first issue. The novel was first serialized in Blackwood s Magazine from October 1899 to November Wise pp ,500 [120386] CONWAY, William Martin. Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas. London: T. Fisher Unwin, vols., octavo. Original reddish brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front covers lettered in black, vol. I with vignettes to spine and front cover in black and white, vol. II with medallion portrait of the author in gilt to front cover, rear covers with publisher s device in black, green coated endpapers, folding maps in endpockets of vol. II, top edges gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece with tissueguard, profuse illustrations from sketches and paintings to the text, many full-page, folding map, 2 large folding colour maps in volume 2. 20th-century collector s bookplate of Norman Ritchie to front pastedown of vol. 1; Royal Institution of Great Britain blind stamp to title page of vol. 2, and their deaccession ink stamp to the front pastedown. Extremities lightly rubbed, vol. 1 spine rolled, mild spotting front and back, vol. 2 cloth slightly soiled, front inner hinge split but holding, folding maps with old tape-repair verso to small perforations at intersections of folds. A very good copy. first edition, trade issue, of the official account of the first major British expedition to explore and climb in the Himalayas (Cox), complete with the supplement containing the scientific reports and the two large folding maps. 2,500 [119333] 3 vols., octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century tan polished calf, twin morocco labels to spines lettered in gilt, gilt decorated compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and floral stamp to covers, turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, silk page markers. Armorial bookplate of F. Reddaway to pastedowns. A touch of faint mottling to covers, occasional spot of faint foxing to contents. An excellent, fresh set, very attractively bound. second and preferred edition of cary s translation, the most important of the Romantic era. Cary initially published the work at his own expense (which he could ill afford) in 1814, in such small type that it was almost unreadable. A chance acquaintance with Coleridge, and Coleridge s subsequent praise of Cary s version, led to the sale of 1,000 copies in less than three months and the publication of this second edition in ,250 [119874] 51 DAHL, Roald. The Commemorative Limited Edition of the Works. London: Harper Collins and Jonathan Cape, vols., octavo. Original blue quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt, weave pattern paper boards, top edges gilt, buff endpapers. Each copy housed in a matching weave pattern paper-covered slipcase and the whole contained in a large open fronted blue paper covered box. Illustrated throughout. A fine set. limited edition, one of 500 sets, published on 13 September 1991 to celebrate Dahl s 75th birthday. 2,250 [115620] Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

25 52 53 DARWIN, Charles. On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Third edition, with additions and corrections. (Seventh thousand.) London: John Murray, 1861 Octavo. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, brown endpapers, Freeman s variant b (no priority). Folding diagram to p Ownership inscription to halftitle and occasional faint pencil underlining and marginalia. Newspaper clipping discussing colour variations of heifers tipped-in to rear free endpaper recto. Spine gently rolled, rubbing to extremities, small nick to head of spine, minor wear to very tips, top edge dust toned, text block very slightly shaken; a very good copy. third edition of the most important biological book ever written (Freeman), issued in April 1861, one of 2,000 copies printed. The text was extensively altered, and a table is given of differences from the second edition, a feature that occurs in each subsequent Murray edition. The third edition is also notable for the addition of the historical sketch in which Darwin acknowledges his predecessors in the general theory of evolution. Freeman ,750 [120407] 54 DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and selection in relation to sex. With illustrations. London: John Murray, vols., octavo ( mm). Mid 20th-century red half calf by Zaehnsdorf, twin labels to spines lettered in gilt, spines decorated in gilt in compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, bound without the publisher s advertisements. Numerous engravings in text. Binder s stamps to front free endpaper versos. From the library of W. A. Foyle ( ), at Beeleigh Abbey, with his leather book label on the front pastedowns. Spines lightly faded, very minor rubbing to extremities, head of front joint of vol. II just starting; an excellent set. first edition, second issue (with the list of works on the verso of the title leaf of Vol. II). It was in this work that the word evolution appears for the first time, preceding its appearance in the sixth edition of the Origin of Species the following year. Darwin had hoped that one of his supporters might tackle the thorny question of human evolution, but was forced to face the logic of his own theory himself. He deviated from his ostensible subject of mankind to describe sexual selection in the animal kingdom, enabling him to answer 53, 54, 55 those who saw peacock tails as an expression of divine aesthetics. Darwin also set out a definite family tree for humans, tracing their affinity with the Old World monkeys, and laid out his views on the evolutionary origins of morality and religion. Freeman ,750 [120411] 55 DARWIN, Charles. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1877 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decorative bands gilt to spine, sides blocked in blind, dark brown coated endpapers. With the publisher s 32 page catalogue, dated March 1877, to the rear. With 15 woodcuts and 38 tables in text. Spine gently rolled, rubbing to extremities, a couple of ink marks to covers, top edge dust toned, inner hinges started but holding, endpaper margins lightly faded, foxing to outer leaves; a very good copy. first edition, published in a single issue of 1,250 copies. Freeman ,250 [120396] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 23

26 DARWIN, Charles & Francis. The Power of Movement in Plants. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1880 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt decorative border at ends, covers blindstamped, brown coated endpapers. With the publisher s 32 page catalogue, dated May 1878, to the rear; 2-line errata at the foot of p. x. With 196 woodcuts in the text. Bookseller s ticket to rear pastedown, compliments slip of bibliophile Arnold Muirhead ( ) laid in. Slight rubbing to extremities, tiny nick to head of front joint, small glue residue to front free endpaper; an excellent, largely unopened, copy. first edition, first issue. The collaborative authorship proclaimed on the title page reflects Darwin s concern to introduce his children into the world of science. Francis Darwin had trained as a doctor but turned from medicine to botany, initially working as secretary and assistant to his father. The book was an extension of Charles Darwin s work on climbing plants and it showed that the same mechanisms can be observed in plants in general... Francis Darwin later refined some of the experimental techniques and modified their theoretical conclusions (ODNB). Freeman ,850 [120403] 57 DARWIN, Charles. The Works. Edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman. New York: New York University Press, vols. bound as 20, octavo ( mm). Recent green half morocco, green cloth boards, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. A fine set. first edition of the complete works of darwin, containing posthumously published material and previously unpublished letters and entries. 5,750 [118417] 58 DAUMAS, Eugène. The Horses of the Sahara, and the Manners of the Desert. With commentaries by the Emir Abd-El-Kader. Translated from the French by James Hutton. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863 Octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, gilt lettered spine, large pictorial gilt block on front cover, brown coated endpapers, advertisements printed to pastedowns, top and fore edges untrimmed. Two contemporary ownership inscriptions to front pastedown. Lightly rubbed, a few small pale markings to sides, corners bumped, contents toned, foxing to free endpapers and terminal blanks, mild spotting to title. A very good copy. first edition in english of this scarce classic work on Arab equitation, particularly uncommon in the original cloth. One of the earliest exhaustive studies of the Arabian and Barb breeds, it was first published in French in Eugène Daumas ( ) was posted to Algeria in 1835, and from 1837 to 1839 was consul at Mascara, during which time he won the respect of Abd El-Kader, the leader of the native resistance to the French invasion, who after his surrender in 1847 was taken to France and lived in gilded captivity. Daumas was widely recognised as the French Army s leading expert on Arab culture, and on his return to France in 1850 was made director of Algerian affairs in the Ministry of War. Podeschi, Books on the Horse and Horsemanship, ,250 [120802] 59 DE CHAIR, Somerset. The First Crusade. The Deeds of the Franks and other Jerusalemites. Gesta francorum et aliorum hierosolimitanorum. Translated into English for the first time. Engravings by Clifford Webb. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1945 Tall octavo. Original vellum, titles to spine gilt, vignette to covers gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed 24 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

27 59 in the orange cloth slipcase. Woodcut frontispiece, vignette title page, and 4 full page woodcuts. A fine copy. first edition in english, signed limited issue, number 4 of 100 copies in vellum, additionally inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, For Gathorne, from a tired Crusader, this account of those who enjoyed on the road to Jerusalem a Happy Martyrdom, Somerset de Chair, Wingfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, 11 November 47. The recipient, Dr Gathorne Robert Girdlestone, was a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon and the founder of the hospital. Franklin p ,750 [120134] 60 DEMPSEY, Jack. Fine inscribed photographic portrait. New York: 1936 Original photograph ( mm) of Dempsey in fighting pose, window-mounted, framed and glazed. Very good indeed, image and inscription remain strong. A wonderful image, warmly inscribed: To a Charming Little Girl, Bincy Jones, Her Daddy s Pal With 60 Best Wishes, Jack Dempsey, Dempsey, known as the Manassa Mauler, was one of the genuine icons of the jazz age. His career had begun as a teenager scrapping for change in lumber camps, where he announced his arrival with the challenge, I can t sing and I can t dance, but I can lick any SOB in the house, rising to undisputed world champion, drawing the first ever million-dollar gate for his 1921 fight with Georges Carpentier. By 1936 Dempsey had retired following his defeat by Tunney in the long count rematch. He still boxed exhibitions, but had settled into life as a much-loved public figure, the highly visible avuncular proprietor of Jack Dempsey s Restaurant, just across from Madison Square Garden, and a far cry from the terrifying, brawling force of nature who had destroyed Jess Willard in The recipient, Alice Bincy Jones, later Taylor, was the 6-year-old daughter of Russell Kennedy and Alice Judson Jones, a well-connected New York couple; later a graduate from Columbia, Alice was characterised in one obituary in 2015 as an unconventional, creative person. 1,500 [113714] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 25

28 61, 62, 63, DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With fortythree illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 Octavo ( mm). Early 20th-century green morocco by Charles McLeish, titles to spine gilt in compartments, decorative frames gilt to covers, turn-ins and gilt edges. Etched vignette title page, frontispiece, 41 plates by Robert Seymour, R. W. Buss, and H. K. Browne. Binder s initials to rear pastedown. Minor rubbing to extremities, spine lightly toned, occasional foxing to plates; an excellent copy. first edition, early issue with the two Buss plates and all the plates in early states with page numbers as called for, but no titles or imprints, and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading Veller (corrected to Weller in later issues). This copy is handsomely bound by Charles McLeish, with his initials gilt to the rear pastedown. McLeish was one of T. E. Lawrence s favourite binders, of whom he wrote: McLeish is a good workman: which, in the RAF, and by RAF standards, is the highest praise. Smith I.3; TEL, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, II, p ,750 [119981] 62 DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. In three volumes. London: Richard Bentley, vols., octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century tan half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, black morocco labels, raised bands, blue marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece in each vol., 21 etched plates by George Cruikshank. With the bookplates of Thomas Gaisford ( ), English classical scholar and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and Charles Tennant ( ) industrialist and Liberal politician. Very light scuff mark on front cover of vol. 1 and vol. 2, some discolouration to title page and frontispiece, light foxing, slight rubbing to extremities, and light soiling to edges on all vols. An excellent set. first edition, second issue, with cancel titles giving Dickens s name as the author and the final Church plate in place of the rejected Fireside plate. Smith I, 4. 2,000 [121420] 63 DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. In two volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, vols., octavo. Original dark reddish brown verticallyribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, sides blocked in blind, pale yellow coated endpapers, edges untrimmed. 6 pp. publisher s ads at end of vol. II. Early bookseller s ticket of J. Smith & Son, Glasgow. Some marks to cloth, fore corners of front cover of vol. I a little worn and darkened at tips, otherwise generally clean and fresh, a very good copy. first edition, first issue, with xvi paginated in Volume I. Although complimentary of the United States in many ways, Dickens antagonised a large portion of his readership by his criticisms of the penal system, the lack of copyright and subsequent pirating of English works, and the entire system of slavery. Eckel pp ; Smith II, 3. 1,000 [116163] 64 DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In prose. Being a Ghost story of Christmas. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843 Small octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary black calf, red morocco label, spine richly decorated gilt in compartments, covers elaborately blocked in gilt and blind, orange coated endpapers, edges and turn-ins gilt, brown silk page marker. Title page printed in blue and red; frontispiece and 3 plates by John Leech, all handcoloured as issued; woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary gift inscription to front binder s blank. Minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of tiny scratches to covers, an excellent copy in a very attractive binding. 26 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

29 65 first edition, second issue, with red and blue title page dated 1843, Stave One on the first page of text, and all the first edition textual points. Eckel pp ; Smith II, 4. 3,750 [119850] DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With illustrations by H. K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, numbers bound in 19, as issued. Original printed blue wrappers designed by Phiz. Housed in a custom marbled paper slipcase in green straight-grain morocco-backed green cloth and marbled paper chemises. With 40 black and white plates, including 8 dark plates, all by Phiz. Blue leather booklabel of William Bunker to front pastedown of chemises. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of John Du Boulay, Donhead Hall to head of front covers. With related ephemera: a newspaper clipping from the New York Times, 18 May 1913 announcing the death, aged 100, of Mary Ann Cooper, the original Little Dorrit. Small clipping removed from front adverts in Part I, pp , small pencil marginalia below. Minor creasing to edges, occasional light foxing; an excellent set. first edition, first issue text in the original monthly parts. Hatton & Cleaver ,500 [121213] DICKENS, Charles. The Works. With introductions, general essay, and notes by Andrew Lang. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, vols., octavo ( mm). Finely bound by Whitman Bennett in near-contemporary blue half morocco, titles and decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, Frontispiece and illustrated throughout the set. A fine set. the gadshill edition, printed from the text with Dickens s final authorial revisions first published in , here including the pendant twovolume Life which is sometimes lacking. A particularly handsome set, the binding is the work of the renowned New York fine bindery established in the 1920s by Whitman Bennett ( ). 5,000 [116002] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 27

30 [DISRAELI, Benjamin.] Vivian Grey. London: Henry Colburn, vols., large duodecimo ( mm). Contemporary brown half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Half-titles to vols. II and V; as issued. Bound without adverts. Key to Vivian Grey complete with halftitle and single advert leaf. With the bookplate of Robert Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chemist and collector, to the front endpaper of vol. I. Short closed tear to vol. II, another to vol. III, expertly repaired. Slight wear to extremities, light foxing to edges, small abrasion to half-title of vol. II; an excellent set. first edition of disraeli s first novel, a sensational roman-à-clef in the then fashionable silver-fork style published at the age of 21 (ODNB). The first section was published anonymously in two volumes in April 1826 to largely disfavourable reviews, despite its public popularity, due to its combination of unmistakable self-exposure and reckless satire... moreover, Murray and Lockhart, men of great influence in literary circles, were deeply offended by the sneering treatment of characters based on them (ibid.). Bound into volume V is the anonymous Key to Vivian Grey (10th ed., William Marsh, 1827), presumed to be also by Disraeli, complete with original paper wrapper. This guide first appeared in the journal The Star Chamber on 24 May Sadlier 734 & 734a; Wolff ,250 [121165] 68 DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo. London: Macmillan Co., 2007 Octavo. Original green cloth, title to spine gold, illustration pasted to front board, illustrated endpapers. With the slipcase. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. An excellent copy. first gift edition, signed by the author on the title page. This modern children s classic was first published in 1999; the first edition is notably elusive. 1,250 [121412] 69 DONALDSON, Julia. The Gruffalo s Child. London: Macmillan Co., 2008 Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine silver, illustration pasted to front board, red endpapers. With the slipcase. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. An excellent copy. first gift edition, signed by the author and illustrator, together with an original ink drawing by Scheffler on the title page. 875 [121411] 70 (DOVES PRESS.) KEATS, John. Poems. Selected and Arranged by T. J. Cobden- Sanderson. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1914 Octavo. Original limp vellum, title to spine in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Vellum a little darkened, internally fresh. An excellent copy. first doves edition, one of 200 copies printed on paper (a further 12 copies were printed on vellum). The book was printed just two years before Cobden-Sanderson threw the Doves typeface into the Thames, thus concluding the bitter dispute between him and his partner Emery Walker, and bringing the era of the Doves Press to a close. 2,000 [120227] 71 (DOVES PRESS.) SHELLEY, Percy. Poems. Selected and Arranged by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1914 Octavo. Original limp vellum by Doves Press, title to spine gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Printed in red and black. Front cover gently bowed; an excellent bright copy. first doves edition, one of 200 copies printed on paper (a further 12 copies were printed on vellum). 1,500 [118500] 72 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; [together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes Ltd, 1892 & Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

31 72 73 Together 2 works, quarto. Original pale and dark blue cloth respectively, titles to spines and front covers gilt, pale grey patterned endpapers, top edges gilt. Housed in a dark blue flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated throughout the text by Sydney Paget. A few light marks to cloth of vol. I, gilt bright to spines, hinges of vol. I starting but text block sound, a little foxing to contents. An excellent set. first editions of the first two great collections of Holmes stories. Adventures is the first issue, with the misprint Miss Violent Hunter on page 317 and the blank street sign in the front cover vignette; there are no comparable issue points for Memoirs. Green & Gibson A10; A14. 9,500 [119858] 73 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Author s Edition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vols., octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary red half morocco by Bayntun, titles and centre tool gilt to spines, raised bands, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Frontispieces and 12 plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Binder s stamp to front free endpaper verso. 20th-century bookseller s cataloguing laid in. Spines uniformly faded, tiny abrasion to fore edge of rear cover to Brigadier Gerard, minor browning to margins of endpapers; an excellent set. signed limited edition, first issue, number 282 of the first 510 sets signed by the author. The Author s Edition was a joint publication, consisting of 12 volumes (omitting The Hound of the Baskervilles) published in the UK by Smith, Elder & Co. and 13 volumes published in the USA by D. Appleton & Co. (including The Hound of the Baskervilles). Only the UK sets were signed by Doyle, and they have two plates in each volume, rather than one in the Appleton set. The first 510 sets only were bound by Smith, Elder; the remaining 490 were reissued by John Murray with new title pages in 1917, though still marked Doyle considered this edition of his works to be of great importance: he revised parts, and added notes and a number of special introductions (Green & Gibson). The set has a 1902 copyright in Doyle s name, made possible by the introductory material and those works which had appeared after the new Copyright Act had taken effect, but it was originally published in September Green & Gibson A60. 6,500 [121355] 74 (DULAC, Edmund.) BRONTË, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne. The Novels. London: J. M. Dent & Co.; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary green half calf, green cloth sides, titles to spines gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled green endpapers. Title pages printed in green and brown, colour frontispieces, most with tissue guards, 50 colour plates, and a facsimile of the author s signatures to vol. 1 of Jane Eyre. Spines toned, light foxing to edges, a couple of faint scratches to boards; an excellent set. first dulac edition. This was Dulac s first commission after the Anglophile young artist s arrival in England in 1904 to compete with Arthur Rackham in the illustrated gift book market. 1,875 [119480] 74 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 29

32 (DULAC, Edmund.) Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907 Quarto. Original full vellum, titles and decorations to spine and front board in gilt with blue highlights, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, silk ties renewed. Colour frontispiece and 49 other plates tipped-in to dark green paper, captioned tissue guards. The occasional minor blemish, spine ever so slightly darkened, an excellent copy, particularly bright. signed limited edition, number 286 of 350 copies signed by the artist. It was this book that first announced Dulac s status as a popular artist, a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham (ODNB). 3,250 [120141] (DULAC, Edmund.) STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927 Quarto. Original full vellum, black morocco label, top edge gilt. Housed in a recent tan cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. Colour frontispiece, 11 plates, black and white illustrations in the text by Edmund Dulac. Spine and boards slightly darkened, an excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 5 of 50 copies on handmade paper signed by the artist. In her bibliography Ann Conolly Hughey describes Dulac s illustrations of Treasure Island as his most careful and superb ; Dulac himself considered them his best work. 5,000 [118879] 77 ELIOT, George. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, vols., octavo. Original bright blue sand-grain cloth, front cover with three-line outer border and decorative three-sided frame in black, rustic lettering in gold; spines lettered in gold, decorative band in gold at top and tail of spine between black rules, rear cover with three-line border blocked in blind, brown coated endpapers. Expert restoration to joints. Spines gently rolled, lightly toned, slight wear to extremities, minor soiling and abrasions to boards, top edges dust toned; a very good set. first edition in book form of George Eliot s sixth and greatest novel. Sadleir notes that Middlemarch is difficult to find in fine state, as many of the four-volume book issues in cloth went to libraries, Middlemarch being particularly popular (p. 378). Parrish pp ; Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059a. 17,500 [119483] 78 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1941 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom blue half morocco solander box. An excellent copy in the bright jacket, with just a little rubbing and a couple of nicks to extremities. first edition of the author s final, unfinished novel. Bruccoli A19.1.a. 3,500 [118540] 30 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

33 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, FLEMING, Ian. From Russia, With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine and revolver and rose motif to front board in metallic red and silver. With the dust jacket. A few faint marks to boards, a little foxing to edges. An excellent copy in the jacket with unusually bright spine panel, and a couple of tiny chips to spine ends and tips. first edition. Gilbert A5a (1.1). 3,000 [120142] 80 FLEMING, Ian. Dr No. London: Jonathan Cape, 1958 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, silhouette to front board in brown. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, an exceptional copy in the jacket with very slight nicks to extremities. first edition, second state, with the Honeychile silhouette printed on the front board in a dark reddish-brown, to bring it into conformity with other titles in the series with designs on the front board. Gilbert A6a (1.3). 2,250 [121403] 81 FLEMING, Ian. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, 1961 Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine gilt, skeletal hand design on front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine rolled, small mark to bottom edge, an excellent copy in the jacket with small nicks to spine ends, small tape repair to verso. first edition. Gilbert, A9a (1.1). 850 [117496] 82 FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962 Octavo. Original dark grey boards, titles to spine in silver, dagger design to front board in silver and blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. Double-page spread illustration pp Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, slightly erased. Minor mottling to boards, negligible rubbing to spine ends, faint foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket with a little creasing to top edges, very light soiling to rear panel. first edition. Gilbert, A10a (1.1). 975 [120034] 83 FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty s Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 Octavo. Original dark brown boards, titles to spine in silver, ski track design to front board in white. With the pictorial dust jacket. A little faint foxing to edges; an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with small spot of abrasion to head of spine and short closed tear to head of front panel, light tissue repair to verso. first edition. Gilbert A11a (1.1). 875 [120581] 84 FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. Adventures Number One, Two, and Three. London: Jonathan Cape, vols., octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to covers black, green pictorial endpapers. With the dust jackets. Illustrations throughout by John Burningham. An excellent, internally bright set, minor knocks to board edges, slight wear to foot of spine of Adventure Number Two, in the slightly foxed jackets, with minor nicks to edges. first editions of the complete set of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stories. Gilbert A17a (1); (4); (6). 1,250 [116975] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 31

34 86 85 (FOOD & DRINK.) Adam s Luxury, and Eve s Cookery; or, the Kitchen-Garden display d In Two Parts. I. Shewing the best and most approved Methods of raising and bringing to greatest Perfection all the Products of the Kitchen Garden... II. Containing a large Collection of Receipts for dressing all sorts of Kitchen Stuff... London: R. Dodsley, 1744 Duodecimo ( mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked in sheep with red morocco label, edges sprinkled brown. Half-title present. Strictly contemporary ownership inscription of E. Combe to the first blank, purchase note E. 1:6 to the title page confirming the price at 1s 6d, as per Maclean n.2 together with the initials M.G. 85 A little rubbed, corners through, light browning, occasional spotting and mild staining, and one or two minor edge-splits, overall very good. first edition. Sometimes attributed to Frances Hill, this book is quite rare (Une Affaire à gout). Maclean notes that although the majority of the receipts are vegetarian, some do use meat stock, and in fact some recipes go further down the carnivorous route: To farce Mushrooms requires a stuffing made with Veal, Bacon, Beef Marrow, French Roll soaked in Cream and the Yolks of two Eggs. Guerrini characterises it as one of the vegetable (although not necessarily vegetarian) cookbooks that appeared in the mid-18th century following the works of Dr Cheyne and Antonio Cocchi in advocating a vegetable diet as the secret to health ( Diet for a Sensitive Soul: Vegetarianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain in Eighteenth-Century Life, XXIII, 2, 1999, p. 39). Axford, p. 4; Bitting, p. 514; Cagle 541; Maclean, p. 3; Oxford, p. 74; Pennell, p. 151; Une Affaire à goût ,500 [120812] 86 (FOOD & DRINK.) DENMAN, James L. The Vine and its Fruit, Made especially in relation to the Production of Wine... Second edition, revised and enlarged. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875 Octavo. Original brown pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and black, bevelled boards, front board panelled in gilt and black with gilt centrepiece, rear board panelled in blind, black endpapers, gilt edges. 2 colour folding maps, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials, 1 full-page engraving (p. 401), numerous tables in the text. Head of spine worn, extremities rubbed and corners a little bumped, a couple of light marks to boards, hinges cracked but firm, a very good copy. second, greatly expanded edition, first published in 1864 as a 31-page pamphlet. Gabler terms this edition a valuable reference... Scarce (p. 75). The Spectator judged it to possess sterling merits, and we can recommend it to any one really desirous of learning the full history of the vine and its fruit in all quarters of the globe (23 January 1864). Gabler G18160; see Bitting, p. 121 for first edition (1864). 575 [118177] 87 (FOOD & DRINK.) SPEECHLY, William. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine... York: printed for the author, by G. Peacock; and sold by G. Nicol; J. Debrett and J. Stockdale; and E. Jeffery, London, 1790 Quarto ( mm). Contemporary speckled calf, titles gilt to orange label to spine. With 5 engraved plates, 3 of which are folding. Small cracks to head of front and 32 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

35 rear joints, slight rubbing to extremities, a couple of small marks to boards; an excellent copy. first edition, ordinary paper issue. William Speechly (c ) was gardener to the third Duke of Portland at his Welbeck Abbey estate in Nottinghamshire. Encouraged by the duke, Speechly began publishing his knowledge and expertise; in 1776 he had contributed to Alexander Hunter s edition of Evelyn s Silva, which was shortly followed by his own Treatise on the Culture of the Pineapple in In the present work he describes 50 species of grapes, and thoroughly examines hothouse culture, the construction and management of vineyards, pruning, irrigation, grafting, insect and blight control, etc. With the ownership inscription at the head of the title of one of the original subscribers, John Richard Dashwood, High Sheriff of Norfolk, dated the year of publication. A later owner has added the date 24 April 1840 in pencil. Gabler, 265; Lowndes, ,500 [120229] 88 (FOOD & DRINK.) [VERMEIRE,] Robert. Cocktails. How to Mix Them. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922 Tall octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and cocktail glass illustrations to spine and front cover in red, publisher s device in red to rear cover. With 16 pp. of illustrated adverts to rear. Spine lightly faded, a couple of small marks to covers, edges lightly browned; a very good copy, notably bright. first edition, including what may be the first appearance in print of a recipe for the sidecar. Also included are various recipes for medicinal drinks, such as the usual hot toddy for a cold, but also absinthe for a headache and champagne for seasickness. The author was the Belgian bartender Robert Vermeire ( ), who worked at London s Royal Automobile Club, The Criterion, Embassy Club, bars in France and Belgium, and at his own Robert s Bar. 1,500 [121318] 89 FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924 Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. Spine lightly toned, light rubbing and slight bumps to extremities, slight rubbing to joints, light soiling to boards; a very good copy. first edition, with an autograph letter from the author laid in, Dear Miss Mosely, it is very kind of you to write and tell me that you have enjoyed A Passage to India. Indeed I do wish that I may have expressed something of the east: but one never knows...! 1,250 [118404] 89 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 33

36 One of the major documents of feminism, from the library of Margaret Fuller s fellow transcendentalist Daniel Ricketson 90 FULLER, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1843; [together with:] Proceedings of the Anti-Sabbath Convention, held in the Melodeon, March 23 and 24, Boston: published by the Convention, works, octavo and small octavo. WITNC: Contemporary wrappers constructed by Ricketson from an old postal enclosure, skilfully rebacked to style and enclosing facsimiles of the original blue-grey printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece of the ouroboros encircling the double triangle of Solomon. Old wrappers somewhat creased and a little ragged at edges, scattered light foxing, old stain to final leaf, a few short closed-tears at fore-edge of concluding few leaves; a clean copy with good margins. POTASC: Selfwrappers, side-stitched as issued. Withdrawn stamp (in red ink) of the Minnesota Historical Society and nick at foot of front cover otherwise in remarkably good condition. The two items housed together in a custom made brown cloth solander box. first edition of the first major feminist work in the u.s., a remarkable association copy, from the library of Fuller s fellow transcendentalist and correspondent, Daniel Ricketson ( ), historian and poet: inscribed by him at the head of the front wrapper ( Danl. Ricketson ) and with his holograph transposition of the title to the front wrapper, along with a note concerning Fuller s death. Also inscribed by him in pencil at the head of the inside back wrapper and dated July 16th 1872, where he has twice written The Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (the address panel made out in purple ink is partially visible here). A curt note inside the front wrapper ( Lent and soiled ) is amusingly testy. The frontispiece is also inscribed by Ricketson s first wife: Maria Louisa Ricketson, 1845 ( ). The Joel Myerson Collection at the University of South Carolina has a copy of the 1855 edition of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, inscribed by Ricketson to Thoreau s mother. This is a compelling association copy, having been owned by a figure who links the great names of American Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller. Margaret Fuller ( ) was the first American to write a book on women s equality, and the first woman to be allowed access to the library at Harvard. She was the first woman journalist at the New York Tribune and the first full-time book reviewer in American journalism. This, her most famous work, is an elaboration and continuation of her earlier essay in the transcendentalist journal, The Dial, for which she served as the first editor. It remains a classic text of feminist thought. The accompanying booklet is for the Proceedings of the Anti-Sabbath Convention, of which Ricketson was joint secretary. It is interesting for including the presence of another early activist for women s rights, Lucretia Mott. Like other reformers at the convention, Mott believed that customary practices, like the Sabbath, enslaved the mind and heart... Mott s attacks on priestcraft and Sabbath laws laid an important foundation for the women s rights movement (Carol Faulkner in Exchanges and Correspondence: The Construction of Feminism, 2010, p. 124). 6,500 [121432] 91 GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary tan calf, raised bands to spine, red and green morocco labels, decorations to compartments gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait to Vol. I and 3 engraved folding maps in all. Bookplate of Henry Foley to front pastedown of all vols. Extremities slightly rubbed, boards a touch scuffed, occasional light foxing, generally to outer leaves and plates. An excellent set. 34 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

37 First published between 1776 and 1788, Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in an inimitable prose (PMM 222). 1,750 [119940] 92 (GOLF.) HILTON, Harold H., & Garden G. Smith. The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf. London: published for Golf Illustrated Ltd. by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd, Folio. Original vellum, gilt titles to spine and front cover, decoration to front cover in black, green, and gilt, white silk moiré endpapers, gilt edges, yellow silk page marker. Text printed in red and black. Colour frontispiece, 2 colour plates, and 2 photogravures with tissue guards, and numerous illustrations in the text. Subscriber s bookplate of Graeme Whitelaw to front blank. Boards slightly bowed and lightly soiled, minor fraying to endpapers, light foxing to outer leaves and plates, short closed tear to head of front blank; an excellent copy. deluxe limited issue, number 2 of 100 copies specially bound in vellum and printed for subscribers (900 copies were also issued in smaller format). Murdoch ,500 [120648] 93 (GOLF.) TULLOCH, W. W. The Life of Tom Morris. With glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities. Twenty-seven illustrations. London: T. Werner Laurie, [1907] Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and illustration in black to spine, titles in black and colour illustration to front cover, publisher s device and illustration in black to rear cover. Title page printed in blue and black. Frontispiece with tissue guard, and 25 plates. Spine gently rolled, minor wear to extremities, top edge dust toned, a couple of faint marks to covers, a small bump to bottom edge, occasional light foxing, a very good copy. first edition. This work was dedicated to Old Tom Morris ( ), the epitome of the canny Scottish golfer and golf s greatest icon, on the event of his 87th birthday (ODNB). 1,000 [120607] 94 (GRAHAM, Martha.) ARMITAGE, Merle (ed.) Martha Graham... Los Angeles: Auditorium Building, November 1937 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, photographically illustrated pastedowns. Designs in the text, and full page photographic illustrations. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown, ink ownership stamp to top edge, 1946 ink gift inscription to front free endpaper. Mild toning to spine panel, very light rubbing to ends and corners, sound and internally clean, excellent condition. first edition, inscribed by the subject on the half-title, Best wishes, Martha Graham. This retrospective of the explosive first decade in the career of dancer Martha Graham ( ) was designed and edited by Merle Armitage, published in an edition of 1,000 copies. 1,500 [117237] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 35

38 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With a frontispiece by Graham Robertson. London: Methuen and Co., 1908 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and blocked in gilt (spine showing Toad in his motoring outfit, front cover showing Mole and Rat bowing down before Pan), top edges gilt, untrimmed. Housed in a custom-made, plush-lined green cloth solander box. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Neat ownership inscription of Bouverie on front pastedown; binding lightly rubbed at extremities, small patch of sensitive and superficial restoration to cloth at rear joint, a small few almost imperceptible marks to front cover, touch of foxing to preliminary leaves, but an excellent copy. first edition of one of the central classics of children s fiction (Oxford Companion to Children s Literature). Grolier Club, One Hundred Books Famous in Children s Literature, 61. 5,750 [119514] 96 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1931 Large octavo. Original green cloth-backed grey boards, white paper label to spine printed black, spare label bound in at rear. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom green flat-backed folding case. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. An excellent, unopened copy in the jacket, just faintly toned to spine and edges of panels. signed limited edition, number 45 of 200 large paper copies signed by both Grahame and Shepard. Wind in the Willows was first published (see previous item) with only a frontispiece for illustration. In 1931 Shepard, well-known by then for his illustrations of A. A. Milne s Winnie-the- Pooh series, was asked to illustrate a new edition, following on from Milne s popular adaptation of the book for stage, Toad of Toad Hall. Shepard visited Grahame at his house in Pangbourne to make sketches. At their first meeting Grahame said to him, I love these little people, be kind to them. Shepard s classic illustrations of anthropomorphized animals render this the most popular version of the book even today. 12,500 [120751] 97 GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A. A. Milne. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1951 Quarto. Original white sheep, titles to spine in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original slipcase. 97 Colour frontispiece and 11 colour illustrations by Rackham mounted on same paper as letterpress. Bookplate to front pastedown. Spine a little toned; an excellent copy, internally fresh. deluxe edition, number 258 of 500 copies. This the 100th edition overall; Rackham s illustrations had first appeared in the Limited Editions Club recension of Indeed, Rackham had originally been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but had been unable to accept the commission, a decision he later regretted. Riall p ,250 [119856] 98 GRAVES, Robert. Over the Brazier. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1916 Octavo. Original wrappers, hand-coloured woodcut illustration by Claude Lovat Fraser to front wrapper, titles in black, adverts on inner wrappers. Yapp edges a little creased, spine barely tanned, internally fresh. A truly excellent copy. 36 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

39 first edition of graves s first book, published on 1 May 1916 when he was serving as a subaltern in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the First World War, shortly after his first meeting with fellow poet and Fusilier Siegfried Sassoon. Higginson A1a. 1,250 [120717] 99 GRAVES, Robert. Poems London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1927 Octavo. Original quarter vellum, white paper-covered sides, title to spine in gilt, top edge gilt. With the dust jacket. A couple of faint marks to vellum; a lovely copy in the bright jacket, spine panel just slightly toned. first edition, signed limited issue, number 3 of 115 copies. 1,250 [119554] 100 HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. With a commentary by Havelock Ellis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge black, others uncut. With the dust jacket. Extremities lightly rubbed, spine ends bruised, contents tanned 100 with occasional foxing, overall an excellent copy in the uncommon dust jacket, soiled with some loss to extremities, neat tape repairs to verso. first edition, distinctly uncommon in the jacket. This lesbian novel went through only two small printings in Britain. It was the focus of criticism from the censorious editor of the Sunday Express, James Douglas, who vilified Hall s work as pornographic moral poison. Government officials pressured Jonathan Cape into withdrawing the novel; when Cape slyly leased the rights to a Parisian press, who smuggled copies into Britain, those too were seized by the police and the publisher was prosecuted at trial. It was subsequently banned in Britain, and not republished until ,250 [120049] 101 HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and falcon design to front board in green and black, publisher s device in black to rear cover, top edge grey, others untrimmed. Vignette title page printed in blue and black. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled and lightly browned, browning extending a little onto rear cover, slight rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy. first edition of one of the greatest detective thrillers of the 20th century. It was adapted as a film noir in 1941, written and directed by John Huston, featuring Humphrey Bogart in the lead role. 2,750 [121485] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 37

40 104 I only, and the illustrations (four to a volume) are derived from Lea s Thomas Hardy s Wessex. Purdy, p ,500 [115614] 102 HARDY, Thomas. The Writings. In prose and verse. With prefaces and notes. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1915] 20 vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary green half morocco, titles and centre tool to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated title page with Alfred Jewel vignette printed in red, blue, black, and gilt on japon, frontispiece and 3 photogravure plates on japon with captioned tissue guards in each volume, totalling plates; title pages printed in red and black. Spines slightly faded. An excellent set. the autograph edition, limited to 153 sets signed by the author on an inserted leaf, this set number 3 bound ad personam for the American collector William Beers Crowell. The edition was based on the first 21 volumes of the Wessex Edition, the definitive edition and last authority in questions of text (Purdy), combining The Well-Beloved and A Group of Noble Dames in a single volume, and was partly printed from English plates and partly reset in America. The map of Wessex appears in vol. 103 (HARRISON, Florence.) ROSSETTI, Christina. Poems. Introduction by Alice Meynell. London: Blackie and Son Ltd, 1910 Quarto ( mm). Bound for Asprey in recent light blue crushed morocco, twin red morocco labels to spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt rules to covers and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. With 36 full page colour plates with captioned tissue guards and 34 black and white illustrations to text. A fine copy. first trade edition, beautifully illustrated in art nouveau style by Florence Harrison ( ). 1,500 [119894] 104 HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Road to Serfdom. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1944 Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional pencil annotations to the text. Extrem- 38 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

41 ities gently rubbed with a few minor knocks, contents lightly foxed, overall a bright copy in the rare original dust jacket, with a few tears, a little loss, and one tape repair to verso. first edition, a rare survival in the dust jacket. Hayek s classic polemic against centralisation and collectivism, among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism, was far and away the most eloquent and straightforward statement of his political and economic outlook that [he] ever achieved (ODNB). Cody & Ostrem B-6. 8,500 [120702] 105 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1952 Octavo. Original light blue calico-grain cloth, spine lettered in silver, author s name to front board in blind. With the pictorial dust jacket. An uncommonly bright copy in the fresh jacket with negligible rubbing to spine ends. first edition, with all points of first printing, in the first issue jacket. Grissom A24.1.a; Hanneman A24a. 3,250 [118499] HEMINGWAY, Ernest, & others. American Big Game Fishing. Illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt and from Photographs, Drawings and Maps. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935 Large octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt, decorative maritime frame, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, illustrated blue endpapers. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 118 illustrations, decorative chapter headings and 11 maps. Slight rubbing to extremities, colour loss to cloth at foot of boards, short closed tear to fore edge of half-title; an excellent copy. first edition, one of 850 trade copies. With ten inscriptions done for Ned Schaffer by various contributors to the book, including an inscription and small doodle by Hemingway at the head of his chapter ( Marlin off Cuba ): To Ned Shafer [sic] with best regards [three water drops] 6/5 Ernest Hemingway. Ned Schaffer was a New York stockbroker and well known big game hunter and fisher, who kept a summer house for fishing in New Jersey. These inscriptions are likely to have been done at a gathering in Bimini, the island in the Bahamas used by big game fishers as a base for bluefin tuna and giant marlin fishing. Hemingway, with his three sons, and a number of renowned big game fishers are known to have been visiting that summer; the world record for blue marlin was set there in July by Helen Lerner. Schaffer was primarily involved in tuna fishing, although that summer he appears to have been in Bimini for the marlins, his inscription from S. Kip Farrington Jr. reading: Here s hoping that Ned will soon hang a Brownbill and Blue Marlin that will match his Tuna. He kept a regular correspondence with Thomas Aitken, another correspondent of Hemingway s, whose inscription reads, To Ned Shafer a game guy with big fish, Tommy Aitken. Schaffer competed in a number of fishing tournaments, including Maine s Second Annual Tuna Fishing Tournament, 30 July 1947, at which he was reported missing overnight due to his radio battery expiring. He died aged 49 in This work was issued as Volume 4 of the Derry Library of Sports and is a typically attractive Derrydale production. A further 56 copies were issued in deluxe format, and 100 copies bearing the Hutchinson imprint were sent to England. Grissom B22; Hanneman B18. 12,500 [118419] 106 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 39

42 HENRY VII. Document signed (initialled HR at head), appointing John Mewtas as investigator of ecclesiastical corruption in the Midlands. Calais: 16 November 1492 Oblong folio, 1pp, vellum leaf, initialled at head HR, greater part of Royal Signet seal, two small holes. Mounted on a red velvet ground, glazed, and framed. Writing from Calais and styling himself king of ffraunce and of England and lord of Ireland, Henry shows a characteristically keen concern with money. Henry had been in Calais since October, besieging Boulogne and on 3 November at Étaples obtaining peace with the French king Charles VIII on reasonable terms a generous annual payment in compensation for his expenses in the Breton war, a French promise to expel Perkin Warbeck and his supporters, and French pensions for eight of his councillors. But financial matters in England still preoccupied him. The king lays charges of fraud and what we would call creative accounting against diverse abbeyes priouris collegies parish churches chapelles Gildes and Chauntries Within our counties of Warwik Northampton and Worcester... diverse of the said landes rentes and Ten[emen]tes bee put in feoffement for the Use and behove of the said places and the ministres of the same by colourable wayes of amortisement Without oure sp[ec]ial auctorite or licence therupon obteigned in defraude and abusion of Us... Because We ne Wol ner may suffre to bee soo Usurpantly touched, Henry authorises John Meautis [Mewtas], our Secretary for the frenshe tong, and John Wylde and Benet Medley, clerks of the signet, to investigate the matter and seize lands in the king s name. For theffectuel execucion of the premisses as for the faithful s[er]vices doon Unto Us by our s[er]vantes beforenamed in our great Voiage into the parties of fraunce, Henry informs the sheriffs, escheators, bailiffs, constables, and other officers to whom the letter is 107 generally addressed that he has granted 20 a year to Meautis, Wylde, and Medley out of the receipts of their work. John Mewtas, a native of Normandy, had come to England with Henry in He served as French secretary to both Henry VII and Henry VIII between 1491 and His grandson Sir Peter Mewtas (d. 1562) was one of the English dignitaries greeting Anne of Cleves at Calais in 1540; he served as an emissary to Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth I. 22,500 [116939] 108 HOOKER, Sir William Jackson, & John Charles Lyons. A Century of Orchidaceous Plants selected from Curtis s Botanical Magazine... London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 Quarto ( mm). Contemporary reddish brown pebble-grain morocco sometime neatly rebacked with original richly gilt spine laid down, two-line gilt border on sides, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 100 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates (with tissue guards) by Walter Hood Fitch. Light abrasions to front cover. An excellent copy. 40 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

43 first edition, from the knowsley library of the earl of derby, with his armorial bookplate, and the shelf mark of the Back Library at Knowsley noted on the front free endpaper verso; also annotated at the head of the half-title from Boone April 15th 1849 (just shaved by the binder) almost certainly a reference to the London bookseller/publisher T. & W. Boone. The politician and naturalist Edward Smith Stanley, 13th earl of Derby ( ), became one of the figureheads of the science of zoological classification, particularly the taxonomy of birds. He was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, and president of the Zoological Society of London for 20 years from 1831 until his death. He not only encouraged the reading of accounts of new species by chairing meetings of the two societies, but contributed many scientific papers himself to the proceedings of the Zoological Society and donated many specimens to its collections... The Knowsley Museum is estimated to have included 20,000 mammals, birds, and lower vertebrates; some invertebrates, such as specimens of molluscs, are known to have been donated to the British Museum before Derby s death (ODNB). The illustrations here are by Walter Hood Fitch ( ), described by Hooker s son, Sir Joseph Hooker, as an incomparable botanical artist (cited in Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration, 1950, p. 224). Fitch remains the most outstanding botanical artist of his day in Europe. He was the first draughtsman to produce really satisfactory drawings from dried herbarium specimens, and for this alone botanists in England would remain forever in his debt. He was always his own lithographer, and became a skilled exponent of the art (ibid.). Nissen 918 (erroneously dating the first edition to 1846); not in Plesch or Pritzel. 6,500 [118950] 109 HUGO, Victor. Les Misérables. A Novel. Translated from the original French by Chas E. Wilbour. New York: Carleton (late Rudd & Carleton), vols. in 1, octavo ( mm). Contemporary half calf, red morocco label, compartments ruled in blind and gilt, raised bands elaborately decorated in gilt, marbled paper boards, brown endpapers, marbled edges. Bound without the publisher s notices to the front and the rear advertisements as often. Printed in double column. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper dated 1902, faint ownership signature to title page of Saint Denis. Extremities a little worn, hinges gently cracked but firm, contents lightly tanned with occasional minor spotting and two nicks to upper edges of leaves 9.7 and 10.6 of Saint Denis, otherwise a very good copy. first u.s. edition and first edition in english, published within months of the first French edition. The authorised British translation by Lascelles Wraxall appeared several months later in October See Olin H. Moore, Some Translations of Les Misérables, Modern Language Notes, Vol. 74, No. 3 (March 1959), pp ,500 [120046] 110 HULLMANDEL, Charles (trans.) A Manual of Lithography or Memoir on the Lithographical Experiments Made in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges. Clearly Explaining the Whole Art, as well as all the Accidents that may Happen in Printing, and the Different Methods of Avoiding Them. London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1820 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary half calf, smooth spine with flat gilt in compartments, combed paste paper sides. 2 folding engraved plates depicting the lithographic process. Light wear to extremities, joints tender, a few marks on endpapers, internally clean, a very good copy. first edition in english, a translation of Mémoire sur les expériences lithographiques (1819) by Colonel Antoine Raucourt. The printer Charles Hullmandel ( ) was a major figure in British lithography, who refined the process and managed to inspire confidence among artists in a process that up until then had been regarded in Britain as unreliable (ODNB). With English manuscript notes in ink and pencil indicating practical use, dated 1833, to the last three quires and rear pastedown, including an engraved roundel tipped-in to the last page of text suggesting (somewhat puzzlingly) that the book was bought at the time in Paris. 1,200 [121281] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 41

44 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine gilt on blue ground, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom quarter yellow morocco and marbled paper covered solander box. Spine a little darkened, internally bright; an excellent copy. first edition, signed limited issue, number 17 of 314 copies specially bound and signed by the author. A nice association copy: from the library of Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher ( ), with his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Between 1928 and 1934 Brett financed the literary journal Life and Letters, to which Huxley was a contributor. Brett s sister, Dorothy Eugénie Brett ( ), was the model for Jenny, the deaf, continually sketching character in Huxley s first book, Crome Yellow (1921). 5,750 [117329] 112 INGERSOLL, Charles J. Historical Sketch of the Second War between the United States of America, and Great Britain, declared by Act of Congress, the 18th of June, 1812, and concluded by peace, the 15th of February, 1815; [together with:] History of the Second War [second series]. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, vols., octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century red half morocco by Zaehnsdorf for the Chicago booksellerpublisher A. C. McClurg & Co., spines gilt-ruled on the raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled sides and endpapers. Vol. II printed in double-columns. One or two gatherings lightly toned. An excellent set. first edition of an important history of the War of 1812 by Charles Jared Ingersoll ( ), the bright and knowledgeable Republican who sat in the Thirteenth Congress, [and who] wrote two valuable treatises [the present works] that further illuminate the domestic history of the war (Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict, 1995, p. 321). Complete sets are scarce (Sabin). Howes I-37; Sabin ,500 [120027] 113 ISHERWOOD, Christopher. Sally Bowles. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine very gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, a little foxing to fore edge; a very good copy in the jacket with browned spine, short closed tears to spine ends, nicks and slight creasing to extremities, and light soiling to panels. first edition, signed by the author on the title page. Sally Bowles was Isherwood s fourth solo publication, his second Berlin novel, and was subsequently incorporated into Goodbye to Berlin (1939). 2,500 [121305] 114 JANSSON, Tove. Comet in Moominland. Translated by Elizabeth Portch. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1951 Octavo. Original cream boards, titles to spine in red, Moomin vignette to foot of front cover. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Jansson. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Slight bumps to spine ends, light foxing to edges; an excellent, bright copy in the dust jacket, small nicks to extremities. first edition in english of the second book in the Moomin series. It was first published in Swedish in 1946, and introduces many of the main characters, such as Snufkin and the Snorkmaiden. An uncommon work. 1,250 [118773] 42 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

45 (JAZZ.) ARMSTRONG, Louis. Sugar Foot Stomp. Music by Joe Oliver. Words by Walter Melrose. Successfully featured by King Oliver s Creole Jazz Band. Chicago: Melrose Bros. Music Company, 1926 Bifolium colour-printed exterior, single sheet loosely inserted, printed both sides. Front wrap printed in blue and orange, with a band portrait by Daguerre of Chicago within an elaborate foliate border. A little rubbed at the extremities, separating at the spine with archival tape repair, light toning, remains very good. first edition, first issue. A song of contested origins, based on Dippermouth Blues, a tune for which Satchmo claimed credit from his days with King Oliver, it was rearranged by Don Redman for the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, when Armstrong had joined them, under the present title. Redman s arrangement updated the song, which now sounded as though it had shed its threadbare overalls for a stylish tuxedo. Louis delivers his wah-wah solo with offhand dignity rather than mocking rasp, suggesting a terribly elegant song. Smack [Henderson] himself considered this one of the best recordings the orchestra ever made, if not THE best, and it became the one most associated with the still-developing sound of New York jazz. None of the glory or credit devolved on 116 Louis, however, and it is no wonder he felt overlooked and underappreciated (Gergreen, Louis Armstrong, p. 386). Here the song is tricked out as a King Oliver number with a great group portrait featuring Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Honoré Dutrey, Johnny and Baby Dodds, Bill Johnson, and the King himself. This first issue is uncommon with OCLC recording just three copies. 1,500 [98911] 116 (JAZZ.) BAKER, Chet. Original poster, inscribed. London: The Canteen, 1983 Original hand-drawn and collaged poster ( mm). Sight chipping and splitting at the edges, one short split repaired verso, otherwise very good. an extremely unusual souvenir of baker s week-long residency at the canteen, inscribed by him: I enjoyed my engagement here at the Canteen so very much. Thanks Chet Baker London 83. It was in 1983 that long-time admirer Elvis Costello invited Baker to solo on the Robert Wyatt song Shipbuilding on his album Punch the Clock, shifting Baker s comeback, which had begun in the late 1970s, into a higher gear, and introducing his intimate, romantic playing style and musicien maudit personal style to a wider, very receptive audience. The Canteen was a short-lived jazz club on Great Queen Street in Covent Garden, occupying premises that had formerly been Blitz, the New Romantic club. 750 [90951] 117 (JAZZ.) CLAXTON, William. Jazz west coast: a portfolio of photographs. Hollywood, CA: Linear Productions, Inc., 1955 Quarto. Wire-stiched in the original illustrated card wrappers. 76 pages, plus adverts, profusely illustrated from Claxton s photographs. Wrappers a little rubbed and with a few creases and chips, text-block browning at the edges, but overall very good. extremely uncommon collection of claxton s first publication, his superb evocations of the West Coast jazz scene, this copy boldly signed by Claxton on the half-title. Art-directed by Lee Friedlander and Stuart Fox, edited by Claxton himself together with Nesuhi Ertegun, soon to be VP at Atlantic, and Richard Bock, founder of Pacific Jazz, who had hired Claxton as his art director, and for whose enterprises this would appear to be a promotional item. 1,250 [111368] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 43

46 (JAZZ.) CLAXTON, William. Original studio print of Billie Holiday, signed by Claxton. New York: William Claxton, 2001 Silver gelatin print (image mm, overall mm) printed in 2001, with the photographer s wet stamp and signature verso. Cream card window mount. Very good. Presented in a black frame with conservation mount & Perspex. A wonderfully off guard image of Lady Day, caught strikingly in an elegant white scarf against a dense black background, taken in LA in In January of that year she cut some memorable sides with Norman Granz, which were to be her last with the producer. William Claxton indisputably became one of the greatest photographers of the jazz scene, with his sensitive images of artists such as Baker and Bird, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, and many others, appearing in countless magazines and record covers since the 1950s. When asked why he liked to photograph jazz musicians, Claxton replied: First, and most important, I love their music. But I am also fascinated by the diverse qualities they possess. They have ingenuousness, a sort of open, innocent attitude. Yet at the same time they display a strong discipline in their dedication to their craft. And I also admire their individualism: Their difference in character and their musical expression. 3,500 [117734] 119 (JAZZ: GERSHWIN, George & Ira.) GOLDBERG, Isaac. George Gershwin; A Study in American Music. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary red morocco presentation binding, lettered Gershwin to spine and to front board within a single fillet panel, single gilt rule to turn-ins, red endpapers, top edge red, others uncut; original pictorial endpapers retained. Portrait frontispiece and 15 plates, caricature to half-title, musical notation to title page and text. Light restoration of scuff to front joint, but overall very good. first edition, this copy signed by the dedicatee Ira Gershwin in pencil on the front free endpaper. This early biography of the great American composer is dedicated by the author to George s lyricist brother, Ira, in many respects the family chronicler, who offered Goldberg his untiring assistance (Preface). The stylish contemporary binding is almost certainly the work of impresario-designer Merle Armitage, whose presentation copy from George was bound almost identically. The first owner, whose small book-label is on the front free endpaper recto, was Olive Skogerson, a Swedish-American immigrant who worked her way up from stenographer to comptroller with the Fox Motion Picture Studio. In the year of publication the Gershwins scored the romantic comedy Delicious for Fox, although little of their work made the final cut. 3,250 [117011] 120 (JAZZ.) VAN VECHTEN, Carl. Original portrait photograph of George Gershwin. New York: 1937 Original sepia-toned silver gelatin print ( mm). Presented in corner mounts behind double window mount. One or two tiny surface marks, slight surface rolling at the corners, but overall very well preserved with deep velvet tone. thoughtful portrait study, signed and dated by van vechten on verso in red ink in his characteristic minuscule handwriting: photograph by Carl Van Vechten March 28, 1933 XII c: 4. Despite the variance in dating, the image appears to be number four of a series listed in the Library of Congress s collection as dating from 28 March The name George Gershwin is also pencilled across the back in signature style in the handwriting of Irene Gallagher. Gallagher was Girl Friday 44 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

47 120 to music publisher Max Dreyfus the president of Chappell & Co., and publisher of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart and knew all the up-and-coming young composers of the day. This photograph is from her estate. Van Vechten met Gershwin in 1919 and was instrumental in his rise to fame, bringing the young composer together with adventurous Canadian- American mezzo Eva Gauthier whose annual concert at the Aeolian Hall for 1923 was entitled Recital of Ancient and Modern Music for Voice, and featured songs by Byrd, Bellini, Bartok and Berlin, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Kern, and of course Gershwin: Mr. Gershwin, at the piano, provided accompaniments which were something like works of art in their own genre, and in Mme. Gautheir s encore his own Do it Again raised a gale of laughter by slyly inserting a phrase from Scheherazade at an appropriate moment (Musical America, 10 November 1923). This was Gershwin s first appearance on a New York concert platform. In February 1924, Rhapsody in Blue was premiered at the same venue as part of the concert An Experiment in Modern Music featuring Paul Whiteman s Palais Royal Orchestra. It was reviewed by Van Vechten in Vanity Fair in an article entitled George Gershwin: An American Composer Who Is Writing Notable Music in the Jazz Idiom, describing Rhapsody as the finest piece of serious music that had ever come out of America. This was the first and most important review that Gershwin was to receive he had arrived. 2,000 [97471] 121 JOHNSON, Charles. A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street- Robbers, &c. To which is added, a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Notorious Pyrates... London: J. Janeway, 1734 Small folio ( mm). Late 19th-century red morocco by Bedford, richly gilt spine, two-line gilt border on sides enclosing gilt French fillet panel with corner fleurons, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Title page printed in red and black, 26 copperplates by Basire, Bowles, Toms, Atkins, Parr or Pritchard after Nicholls or Jett, woodcut initials and ornaments. The Hoe copy, with book label (his library sale, Anderson, 7 Jan. 1912, lot 1797). Joints and extremities professionally refurbished; an excellent copy, tall, clean and crisp. first edition (with the catchword As on the first page of the introduction). Originally published in 72 weekly numbers, Johnson s famous book is actually a compilation of excerpts from Alexander Smith s History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highwaymen (1714) and Johnson s own earlier publication A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates (1724). Johnson s evident familiarity with seamen s language suggests that he spent time at sea and he may well have been a sea captain (ODNB). The illustrations, largely engraved by Isaac Basire after Nicholls, have a robust Hogarthian vigour and a number exemplify the archetypal perception of the highwayman holding up a stage coach at gunpoint. 12,500 [120345] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 45

48 JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language... In Two Volumes. The Sixth Edition. London: for J. F. and C. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Payne and Son, W. Owen, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley [& 19 others in London], vols., quarto ( mm). Near-contemporary tree calf, gilt banded flat spines, red and green morocco twin labels, green edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Cook after Reynolds; printed in triple columns. Front joint of vol. II a little tender, portrait a little foxed and offset onto title page, general foxing or toning. An attractively bound copy. first authorized quarto edition, and the sixth edition overall, preceded by a pirate Dublin edition the previous year and issued following Johnson s death in Courtney & Smith p ,250 [120346] 123 JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936 Crown octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, block design of the bow first designed by Eric Gill gilt to front board gilt, raised bands, titles to spine gilt, twin rule to turn ins, marble endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy. first uk edition, number 883 of 900 copies on japon, unsigned. The Bodley Head Ulysses established the text for the succeeding 25 years and printed as appendices the International Letter of Protest against Samuel Roth s piracy and the famous legal judgement by John M. Woolsey lifting the ban on the publishing of the book in America. Slocum & Cahoon A23. 2,750 [121336] 124 KENNEDY, Robert F. The Enemy Within. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1960 Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, untrimmed. With the dust jacket. 14 pages of monochrome illustrations from photographs. Slight fading along board edges, tiny stain to top edge, an excellent copy with the jacket slightly rubbed at the ends and corners. first edition, presentation copy, and a great cross-party association for Bobby Kennedy s first book, inscribed on the front free endpaper, To my old antagonist Senator Goldwater from his friend Bob Kennedy. Concerning the McLellan Committee s enquiry into union and management corruption, the book focusses on Jimmy Hoffa s links to organised crime. Barry Morris Goldwater ( ), who is mentioned on 22 pages in the book, was five-term United States Senator from Arizona ( , ) and the Republican Party s nominee for President in the 1964 election. He is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. His landslide defeat to Lyndon B. Johnson opened the door for Johnson and a Congress dominated by Democrats to pass the Great Society programs. Goldwater returned to the Senate in 1969, by which time the leadership of the conservative movement had moved to Reagan. In 1974 Goldwater was the man who successfully urged Richard Nixon (whom he described as the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life ) to resign at the height of the Watergate scandal. Goldwater retired in 1987, and was succeeded in office by John McCain. 8,500 [120914] 125 (KENT, Rockwell.) MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or The Whale. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, vols., large quarto. Original black cloth, bevelled boards, titles and vignettes to spines in silver, abstract design and vol. numbers within simple frame to front boards in sil- 46 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

49 ver, top edges black, others uncut. With the original clear plastic dust jackets with plain paper flaps. Housed in the original aluminium slipcase. Wood-engravings throughout by Rockwell Kent. Illustrations faintly offset, mild adhesive staining to vol. 1 pastedowns from dust jackets; the dust jackets slightly yellowed on spines, and rubbed and cockled overall, with mild chipping to outer corners, a sliver of loss to the bottom edge of vol. 1 rear panel, old tape repair to the head of the front flap of vol. 2 (with concomitant trivial marking to the board), vol. 3 jacket with a short split on spine and the front flap secured by tape; mottling to underside of slipcase. A superb set, extremely well-preserved owing to the unusual survival of the dust jackets and the slipcase. first rockwell kent edition, deluxe issue, retaining both the clear plastic jackets and the aluminium slipcase, rare in this condition; one of 1,000 sets published. This is one of the finest editions of Melville s masterpiece and one of the great American illustrated books of the 20th century. In 1926, Rockwell Kent ( ), then just beginning to establish his fame as an artist, was approached by R. R. Donnelley and Sons to illustrate a new edition of Richard Henry Dana s Two Years Before the Mast. Kent demurred, suggesting Moby Dick instead. Kent was given complete freedom to design and illustrate the three-volume set. The resulting work has been credited with reviving public interest in a sublime but difficult novel. Hutner & Kelly, Fine Printed Books , 22. 7,500 [121505] 126 KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking Press, 1957 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front cover in white, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to extremities, slight foxing to endpapers, an excellent copy in the jacket with unfaded spine panel, a few creases, a couple of minor nicks and chips to extremities, short closed tear to foot of front panel and head of rear panel. first edition. Charters A2a. 3,750 [121491] 127 KERR, Judith. Mog the forgetful cat. London: William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd, 1970 Large octavo. Publisher s pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Ends gently bumped, otherwise fine, in the very scarce jacket. first edition, rare presentation copy, inscribed To Sheila Macleod in friendship and gratitude! Judith Kneale (Kerr had married screenwriter Nigel Kneale in 1954). The recipient was fellow author Sheila Macleod (b. 1939), whose first novel The Moving Accident was, like Kerr s Orlando, published in Her second work, the Snow White Soliloquies, was published in the year of Mog s publication. 3,750 [120804] 128 KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1936 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, two line border to head and foot of covers in blind. A few underlinings and marginal marks in pale pink pencil. Extremities lightly rubbed, top edge a little dusty. A very good copy. first edition. The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle... in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate (PMM). Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man ,250 [115592] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 47

50 KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With two illustrations by J. Noel Paton. London: Macmillan and Co., 1863 Square octavo ( mm). Recent green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and decorations to spine in compartments, gilt vignettes and frames to covers, turn-ins and gilt edges, marbled endpapers. With the original cloth front cover bound in at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plate and woodcut initials. Bookseller s stamp to front free endpaper verso. Boards slightly bowed, grease spot to rear cover, small tear and loss to final leaf, not affecting text; an excellent copy. first edition, first issue, with the L Envoi leaf: Kingsley had second thoughts about this while the book was being printed, and he had the leaf removed, but not before a few hundred copies of the book had already gone forth (Gottlieb, Early Children s Books and Their Illustration, 113). Kingsley s book initiated the first golden age of children s books in England. 1,950 [120414] 130 KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book; [together with:] The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co & works, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines lettered and blocked in gilt, large pictorial blocks to front covers gilt, twin wavy rules to spines extending over front covers, gilt edges, dark green coated endpapers. Illustrations to text by J. L. Kipling, W. H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. Bookseller s ticket to front pastedown of vol. I. Spines gently rolled and slightly faded, a little rubbing to spine ends, faint marks to covers, occasional light foxing to contents. An excellent, bright set. first editions of Kipling s classic tales. Martindell 61 & 63; Stewart 123 & ,250 [116122] 131 LANG, Andrew (ed.) [Complete set of the Fairy Books.] London: Longmans, Green & Co., works, octavo. Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in early 20th-century crushed morocco of colours appropriate to each work, spines gilt-tooled in compartments with gilt titles direct, each board decorated with a different gilt-tooled and colour onlay design, quadruple gilt border to sides, elaborate gilt-roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Bound retaining the original cloth spine and front panel, and the half-titles. Illustrations by Henry J. Ford, G. P. Jacomb Hood, and others, in colour and black and white, as plates and in the text. Occasional minor scuffs to corners, no spotting within and the spines unsunned, a beautiful bright set in excellent condition. first editions, a complete set of Lang s beautifully produced Fairy Book series, exquisitely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, each work in its appropriate colour, with differing onlaid and gilt designs to the covers, and the original decorative cloth bound in. The Fairy Books, edited by Andrew Lang and written up by his wife Nora, were unprecedented in the international scope of their sources, and highly influential in giving many tales their first appearance in English. Though sets are sometimes found in recent leather bindings, this Sangorskibound collection is rare both in the high quality of the work and the early date of its execution. 15,000 [121351] 132 LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927 Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, title gilt to spine, tan buckram sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Coloured portrait frontispiece, 10 coloured 48 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

51 plates, 8 black and white plates, folding map at rear. A little rubbing to edges; an excellent copy. first edition, large paper issue, number 127 of 315 copies. The costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom had ballooned to such an extent that Lawrence eventually agreed to the publication of an abridgement. The profits from this publication made the fortunes of the Cape publishing house. Laid-in is a promotional bookseller s flyer. O Brien A101. 2,000 [119999] 133 (LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. London: Jonathan Cape, vols., large octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in reddish brown morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, rules to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy. new and definitive edition. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of readers for this classic of travel. This definitive edition of 1936 was published in a format matching that of the 1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 2,250 [121339] 134 (LAWRENCE, T. E., trans.) HOMER. The Odyssey of Homer. London: printed in England [colophon:] Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers, 1932 Quarto. Original black full morocco by W.H. Smith, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt, untrimmed. With the slipcase. 26 woodcut roundels printed in gold and black (with some tissue guards). Light wear to slipcase, minor abrasions to binding, short split at head of front joint, pale offsetting from roundels to letterpress, skilful repair to paper flaw in blank margin of penultimate leaf of Book XXIV. An excellent copy, with the slipcase. first and limited edition of lawrence s translation, a remarkable association copy, inscribed to sydney everett by three of the four principal collaborators: Lawrence, whose inscription as TE Shaw, the name he used in the Tank Corps is a simple signature at the end of the concluding Translator s Note; Bruce Rogers, This copy to Sydney Everett With appreciation of his devotion to the making of this book, Bruce Rogers 1933, and Wilfred Merton (Sir Emery Walker s business partner), To Sydney Everett, who with loving care distributed this book, Wilfred Merton The inscription of this copy presumably took place after the death, on 22 July 1933, of the other collaborator, Sir Emery Walker; the book was issued in autumn Lawrence was signally reluctant to sign this book (his name appears nowhere in print in its pages) and association copies of any description are notably rare. One of 530 copies published. O Brien A ,000 [120370] 134 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 49

52 LE GUIN, Ursula K. [The Earthsea Quartet:] A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore; Tehanu. Berkeley, CA, & New York: Parnassus Press / Atheneum, works, octavo. Original cloth, with the dust jackets. A Wizard of Earthsea with illustrations by Ruth Robbins; Tombs of Atuan and Farthest Shore with illustrations by Gail Garraty. Generally excellent condition, The Farthest Shore with creasing and closed tears to edges of jacket and some tape repair, also price-clipped, the others not so. first editions of the earthsea quartet, each copy signed by the author. The latter three titles are first printings, the Wizard of Earthsea one of 16,200 copies from the Parnassus second or third printing (without the faint vertical smudge to the title page of all 6,800 first printing copies, most of which went to libraries). Atuan is in the first state (with the gilt stamped covers and Reinforced Binding $5.50 jacket without the Newberry Award stamp) and inscribed To Chris, Ursula le Guin on the title page. All first edition copies of this fantasy classic are very scarce signed or inscribed. There are a few later and earlier iterations of the Earthsea saga, but these four full-length novels are often grouped together and were later collectively published as the Earthsea Quartet. 3,000 [117175] LEAR, Moya Olsen. Bill and Moya Lear: an Unforgettable Flight. Nevada: Jack Bacon and Company, 1996 Octavo. Original black leather-backed blue marbled paper sides by Mike Roswell, gilt rule to backstrip, gilt lettering to spine, blue illustrated endpapers. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase. With 16 leaves of photographic reproductions. Slight rubbing to extremities; an excellent, bright copy. first edition, signed limited issue, one of 20 copies marked for presentation and signed by the author, this copy additionally signed on the title page by the astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, and the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, together with the Chief Engineering Test Pilot for Lear Jet Industries, Hank Beaird, and Clay Lacy, founder and chief executive officer of Clay Lacy Aviation. There were a further 26 lettered copies signed by the author, from the total edition of 5,000 copies. 5,000 [120309] 137 LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. London: Heinemann, 1960 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, spine ends very slightly rubbed, an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with slight creasing to extremities. first uk edition. It was first published in the US earlier the same year. 1,250 [121397] 138 LEE, Laurie. Cider with Rosie. London: The Hogarth Press, 1959 Octavo. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece drawing and illustrations to text by John Ward. A very good copy in the jacket with a little rubbing to extremities and slightly toned spine panel. first edition, a superb literary association copy, inscribed by the author to christina foyle, owner of foyle s bookshop, and her husband on the front free endpaper, For Ronnie & Christina who give writers wings from the author, with affection, with Foyle s bookseller s ticket to the front pastedown. Laid-in is an autograph letter from the author 50 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

53 to Ronnie, dated 23 February 1972 and on Lee s headed paper. The letter acknowledges receipt of two Rosies, and encloses by return the Beeleigh copy, duly inscribed a reference to Beeleigh Abbey, Christina s house. Lee writes I was most touched that you took the trouble to send me the Burning Piano and most impressed that you found one (they were all impounded in Gloucestershire), alluding to the issue point for the first edition: the passage on p. 272, which described a fire at the piano-works almost every year, it seemed to be a good way of balancing the books. Lee was sued for libel, and the passage removed from subsequent editions. Accompanying the book are two Christmas cards from the author to the couple, one of which features a printed excerpt from Cider with Rosie, the other an illustration by John Ward, also from the book. 1,850 [121195] 139 LEWIS, C. S. [The Chronicles of Narnia:] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician s Nephew; The Last Battle. London: Geoffrey Bles, [The Bodley Head] works, octavo ( mm). Recent dark red morocco, raised bands to spines, titles and extra decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a matching cloth slipcase. With colour frontispieces and black and white illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent set. first editions of this complete set of the narnia series. The immediate inspiration for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was a series of nightmares that Lewis had had about Lions. More seriously, he was concerned to do for children what he had done for an adult readership in his science fiction trilogy... The Narnia novels are not allegorical; they are entirely in keeping with the belief, shared by Lewis and his close friend and Oxford colleague Tolkien, that stories in themselves, especially of the mythical type, can give spiritual nourishment without imparting abstract meaning... As Naomi Lewis has written, the books are intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly unimaginative readers, and must be judged the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author. Oxford Companion to Children Literature, p ,000 [116483] 140 LEWIS, Cecil. Sagittarius Rising. London: Peter Davies, 1936 Octavo. Original grey marl cloth, titles to spine in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Faint foxing to spine, top edge faintly dust toned, light offsetting to endpapers; an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with browned spine, nicks to extremities. first edition in the exceptionally uncommon dust jacket, of one of the classics of Great War literature, widely considered the finest flying memoir of the war. At seventeen, standing 6 feet 4 inches tall and equipped with a precocious intelligence, Lewis lied about his age to join the Royal Flying Corps. He celebrated his 18th birthday in France, flying patrols over the western front at a time when the average life expectancy of a pilot was three weeks. On 1 July 1916 he flew the first patrol of the Somme offensive and witnessed the mile-high column of earth thrown up by the detonation of mines under the German positions. Later he duelled with the circus of Manfred von Richthofen and was the last man to see the aircraft of Albert Ball VC, the allied ace who vanished in a bank of cloud. Lewis also hunted Gotha airships over London by moonlight, and in 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross for continuous bravery (ODNB). 3,500 [119794] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 51

54 LISSITZKY, El (Lazar.) Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken. Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Ausstellung Pressa, Köln Cologne: M. Dumont Shauberg, 1928 Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original orange card wrappers, title with Soviet roundel to the front panel in black, yapp edges. Sepia-toned photogravure leporello, extending 2350 mm. Light dusting of the wrappers which show some mild crimping and creasing to the yapp edges, one very short split on one of the folds of the leporello, which also has three short strips of adhesion loss to one panel, production flaw, but in all respects is a very good copy, remarkably well-preserved. first edition, german language issue, of the catalogue for the Soviet Union s pavilion at the 1928 Cologne Pressa exhibition, the first major international exhibition devoted to modern newspaper technology and communications technology, staged over six months the event attracted 1,500 exhibitors from 43 countries, and was said to have drawn around five million visitors. El Lissitzky was responsible for the entire design of Soviet Union s contribution. This remarkable catalogue remains as a persuasive vestige of the overall conception, the centrepiece being the lengthy folding plate often damaged or missing featuring a superb photomontage representing the contents of the pavilion, superimposed with Lissitzky s typographical descriptive interventions in red. Described by Deutsche Bibliographie as zu den bedeutendsten typographischen Gestaltungen Lissitzkys ( one of Lissitzky s most important typographic designs ). DB VI, 681; Küppers, Gesamtentwurf der Ausstellung und künstlerische Leitung ebenfalls von El Lissitzky, 144; Lang, Konstruktivismus 59; Wye & Rowell, The Russian Avant Garde book, p. 240; 9,500 [117204] 142 (MAGNA CARTA.) Magna Charta, cum statutis quae Antiqua vocantur... London: Richard Tottel, 12 June 1556 [but possibly 1560] 2 parts in 1 vol., small octavo ( mm). Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, blind stamp rule border and central shield device to boards. Printed in black letter, with several woodcut initials. Text principally in Law French but also in Latin and English. Ownership inscription of Daniel Ffillis at head of title, a second inscription reading Sym. Sommur Appr. Grayes Inn below (this copy possibly belonging to an appraiser associated with the law court), marginal annotations throughout in ink in at least two contemporary hands. Boards rubbed, corners exposed, one or two small wormholes to spine and rear board; holes punched in board edges for ties, ties now lacking, front endpapers missing; 2 leaves (154 5) in first part with large dog-ears folded in, a little light marginal staining; still a very attractive copy. the first magna carta published by richard tottel, which includes the first published version of the Statutes of the Realm; one of two variants published for 1556, with line 1 of the title page to the second part reading SECUNDA and dated 1556 (some copies are dated 1555). Another edition was published in the same year by Thomas Marshe. Ames 2603; Beale S16 & S24; Clarke s Bibliotheca Legum p. 288; ESTC S ,500 [121070] 143 MALLEY, Ern. [pseud. James McAuley & Harold Stewart.] The Darkening Ecliptic. In: Angry Penguins, 1944 Autumn Number to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley. Melbourne & Adelaide: Reed & Harris, 1944 Small quarto-sized magazine, original wrappers with text in black and colour Nolan illustration to front wrapper. Ownership inscription to front wrapper. Small chip from the wrappers at ends of spine, a few minor marks to wrappers, but otherwise a remarkably bright and wellpreserved copy, excellent condition. first edition, the original Angry Penguins issue of the poems that constituted one of the great 52 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

55 literary hoaxes of the century. Ern Malley s The Darkening Ecliptic made its first appearance in this special commemorative autumn (actually June) 1944 number of Australia s leading modernist literary magazine. The poems were in fact the work of James McAuley ( ) and Harold Stewart ( ), parodying modernist tropes, and the resulting furore saw the magazine forced to close. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature observes that the vigorous and legitimate movement for modernism in Australian writing... received a severe setback, and the conservative element was undoubtedly strengthened. The longer term effect, however, was more subtle and ironic. In time poets such as John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Robert Hughes hailed the poems as successful examples of surrealist poetry. Hughes claimed that Malley s creation proved the validity of surrealist procedures: that in letting down their guard, opening themselves to free association and chance, McAuley and Stewart had reached inspiration by the side-door of parody. Certainly Malley s poems are today far more widely read than those of his creators. Original copies of this issue of Angry Penguins are rare, no doubt in part due to the impounding of many copies by the police as the result of the obscenity trial which the editor, Max Harris, was forced to endure. 1,250 [120830] 144 MEŸER, H. L. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs. London: [vols. I II] G. W. Nickisson; [vols. III VI] Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.; [vol. VII] Willis and Sotheran, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco, richly gilt spines, gilt two-line border on sides enclosing gilt roll-tool border, gilt edges, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marbled endpapers. 427 handcoloured lithograph plates (105 showing eggs), 7 uncoloured plates, by Meyer and Mary Anne Meyer. From the library of Irish judge and discerning book collector William O Brien ( ), which was endowed on his death to the Milltown Park Jesuit Library, Dublin; this set carries his post-mortem bookplate, Milltown Park library tickets, bequest labels and library stamps (mostly to titles). Scattered minor spotting to covers, occasional foxing. An excellent set. first octavo edition, with the Willis and Sotheran reissue of volume VII (the Preface to volume I is dated 1852). The original folio edition of is described by Mullens and Swann as one of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology. Henry Leonard Meÿer involved his whole family in the production of his books, his wife assisting with drawing and lithography and his children with the hand-colouring (see Christine Jackson, Bird Illustrators: Some Artists in Early Lithography). Mullens & Swann pp ,500 [120503] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 53

56 145 MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1939 Octavo. Original white wrappers, printed in red, titles printed in black to spine and front cover. Spine gently rolled and lightly browned, faint soiling to rear cover, slight creasing and nicks to extremities; an excellent copy. first edition, second issue, with the price to the spine and foot of the front flap, with the yellow errata slip tipped-in as issued. Miller s first three books, of which this is the third, were banned in the United States and England for obscene content; Tropic of Capricorn was not published in the US until This copy with a newspaper clipping laid in of a review from the Sunday Telegraph, 21 July 1991, of Dearborn s biography of Miller, The Happiest Man Alive. 1,500 [121302] 146 MILNE, A. A. The Day s Play. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, , 147 Octavo. Original red cloth, title and decorations to spine and front cover gilt. Spine faded, marks and rubbing to front cover. A very good copy. inscribed by the author to his future wife, dorothy de sélincourt, on the occasion of their engagement, on the front free endpaper, To my Dorothy with the author s heart. January 23rd, 1913, and with Dorothy s illustrated bookplate to the front pastedown. The two first met in January 1913 while buying ski boots coincidentally they were headed for the same slopes in Switzerland and were staying at the same hotel. After a brief courtship, they announced their engagement that same month and were married six months later. This is one of two books that Milne presented to Dorothy on the day he returned to London from that first skiing holiday, the other being a copy of The Holiday Round. This is the third edition, and is the first of Milne s four collections of his contributions to Punch. The book was well-received, and had reached its third edition just four months after publication, and was in its fourth when his second collection, The Holiday Round, was published the following year. Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life, 1990, pp. 142, [120423] 147 MILNE, A. A. Once a Week. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1914 Octavo. Original purple cloth, title and decoration to spine gilt, title to front board blind. Spine faded to white, covers faded and a little mottled. A very good copy. first edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author to his wife, Dorothy Milne (née de Sélincourt), on the front free endpaper, My darling s private copy of her own book. A.A.M. October 1914, and with Dorothy s illustrated bookplate to the front pastedown. This was the first of many of his books to be dedicated to his wife, referred to in the printed dedication as his collaborator, who buys the ink and paper, laughs, and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business, this book is gratefully dedicated in memory of a winter s morning in Switzerland. The allusion to a winter s morning in Switzerland refers to their engagement while skiing in Switzerland in January 1913: I proposed to her at eleven o clock one morning in a snowstorm. This collection of comedic material was originally published in Punch, and was his third such. In its review of this title, the Times Literary Supplement argued that Milne had one of the most engaging silly senses of humour in the world. Thwaite, A. A. Milne: His Life, 1990, pp. 149, 158 & ,500 [120421] 148 MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, July 1925 Octavo. Publisher s deluxe limp red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, illustration and rules to front cover in gilt, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. With the original glassine jacket and the publisher s card box, white paper title labels to lid printed in blue. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard. With the contemporary and later ink ownership inscriptions of Margaret Ruth Payne to the head of the front pastedown and free end Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

57 paper. Light offsetting to endpapers, an excellent copy in the glassine jacket with slight creasing and nicks to extremities, housed in the lightly faded box with a couple of faint colour pencil marks to lid. second deluxe edition. When We Were Very Young was first published on 6 November 1924, and the seventh and tenth impressions were issued in deluxe bindings, this copy being of the tenth impression. With two newspaper clippings laid in from the Observer Review, 22 September 1974, interviewing Christopher Robin Milne and discussing his relationship with the books. 1,250 [120874] 149 MILTON, John. Paradise Lost; [and] Paradise Regain d. A Poem in Four Books. London: printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press for the Cresset Press, vols., quarto ( mm). Original full pigskin by Wood of London, spines lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Housed in the tan card slipcase. With 16 full page woodcuts with tissue guards and woodcut headand tailpieces. Light foxing to edges; an excellent set in the slipcase with wear to extremities. limited edition, number 7 of 195 copies printed on handmade paper. Beautifully illustrated with wood-engravings by the Greek artist Demetrios Galanis ( ), this is the final book issued by the Cresset Press. 2,750 [120502] 150 MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. New York: Macmillan Company, 1936 Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles and decoration to front board and spine in dark blue, top edge pale brown, others untrimmed. Bookseller s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy in the lightly soiled jacket with creasing and nicks to extremities. first edition, in the first state dust jacket, listing this title second in the right-hand column on the rear panel. 4,500 [121493] 151 MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de. The Complete Works. Translated from the French. In four volumes. London: printed for T. Evans, and W. Davis, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red and green morocco labels to spines, remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, raised bands. With the separately paginated and registered Index to the Spirit of Laws in vol. 4. Engraved frontispiece to vol. 1. Armorial bookplates of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire to front pastedowns of each vol., 20th-century bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chemist and discriminating collector of 18th-century literature in contemporary bindings, to front free endpaper of vol. 1, and a few neat ink annotations to contents. Extremities lightly worn, corners gently bumped, very minor rubbing to the lower board of vol. 2 and a few spots to rear board of vol. 3, contents a little foxed, otherwise a bright, clean set. first collected edition in english of the works of one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Books XI and XII of The Spirit of Laws are sparsely but intelligently annotated in a contemporary hand, possibly by Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk and 5th Earl of Berkshire ( ); for example, Montesquieu s discussion of Roman government concludes with the reader s observation that the Causes of destroying the Liberty of Rome better explain d in this chapter than by any other treatise I ever read on the subject. Cabeen 40; see Hilary Bok, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition). 1,500 [120458] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 55

58 MORPURGO, Michael. War Horse. Kingswood: Kaye & Ward, 1982 Octavo. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front cover and spine in red and black. No dust jacket issued. Cover design by Victor Ambrus. A couple of minor bumps to covers; an excellent, bright copy. first edition of the author s celebrated novel, which was adapted into a hugely successful play, and was the basis of the 2011 Steven Spielberg film of the same title. 1,500 [118674] 153 (NAPOLEON.) IRELAND, William Henry, & George Cruikshank. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte... Engraved by G. Cruikshank from the Original Designs of Vernet, Denon, &c. executed, at Paris, by Duplesis Berteaux. London: printed and Published by John Fairburn, vols., octavo ( mm). Finely bound in dark blue full crushed morocco by Root & Son signed in the rear turn-ins, titles gilt direct to the spine, narrow bands with single dotted roll, Napoleonic devices to the compartments within triple panel, the inner dotted, French fillet gilt panel to the boards within a dog-tooth roll panel, double fillet edge-roll, top edges gilt, palmette roll gilt to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red silk page-markers. 27 folding plates, including 24 hand-coloured aquatints, with the engraved John Cumberland title pages, all dated 1828, vignettes of arms of the Bonaparte family on manteaux, half-titles to Vols. I and II, no printed title to the last vol. first edition, first issue, with all required points. Originally issued in 64 parts, the first 48 being issued by Fairburn, the publication was then taken over by Cumberland, who issued 16 more parts (Tooley). Abbey remarks that the Fairburn venture must have been unsuccessful, for sets carrying his imprints are very unusual, and examples of the three printed titles definitely rare. Credited to Ireland, the notorious Shakespearean forger, the text of this work is in fact the same as that for Count Excelman s History of Napoleon. A superbly presented set with the leather book labels of journalist and bibliophile Barton Currie, and the lyricist Paul Francis Webster who won Academy Awards for Secret Love, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, and Shadow of Your Smile. Abbey 359; Cohn 435; Tooley ,750 [120044] 154 (NELSON, Horatio.) NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (ed.) The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. London: Henry Colburn, vols., octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century navy blue full morocco by Bedford (with his name in gilt on the turn-in), richly gilt spines, gilt French fillet border on sides, gilt edges, richly gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece of Nelson by Freeman after Abbott (vol. I), 4 facsimile letters, 3 plans (2 folding). Contemporary engraved armorial roundel bookplate of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th baronet ( ), of the Edwardes baronetcy of Shrewsbury (whose choice and valuable library was auctioned at Christie s, May 1901). An excellent set. first edition. The essential starting point for any attempt to understand either the mercurial personality or instinctive tactical genius of Nelson, never superseded. This is the standard work of reference for Nelson s correspondence and is the principal source from which his biographers have drawn (and still do draw) their material (Cowie). A beautifully bound set, from the atelier of one of the premier London binders of the period. Cowie ,750 [120045] 56 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

59 NEWTON, Isaac. Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. The Second Edition, Corrected. London: printed for William and John Innys, 1718 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered to style, edges speckled red. With 12 engraved folding plates. With single leaf of adverts at rear. Contemporary ink inscriptions to 23 pages. Top edge dust toned, minor rubbing to boards, light foxing throughout; an excellent copy. first octavo edition, second overall, second issue (with a new title page dated 1718 first issue dated 1717 and bearing the imprint of John and William Innys), the first two pages of the Advertisement to the first edition have been re-imposed, slight alterations having been made in this re-issue (Gray). Isaac Newton began his study of light and optics while an undergraduate at Cambridge, and continued it at his Lincolnshire home during the plague years when (he recalled) I was in the prime of my age for invention... All previous philosophers and mathematicians had been sure that white light is pure and simple, regarding colours as modifications or qualifications of the white. Newton showed experimentally that the opposite is true... For over a century, it remained a work of great authority; supreme in [Edward] Andrade s words as a record of experiment and scientific deduction from experiment... Opticks is also distinguished in two other ways: the first edition contained Newton s first mathematical paper in print... and in the later editions [as here] it was embellished with a set of Queries long supposed to represent Newton s opinions on the chief mysteries of Nature (Printing and the Mind of Man). Babson 134; Gray p. 36; See Printing and the Mind of Man ,500 [120263] 156 (NIELSEN, Kay.) East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914] Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board gilt, pictorial endpapers, black and gilt. Tipped-in colour frontispiece, 24 colour plates with printed tissue guards, with black and white illustrations to text. With a handwritten thank you note dated 1926 laid in. Spine lightly rolled, rubbing to tips and spine ends, light wear to bottom tip of front cover, faint discolouration to front cover, foxing to edges and occasionally to margins; a very good copy. first nielsen edition. The richness of the Danish artist Nielsen s colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries such as Rackham, who characteristically utilised the traditional three-colour process. 2,750 [117569] 157 (NONESUCH PRESS.) HOMER. The Iliad; [and] Odyssey. [London:] The Nonesuch Press, works, tall octavo. Original orange niger, raised bands within blind rules to spines, twin gilt fillets to head and foot, second compartments gilt-lettered direct, 2-line gilt frame to sides, single fillet gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in the original marbled slipcases. Title pages printed in red and black with engraved hoplite vignettes, vignette chapter headings printed in red and black throughout. Publisher s advice slip On first looking into Pope s Homer laid in. Mild spotting and soiling to spines and sides, spine of the Odyssey slightly darkened, an excellent, fresh set of this attractive publication, both works partly unopened. first nonesuch editions, number 610 of 1450 copies and 89 of 1300 copies respectively. The Greek text is printed in parallel with the English translation of Alexander Pope, which was first published in ,500 [121497] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 57

60 OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyát. Rendered into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald. With an accompaniment of drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1884 Square folio. Original brown cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettered spine and front cover, elaborate Art Nouveau design in gilt to front cover, top edge gilt, decorated pastedowns, dark slate green coated endpapers. Frontispiece, decorative title page, colophon, dedication, divisional title, 48 plates illustrating the text, 3 pages of notes within decorative borders (a total of 56 plates complete). Slight rubbing to extremities, small bumps to spine ends, tiny abrasion to rear cover, faint mark to fore edge; an excellent, fine, bright copy. first edition, and the first illustrated edition of the rubáiyát. The first edition was so popular that it sold out in six days, and it made Vedder s name as a leading American illustrator. Elihu Vedder ( ) was an American Symbolist artist who trained in New York, Paris, and Italy and became friends with authors such as Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. When Houghton Mifflin commissioned Elihu Vedder to illustrate The Rubáiyát, they employed an artist with a rich sense of classical interpretation. Vedder spent 11 months in Rome fulfilling the commission, producing monochrome illustrations in a Greco-Roman style, which caused the London journal Athenaeum to describe Vedder as the latest follower of Michelangelo (Martin & Mason, The Art of Omar Khayyam: Illustrating FitzGerald s Rubaiyat, 2007). The drawings and text in this edition are reproduced by Albertype process, now termed collotype, an exacting but very rewarding process suitable only for short runs and no longer commonly used. 1,500 [120460] 159 OMAR KHAYYÁM. Rubáiyát. Rendered into English verse by Edward FitzGerald. With decorations by Fish. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1922] Large quarto. Original paper boards patterned in orange, gilt, black, and white, black cloth backstrip, titles and decorations in gilt to spine, orange illustrated endpapers, orange page marker, top edge orange. Title page and text printed in orange and black. Colour and gilt frontispiece and 19 plates, all with tissue guards. Contemporary gift inscription in pencil to foot of half-title. Slight wear to extremities; a very good, bright copy. first fish edition. This luxury edition of the Rubáiyát features illustrations by Anne Fish ( ), whose style bears comparison to that of Aubrey Beardsley. FitzGerald s translation of the Rubáiyát was first published in 1859, anonymously and at his own expense. Potter [120431] 160 OMAR KHAYYÁM. The Rubáiyát. The first and fourth renderings in English verse by Edward FitzGerald. With Illustrations by Willie Pogány. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1930 Large octavo. Original bluish green morocco, gilt titles to spine, raised bands, circular gilt floral motif with coloured onlays on front cover, top edge gilt, untrimmed, lightly marbled endpapers. Housed in the original card box with paper label printed in black to end. Engraved frontispiece, original signed etching, 12 tipped-in colour plates, black and white head- and tailpieces. Paper slip with Spanish translation of verse 99 laid in. Spine a little sunned, a touch of faint foxing to edges of text block. An excellent copy. signed limited edition, number 660 of 750 copies signed by the artist for the UK. A further 500 copies were printed for the US. 1,000 [121115] 161 OMAR KHAYYÁM. The Rubáiyát. Edward Fitzgerald s translation reprinted from the first edition with his preface and notes. Drawings by J. Yunge Bateman. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1958 Tall quarto ( mm). Original red morocco by Mansell s, titles gilt to spine, vignette s to covers gilt, 58 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

61 top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Together with 9 loose plates, housed in a red cloth chemise, as issued. Housed together in the red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece, vignette title page and 5 full page illustrations by John Yunge Bateman. Spine lightly toned, an excellent copy. first bateman edition, limited issue, one of 75 copies bound thus and issued with a second set of the mildly erotic illustrations, including two not printed in the work. Franklin p. 333; Chambers & Sandford ,650 [120139] 162 O NEILL, Eugene. The Iceman Cometh. A Play. New York: Random House, 1946 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in gilt on a red ground, top edge red. With the dust jacket, supplied. Spine very slightly faded; an excellent copy in the jacket, small chip to head of spine, a little rubbing to extremities. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Shirlee Weingarten on the front free endpaper, To Shirlee Weingarten, with affection and gratitude for all she has done since the first typing job all the kindness in the many small things that only the sensitive do, as the sensitive appreciate. I have a guilty feeling I have not been sufficiently appreciative at times, or have even been downright rude & taking it for granted you 163 ible, length) are rare. The recipient seems from the inscription to have been O Neill s amanuensis, making this a touching and close association. Atkinson A35 I 1.a. 6,250 [119980] 163 ORWELL, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1936 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. With the dust jacket. Bookseller s ticket to foot of rear should light cigarettes for playwrights! I hope I didn t. If I did, it wasn t meant. O Neill had Parkinson s disease from 1943; consequently, copies thus inscribed (at such painstaking, if barely legpastedown. A superb copy, with the spine very gently rolled, light browning to spine ends and edges of text block, in the unusually bright jacket with faint browning to spine and edges, nicks to top edge. first edition. The first impression consisted of 3,000 sets of sheets of which only 2,500 were bound. Of these 219 were destroyed in a bombing during the war. Uncommon in the jacket. Fenwick A4a. 18,750 [121391] 164 ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty- Four. A Novel. London: Secker & Warburg, 1949 Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge red. With the green dust jacket. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco slipcase. Spine very slightly faded; an excellent copy in the jacket with unusually bright spine, a little minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of shallow chips and nicks to spine ends and tips, small tape repairs to verso. first edition. Copies of the first impression were issued either in green or dark red dust jackets. To judge from surviving examples, this was done in proportions of about two green to one red, but there is no priority between them. 5,750 [120304] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 59

62 OWEN, Wilfred. Poems. With an Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1920 Quarto. Original red cloth, printed paper label to spine, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Fading at the spine, light rubbing to ends and corners, superficial split to a small section of the cloth at front joint, internally clean and fresh, an excellent copy. first edition of perhaps the greatest collection of First World War poetry. This slim volume, promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen s death and backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen s best known poems. With the ownership inscription dated April 1921 of the English literary scholar Helen Darbishire, Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1931 until her retirement in Hayward 337; Reilly p ,750 [119065] PARKINSON, John. Theatrum Botanicum: the Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours... London: printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640 Folio ( mm). Recent brown calf, titles gilt to purple label to spine, raised bands, buff endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Engraved additional title by William Marshall, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of small scratches to boards, top edge dust toned, occasional faint browning to margins, fore edge of text block rippled, minor marginal damp-staining to final few pages; an excellent copy. first edition of the second work of John Parkinson (1566/7 1650), apothecary, herbalist, and botanicus regius primarius to Charles I. The Theatrum describes some 3,800 plants, divided into 17 tribes, based partly on their medicinal qualities and partly on habitat. It describes 28 new species never previously mentioned before, two of the more famous being the strawberry tree and the lady s slipper orchid. Parkinson s is the most complete and authoritative English herbal of its era, superior to Johnson s edition of Gerard s Herbal; of particular value is the almost entire incorporation of Caspar Bauhin s Pinax, for its synonyms. John Ray termed it the most full and comprehensive book of that subject extant, and frequently quoted from it (Raven, 272). Henrey 286; Hunt 235; Nissen BBI 1490; Norman 1643; Pritzel 7749; STC ,500 [120010] 167 PICART, Bernard, & Jean Frederic Bernard. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, représentées par des figures: avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses. Amsterdam: J. F. Bernard, vols., folio ( mm). Contemporary calf professionally refurbished, decorative gilt spines (floriate tools, interlocking drawer-handle motifs, reticulated bands in numbering compartments), tawny-coloured labels, red mottled edges. 223 engraved plates by Picart (31 double-page or folding), engraved title vignettes and headpieces, woodcut decorations; title pages printed in red and black. Early ownership inscription of C. L. Geller at foot of front free endpaper in each vol.; neat early 19th-century book label of C. H. Soltau (the Soltau family played an important part in the early days of the Plymouth Brethren); ownership inscription of Henry and Jane Birkbeck (dated April 1820), the Birkbecks were a Norfolk banking family; early note of purchase price 60 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

63 on front free endpaper of vol. I: vols. III Occasional dust-marking, some gatherings toned. An excellent set. Early editions of one of the great books of the 18th century, a work that marked a major turning point in European attitudes toward religious belief (Hunt, Jacob, & Mijnhardt, The Book that Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard s Religious Ceremonies of the World, Harvard UP 2010, p. 1). Originally published between 1723 and 1737, the monumental work was the result of a collaboration between two Protestant refugees driven by the Counter-Reformation from France to Amsterdam, where, in a fertile milieu of radicals and free-thinkers, they produced one of the world s greatest religious books. The original seven volumes were supplemented by two others that are very different in character and not included here [in the Getty Research Library s set] (ibid.). Volume VII concludes with an extensive index. Despite its radical perspective, Religious Ceremonies was a publishing phenomenon, the first edition of 1,200 copies selling out quickly; it remained a bestseller for the next century. As a reference book it was unprecedented: no other work before then had ever attempted, in word and image, such a grand sweep of human religions... It sowed the radical idea that religions could be compared on equal terms, and therefore that all religions were equally worthy of respect (ibid.). Sabin ,500 [120466] 168 (PIUS IX.) FERRETI, Giovanni Maria Mastai. Le macchine ottiche: esercizio fisico-matematica che per Saggio dei suoi studj pubblicamente propone sotto la direzione dei CC. RR. delle scuole pie nella sala del Collegio di S. Michele di Volterra. Florence: presso Pietro Allegrini, 1809 Printed work and 2 manuscripts bound in 2 vols., octavo (varying sizes: mm & mm). Bound to match in mid 19th-century Italian green roan, smooth spines lettered and decorated in gilt, sides with thick gilt rule outside scroll borders, enclosing the papal arms in gilt at centre, marbled endpapers. 1st vol.: printed work (pp. 24; extended folding diagram) bound before 39 manuscript leaves, apparently incomplete at end, folding diagram at end. 2nd vol., title page in manuscript Studi di matematica fatti da Giovanni Maria Mastai ferretti di Sinigaglia nel collego di Volterra (dated 1808 and 1809) and 52 unnumbered leaves, written on both sides (two leaves with excisions). Extremities rubbed, stain to title of 2nd vol., overall very good. rare first edition of Le macchine ottiche, the first and only scientific publication of the future Pope Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti ( ), who reigned as pope from 16 June 1846 to his death, bound together with two of his original academic manuscripts on optics and mathematics. Mastai was educated privately up to the age of 11, when he was sent to the College of St Michael, Volterra, under the Piarist Fathers, where he remained until The book prints his final academic essay presented at the conclusion of his studies. The printed book is rare, WorldCat locating two copies only worldwide. Pius IX s long-term interest in science is reflected by one of his first acts as pope, his revival in 1847 of the Academy of Lynxes, recreated by Pius under the name Accademia Pontificia dei Nuovi Lincei ( Pontifical Academy of the New Lynxes ). The larger of the two volumes is inscribed on the first blank with a note marking its gift by Monsignor George Talbot to James Laird Patterson ( ), papal chamberlain and later Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster. The second volume has an ownership inscription, also noting the book as the gift of Monsignor Talbot, dated 22 April Monsignor George Talbot ( ) was a converted Anglican priest who served Pope Pius IX as one of his chamberlains. In 1868 he was dismissed from the Roman curia and was placed in a mental institution near Paris. For many years the pope kept Talbot s apartments in the Vatican ready in case he should return. See Isis 75 (1984), pp : review of Pio IX e le macchine ottiche. 4,500 [121160] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 61

64 (POETRY.) BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord, et al. Manuscript anthology: Specimens of Miscellaneous Poetry with several Original Pieces. London: 1822 Octavo (175 x 105 mm). Contemporary pale calf, spine gilt in compartments between wide low raised bands, black morocco label, sides decorated in blind saltirewise with a dotted roll and repeated quatrefoils within outer gilt frame of repeated drawer-handle tools between double fillets, moderate olive coated endpapers, gilt edges. 92 leaves written on both sides in a fine small hand. Very slight rubbing, a few trivial spots, an excellent manuscript in a most attractive contemporary binding. manuscript anthology of romantic poetry, executed in 1822 and giving a valuable record of contemporary taste, with numerous poems by Lord Byron ( To Thirza, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Fare thee Well!, and She walks in beauty..., to name but few), as well as others by Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Erasmus Darwin, and Samuel Rogers. These appear alongside many anonymous poems, the vast majority of which appear to have been drawn from contemporary issues of Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine so many so that we must surmise the selection was made by a subscriber. 1,250 [120504] 170 (POLAR.) NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. Translated by Arthur G. Chater. London: William Heinemann, vols., large octavo. Original blue vertical-ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front boards with concentric blind panels enclosing gilt titles and semi-circular gilt design of low sun over sea and mountains with approaching Viking longship. With the dust jackets. Tipped-in coloured frontispieces (with tissue guards), numerous woodengraved illustrations and maps in the text; title pages printed in blue & black. Trivial rubbing to extremities, lower outer corner of vol. 1 rear board slightly bumped, mild spotting to edges, endleaves and prelims, customary strips of browning to free endpapers, small abrasions to rear pastedowns probably from a bookseller s ticket, a few isolated sprays of foxing to the text, these flaws minor: a superb copy in the remarkably fresh dust jackets, with just a hint of rubbing to the heads of the spines, shallow chips to corners, and vol. 1 with a short closed tear to the head of the front joint. first edition in english, rare in the dust jackets, in the superior gilt-stamped variant binding (it was also issued with the front boards lettered and panelled solely in black), published the same year as the Norwegian original. Arctic Bibliography ,000 [119191] 171 (POLAR.) PEARY, Robert E. The North Pole. Its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910 Large octavo. Original dark blue vertically-ribbed cloth, gilt lettered spine and front cover, pictorial stamp to front cover in white, grey, and red, top edges gilt. Coloured frontispiece and 7 coloured plates from photographs, large folding map, 100 monochrome illustrations from photographs. Front inner hinge cracked but sound, slight glue residue on front pastedown (from removal of bookplate), frontispiece lightly creased, but overall a superior copy. first trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan on the front free endpaper: Ak-su-nai! (May you be strong), Eskimo greeting, Donald MacMillan. Donald Baxter MacMillan ( ) ran summer schools teaching seamanship and navigation to boys, which brought him to Peary s attention and for several years the two maintained a correspondence. As a result, MacMillan... accompanied Peary on his final and successful assault on the North Pole. Unfortunately, on the way to the pole, MacMillan, who had suffered frost-bite 62 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

65 to his heels and had nearly lost his life after falling though the ice, was forced to return south on (Howgego, Polar, M11). Macmillan is pictured opposite p. 17 and is mentioned admiringly a number of times in the text. This is the work that forms the basis for Peary s claims to have been first to the pole. Copies of this work are seldom found in such attractive condition and with such a strong association. Howgego, Polar, P11. 1,500 [116846] 172 (POLAR.) SCOTT, Robert F. The Voyage of the Discovery. London: Charles Scribner s Sons; Smith, Elder, & Co., vols., large octavo ( mm). Contemporary blue half morocco for J. & E. Bumpus Ltd of Oxford Street, spines lettered in gilt in compartments, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, blue silk page markers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, title pages printed in red and black, 12 colour plates, 158 half-tone photographic plates, 12 further black and white plates, 5 double-page panoramas of which 4 from photographs, 5 maps of which one double-page and 2 folding in end-pockets. With the bookplate of Annie Cowdray (d. 1932), wife of the 1st Viscount Cowdray, to the front pastedowns. Spines lightly toned, a couple of faint marks to vol. I, foxing to edges; an excellent set. first edition, second impression, of Scott s official narrative of his first Antarctic expedition, an elaborate and handsome publication (Taurus) and a classic of the genre. The trip was the beginning of the mutual antipathy between Scott and Shackleton. Among the civilian scientists was Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, Scott s close friend and confidant on this and his last expedition, where he too was to die; a talented artist, he also contributed watercolours for the attractive frontispieces and several of the plates, including all those in colour. Books on Ice 6.6; Rosove 286 A3; Spence 1050; Taurus [121208] 173 (POLAR.) [SCOTT, Robert Falcon, et al.] South Polar Times Centenary Edition; [together with:] Volume IV. London: Orskey Bonham Niner; & Cambridge: Scott Polar Research Institute Bonham, 2002 & vols., quarto. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spines and front boards, front boards with mounted colour illustrations within gilt panel, blue silk page-markers. Numerous illustrations in colour and black and white. An excellent set. first facsimile edition, comprising a facsimile of the first three volumes originally published in , one of 350 copies thus, together with the fourth volume never previously published, number 153 of 500 copies of the text held by the Scott Polar Institute, accompanied by an extensive introduction by Ann Savours detailing the production of the South Polar Times, biographies of the explorers who contributed to it, and a short section on the tradition of polar publishing. The South Polar Times was originally produced to relieve the boredom of the cold, dark winter nights and raise the spirits of the men on board. As well as essays on seals, whales and penguins, there were comic poems, puzzles, stories and cartoons. Scott s comments in his original preface suggest that the journal achieved its goal: I can see again a row of heads bent over a fresh monthly number to scan the latest efforts of our artists, and I can hear the hearty laughter at the sallies of our humourists and the general chaff when some sly allusion found its way home. 1,250 [117246] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 63

66 (POLAR.) SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition With an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. an account of the first journey to the south magnetic pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S. London: William Heinemann, vols., large octavo ( mm). Bound for J. & E. Bumpus in blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt titles and decoration to spine in compartments, gilt rules to covers, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With 3 maps and a panorama bound in at the rear of vol. 2, 12 coloured and 257 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text. Spines faded, tips slightly bumped, a little foxing to edges. An excellent set. first edition of Shackleton s account of the British Antarctic Expedition of (Nimrod). Their sledge journey to the south magnetic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which reached within 100 miles of the south pole (ODNB). 1,750 [120510] 175 (POLAR.) SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South. The Story of Shackleton s Last Expedition London: William Heinemann, 1919 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines and front cover lettered in silver, front cover with large silver block of Endurance encased in ice, publisher s device in blind on back board. Colour frontispiece and 87 half-tone plates, folding map at the rear. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends, tips a little worn, short tear to map stub. An excellent copy. first edition, with the three-line errata slip pasted into the gutter at page 1. Shackleton embarked in 1914 on the Endurance to make the first traverse of the Antarctic continent. But 1915 was an unusually icy year in Antarctica; after drifting trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance was crushed on October 27. Shackleton now showed his supreme qualities of leadership. With five companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22 foot boat through some of the stormiest seas in the world, crossed the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, and reached a Norwegian whaling station on the north coast. After three attempts. Shackleton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party and bringing them to South America (DNB). Amazingly, all members of the Endurance party survived the ordeal, attributing their survival to Shackleton s exceptional leadership qualities. In recent years, this factor has led to the re-interpretation of the book in terms of a leadership and man-management manual. Books on Ice 7.8; Conrad p. 224; Spence 1107; Taurus ,750 [115785] 176 (POLAR.) WILD, Frank. Shackleton s Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923 Large octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board with titles in black and pictorial block of the Quest to the front board in black, white and gilt, all within concentric frames in black and frame, pictorial endpapers. Coloured frontispiece, 50 half-tone plates from photographs, sketch maps in the text. Contemporary ownership inscription to half-title. Spine gently rolled, extremities lightly rubbed, pale mottling and a few light marks to covers, light spotting to edges, very occasionally encroaching on margins. A very good copy with bright plates. first edition. Wild had been with Scott on the Discovery, was with Mawson in , and was a close friend of Shackleton on both the Nimrod expedition of and second-in-command on the Transantarctic Expedition of Wild 64 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

67 177, 178, 179, 180 joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Antarctic in but the explorer s death sapped Wild s desire to continue (Howgego). His account, a handsome publication... [contains] the last photographs of Shackleton to be taken (Taurus). Wild later emigrated to South Africa, and drifted into bankruptcy and alcoholism, dying destitute in Johannesburg in Howgego III S25; Taurus ,250 [121386] 177 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904 Sextodecimo. Original grey paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front cover in dark green, pictorial label to front board, illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Bookseller s stamp in blind to the front free endpaper, gift inscription to halftitle. Spine gently rolled, p. 15 partly loose but holding. An excellent copy. first edition, with muffatees ( muffetees in the second impression onward) and we in Roman type (italics in the second impression onward) on page 15. It was issued in grey or tan paper boards, with no priority between them. Linder, p. 424; Quinby 6. 1,500 [120665] 178 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909 Sextodecimo. Original red moiré cloth, titles and decorations to spine and front board gilt, pictorial label to front cover, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Erased gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, slight rubbing to extremities, light offsetting to pp. 8 9; an excellent copy. first edition, deluxe issue. The deluxe issues, incorporating Potter s design work, were priced at 1/6 rather than 1/- for the paper-covered books. Linder p. 428; not in Quinby. 3,500 [118304] 179 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910 Sextodecimo. Original buff paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front board in green, pictorial label to front board, pictorial endpapers. With the printed glassine jacket. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Bookseller s ticket to front pastedown. An excellent, bright copy in the unusually well-preserved jacket with a little loss to spine ends (price on spine panel intact), shallow chips to head of front panel, fold of flaps, and foot of rear panel. first edition, in the scarce jacket. The first two printings are identical. Linder, p. 429; this binding not in Quinby 18. 2,500 [119848] 180 POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1918 Sextodecimo. Original pale green boards, titles to front cover and spine in dark green, pictorial label to front cover. Frontispiece and 26 colour illustrations by the author. Spine gently rolled and browned, a little fading to board edges, internally bright. An excellent copy. first edition, with the dropped N from London on the imprint. Linder p. 430; Quinby 25. 2,000 [115969] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 65

68 (RACKHAM, Arthur.) CARROLL, Lewis. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. With a Proem by Austin Dobson. London: William Heinemann, [1907] Quarto. Contemporary blue half crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Spine faded to green, small flecked marks, a little light offsetting and a few spots to plates. deluxe limited edition, number 96 of 1,130 numbered copies, of which 1,100 were for sale, with the last 30 reserved for presentation. Published when the book came out of copyright in 1907, this deluxe edition was issued unsigned, as Rackham was out of the country at the time. For the first time, Rackham s plates were distributed at the appropriate places throughout the text, rather than gathered together at the end as they had been in Rip Van Winkle (1905) and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906). 2,250 [116112] 182 REMARQUE, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Translated from the German by A. W. Wheen. London: G. P. Putnam s Sons, March 1929 Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, titles to front board and spine in green, green top edge. With the dust jacket. Top edge rather faded, but an excellent copy in the dust jacket with a single short tear to top of front panel (postagestamp repair to verso), small chips to the corners, and other very light rubbing to the extremities. first edition in english of one of the essential novels of the Great War, very scarce in such smart condition. It was originally published in Germany in January ,750 [120854] 183 (ROLLS-ROYCE.) CLARKE, Tom C. The Rolls-Royce Wraith. Oxfordshire: John M. Fasal, 1986 Large octavo ( mm). Original green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles to spine gilt in compartments, gilt raised bands, frames to covers gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, green silk and card page marker. With the trade issue endpapers and dust jacket bound in. Housed in the green cloth slipcase. Frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous black and white photographic reproductions. Binder s stamp gilt to front pastedown. Pale white marks to covers from a previous attempt at polishing; an excellent copy. first edition, signed limited issue, number 27 of 50 copies bound thus and signed by the author, additionally with the signatures of six key Rolls-Royce employees together with their short biographies. This work places the Wraith model in its design context, detailing the period of change after Sir Henry Royce s death in 1933 and the company s efforts to modernise the chassis design. 1,875 [120127] 184 (ROLLS-ROYCE.) FASAL, John M. The Rolls-Royce Twenty. Oxfordshire: John M. Fasal, 1979 Large octavo ( mm). Bound for the publishers in red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles and Rolls- Royce logo to spine gilt in compartments, gilt raised bands, Royce family crest and motto to front cover gilt, gilt frames to covers, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, red silk and card page marker. With the trade issue endpapers and dust jacket bound in at rear. Housed in the red cloth slipcase. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

69 colour photographic reproductions and numerous black and white photographic reproductions in the text. Binder s stamp gilt to front pastedown. Spine very lightly faded, pale white marks to covers from a previous attempt at polishing; an excellent copy. first edition, signed limited issue, number 19 of 50 copies bound thus and signed by the author, additionally with the signatures of 12 key Rolls-Royce employees together with their short biographies. This is the definitive work on the 20 hp model Rolls-Royce, which formed the basis of all models up to 1959, providing extensive detail about the company, its methods, and employees. 1,875 [120126] 185 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London: Bloomsbury, 1998 Octavo. Original pictorial boards. With the pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy with just a little creasing to head of front panel of jacket. first edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, To Robert, have a good holiday & happy reading with best wishes, J. K. Rowling. Errington A2(a). 5,750 [120383] 186 ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000 Octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles to spine and front board in blue and black. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, tiny bumps to spine ends; an excellent copy in the jacket with minor creases to extremities. first edition, first impression, signed by the author on the dedication page, with the Golden Ticket from the signing session at The Bookshop Dulwich Village laid in. Errington A9(a). 2,000 [121424] 187 SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little Prince. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943 Quarto. Original pale brown cloth, titles and device to spine and front cover in dark red. With the pictorial dust jacket. Colour and monochrome illustrations in the text after originals by the author. A sharp clean copy in the jacket, lightly rubbed at the spine panel, minor paper loss to top of the folds and a couple of minor nicks to the top of the spine and one to the bottom front panel. A very good copy. first edition, trade issue. Although the manuscript was composed in Saint-Exupéry s native French language, it was written and first published in New York, in both English and French versions in April ,250 [117766] 187 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 67

70 SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919 Small octavo. Original red cloth, paper title labels to both spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, half-title, and final page. Spine a touch sunned through the jacket, some mild scattered foxing, but a very good copy in a rubbed and dust-soiled jacket with small loss to the head, small chips to the corners and a chipped tear to the top of front panel. first edition, in the scarce jacket. This collection presents Sassoon s savagely realistic and compassionate war poems (Rupert Hart-Davis in ODNB), gathering 64 pieces, of which 12 appear in print for the first time here, the others having been published in two previous collections: The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Keynes A20; Reilly p ,500 [120860] 189 SASSOON, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. With illustrations by Barnett Freedman. London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1931 Octavo. Original illustrated parchment, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the pictorial dust jacket. In the original slipcase. Colour frontispiece, 14 plates and numerous line drawings in the text by Freedman. An excellent copy in the jacket with minor creasing to top edge, in the slipcase with minor wear to extremities, slight crack to joints at top and bottom edges. first illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 130 of 320 copies signed by both the author and the artist, the slipcase numbered on the top edge in pencil. The illustrated edition was published in three formats signed, handcoloured, and a regular trade issue the year after the first edition was published. Keynes A33e. 2,750 [121415] 190 SHAKESPEARE, William. Venus and Adonis; Lucrece; The Passionate Pilgrim; Sonnets; Pericles. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, works bound in 1, quarto ( mm). Contemporary reversed calf, titles gilt to red label to spine, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, leather ties. A fine copy. first editions thus. This compendium volume of Shakespeare s poems, together with Pericles, formed a supplement to the facsimile of the First Folio issued by Oxford University Press in Venus and Adonis is a signed limited issue, number 594 of 1,000 copies signed by Sidney Lee. The facsimiles are taken from copies held at the Bodleian Library and the Christie Miller Library at Britwell, and the works each have an introduction and bibliography by Lee. 1,000 [120241] 191 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam; a poem, in twelve cantos. London: for C. and J. Ollier; by B. McMillan, 1818 Octavo ( mm). Uncut in original boards, title label to spine (priced 10s 6d). Housed in a blue cloth folding case. No half-title called for; with fly-title quoting Chapman, and errata leaf. Bookplates of two notable bibliophiles, Charles Fairfax Murray ( the pre-raphaelite painter), and Willis Vickery ( , an American judge). Very discreet repair to joints, extremities rubbed, some light marks and spots, hinges superficially cracked but holding fine, title page a little toned oth Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

71 192 erwise remarkably fresh within, front free endpaper with tiny section of loss to top fore-corner and small closed tear repaired at outer margin. An excellent copy. first edition thus, in lovely condition uncut in the boards. The Revolt of Islam is the expurgated reissue of Laon and Cythna (1817) with a new title and 26 cancelled leaves. In 1817 the Olliers agreed to publish Shelley s long poem. Shelley s new fatherin-law, William Godwin, recommended a master printer for the job, Buchanan Millan, who made minor alterations to the text without consulting the poet. Shelley wrote to the Olliers complaining about these liberties, whereupon the Olliers read the work for the first time and realised what they had agreed to publish. In the original version the titular lovers were brother and sister. London was alive with gossip about Shelley living with both Mary Godwin and her half-sister Claire Clairmont, and in contemporary usage, such a ménage was termed incest (St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys, p. 432.) Shelley was forced to make alterations, removing any hint of incest, and gave it the new title The Revolt of Islam. The book is made up from original sheets of Laon and Cythna, with 26 cancelled leaves and a new title leaf. A few copies were issued with the title misdated 1817; this is the second issue as usual, with the correct date. Ashley V, pp. 67 8; Granniss, 44; Tinker, 1895; Wise, p ,250 [119676] 192 SIMKIN, Richard. Our Soldiers. London: Frederick Warne & Co., lithographed in Holland by Enrik & Binger, 1891 Concertina-fold board book, 10 linen-hinged heavy card panels ( mm; opens 1075 mm). Chromolithographic front and rear cover and 10 similar plates, descriptive text verso. A little rubbed on the covers, small patch of adhesion damage to the first plate, text somewhat browned, but remains very good. first and only edition. Uncommon, just two locations on Copac Oxford and Cambridge no further copies added by OCLC. Attractive juvenile by the highly popular military artist. The regiments illustrated are: 2nd Life Guards (front cover); 15th King s Hussars; 6th Dragoon Guards; 5th Royal Irish Lancers; 3rd Prince of Wales s Dragoon Guards; Royal Horse Artillery; Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery (Field Battery); Coldstream Guards; Rifle Brigade Price Consort s Own; Infantry of the Line ; Seaforth Highlanders (lower cover). AMOT Index to British Military Costume Prints , ,250 [120891] 192 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 69

72 SLOCUM, Joshua. Sailing Alone Around the World. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. New York: The Century Co., 1900 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front board in silver and green, top edge gilt, others uncut. Half-tone frontispiece and 64 illustrations. A little wear to spine ends and tips, a couple of marks to rear cover, front hinge partly cracked at foot but holding, text block tight. A very good copy. first edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: The Spray, New Bedford. July 30th, Joshua Slocum. This superb narrative of the first singlehanded circumnavigation of the globe aboard the Spray has been compared favourably to Thoreau s Walden. Slocum perceived his world in a poetic manner and described his vision of reality with grace (Toy). Morris & Howland, p. 126 *; Toy ,500 [117354] 194 SMART, Christopher. On the Eternity [Immensity; Power; Omniscience; Goodness] of the Supreme Being. A Poetical Essay. Cambridge: printed by J. Bentham; sold by W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, C. Bathurst amd R. Dodsley in London, and J. Hildyard at York [& other booksellers in later titles], works in one vol., quarto ( mm). Contemporary half calf, skilfully rebacked, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt title direct, marbled sides, blue morocco label to front board with blazing hearth emblem in gilt. Final advert leaves where called for. Early library label to top fore-corner of the pastedown; modern discreet collector s book label. Ends chipped, front joint starting at both ends, corners worn and the covers otherwise generally a little rubbed, some spotting within but never severe, still a very good copy. rare complete set of Smart s Seatonian Prizewinning poems on the Supreme Being, all first editions except for Omniscience which is a second (1756). The poems are attractively presented in a contemporary half binding with the leather library label on the front board of Montacute House, Somerset, the home of the Phelips family, and the contemporary ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of Edward Phelips ( ). These poems were printed as the result of an annual award endowed by the clergyman Thomas Seaton to be awarded to the best poem on one or other of the Perfections of Attributes of the Supreme Being. Smart ( ), then a student at Cambridge and ever ready to find new ways to sing 194 the praises of his Maker, won the first five years running; the poems were printed sequentially at the expense of Seaton s bequest. In the 18th century Smart was admired... above all for his mastery of the religious sublime in the Seatonian poems... The rhetoric of 18th-century didactic poems on theological and philosophical subjects now appears somewhat jaded, but Smart s boldness of thought and expression raises his contributions to the genre above the usual standard (ODNB). The poems were composed in Miltonic blank verse and proved popular. Each instalment was printed in at least two and some in three editions, and it is unusual to find so many first editions together in contemporary state, rather than latterly assembled. This copy appeared at auction in 1932 and again in 1998; no better copy has been seen before or since. 2,500 [120509] 70 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

73 SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. To which is added A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages. The Third Edition. London: printed for A. Millar, A. Kincaid and J. Bell; and sold by T. Cadell, 1767 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label with triple rule border in gilt, compartments double ruled in gilt, raised bands, boards double ruled in gilt. With the final blank leaf, bound without the front free endpaper. Occasional pencil annotations in the text. Extremities a little worn, corners bumped, joints split but firm, a few marks to boards, endpapers and title page browned from turn-ins, bound without the front free endpaper. Contents browned and foxed with a small nick to leaf D1, otherwise a very good copy. third edition of smith s first book, the first edition to include the dissertation on the origin of languages, one of 750 copies, and the work that established his reputation as a philosopher both in London and on the continent. It contains some minor revisions, especially to passages involving comment on religion (Tribe), which Smith made upon his return from France in After being described as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow on the title pages of the first and second editions, Smith wrote to Strahan ahead of the publication of this edition to ask him to call me simply Adam Smith without any addition either before or behind (letter 100, Mossner & Ross, p. 122). While his academic title was removed, he was still credited as LL.D., and this remained on the title page of the subsequent editions, thus cementing his reputation as Dr Smith. The Dissertation had been previously published in The Philological Miscellany (1761) as Considerations Concerning the First Formation of Languages. Goldsmiths 10384; Higgs 3967; Kress 6496; Jessop, p. 170; Tribe 4. See Mossner & Ross, The Correspondence of Adam Smith (1987). 3,750 [120418] 196 SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. The third edition, with additions, in three volumes. London: for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, vols., octavo ( mm). Recent full brown calf, red morocco labels to spine, raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt with vol. numbers lettered in gilt, boards double-ruled in blind with small floriate corner pieces. Occasional pencil annotations to the text. A few marks to edges of text block, contents lightly browned 196 and some faint spotting to vol. 3 in particular, otherwise a very good copy. first octavo edition, the third overall, of the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought (PMM). This edition contains several additions including a new chapter titled The Conclusion of the Mercantile System. Adam Smith s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or depth when published and is still one of the few works in its field to have achieved classic status, meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry (ODNB). Goldsmiths 12554; Kress B.789; Tribe 27; Vanderblue, p. [3]. 5,500 [120377] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 71

74 SPYRI, Johanna. Heidi s Lehr- und Wander-Jahre. Eine Geschichte für Kinder und auch für Solche, welche die Kinder lieb haben. Von der Verfasserin von Ein Blatt auf Vrony s Grab ; [together with:] Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat. Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, vols., octavo. Original red cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, white glossy endpapers, vol. II with decorative endpapers, marbled edges. Housed in a custom red quarter morocco slipcase and red cloth chemise. Vol I: spine faded, recased, possibly with new endpapers, a couple of spots to contents; vol. II: contemporary ownership inscription in ink on titlepage. A little colour restoration to head of spine, hinges partly cracked but holding. An excellent set. first editions of both parts in the original german. Throughout the 1870s Johanna Spyri ( ) published stories for adults and children based around her reminiscences of growing up in rural Switzerland. But huge success came with the publication of Heidi, written in just four weeks, which became the most important Swiss contribution to children s literature after the Swiss Family Robinson of J. R. Wyss. As usual with Christmas books, the first book was published in December 1879 but dated the following year. It was published without the author s name on the title page. Perhaps because of the fragile paper used, the first editions of the two parts of Heidi are scarce. It quickly became an international best-seller and has been translated into 50 languages (the first edition in English was published in 1885 by Charles Tritten, who later published the continuations Heidi Grows Up and Heidi s Children), it sold 50 million copies, and inspired a whole series of films. Doderer III, 447; Hürlimann 310; Seebass II, 1930 ( rare, vol. 2 only); Wegehaupt III, 3633 (vol. 2 only); Weilenmann 3216 & ,500 [120814] 198 STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington Limited, vols., octavo. Original dark red pictorial cloth, decoration in grey, black and gilt, map endpapers in white and green. Frontispiece and coloured folding map to each, folding map and coloured profile sketch to Vol. II, 36 other plates in all, numerous illustrations to text. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author To Mr W. Symons, with the special compliments of the author Henry M. Stanley, Jun 28th 1890, London on the front free endpaper. This is Stanley s famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, the governor of Equatoria who was supposedly besieged by Mahdist forces. Stanley s dealings with Pasha (who proved resistant to being rescued ), his abandonment of his own rear column and his wider mo- 72 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

75 tives for his mission have all come under suspicion then and since, but the book remains a classic of African exploration. It contains some of his most celebrated writing, especially his account of the tortuous 450 mile passage through the dense Ituri rain forest. In the course of the journey Stanley met Roger Casement, then in service on the Congo, discovered the great snow-capped range of Ruwenzori, the Mountains of the Moon, a new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza and a large south-western extension of Lake Victoria. Translations of In Darkest Africa appeared quickly in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch while sales of the English trade editions reached 150,000 copies. Howgego IV S60. 5,000 [119336] 199 STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939 Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and pictorial design to boards dark brown, yellow and brown decorated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Dust jacket front and rear flaps clipped with very light edge toning. A fine copy. first edition of Steinbeck s masterpiece and one of the great American novels of the 20th century. The fine jacket design is by Elmer Hader, known primarily as a children s book illustrator (joint winner with his wife, Berta Hoerner Hader, of the Caldecott Medal in 1948 for The Big Snow): apparently Steinbeck was so taken with their book Billy Butter (1936) that he requested that Elmer Hader design the cover for The Grapes of Wrath; the illustrator going on to work on two other Steinbeck books, East of Eden (1952 and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). Goldstone & Payne A12. 6,750 [116733] 200 STEINBECK, John. Sweet Thursday. New York: The Viking Press, 1954 Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles and bird decorations to spine and front cover in red and blue, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine ends, small mark to front free endpaper; an excellent, bright copy in the price-clipped jacket with slight creasing and nicks to extremities, short closed tear to foot of rear panel. first edition, hardback issue. It was published simultaneously in wrappers. Goldstone & Payne A33b. 575 [120036] 201 STEINBECK, John. Travels with Charley: In Search of America. New York: The Viking Press, 1962 Octavo. Original cream speckled cloth, spine lettered in red and black, vignette to the front board in red, top edge orange, others untrimmed, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom quarter morocco and marbled paper-covered solander box. An excellent copy, clean and fresh, in the jacket with a couple of small splits and a small mark to front flap. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, Dear Norman: with many thanks, Sincerely John Steinbeck, May 63. The recipient could perhaps be Norman Carlson, to whom Steinbeck presented an inscribed edition of The Grapes of Wrath in This work is based on Steinbeck s road trip around the States in 1960 accompanied by his poodle, Charley. 6,000 [117484] 201 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 73

76 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 Octavo ( mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun- Riviere, gilt titles and decoration to spine in compartments, frame gilt to covers, wide turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, with the engraved advertisement for The Great Hoggarty Diamond bound in before the frontispiece as issued. Etched frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette title page, 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes and similar initials after Thackeray. Minor rubbing to extremities; an excellent copy. first edition in book form, with the three points traditionally taken to denote first issue (drophead title in rustic lettering to page 1, the Marquis of Steyne vignette on page 336, later suppressed, and Mr. Pitt for Sir Pitt on page 453, line 31), although, as the novel was originally published in 20 parts between January 1847 and July 1848, such points conceivably would have been amended before serialization was completed. Modern editions of this classic novel almost invariably omit Thackeray s vignettes and often give only a selection from his etchings. The reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the story (Ray). Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 121; Wolff ,250 [120419] 203 THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Works. Kensington edition. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, vols., octavo ( mm). Finely bound by Macdonalds in contemporary green half sheep for Charles Scribner s Sons, green cloth sides, titles and decoration to spines gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed green coated endpapers. Engraved frontispieces with captioned tissue guards, numerous plates and illustrations to text. Spines uniformly a little faded, minor rubbing to tips; an excellent set. limited edition, number 15 of 250 sets printed on Enfield paper. This collection demonstrates Thackeray s skill in speech, his vivid characters the biting, rollicking satire of the early works through to the shrewder, more subtle, and more philosophical later works (ODNB). 3,000 [120108] 204 TRUMAN, Harry S. Memoirs. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., vols., octavo. Original blue buckram, black label to spines with gilt titles, gilt facsimile signature to front boards, grey endpapers, top edges gilt. With the original acetate wrapper to vol. 2. Both vols. housed in the publisher s card slipcase. Very slight rubbing to ends and tips, small tears to inner margin of vol. 1 half-title, an excellent set with loss to the acetate wrapper in vol. 2, and the slipcases generally somewhat rubbed but both firmly intact. first edition, scarce deluxe issue reserved for the president, presentation set with both copies twice inscribed (once to half-titles, and again to slipcases) to his former Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder: volume 74 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

77 half-title, To my friend and long-time comrade John W. Snyder, the greatest Secretary of the Treasury the country ever had, with affectionate regards from Harry Truman, Independence Dec. 17, 1955, and slipcase, To John W. Snyder From HST, volume 2 half-title, To Honorable John W. Snyder from his good friend Harry Truman, 5/5/56, and slipcase, Honorable John W. Snyder. Snyder was appointed US Secretary of the Treasury in 1946 by his close personal friend Truman, with whom he had served in the First World War. He developed programmes to promote greater efficiency within the Treasury Department, including a streamlining of the Internal Revenue Service, which assured a more impartial administration of tax laws, and a reform of the federal accounting system. Snyder resigned at the end of Truman s second term. He is mentioned on 32 pages of Truman s Memoirs, and has annotated these copies in several places. 8,500 [120915] 205 (VICTORIA, Queen.) MARTIN, Theodore. The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary reddishbrown morocco by John MacLaren & Son of Edinburgh (stamped in gilt on the front turn-ins), richly gilt spines with five raised bands, covers with concentric gilt panels enclosing an interlocking Greek key panel, cruciform and floriate motifs at corners, gilt edges, gilt Greek key and twin dotted-rule roll tool border to turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Frontispieces, 8 other plates with tissue guards; one a folding facsimile of a draft memorandum by Prince Albert to Lord Lyons in Spines very slightly faded, occasional spot of faint foxing to contents; an excellent set, handsomely bound. a remarkable presentation set, inscribed by queen victoria in each volume to her equerry sir john carstairs mcneill. The inscriptions are variously dated according to the publication dates of the individual volumes. Mc- Neill ( ) had a long and distinguished military career, winning the Victoria Cross for an act of gallantry in New Zealand, 30 March He was appointed as the deputy lieutenant for Argyll in 1874, and had a long association with the royal household, where his love of sport made him a favourite (ODNB). This extensive biography of Prince Albert ( ) was begun in 1866 and was originally intended to be a continuation of the unpublished work The Early Years of the Prince Consort by Queen Victoria s private secretary Charles Grey. The queen interviewed Martin on 14 November 1866 and, finding him very pleasing, clever, quiet, and sympathique, engaged him to write the biography. Queen Victoria selected the documents for use and intervened widely in the manuscript. Martin became one of the queen s confidential, if unofficial, servants (ODNB). These volumes are mixed editions, as often: vols. I and IV are fourth editions; vols. II and V are third editions and vol. III is a fifth edition; the work was first published annually between 1875 and Raymond Lamont Brown, John Brown: Queen Victoria s Highland Servant, p ,750 [118663] 205 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 75

78 206 WELLS, H. G. The Works. Atlantic Edition. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, vols., octavo ( mm). Original red half morocco by Stikeman & Co., gilt titles and decoration to spines, gilt raised bands, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispieces with tissue guards, title pages printed in red and black. Minor rubbing to extremities, spines uniformly a little toned; an excellent set. signed limited edition, deluxe issue, number 689 of 1,050 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of Volume I and released for distribution in America, of which 50 were reserved for presentation. A further 620 sets were released by T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd, in Great Britain and Ireland, 20 of which were reserved for presentation. Wells contributed new prefaces especially for this 206 edition, which was also issued in a blue morocco binding, with no priority between the two colours. 17,500 [120380] 207 [WHITE, Gilbert.] The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton: with Engravings, and an Appendix. London: by T. Bensley; for B. White and Son, 1789 Quarto ( mm). Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with the original smooth spine laid down, decorated in gilt with rope-twist and Greek-key rolls enclosing central floral devices, red morocco label, rolled ellipse-and-flower border gilt to boards, edges sprinkled blue, marbled endpapers. Engraved vignette title to each section (Natural History & Antiquities), 7 engraved plates of which 2 folding, one these a panoramic view of Selborne as frontispiece. Complete with the terminal errata leaf. With the usual misprints: p. 292 misnumbered 262, sig. 3P2 missigned 2P2, and pp omitted from pagination sequence but text continuous. Light craquelure to spine, a few minor indentations and marks to boards, including a slightly larger though still superficial score to the front, short (15 mm) closed tear to frontispiece stub just touching the image, sometime repaired with tape and adhesive verso, resulting small portion of adhesivemarking to the title gutter, plates and vignettes variably offset, a few other trivial spots or marks, but a very good copy indeed, notably crisp and fresh. first edition of one the great English books of the 18th century, the first book which raised natural history into the region of literature (Ency. Brit.), here well-preserved in an attractive contemporary binding. White s Selborne is open to everyone, for everyone has observed much of what it describes. Writer and reader each share the inheritance of the natural world, and delight in what is given, so that Selborne becomes an expression of universal thanksgiving, treasured by all (ODNB). This copy also has the contemporary ownership inscription of one G. Smithson to the initial blank, and extensive well-informed annotations in the same hand to pages 136 and 147, respectively discussing the 76 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

79 migration of passenger pigeons and the behaviour of swallows on the Italian islands of Lipari and Stromboli, together with a list of page references to the rear free endpaper: an appealing illustration of the burgeoning amateur interest in natural history which White s book did much to encourage. Freeman, British Natural History Books, 3976; Grolier, English, 62. 2,250 [120253] 208 WHITMAN, Walt. The Complete Poems and Prose Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros & Co., Printers, [1888] Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge gilt. Portrait title page and 4 plates with tissue guards. Spine slightly darkened, a little rubbing to covers, front hinge partly cracked but holding, text block unaffected, a little foxing to endpapers and edges. An excellent copy. first edition thus, signed limited edition, number 245 of 600 copies only, signed by the author on the half-title (the limitation added in manuscript by Horace Traubel to the verso of the Note at Beginning leaf ). This edition, Whitman s second attempt at collecting his poetical and prose works (after the 1876 Centennial Edition with Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets), was handled and put together by Whitman himself in , and is made up of three works: Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days & Collect, and November Boughs (copyright 1881, 1882 and 1888 respectively). It is also illustrated with portraits individually selected by Whitman. A single Note at End leaf provides Whitman s printed envoi to the reader, dated Nov , and ending, I have put my name with pen-and-ink with my own hand in the present volume. And from engraved or photo d portraits taken from life, I have selected some, of different stages, which please me best, (or at any rate displease me least,) and bequeath them at a venture to you, reader, with my love. For Whitman, this edition, put together as his conclusive testament four years before his death, was a thoroughly personal project, with the signature and illustrations providing all the guarantees of my personality (Horace Traubel s diary 8 Jan 1889) going straight from my hands into the hands of the reader; from my heart to your heart (ibid. 20 Jan 1889). The C binding on this copy, as Myerson notes, is the one found on the English issue copies which were sent to England in unbound sheets in late 1889, and then bound on order. Myerson A2.7.m, note five. 4,500 [121139] 209 WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood. London: David Nutt, 1888 Small quarto. Original cream-coloured paper-covered boards, titles to spine black, title and publisher s device to front cover red with vignette black. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 plates by Walter Crane, 12 head- and tailpieces by Jacomb Hood. Occasional marks on boards, slight foxing and discolouration to text block, light soiling on edges. A very good copy. first edition of Wilde s only collection of children s stories, including The Selfish Giant, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. Wilde s reputation as an author dated from the publication of the Happy Prince and Other Tales in London in May The Athenaeum compared him to Hans Christian Andersen, and Pater wrote to say that The Selfish Giant was perfect in its kind, and the whole book written in pure English a wonderful compliment (Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 1987, p. 282). Mason 313 ( 1,000 copies were printed ). 3,500 [121418] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 77

80 WILDE, Oscar. The Poems. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary purple crushed half morocco by Whitman Bennett (New York), spine lettered and decorated in gilt with gilt raised bands, gilt floral patterned sides, boards ruled in gilt, gilt floral patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 8 colour plates and 8 black and white plates. Ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Extremities slightly worn; otherwise an excellent copy. first bosschère edition, in a very attractive binding. 1,000 [120344] 211 WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One s Own. New York & London: The Fountain Press; The Hogarth Press, 1929 Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt titles to spine, edges untrimmed. Spine lightly faded, minor rubbing to extremities, a couple of faint marks to covers; an excellent, largely unopened copy. signed limited edition, unusually double signed. One of 492 copies signed by the author, this copy is unnumbered and marked as out of series, and has Woolf s signature both in her customary purple ink to the half-title and in black ink to the front free endpaper. This edition was published on 21 October 1929 in the US and in the UK on 24 October 1929, simultaneously with the first trade edition. A Room of One s Own is Woolf s feminist literary manifesto, in which she assesses the history of women as writers and the challenges they have faced, notes the effects of patriarchal literary culture on female characters, and makes the case that women must carve out both physical and psychological space for themselves in order to become part of the literary establishment. The work is based on two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa literary society at Girton in October Kirkpatrick A12a; Woolmer 215A. 5,000 [120481] 212 WOOLF, Virginia. Street Haunting. San Francisco: The Westgate Press (printed at The Grabhorn Press), 1930 Octavo. Original green quarter morocco, title to spine gilt, green paper-covered sides patterned in blue and gold. Housed in the green card slipcase, as issued. Spine faded to brown; an excellent copy. first and signed limited edition, number 420 of 500 copies signed by Woolf, in her usual purple ink. This copy is bound in the scarcer variant binding of green morocco and green boards, as noted by David Magee in Kirkpatrick: the majority of the edition was bound in blue... It has been my experience that... the ratio is 10 1 in favour of blue. The essay was not published separately in the UK. Kirkpatrick A13. 2,250 [120531] 213 WORSLEY, Sir Richard. The History of the Isle of Wight. London: A. Hamilton, 1781 Quarto ( mm). Contemporary straight-grain red morocco, smooth spine richly gilt in compartments with floral sprays, twin green morocco labels, single-fillet frame gilt to sides, gilt edges, turn-ins hatched in gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved title vignette, 7 similar tailpieces, folding map by John Hayward coloured in outline, 10 double-page engraved views by Thomas Vivaries after Antony Devis, or by Richard Godfrey, one folding view by Godfrey after J. Brotherton, double-page plan of Carisbrooke Castle, further plan of Sandown Fort, 18 plates including views and seals, folding genealogical table. With the terminal errata leaf. Handwritten collation and newspaper clipping laid in. Joints and extremities slightly rubbed, sides lightly marked, old tape-repair and commensurate staining to folding map stub, occasionally light spotting or browning, stronger in sig. Cc and 78 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

81 the view between pp , plates variably offset, sig. X2 a little soiled in lower margin, otherwise a few other minor spots or marks. A very good copy in a splendid contemporary binding. first edition. Worsley s political career as Member of Parliament for two Isle of Wight constituencies was troubled, but antiquarian studies were always an important refuge. His father and grandfather had begun work on The History of the Isle of Wight and Worsley brought it to completion, albeit with unacknowledged contributions from the Newport attorney Richard Clarke. It was published in 1781 after four years labour and was well received, Worsley having been elected both FSA and FRS in 1778 on its strength. He found it satisfying work, gathering materials patiently and searching the sources with some expertise. Modern opinion considers it well researched, organized, and written, and handsomely produced (Hicks, 166) (ODNB). From the library of Major J. R. Abbey ( ), who built the standard collection of travel books illustrated in aquatint and lithography, with his bookplate to the front free endpaper, and a note to the rear free endpaper recording his purchase at the posthumous 1942 sale of Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet ( ), with the latter s bookplate to the front pastedown. 1,250 [120254] 214 WYSS, Johann David. [Swiss Family Robinson.] The Family Robinson Crusoe: or, Journal of a father shipwrecked, with his wife and children, on an uninhabited island. Translated from the German of M. Wiss. London: printed for M. J. Godwin and Co, and Hailes, Piccadilly, works, duodecimo ( mm). Uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf, 7 horizontal gilt rules to spines, vol. 2 with gilt vol. number on spine. Housed in a custom blue morocco folding case. Engraved frontispieces, including folding map in vol. II, 5 engraved plates by Springsguth or J. Dadley after H. Courbold, printed note promising the continuation at end of vol. I. This set has the ownership inscription of Johanna van den Broeck on first blank of vol. 1 and front free endpaper of vol. II. From the library, though not marked as such of American entrepreneur Pierre S. dupont III (sale of his library, Christie s New York, 8 October 1991). Pencil marks to rear endpapers of vol. I. Tape repair to first blank and first plate of vol. I, rear blank of vol. II, with small restoration to text on margin of C7 in vol. 2. Short closed tear to margin of pp. xv xvi in vol. I. Minor rubbing to extremities, small split to foot of front hinge of vol. I, slight browning and offsetting to text; a very good set. first edition, second issue, of the first part in English of Swiss Family Robinson (originally published in German under the title Der Schweizerische Robinson in 1812), together with the first edition in English of the second part, Wyss s continuation which was first published in German in The Swiss Family Robinson was first published in English in 1814 by Godwin in two volumes. Later that year it was reissued from standing type as a singlevolume work, with a cancel title page, changes of page numbers and signatures to make them continuous, and other minor rearrangements of setting. The continuation was translated into English in 1816 and published as the second volume of a two-volume edition, with the first volume consisting of a reissue of the unsold sheets of the 1814 one-volume edition. 3,750 [120797] 214 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 79

82 YEATS, W. B. Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895 Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles and elaborate designs by H. Granville Fell gilt to spine and boards, edges untrimmed. Illustrated title page with tissue guard. Contemporary ink ownership inscription. Some small dents to the edges of rear panel, a spray of ink marking, internally sound and fresh, a bright copy in excellent condition. first edition, very scarce first state of the u.s. issue, one of 750 copies printed, with both the US and UK publisher s slug to spine, but retaining the UK title page and with the top edge ungilt. Copies of the US issue typically had a cancel title page with the Boston imprint and a gilt top edge. O Hegarty notes that he has seen two copies, identical, of the American book, the only difference from the English edition being the addition of Copeland & Day on the spine only, not on the title. Though prepared for the US market, this unusual copy may well have been ultimately issued in the UK nonetheless, as it bears a nearcontemporary Huddersfield bookseller s ticket (E. W. Coates; ) at the rear. Wade 16. 2,250 [119668] 216 YEATS, W. B. The Winding Stair and other poems. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and geometric pattern to spine gilt, pictorial design by T. Sturge Moore to front board in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown, ticks in pencil to contents page. Top edge dust toned, slight rubbing to extremities, a little foxing to endpapers; a very good copy in the jacket with minor loss to head of spine and nicks to extremities. first edition of Yeats s follow-up collection to The Tower, containing some of his best, and most difficult, poems, such as Blood and the Moon, A Dialogue of Self and Soul, Vacillation, and Byzantium, and thus full of those images that yet / fresh images beget; / that dolphin-torn, and gong tormented sea. A smaller collection, notably lacking Byzantium among others, under a similar title (without and other poems ) had been printed in New York in Wade ,375 [119643] 217 The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane [then:] John Lane, The Bodley Head, vols., octavo. Original yellow cloth, spines and covers lettered and illustrated in black, top edges untrimmed, with the advertisements to the rear. Illustrations throughout with tissue guards. Bookseller s blind stamp to front free endpaper of vols. IV. Bookseller s receipt dated 1908 laid into vol. III. Spines lightly toned and gently rolled, with small bumps to ends, small nick to foot of front cover to vol. VIII, faint soiling to covers; an excellent, unusually bright set, with vols. VI, VII, and X XIII unopened. first editions of all volumes except volumes VI and IX, which are second editions, and volumes II and VII, which are third editions. An exceptionally nice set of this epochal and notorious periodical, which includes work by all the great figures of the 1890s including Beerbohm, Beardsley, Henry James, Yeats, Gissing, Kenneth Grahame, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Baron Corvo, H. G. Wells, and many others. 1,500 [120563] 80 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

83 GIFT SELECTION 218 (APPLE COMPUTER, INC.) Commercial brochure introducing the first Mackintosh computer. [USA:] Apple Computer, Inc., 1984 Folio, 12 pp, including 2 folding leaves. Original pictorial card wrappers, wire-stitched. Colour illustrated with photographs and diagrams throughout. Spine rubbed and corners very lightly bumped, overall an excellent copy. an evocative piece of ephemera from one of apple s earliest marketing campaigns. Pitched as an affordable and entry-level purchase, the original Mackintosh 128K debuted in a nowfamous television commercial directed by Ridley Scott which aired during the Super Bowl on 22 January 1984; heavily referencing Orwell s dystopian world of 1984, it positioned Apple as the brave competitor against the dangerously dominant Big Brother figure of IBM. It went on sale two days later, and approximately 50,000 were sold in the first three months. The Mackintosh 128K also introduced the original software programmes MacWrite, MacPaint, MacTerminal, MacProject, and MacDraw. 225 [118837] 219 ATWOOD, Margaret. The Handmaid s Tale. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1985 Octavo. Original red and white boards, titles in white to spine, red coated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine ends; an excellent, bright copy in the jacket with slight nicks to extremities and a short closed tear to head of front panel. first edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, For Linda best wishes Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid s Tale won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 1985 and has been adapted into a film (1990), and opera (2000) and in 2017 into a highly popular television series. 850 [121276] 220 BEATON, Cecil. Far East. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1945 Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in yellow, top edge red. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece after a painting by the author, 44 black and white photographs on plate paper, 14 illustrations in the text. Pages nice and clean, spine faded and frayed to joints, boards still bright. A very good copy in the supplied jacket, chipped at head of spine and small tears to foot with tape repairs to verso, minor spotting to front panel, flaps and verso. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Leslie Mars with best wishes from Cecil Beaton [115922] 221 BROOKE, Rupert. Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1911 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to printed paper label to spine. Without dust jacket, as issued. Top edge lightly dust toned, spine label browned, minor rubbing to ends of spine; an excellent copy. first edition, one of 500 copies issued. This was Brooke s first collection; his previous poetry having been written for school competitions and printed solely for private distribution. Brooke s second book, 1914 and Other Poems, was published posthumously. 875 [119975] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 81

84 222 BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim s Progress. From this world to that which is to come. Delivered under the similitude of a dream; wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out; his dangerous journey; and safe arrival at the desired countrey [sic]. With fourteen etchings by William Strang. London: John C. Nimmo, Ltd, 1903 Octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary brown half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind in compartments, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title page printed in red and black. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title page, and 12 etchings, all with captioned tissue guards. Spine and inner margins of covers lightly faded, rubbing to extremities, a couple of faint marks to cloth; an excellent copy. A handsomely bound copy, with etchings by Scottish engraver William Strang ( ). 300 [121499] 223 BURGESS, Anthony. The World of William Shakespeare. London: The Arcadia Press, 1971 Quarto. Bound for the publishers by Zaehnsdorf in red morocco, black morocco label to spine, spine lettered in gilt, purple, green, yellow and black morocco pictorial onlay to front cover, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. In the grey cloth solander box. Frontispiece and 109 photographic reproductions, 36 of which are full page, 6 of which are double page. Tiny abrasion to front cover, loss to spine labels of solander box; an excellent, bright copy. signed limited edition, number 48 of 265 copies signed by the author and specially bound, with an original onlay motif of a Shakespearean theatre designed by Zaehnsdorf. 750 [121114] 224 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. Eighty-Third Thousand. London: Macmillan and Co., 1871 Quarto ( mm). Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in blue half morocco, titles and Alice centre tool to spine gilt in compartments, raised bands, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 41 illustrations by John Tenniel. Spine just a little sunned, otherwise in excellent condition. An attractively bound copy. 850 [118525] 225 CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Complete Works. Edited from numerous manuscripts by Walter W. Skeat. London: at the Clarendon Press, 1906 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary maroon crushed half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red cloth sides ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, running heads in Gothic letter. Morocco lightly marked, a few leaves roughly opened, a few trivial spots. A very good copy. Skeat s edition of Chaucer s works, first published in seven volumes from 1894 to 1894, remained the standard for almost half a century after publication. 250 [115755] 226 (CHESS.) LEWIS, W. A Treatise on the Game of Chess; Containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games, with several new modes of attack and defence; to which are added, twenty-five new chess problems on diagrams. London: A. H. Baily and Co., vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary purple half calf, titles lettered in gilt to black labels to spines, spines richly decorated in gilt, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers and edges. Black and white illustrations in the text. With the bookplate of the successful industrialist Frank Reddaway to the front pastedowns. Spines lightly faded, minor rubbing to extremities and boards; an excellent set. first edition. William Lewis ( ), who ran a well-known chess school in Soho, wrote this work to expand upon and develop two of his earlier works. One of the best players of his age, Lewis had succeeded in 1819 to the position of inhabitant of William de Kempelen s celebrated chess-playing automaton the Terrible Turk, in which capacity he lost only six games out of 300 at odds of pawn and move and took part in the correspondence chess match between Edinburgh chess club and London chess club during (ODNB). Hooper & Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, p [120661] 82 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

85 227 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, vols., octavo. Original red cloth, titles and gilt rules to spines, title and Marlborough crest gilt and blind rules to front boards. Photogravure portrait frontispieces, 13 plates and 3 facsimiles, one folding, one double-page. Faint ownership signature to front free endpapers. Spines slightly faded, edges of covers a little faded, surface slightly abraded, tips bumped, internally clean. A very good set. first edition. Churchill s biography of his father was published on 2 January 1906 to almost universal acclaim in the Press (Churchill, Winston S. Churchill II). W. F. Monypenny, author of the Life of Disraeli, remarked that, alike in style and architecture and for its spirit, grasp and insight the book seems to me truly admirable. Cohen A17.1; Woods A8(a). 650 [115976] 228 (CHURCHILL, Winston S., contrib.) SQUIRE, J. C. (ed.) If It Had Happened Otherwise. Lapses into Imagined History. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931 Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. Slight dusty boards at head and tail, light scatter of foxing to fore edge with minimal encroachment into margin, pale differential browning to endpapers, else a genuinely excellent copy in unclipped jacket, a touch sunned on the spine, pinhole to the lower edge of the spine panel which has three short splits at the head, supported internally with a strip of Japanese tissue, with associated minor surface colour loss: scarce in any condition, this is an exceptional copy. first edition, variant binding as noted by Cohen, though he does not describe the jacket of either version, and the jacket on this uncommon variant is entirely different to that usually encountered. In The Command of History David Reynolds draws attention to Churchill s attraction to the counterfactual, and here Churchill is given free rein to play with the what ifs of history and contributes an elegant Möbius strip of an essay titled If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg. Other contributors include Chesterton, Belloc, Philip Guedalla, and H. A. L. Fisher. Cohen B43.1.b; Woods B [121330] 229 (CONRAD, Joseph.) JEAN-AUBRY, Georges. Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary blue morocco, richly gilt spines (with gilt anchor motifs), sides with elaborate gilt ornamental panels (front covers with central gilt motif of a sailing ship), top edges gilt, two-line gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispieces, 16 plates from photographs or of facsimiles; title pages printed in red & black. An excellent set. first edition of one of the first biographies following Conrad s death in 1924, preserving material that might otherwise have been lost (The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, 2015, p. 190). Georges Jean-Aubry was a French music critic who numbered not just Conrad but also Debussy and Ravel among his friends. 450 [115931] 230 CRICK, W. F., & J. E. Wadsworth. A Hundred Years of Joint Stock Banking. With a Foreword by Reginald McKenna. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936 Octavo. Bound by Leighton-Straker in contemporary blue levant morocco, red morocco label, spine and boards panelled in gilt, red morocco roundel to front board with the Midland Bank coat of arms tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Portrait frontispiece, folding diagram to rear, and numerous full-page illustrations in the text. Bookseller s stamp to front blank. A bright, clean copy with spine sunned and boards a little marked. first edition, presentation issue, one of 350 specially bound copies, with an inserted calligraphic sheet inscribed to D. R. Mack by the Chairman, Managing Director and Directors of the Midland Bank Limited, This history of the transformation of banking discusses the establishment and expansion of the Midland Bank, among others. The recipient is unknown. 350 [121159] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 83

86 231 CRISP, Quentin. How to Have a Life-Style. Illustrations by William Vaughan. London: Cecil Woolf, 1975 Small octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrations by William Vaughan. Ownership annotation to dust jacket rear flap verso. Spine gently rolled, light offsetting to endpapers; an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with toned spine, and nicks and creasing to extremities, tape repair to verso. first edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Kenith, from Quentin Crisp. This copy additionally with a signed newspaper clipping from John Bull dated 20 November 1948 tipped-in to the front pastedown, and a signed typescript letter dated 2 January 1976 tipped-in to the rear pastedown. The letter is a response to a Mr Goodfellow, whom Crisp appears to have known in earlier years, replying to a letter congratulating Crisp on the 1975 television film production of The Naked Civil Servant, Crisp s 1968 autobiography, starring John Hurt. In the letter Crisp discusses Miss Beeson and the turbulence she carried with her, noting that, she really was a horror. Miss Beeson lived on the same floor as Crisp at Beaufort Street and her insatiable sexual appetite would often wake her neighbours during the night... sometime later Miss Beeson got religion and would lecture Quentin on his sinful life. The newspaper clipping provides an early interview with Crisp, discussing his job as a male model, I like being a model best, it s working without having to do any work at all. It s scandalous without being dangerous. Nigel Kelly, Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being. A Biography, p [119671] 232 DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. A Children s Story. Illustrated by Michel Simeon. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967 Octavo. Original pictorial laminated boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. No dust jacket issued. Black and white illustrations throughout by Michel Simeon. Top edge lightly tanned, very faint spotting to endpapers. An excellent copy. first uk edition. It was originally published in the US by Knopf in [120746] 233 DAHL, Roald. George s Marvellous Medicine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981 Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. Illustrated book label with name removed to half-title. Minor rubbing to extremities, a very good copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with creasing to edges and light soiling to flaps. first edition, signed by the author on a book label (supplied by The Good Book Guide) to the front free endpaper. 750 [121328] 234 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 Octavo. Original light grey boards, titles to spine in gilt. With the illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations to text by Blake. An excellent copy in the jacket with small mark to foot of spine panel. first edition. Dahl s fantastical tale was expanded from a short story in his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World. A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in [120385] 235 DAHL, Roald. The Witches. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983 Octavo. Original green boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. An excellent copy in the spine faded dust jacket. first edition. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Children s Novel in 1983, the book was adapted into a stage play and a two-part radio dramatization for the BBC, a 1990 movie directed by Nicolas Roeg which starred Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, and an opera by Marcus Paus and Ole Paus. 300 [116697] 84 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

87 236 DAHL, Roald. Matilda. Illustrations by Quentin Blake. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988 Octavo. Original red boards, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Numerous illustrations in text by Blake. Spine gently rolled, bottom edge of boards lightly discoloured, text block very slightly cockled; a very good copy in the bright jacket with crease to front panel, short closed tear to head of front flap join, tape repair to verso. first edition. Matilda won the Children s Book Award in the year of its publication, and formed the basis for both the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito and the successful stage musical, which premiered at the RSC s Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in November [121393] 237 DE BERNIERES, Louis. Captain Corelli s Mandolin. London: Secker and Warburg, 1994 Octavo. Original white boards, titles to spine in purple, purple endpapers. With the dust jacket. Extremities slightly rubbed. An excellent copy. first edition. The novel won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and was listed at number 19 on the BBC s 2003 survey The Big Read. 350 [121123] 238 DICKENS, Charles. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With forty illustrations by George Cruikshank. A new edition, complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary red crushed morocco, titles to spine gilt in compartments, raised gilt bands, gilt rules to covers, decorative gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, red silk page marker, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard, half-title vignette and 38 plates. Light browning to margins of endpapers, occasional foxing not affecting text; an excellent copy. first complete one-volume edition, bound from parts. Sketches by Boz was originally published in two series: the first in two volumes in 1836, and the second in one volume in This edition combines all three parts for the first time. 750 [116579] 239 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 Octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary dark red straight-grain half morocco, marbled sides and edges, titles to spine fully gilt in compartments, brown endpapers. Engraved frontispiece by Finden after D. Maclise; 39 plates by Phiz. Slight rubbing to extremities and covers, light foxing to plates, an excellent copy. first edition, first issue in book form, bound without the half-title and the list of plates. It was originally issued in monthly parts, and, once the serialization was complete, issued as a book in cloth. All the humour of the recently completed Pickwick is reaffirmed in Nicholas Nickleby which has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote; it is perhaps the funniest novel in the English language (Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, pp ). Eckel pp. 64 5; Smith [117939] 240 DICKENS, Charles. Christmas Books. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration gilt to spine, sides panelled in blind, pale yellow coated endpapers. With frontispiece. Bookseller s ticket to front free endpaper. Spine sunned, trivial rubbing to the ends and tips, but an extremely smart copy, internally sound and fresh and generally in excellent condition. first collected edition of Dickens s Christmas books, here published together for the first time with a new preface by Dickens, dated September [116519] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 85

88 241 DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853 Octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century red half morocco, titles gilt to spine in compartments, marbled paper sides, brown coated endpapers, edges speckled red. Frontispiece, engraved title page, and 38 plates. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Light fading to spine, wear to extremities, slight rubbing to sides, foxing to plates; a very good copy. first edition bound from parts, with the first-issue textual points as listed by Smith. Smith I [121511] 242 DICKENS, Charles. Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary green calf, titles to spine on later red morocco labels, spine fully gilt, gilt vignette to front cover with gilt frame, turn-ins stamped in blind, marbled endpapers. Binder s stamp to head of front free endpaper verso. Spine rolled and faded, light knocks to tips, slight scratches to boards, light foxing to outer leaves; an excellent copy. first edition in book form, first issue, with all Smith s internal flaws uncorrected. The novel was originally serialized in Household Words, April November Sadleir 689; Smith I 11; Wolff [117481] 243 DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With an Introduction by Sir John Shuckburgh and sixteen illustrations by Phiz. London: Oxford University Press, [c.1973] Octavo ( mm). Contemporary red calf by George Bayntun of Bath, raised bands decorated in gilt, calf labels, double gilt border to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece, with tissue guards, and 15 plates after the originals. Slight rubbing to edges, slight wear to boards. A handsomely-bound new edition of Dickens s classic novel, first published in 1859, reproducing the original plates. 275 [121317] 244 DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. With twenty-one illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe and an introduction by Frederick Page. London: Oxford University Press, [c.1975] Octavo ( mm). Contemporary red calf by George Bayntun of Bath, raised bands decorated in gilt, calf labels, gilt border to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, and 20 plates. Very slight rubbing to boards and spine, very fresh inside. A handsomely-bound new edition of Dickens s classic novel, first published between 1860 and As Great Expectations was not illustrated in its first edition, the plates here are from the Household Edition. 275 [121316] 245 DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth. Problems of Greater Britain. London: Macmillan and Co., vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary green crushed half morocco by Birdsall, flat bands to spines, compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, green cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 5 folding colour maps. Spine-ends lightly rubbed, tips bumped and worn, small nick to fore edge of vol. 2 front board, mild spotting to edges, prelims and endleaves, these flaws minor: a very good copy. first edition, an interesting association copy, with the engraved bookplate of Pandeli Ralli ( ), Liberal MP (for Bridport, , then Wallingford until 1885), member of the famous Greek merchant family, and long-time confidant of Lord Kitchener, to the front pastedowns. This essay on imperial defence predicted the threat to an increasingly overstretched British Empire posed by the growing military strength of the European powers. 375 [115748] 246 DRINKWATER, John. A History of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. London: printed by T. Spilsbury; and sold by J. Johnson; T. and J. Egerton; and J. Edwards, 1785 Quarto ( mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, smooth spine gilt-ruled in compartments, brown morocco label to second, date to foot gilt, edges untrimmed. Folding engraved chart as frontispiece, 9 86 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

89 free endpaper. Boards gently bowed, a very good copy in the jacket with browned spine, short closed tear to head of front panel, faint soiling to panels, and a couple of tiny nicks to extremities. first uk collected edition. The four poems that make up Four Quartets, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding, were published separately between 1940 and 1941; the first collected edition was published in the US in Gallup A43b. 275 [121012] engraved folding charts, plans, views. With the errata leaf. Armorial bookplate of Richard Harington, either the 11th ( ) or 12th baronet ( ), to front pastedown. Extremities and joints rubbed, short crack to head of each joint, light stripping to front board, all plates linen-backed, a few with repaired closed tears at the stub or fore edge, pale marginal damping to a few plates and adjacent leaves, only slightly encroaching on the images in plates facing pp. 300 and 346, occasional mild spotting or soiling. A very good copy. first edition of the fullest contemporary account of one of key engagements of the American War of Independence (Bruce). The garrison was besieged in June 1779 by a Franco Spanish force. Throughout the siege, which lasted until February 1783, Drinkwater kept a careful record of events. Thereafter the 72nd, in which he had become a captain, was ordered home and disbanded. From his memoranda Drinkwater compiled [the present work], dedicated by permission to the king. It went through four editions in four years (ODNB). Bruce [120594] 247 ECO, Umberto. The Name of the Rose; [together with:] Postscript to The Name of the Rose. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983 & works, large octavo and duodecimo. The Name of the Rose: original cream linen-backed light brown boards, decoration to front cover and titles to spine in bronze, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. Postscript: original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, light brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Postscript with 11 black and white illustrations. Light foxing to edges; an excellent set in the jackets with minor nicks to extremities. first us editions, signed by the author in each work on the title page. The Name of the Rose was originally published in Italian in 1980; the Postscript originally published in Italian in [119641] 248 ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, 1944 Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contemporary Christmas gift inscription, partially erased, to front 249 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1922 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to front board in blind and to spine gilt, fore edge untrimmed. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Very light rubbing to tips and spine ends; an excellent, bright, copy. first edition of Fitzgerald s second novel. Bruccoli A8.I.a. 500 [117508] 250 FITZPATRICK, Sir Percy. Jock of the Bushveld. Illustrated by E. Caldwell. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1931 Octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary red half morocco by Bayntun, titles and decoration in gilt to spine in compartments, red cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 22 monochrome plates, and fully illustrated margins. Binder s stamp to front free endpaper verso. Spine lightly faded, an excellent, bright copy. An attractively bound copy of this later printing. Jock of the Bushveld was first published in Reviewing the book in the TLS on first publication in 1907, John Buchan wrote: to those who have some experience of the land and the life about which Fitzpatrick writes, Jock of the Bushveld will be a cherished possession, while Mendelssohn describes it as perhaps one of the best dog stories ever written. Illustrations for the book were done by Edmund Caldwell, a brother of Mary Tourtel, creator of Rupert Bear. Mendelssohn I, p [121496] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 87

90 251 FLEMING, Ian. You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, 1964 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in silver, Japanese characters to front board in gilt, wood grain endpapers. With the dust jacket. Small ink ownership inscription to head of front free endpaper. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, tiny bump to head of spine; an excellent copy in the lightly soiled jacket with faint mark to rear panel. first edition. Gilbert A12a (1.1). 375 [121503] 252 FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965 Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in bronze, green and white endpapers, Gilbert s binding A (no priority). With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the bright jacket with spot of rubbing to rear panel. first edition, second state binding as usual, without the gun design blocked in gilt on the front board, which proved too expensive and was dropped after the first 940 copies had been sent abroad. Gilbert A13a (1.2). 375 [120587] 253 FLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966 Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to front board and spine in silver, marble-patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Foxing to top edge, an excellent, bright copy in the fresh jacket. first edition, second issue jacket with the publisher s over-price sticker on the front flap. This is the final James Bond book by Fleming. Gilbert A14a (1.3). 250 [117538] 254 (FOOD & DRINK.) SIMON, André L. The Noble Grapes and the Great Wines of France. With 24 colour photographs by Percy Hennell and eight maps and decorations by Asgeir Scott. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1957] Small quarto ( mm). Contemporary red full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, titles to spine gilt in compartments, gilt raised bands, single-line gilt border on covers, gilt motif of a grape vine on front cover, edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Colour frontispiece of the author, title page printed in red and black, chapter decorations in black, 23 colour plates from photographs, and 8 three-colour maps. Spine lightly faded; an excellent, bright copy. first edition, second printing. An attractively bound copy of this detailed work by a man regarded as the leading authority in the world on wine and gastronomy (ODNB). 375 [120131] 255 GORDON, Charles George. Events in the Taeping Rebellion. Being Reprints of MSS. copies by General Gordon in his own Handwriting. With Monograph, Introduction, and Notes by A. Egmont Hake. London: W. H. Allen and Co. Ltd, 1891 Octavo ( mm). Contemporary prize-binding of red calf by Relfe Brothers, raised bands gilt to spine, black morocco morocco label to second compartment, the rest gilt-tooled with arabesque cornerpieces and central floral lozenges, rolled foliate border gilt to boards, crest of Bancroft s School, Woodford, to front, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt roll incorporating alternate palmette, fleur-de-lys and flower motifs to turn-ins. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding sketch-map hand-coloured in outline to rear. Prize plate dated 1902 to the front pastedown. Faint soiling to boards, tips bumped and slightly worn, short closed tear to map fold. A very good copy. first and only edition. Gordon s ingenious defeat of the Taiping rebellion earned him the nickname Chinese Gordon and made him a totem of the cult of the Christian military hero which had emerged after the Indian Mutiny. Like T. E. Lawrence he had a genius for guerrilla warfare and for leading destitute, ill-trained forces (ODNB). The editor, Hake ( ), was a relation of Gordon s and also wrote a popular biography, The Story of Chi- 88 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

91 nese Gordon (1884) and other works, which contributed to his lifetime apotheosis and remain important. Bruce [121126] 256 GRAY, Thomas. Poems and Letters. London: printed at the Chiswick Press, 1879 Quarto ( mm). Late 19th-century blue morocco richly gilt spine, gilt ornamental and ruled panels on sides, top edges gilt, richly gilt turn-ins, French blue endpapers. Wood-engraved head-, tailpieces, and initial letters throughout. Attractive engraved bookplate of Doris L. Benz. A few slight abrasions to covers. An excellent copy. large paper copy of this fine edition, with letterpress by the Chiswick Press. 500 [115921] 257 HARDY, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. With an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 Octavo. Original vertical-ribbed green cloth, titles to spine gilt, gilt roundel of Hardy s monogram within a floral wreath on front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Etched frontispiece with captioned tissue guard by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map at the rear. Spine gently rolled, slight wear to extremities, a couple of faint marks to boards, inner hinges cracked but holding, light foxing to outer leaves; a very good copy. first edition in book form of Hardy s last novel, in which he deliberately [attacked] the existing educational system and marriage laws. The novel s sexual directness fuelled the hostility of its reception in some quarters (ODNB). It originally appeared as a bowdlerized serial in Harper s Magazine from December 1894 to November 1895; the European and American editions were published simultaneously in London and New York, and post-dated Purdy notes two distinct states of signatures A H, with or without page numbers on partially blank pages; as usual, this copy has mixed states of these signatures. Purdy pp [119705] 258 HERODOTUS. The History. Translated from the Greek. With Notes. By William Beloe. London: for Leigh and Sotheby, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines gilt in compartments, twin green morocco labels, yellow edges. Labels of the Broughton Baptist Library to front pastedowns, bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, Lancashire retail chemist and discriminating collector of 18th-century literature in contemporary bindings, to front pastedown of vol. 1. Spines slightly dry, small chip to vol. 3 label costing half a letter, short crack to head of vol. 1 front joint, a few superficial scuffs to sides. An excellent set. first edition of Beloe s celebrated and muchreprinted translation, elegant, but very paraphrastical (Lowndes). Lowndes p [118086] 259 HOMER. The Iliad. Rendered into English blank verse by Edward Earl of Derby. Third Thousand. London: John Murray, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary vellum, flat spines lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative frames and central vignettes in gilt to covers, gilt roll to turnins, gilt edges. Boards slightly sprung and lightly soiled, small splits to gilt stamp of front cover of vol. I, foxing to outer leaves; a very good, handsome set. An early printing of Derby s translation, which appeared in 1864 to much critical praise and reached its sixth edition by 1867 (ODNB). Edward Stanley, the 14th Earl of Derby, three times prime minister in 1852, 1858, and , fully translated the Iliad during a prolonged period of solitary confinement due to a severe attack of gout, having previously published a part translation in his Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern, privately printed in 1862 (p. 80). Angus Hawkins, The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II, p [121272] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 89

92 260 HUGHES, Ted. Crow. From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber, 1970 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Minor rubbing to spine ends, foxing to edges, an excellent copy in the jacket with nicks to extremities, minor loss to head of spine, a couple of faint marks to panels. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, For Stephanie and Jimmy after the black-out, under the blazing-down, from Ted, 15 July The recipients, Stephanie Bennett and James Mervis, hosted Ted Hughes during the New York blackout in July of that year, which resulted in widespread looting. Stephanie Bennett is a film producer who works primarily on music documentaries. Sagar & Tabor A [119983] 261 HUGHES, Ted. Birthday Letters. London: Faber and Faber, 1998 Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed blue boards, titles to spine in gilt on black, yellow endpapers. A fine copy. signed limited edition, number 232 of 310 copies signed by the author. 750 [116941] 262 JANE, Fred. T. All the World s Fighting Ships. Cosmopolitan Naval Annual. Target Book and Signal Manual. Part I. The Navies of World. Part II. Articles on Naval Questions of the Day. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, 1901 Landscape quarto. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to front board and spine. Profusely illustrated with photographs, plans and silhouettes. A little rubbed, corners bumped, front hinge very slightly loose, front free endpaper and half-title creased, some spotting, but overall a very good copy. first edition of the fourth year of Jane s most famous and longest-running work, the first edition to be illustrated from photographs. Extremely uncommon, this a very well-preserved copy. 675 [119231] 263 KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1897 Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decorations to spine and front cover gilt, black coated endpapers, gilt edges. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 22 illustrations by I. W. Taber. Ownership inscription in pencil to half-title. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, tiny bump to foot of front cover, small mark to rear cover; an excellent copy. first uk edition in book form, preceded by the US edition, released the previous month. The work was originally serialized in Pearson s Magazine between 1896 and Written while the newlywed Kipling was living in Vermont, Captains Courageous is Kipling s only novel set entirely in America. 550 [120627] 264 LANGDALE, Charles. Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert. With an account of her marriage with H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, afterwards King George the Fourth. London: Richard Bentley, 1856 Octavo ( mm). Early 20th-century dark blue calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, richly gilt spine, dark red twin labels, sides with gilt single-line and roll tool panels, gilt central floriate motif, gilt edges, gilt roll tool turn-ins, marble endpapers, with the original red cloth covers bound in at the end. Housed in a custom made fleecelined marbled slipcase. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Mrs Fitzherbert. Burgundy morocco book label of Doris L. Benz. An excellent copy. first edition, a choicely bound copy, extra-illustrated with the addition of 54 portraits and views (some hand-coloured) ranging in date from the late 18th to the late 19th century, skilfully inlaid to size. For many years after her death Mrs Fitzherbert s marriage to the prince of Wales continued to provoke controversy, and it was not until 1856, with the publication of Charles Langdale s Memoirs of Mrs Fitzherbert (which contains his brother Lord Stourton s narrative), that a more or less accurate account of that event was published (ODNB). 450 [115927] 90 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

93 then senior editor. They met again when Haley interviewed the activist for Playboy, and the present book was based on a series of over 50 interviews between 1963 and Malcolm X s assassination in February [120088] 265 LAW, William John. The Alps of Hannibal. London: Macmillan and Co., vols. in 1, octavo ( mm). Late 19th-century tan calf prize-binding (the prize plate dated ), raised bands hatched in gilt to spine, brown morocco label to second, remaining compartments gilt tooled with floral devices, twin fillet borders gilt so covers, laurel wreaths enclosing text in Latin (front) and Greek (back) to boards, marbled edges and endpapers. 2 folding maps. Edinburgh Academy prize plate to the front pastedown. Light spotting to prelims and maps, very occasionally elsewhere. A very good copy. first edition. This book was the product of a lengthy and ill-tempered dispute between Law, a distinguished judge and bankruptcy commissioner, and Robert Ellis, a classical scholar. Ellis surveyed the Alpine passes in 1852 and 1853, concluding that Little Mount Censis was Hannibal s route, a theory which Law sharply attacked in three pamphlets (1855 6) before issuing this two-volume riposte, which argued that Hannibal was most likely to have crossed Little St Bernard, which was originally proposed by General Robert Melville ( ) on the basis of the Roman historian, Polybius. Ellis published another work in response the following year, entitled An Enquiry into the Ancient Routes between Italy and Gaul. Neither theory is now believed to be correct. The book appears to have been a popular choice for Scottish school and university prizes: we have handled one other copy, in a prize binding for the University of Glasgow. 750 [121044] 266 MALCOLM X. The Autobiography. With the Assistance of Alex Haley. Introduction by M. S. Handler. Epilogue by Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. With 16 plates of photographic reproductions. With the ownership inscription of Kennett Love ( ), a photojournalist and foreign correspondent. Minor rubbing to extremities, unusually bright spine; an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket with minor creasing to top edge and small mark to foot of rear panel. first edition. Haley met Malcolm X in 1960 when he interviewed him for a piece on the Nation of Islam in the Reader s Digest, of which Haley was 267 MALORY, Thomas. The Noble & Joyous Boke Entytled Le Morte Darthur. Oxford: printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell, vols., quarto ( mm). Original red half morocco, white cloth sides, titles gilt to spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Text printed in red and black, in two columns. Woodcut headpieces, with tissue guards. Slight rubbing to extremities, a little wear to very tips, boards lightly soiled; a very good set. first edition thus, limited issue, number 220 of 370 copies, of which 350 were released for sale. This work is printed in late Middle English from the 1498 edition of Le Morte Darthur published by Wynkyn de Worde, from the copy in the John Rylands Library in Manchester. 875 [120201] 268 MANDELBROT, Benoit B. Fractals. Form, Chance, and Dimension. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1977 Quarto. Original blue cloth, spine and boards lettered and blocked in silver, blue and white patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text. Spine ends lightly bruised, overall a fine copy in the slightly rubbed and nicked dust jacket. first edition in english of Mandelbrot s groundbreaking volume on fractal geometry, originally published in Paris in [119549] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 91

94 269 MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six. With decorations by E. H. Shepard. London: Methuen Children s Books, 1977 Octavo. Original red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, frames and vignettes to covers gilt, gilt edges, pictorial endpapers. With the slipcase, as issued. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. An excellent, bright, copy. fiftieth anniversary edition, number 109 of 300 copies signed by Christopher Robin Milne. With the errata slip correcting the stated issue run from 490 to 300 laid in, signed by the chairman and managing director of Methuen Children s Books and the chairman of Richard Clay. 750 [119471] 270 MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Translated into English by Ralph Robinson, sometime Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His second and revised edition, 1556: preceded by the title and epistle of his first edition, Carefully edited by Edward Arber. London: Edward Arber, 1869 Square octavo ( mm). Contemporary half vellum, pebble-grain cloth stamped to resemble pebblegrain morocco, gilt titles to spine on red morocco label, top edge red. Spine a little soiled, a few blemishes to covers, minor dampstains to pastedowns. A very good copy. The English Reprint series, published between 1868 and 1871, sought to bring accurate texts of classic works of English literature, formerly only accessible in expensive editions, to a general public readership, priced more accessibly at sixpence each. When business relations with his original publisher, Murray, became strained, Arber took over the publication of the series and produced these editions from his house in Bloomsbury. 300 [120832] 271 MOTLEY, John Lothrop. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. London: W. W. Gibbings, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary tree calf, floral gilt rule, gilt armorial crest front boards, spine fully gilt in compartments, morocco labels, comb-marbled edges and endpapers. Title in red and black. Prize label completed in manuscript to front pastedown of volume 1. A fine set in a handsome prize binding. second london edition. The American author and diplomat Motley s Rise of the Dutch Republic was first published in New York by Harper & Bros. in 1856 and in Britain by Gibbings in [116653] 272 (MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus.) KOLB, Annette. Mozart. Translated by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt. With an introduction by Jean Giradoux. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates. Very light rubbing to ends and corners, minor spotting to edges and endpapers, an excellent copy in a bright jacket with crease down spine, small chips to one corner of the head, and very minor rubbing to ends and corners, also some mild dust soiling to rear panel only. first edition in english, scarce, especially in such nice condition. Kolb s biography was first published in Germany in [117399] 273 NICHOLSON, William. An Almanac of Twelve Sports. Words by Rudyard Kipling. London: William Heinemann, 1898 [1897] Quarto. Original quarter cloth, brown boards, front cover lettered in black, front board illustrated in colour, publisher s stamp to rear cover in colour. With the publisher s advertisements to rear. Title page and 12 lithographs in colour from the original woodcuts. Wear and rubbing to extremities, cloth backstrip a little frayed and loose, toning to front and rear endpapers, offsetting throughout, a very good copy. first edition, the Library Edition issue, postdated There was also a smaller edition of hand-coloured prints signed by the artist, and a popular edition bound in cloth. In this edition, which was published for Christmas 1897, the 12 lithographs in colour are printed from the original woodcut blocks by Nicholson on Japanese vellum. The twelve sports represented are: hunting, coursing, racing, boating, fishing, cricket, archery, coaching, shooting, golf, boxing, and skating. Each is prefaced by a Kipling poem on the sub- 92 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

95 ject. The Almanac is often broken for its individual prints, so complete copies are relatively scarce. 800 [116870] 274 (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Prepared by William Little, H. W. Fowler [and] J. Coulson. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962 Large quarto ( mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule gilt to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Spine a touch faded. An excellent copy. Third edition revised with addenda, in a handsome binding. It was first published in [118068] 275 PLOMER, William. Paper Houses. London: The Hogarth Press, 1929 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket designed by Roger Fry. Very faint fading to cloth around the extremities, but an excellent copy, sound and fresh, with the dust jacket only a little tanned and stained to spine and slightly chipped at the ends and corners, entirely unrestored. first edition, one of 1,262 copies published, complete with the Roger Fry dust jacket in exceptional condition. Paper Houses is an early short story collection by the poet and novelist William Plomer ( ) based on his experiences living in Japan with a male companion. Woolmer [121147] 276 POE, Edgar Allan. The Works. New York: W. J. Widdleton, vols., octavo ( mm). Contemporary dark blue half calf, marbled sides, raised bands, titles and decorations to compartments gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and 4 similar plates. Attractively bound set of Poe s works. 650 [116779] 277 (POETRY.) HENLEY, William Ernest (ed.) Lyra Heroica. A Book of Verse for Boys. London: published by David Nutt, 1892 [but 1891] Octavo. Publisher s deluxe red crushed morocco, spine gilt-tooled in compartments with titles direct, gilt rules, rolls and tooling to boards, gilt rolls to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated front wrapper bound in. With the original red cloth dust jacket, title gilt to spine panel. Very light rubbing to extremities, tiny chip to headcap, internally fine, an excellent copy. first uk edition, number 88 of 100 large paper copies on Dutch handmade paper signed by the publisher, in the very handsome deluxe binding and original cloth jacket. This popular Late Victorian poetry anthology was printed in 1891 and published in the UK and America the New York edition has the date 1891 on the title page, whereas the London edition is dated 1892, though both were issued in late 1891 for the Christmas market. 475 [117889] 278 REMARQUE, Erich Maria. The Road Back. Translated from the German by A. W. Wheen. London: G. P. Putnam s Sons, 1931 Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, titles to front board and spine in green, top edge green. With the dust jacket. Top edge slightly faded but an excellent copy in an exceptionally smart jacket, spine panel a little tanned, a few tiny closed tears to the top edge, and a sliver of loss at the head. first edition in english of the sequel to Remarque s landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front. 475 [120855] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 93

96 279 RIMMEL, Eugène. The Book of Perfumes. With above 250 illustrations by Bourdelin, Thomas, etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865 Quarto. Original green pebble grain cloth over bevelled boards, gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles, Rimmel s armorial crest and panelling to covers, white silk moiré endpapers, decoratively gilt-gauffered edges. Text printed within floral frame on scented pink paper. Frontispiece and 12 wood-engraved plates, 1 in colour, and numerous illustrations in the text. Slight wear to extremities, occasional light foxing; an excellent copy. first edition of this historical survey of perfumes and cosmetics by the perfumer Eugène Rimmel, printed on scented rose-tinted paper, elegantly bound and deliciously perfumed (The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, 1865, p. 250). Rimmel was known for his innovation in the field, creating the first factory-made, non-toxic mascara. A work that not only furnishes food for the mind, but gratifies the eyes and olfactory senses by its beauty and fragrance. Seldom have sense and scents been so happily blended (The Sporting Review, 1865, p. 471). 850 [120567] 280 ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, earl of. The Poetical Works, edited by Quilter Johns. [Halifax:] The Haworth Press, 1933 Octavo. Original reddish-brown niger by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blind tooled hinge motif around raised bands, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the original fleece-lined patterned paper slipcase. Portrait frontispiece of Rochester with tissue guard, wood-engraved dragon motif to colophon. An excellent copy. first edition thus, number 32 of 50 copies printed on handmade paper and bound in niger. A very attractive edition; according to master printer Vivian Ridler, the Haworth Press was founded by G. K. Pratt; type for some of the books was set up by hand, although most of the printing was done by Sherratt & Hughes of Manchester, as is the case here. One of the finest modern editions of the great Restoration poet. 750 [121375] 281 SEUSS, Dr. Hop on Pop. New York: Beginner Books, Random House, Inc., 1963 Octavo. Original glossy pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout by the author. Some wear to extremities, light foxing on free endpapers. An excellent copy. first edition, with correct adverts on the jacket rear panel and flap and 195/195 price. Younger & Hirsch [121498] 282 SEUSS, Dr. I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew. New York: Random House, 1965 Quarto. Original pictorial paper covered boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the author. Slight wear to head and tail of spine, light bumping to tips, dust jacket slightly faded, occasional ink marks throughout. A very good copy. first edition, with correct adverts on the jacket rear panel and flap and 295/295 price. Younger & Hirsch [121506] 283 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works. Edited with scrupulous revision of the text by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. The Leicester Square edition. With portrait and twenty-one illustrations from the Boydell Gallery in permanent photography. London: Bickers and Son, 1875 Large octavo ( mm). Contemporary red morocco by Bickers, titles to tan label to spine, spine richly decorated gilt in compartments, covers with elaborate thistle design frames and armorial crests gilt, turn-ins and gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Title page in red and black with photographic vignette, portrait frontispiece and 20 plates; printed in double columns within single rule frame. Minor rubbing to extremities, spine lightly toned, offsetting to title page; an excellent copy. A handsomely bound copy of the works of Shakespeare, illustrated with a number of photographic reproductions of paintings from the ill-fated Boydell Shakespeare Gallery; the first prints of which were published in [119859] 94 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

97 284 (SHAKESPEARE, William.) LAMB, Charles & Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. Introductory preface by Andrew Lang. Illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. London: S. T. Freemantle, 1899 Octavo. Publisher s deluxe vellum, titles and illustration gilt to spine and front, top edge gilt. Illustrated frontispiece, title page, and 14 plates by Robert Anning Bell. A few minor spots to vellum, front board only very slightly bowed, spotting to edges and some light spotting within, but a sound and attractive copy in very good condition. first edition thus, deluxe issue, with the illustrations of prominent arts and crafts figure Robert Anning Bell ( ). Lamb s Tales from Shakespeare was first published in [116484] 285 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Complete Poetical Works. Including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems. Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1904 Octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary green morocco, titles gilt to spine, elaborate decoration gilt to spine in compartments, elaborate frames gilt to covers, top edge and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece and 2 facsimile manuscript plates. Duplicate leaf of pp laid in. Spine lightly toned, slight rubbing to tips, light offsetting to endpapers; an excellent copy. first edition thus of Shelley s poetry in a beautiful fine binding. 675 [120191] 286 SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments A new edition. Basel: Printed and sold by J. J. Tourneisen, volumes, octavo ( mm). Near-contemporary mottled half calf, green morocco labels, spines tooled with rope-twist roll and floral motifs in gilt, volume numbers within gilt roundels to third compartments, marbled paper boards. Bound without the final blank, volume leaf Y4. Contemporary ownership inscriptions (one dated 1800) to front free endpapers crossed out. Some worming to spines and hinges, extremities rubbed and corners bumped, paper boards a little chipped at edges, hinges gently cracked but firm, contents foxed, otherwise a very good set. first basel edition of Smith s first book and the work that established his reputation as a philosopher both in London and on the continent, a reprint of the 1790 edition. One of Adam Smith s major claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of an economic system with mutually interdependent parts. His development of this came well before the Wealth of Nations; it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 and the Lectures of (D. P. O Brien, The Classical Economists, 1975, p. 29). Kress B.2619; Tribe [120429] 287 SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In three volumes. The tenth edition. London: Printed by A. Strahan; for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, volumes, octavo ( mm). Contemporary tree calf, green morocco labels to spines, spines ruled and decorated in gilt. Half-titles to volumes 1 and 2. Contemporary gift inscription, Chas. Hain gift to W. Hunter 1809 Ship Resolution, to front free endpaper of volume 1. Spine ends and corners chipped and worn, recently varnished, extremities rubbed, boards ink and burn marked, joints splitting, hinges cracked but firm, some spotting and ink marks to edges of text blocks and a little wear to upper fore edge of volume 3 text block, 2 small punctures to front free endpaper and first blank of volume 1, otherwise an internally clean, very good set. Tenth edition of the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought (PMM), reprinting the introductions to the third and fourth editions. From the gift inscription, it would appear that this copy of Smith s work went to sea, which may explain the wear to the binding. Goldsmiths 18411; Kress B.4602; Tribe 77. See Printing and the Mind of Man [120368] 288 STEIG, William. Shrek! New York: Michael Di Capua Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990 Quarto. Original illustrated glossed boards, green endpapers. Illustration to front free endpaper, 24 illustrations in the text. A fine copy. first edition of the source book for one of the most popular films of recent decades. 250 [115966] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 95

98 289 TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Poems; In Memoriam; Idylls of the King; The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, Four works, octavo ( mm). Finely bound to match in contemporary purple morocco, spines gilttooled in compartments with raised bands and gilt titles direct, sides panelled in gilt with elaborate tooling, giltrolled turn-ins, pale yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Contemporary ink gift inscription and blind stamp to front free endpaper of Idylls of the King. One of the spines sunned, otherwise all in excellent condition. A lavishly bound collection of Tennyson s works, mixed editions. Loosely inserted is the order of service for his memorial service held at Westminster Abbey on Sunday, 16 October 1892, also a newspaper clipping printing previously unpublished lines by Tennyson, opening O who is he the simple fool / Who says that wars are over? There is also a purple flower laid in at The Lotos Eaters. 750 [116104] 290 (TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.) SELWYN, William. Enoch Arden, poema Tennysonianum, Latine Redditum. London: Edward Moxon, 1867 Quarto. Original green pebble-grain cloth over bevelled edges by Hanbury & Simpson, titles to front cover gilt, anchor vignette to front cover gilt, decorative frame gilt to front cover, blocked in blind to rear cover, gilt edges, brown coated endpapers. Text in Latin. Aquatint plate with tissue guard. Binder s ticket to foot of rear pastedown. Pasted paper textual correction to the prefatory poem. Slight rubbing to extremities; an excellent copy. first edition in latin, presentation copy, inscribed by the translator on the half-title, Gulielmus Hepworth Thompson, pro cancellario [for chancellor], Gulielmus Selwyn. The recipient was William Hepworth Thompson ( ), classical scholar, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and vice-chancellor of the university, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Thompson was also Selwyn s brother-in-law, having married Frances Elizabeth Selwyn in Enoch Arden was first published by Moxon in [118827] 291 THATCHER, Margaret. The Path to Power. London: Harper Collins, 1995 Octavo. Original black boards, titles gilt to spine, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 20 leaves of photographic reproductions. A fine copy. first edition, signed by the author on the fly leaf. Thatcher was the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. 400 [120994] 292 TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969 Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, design to front board in gilt, silver and green, black and red title page, silver and green marbled endpapers, green speckled edges. With the publisher s black card slipcase. 2 folding colour maps. Slight rubbing on slipcase, ownership mark on verso front endpaper J. Dangerfield, An excellent copy. first india-paper edition of the three books originally published separately between 1954 and 1955, and here issued complete in one volume. Hammond & Anderson A5h. 500 [121409] 293 UPDIKE, John. The Witches of Eastwick. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and front board in silver and gilt, top edge dyed black. With the dust jacket. Slight fading to cloth along edges of boards, an excellent copy, with the jacket very slightly rubbed at the ends and corners, and with a small closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. first edition, signed by the author on the title page. This novel was memorably filmed in 1987 starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon. 225 [117440] 294 VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. The Polar Express. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 Oblong quarto pp. [32]. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine silver, bell design to front cover silver, brown 96 Christmas 2017: Peter Harrington

99 endpapers. With the dust jacket and Mylar sleeve. Colour illustrations throughout by the author. Very light foxing to top edge, an excellent bright copy, in the jacket with short closed tear to head of front panel, slight creasing to extremities. first edition. 500 [117997] 295 WAUGH, Evelyn. A Handful of Dust. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1934 Octavo. Original red and black marbled cloth, titles to spine gilt. With a black and white frontispiece. Spine gently rolled, minor rubbing to extremities, foxing to edges; an excellent copy. first edition of what is now widely regarded as Waugh s masterpiece, a satire on the collapse of civilized values (ODNB). 975 [119828] 296 WAUGH, Evelyn. Helena. London: Chapman & Hall, 1950 Octavo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, with original dust jacket and wraparound bank advertising Daily Mail, Book of the Month, A Book Society Recommendation. Slight soiling on top edge, very light foxing, light rubbing to head and tail, a few marks on the spine of the dust jacket, an excellent copy. first edition of Waugh s only historical novel. 625 [121438] 297 WODEHOUSE, P. G. Quick Service. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940 Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. With the pictorial dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled, gilt a little faded, dust jacket spine ends slightly chipped with some loss of text at foot, short closed tear to foot of jacket spine with tape repair to verso; a very good copy. first edition. McIlvaine A63a. 850 [120475] 298 WODEHOUSE, P. G. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940 Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With the dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, slight fading at foot of spine, some small closed tears and shallow chips to dust jacket. A very good copy. first edition (preceding the US edition by three weeks and with different contents) in the first issue jacket, priced 7/6 on the spine panel. McIlvaine A62a. 1,000 [120477] 299 WODEHOUSE, P. G. Spring Fever. London: Herbert Jenkins, [1948] Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With the dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped, tiny closed tear to dust jacket joint. An excellent copy. first uk edition. It was first published in the US the same month. McIlvaine A67b. 250 [120467] 300 WOLF, Joseph. The Life and Habits of Wild Animals. Engraved by J. W. & Edward Whymper. With Descriptive Letter-Press by Daniel Giraud Elliot. London: Alexander Macmillan & Co., 1874 Folio ( mm). Original crushed red morocco over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt, decorative frames to covers blocked in blind and gilt, turn-ins and gilt edges, marbled endpapers, blue silk page marker. With 20 engraved plates. Faint pencil gift inscription to head of title page. Slight wear to extremities, spine lightly toned, a couple of abrasions and small marks to covers, shallow indentation to rear cover, light foxing to outer leaves; a very good, bright copy. first edition, large paper issue. Wolf s pictures are often noted for the astonishing realism of feet, fur, and feather texture, and for their backgrounds, which often include small but perfectly painted subsidiary creatures bickering or otherwise associating in a lively fashion. In the opinion of Sir Edwin Landseer he was without exception, the best all-round animal painter that ever lived (Schulze-Hagen, 1) (ODNB). 750 [120461] All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 97

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