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1 ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1969 her first volume of autobiographical fiction, inscribed First edition, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “Bill Berger, Joy! Maya Angelou. 1/88”. Angelou has previously been quoted as saying that “When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness . . . all the good things”. Inscribed copies of Maya Angelou’s works are uncommon; Angelou would usually sign or inscribe books with just her name and the salutation “Joy!”. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, faint offsetting to front free endpaper, trivial crease to p. 237. A very good copy indeed in a nice example of the jacket, flaps a little toned, else bright and sharp. £2,750 [157644] 2 BACON, Francis – SYLVESTER, David. Interviews with Francis Bacon. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975 First edition, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, “For Stefanowski, with all my best wishes Francis Bacon, Zurich 6/5/75”, together with a letter from Michael Stefanowski gifting the book

1,600 copies signed by the Rolling Stones: Jagger, Richards, Watts, and Wood. This photographic record charts the Stones’ remarkable history and lifestyle, and has an appendix including the Stones in the media, a Stones timeline, discography, and photographers’ biographies. Folio. Original illustrated boards. Housed in purple leather clamshell box with the Rolling Stones lips logo to the front cover. With the print Mick Jagger (1973) , housed in purple leather folder with the Rolling Stones lips logo on the front cover. With the original packing box. Over 500 pages of photographs including 3 fold-outs by David Bailey, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Bob Bonis, Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, Gered Mankowitz, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Bent Rej, Ethan Russell, Albert Watson and others. In fine condition. £17,500 [156784] 4 BEAUVOIR, Simone de. Le Deuxième Sexe. [Paris:] Gallimard, 1949 “all contemporary feminists build on beauvoir’s achievement” First edition, limited issue, each volume one of 50 hors commerce on alfama Marais paper aside from the regular trade issue, numbered 2,026 and 2,033 respectively. Despite drawing immense criticism, being denounced as pornographic, and even securing a place on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum , 22,000 copies were sold in the first week alone, and it

to Cornelia Steffen. Stefanowski was a German television journalist for culture. This work collects and illustrates a series of interviews with Bacon from 1962 to 1974. Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in green and white. With 94 illustrations. Browning to covers, more noticeable to back cover which is white. £2,500 [157457] 3 BAILEY, David. The Rolling Stones. Foreword by Bill Clinton. Cologne: Taschen, 2014 Limited Art Edition, number 35 of 75 copies with a print of Mick Jagger from the Goats Head Soup cover shoot signed by David Bailey. The total edition comprised

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soon gathered a reputation for being “the only book women who wanted to think about their status in the world could turn to” (Moi). The trade edition was issued in covers featuring the striking designs of Turkish-born French artist- illustrator Mario Prassinos, who frequently worked on these prestigious post-war editions for Gallimard. The two volumes were published months apart (20 April and 14 September 1949), so are invariably found with unmatched numbers. There were also 55 copies on vélin pur Lafuma-Navarre (50 numbered in roman numerals, and 5 hors commerce marked A to E) in bindings without the Prassinos designs. 2 volumes, octavo. Original black paper-covered boards, spines lettered in gilt, pictorial decorations on boards and spines in grey, blue, and gilt after designs by Mario Prassinos, endpapers decorated with Pegasus motif and the initial of La Nouvelle Revue française . Title pages printed in red and black. A near-fine set, slight rubbing to ends of joints and corners, a few marks to covers of Les faits with edges and prelims slightly foxed, L’experience with head of spine rubbed and small scratch on front cover, a few faint marks to edges, else fresh and clean. ¶ Toril Moi, “The Adulteress Wife”, London Review of Books , vol. 32, no. 3, 11 February 2010; Jo-Ann Pilardi, “The Changing Critical Fortunes of The Second Sex ”, History and Theory, vol. 32, no. 1, February 1993, pp. 51–73, available online. £1,750 [157573]

5 BELL, Gertrude Lowthian. The Arab of Mesopotamia. Basrah: published by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1917 a lovely copy in the original cloth, with a pertinent baghdad association First edition of this fragile official publication. Due to the poor quality of the materials used in production, notably the paper stock, this work is uncommon in such attractive condition. The second section (pp. 100–202) has a separate title page entitled “Asiatic Turkey” and is explicitly attributed to Bell. She says in her preface, dated October 1917, that “these articles were written at the request of the War Office during June and July, 1917. It has been suggested that they might be of some interest to members of the Force serving in Mesopotamia who may not have had opportunity to make acquaintance with the Dominions of the Sultan beyond the battlefields of Gallipoli and the Iraq”. This copy has an inscription on the front free endpaper: “Baghdad. 11th August 1919 Love from Arthur”. While Arthur remains unidentified, the connection to Baghdad is particularly apposite given Bell’s lifelong connection to the city, as well as being the place where she wrote most of the second section of the present work. Small octavo. Original dark green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece map of Mesopotamia. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper in ink (see note).

with neat ink note of the date of binding to the front free endpaper. Some volumes with a hint of sunning to spines and occasional foxing, else a fine set. £5,000 [157257] 7 BOWIE, David, & Mick Rock. The Rise of David Bowie 1972–1973. Cologne: Taschen, 2015 First edition, signed limited issue, one of 1,972 copies, signed by both Bowie and Rock. This collection features many iconic images by Bowie’s official photographer and videographer from the year Bowie launched his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars . The limitation number was created specifically to match the date of the album’s release in 1972. Folio. Original blue paper boards, spine lettered in white, hologram of several pictures of David Bowie to front board. Housed in a blue clamshell box. With the original pink cardboard packing box and the unopened shrink wrap. Photographs and illustrations throughout. An excellent copy, the shrink wrap a little torn, but still unopened. £3,750 [156743]

Spine ends and corners gently rubbed and bruised, some faint marks to cloth, otherwise gilt bright and cloth unfaded; free endpapers browned, contents evenly toned as usual, particularly nice without the tears and chips which the thin paper stock is prone to having; a very good copy indeed. £1,500 [158585] 6 BOOK COLLECTING. A selection of works and catalogues on book collecting, in A small library of the standard works on book collecting, beautifully bound by the leading English bookbinder George Bayntun. These works, which include Carter’s Books and Book- Collectors and Taste & Technique in Book Collecting, have done much to shape collecting over the last century, and remain both the usual starting points for the novice and crucial reference books for the experienced. A full list of titles is available. 21 works bound in 20 volumes, varying sizes. All bound by Bayntun in the mid- to late 1960s. Various volumes Bayntun bindings. 1880–1970 a book collector’s library

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8 BRIGGS & BROTHER. Seeds from Briggs & Brother, Rochester, N.Y. For sale here. Rochester, NY: [c.1870s–80s] “none better can be procured” A striking colour broadside advertising 11 different varieties of tomato seeds offered by the Briggs & Brother seed company. Each variety is illustrated and accompanied by a brief description and instructions for cultivation. The varieties are Hathaway’s Excelsior,

Trophy, Keyes’ Early Prolific, Orangefield, Dwarf Orangefield, Cedar Hill, General Grant, Hubbard Curled Leaf, Tilden, Earley’s Defiance, and Maupay’s Superior. Colour printed broadside (480 × 305 mm). Pinholes at corners, extremities and lower right corner verso lightly browned, toning at upper corners recto and along crease from folding on verso, small patch of spotting on verso not visible on other side, red ink remaining fresh and bright, a few small perforations and one short marginal tear expertly stabilised. Overall a well-preserved example. £1,500 [157684]

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9 BRIGGS, Raymond. The Snowman. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978 the snowman meets harry potter First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper verso, “For Fiona With Best Wishes from Raymond Briggs 1979”. The recipient was Fiona Waters, the bookseller, publisher, author, and reviewer. Her review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone features on the rear cover of the first edition of that book. The Snowman was the runner-up for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in the US in 1979. It was adapted into a Bafta-winning animated short, first broadcast 26 December 1982, which remains a Christmas classic. Quarto. Original pictorial boards, spine and front cover lettered in black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout in colour by Raymond Briggs. Slightly skewed, spine and corners bumped, consistent toning to boards with occasional light marks. A very good and attractive copy. £1,500 [158897] 10 BROOKS, Gwendolyn. For Illinois 1968. A Sesquicentennial Poem. [Chicago:] Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission, 1968 “beside thy rivers, illinois!”

Signed limited edition, with the author’s signature on the colophon, scarce in commerce. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Illinois, this poem was published the same year that Gwendolyn Brooks became the state’s poet laureate. Brooks was the first Black woman to hold the post of poetry consultant to the Library of Congress and was the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. Written in the year of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1968, the poem presents an impassioned plea for unity within the state of Illinois: “Come exorcise the cry ‘Prepare for hate!’ . . . To a new morning waking late, declare a daybreak of communion and repair, beside thy rivers, Illinois!”. Octavo, pp. 4. Original blue wrappers, seal of Illinois on front cover and of Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission on rear cover in blue, clear free endpapers printed with rivers of Illinois. Text printed in blue. Tiny mark to one letter, still legible; a fine copy. £1,250 [157211] 11 BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze and Company, 1901 a beautiful work from inside to out An attractive edition with intricate woodcut initials to each sonnet, one of 300 copies, this copy in a fine arts and crafts style binding by Rivière. The sonnets

include some of Browning’s most famous love poetry, written in the first years of her falling in love with Robert Browning, including the famous sonnet “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”. The collection was first published in 1850. Quarto (211 × 172 mm). Contemporary brown morocco by Rivière and Son, spine in compartments framed in gilt, raised bands tooled in gilt, elaborate triple rule gilt frames with reef knot details to covers, front cover lettered in gilt within central foliate vignette, board edges ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, red marbled endpapers, turn-ins ruled in gilt. Elaborate woodcut title page and initial to each sonnet. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker (1871 – 1950) of Manchester, Mass., son of wealthy industrialist Silas B. Cobb on front pastedown. Blind stamp of the New England Conservatory of Music at head of Sonnet 37. Spine and head of covers sunned, small bump to upper outer corner of front cover, faint offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and bright; a beautiful copy in near-fine condition. £1,250 [155449] 12 BUKOVSKY, Vladimir. To Build a Castle. My Life as a Dissenter. London: André Deutsch, 1978 “this dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman” First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Mr. Jan Beer, with the best wishes, V. Bukovsky, April, 16, 1982, Cambridge”. This title is scarce inscribed. Mr Beer is potentially John Beer (1926–

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14 BUTLER, Octavia E. Dawn. Xenogenesis. New York: Warner Books, 1987 signed copy First edition, signed by the author on the title page. This is the first novel in the Lilith’s Brood trilogy, each of which was nominated for a Locus award. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed green paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, green endpapers. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, spine ends just creased, a touch of foxing to verso. £1,250 [157638] 15 BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993 “the only lasting truth is change. god is change” First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. Parable of the Sower won the New York Times’s Notable Book of the Year in 1994 and was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award. It is the first in an unfinished series of novels, followed by Parable of the Talents (1998). Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Title page printed in black and white on grey paper. A few spots of foxing to edges. A near-fine copy in fine jacket. £1,250 [157637]

2017), British literary critic and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge. To Build a Castle was published in Russian the following year under the title And the Wind Returns , by Chalidze in New York. A Soviet dissident, human rights campaigner, and vehement critic of Vladimir Putin, Bukovsky exposed the Soviet use of psychiatry against political prisoners, having himself spent a total of 12 years in Soviet prisons, labour camps, and psychiatric hospitals.

Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With dust jacket. Head of spine just bumped, tiny mark to fore edge. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, corners a touch rubbed and nicked. £1,000 [157331] 13 BUTLER, Octavia E. Patternmaster. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976 an inscribed copy of the author’s debut First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Michael the collector, best wishes, Octavia E. Butler”; inscribed copies of this title are uncommon. Butler was the first Black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship. This was her debut novel, the first book in the Patternist quintet, though chronologically the last. Octavo. Original beige leatherette, spine lettered in black, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Rubbing to spine ends, covers clean, short closed tear to lower margin of pp. 55–6, pale damp stain to upper margin of latter half of contents, ripple to head of rear endpapers; a very good copy indeed in like jacket, spine sunned, a few marks to rear panel, edges gently rubbed and creased, not price-clipped, very sharp and fresh. ¶ Amanda Boulter, “Polymorphous Futures”, American Bodies, Cultural Histories of the Physique , 1996. £3,000 [156706]

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16 CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House, 1958 a sophisticated jewelled binding First edition of Capote’s classic novella, the basis for the much-loved film. Gorgeously hand-bound by the Chelsea Bindery in deep rose-pink and black morocco leather, the front cover features a silhouetted Audrey Hepburn in that iconic Givenchy little black dress and foot long cigarette holder. Diamond embellishments on the jewellery make this luxurious and unusual binding sparkle. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in pink morocco, black morocco title label, spine lettered in silver, black morocco onlay silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly with real diamond jewellery, black plain endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins silver, all edges silver. Housed in a custom black velvet drawstring bag. £2,950 [144752] 17 CARTER, John. The Builder’s Magazine, and complete architectural library for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c . . . . Revised, corrected, and

superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and builder. London: Printed by M. Allen for Alex Hogg, [1794–1817]

finely illustrated 18th-century architecture An attractive copy, in a pleasing contemporary binding, of The Builder’s Magazine , originally issued in monthly instalments between 1774 and 1778. It was in this publication that Carter, “England’s first architectural journalist” ( ODNB ), confessed himself for the first time as “a zealous admirer of Gothic architecture”, becoming one of the earliest advocates of its revival. John Carter (1748–1817) gained his reputation as an architectural draughtsman working for several years for the Society of Antiquaries, and became a

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fellow in 1795. His drawings for the series Vetusta monumenta published in 1797–1817 “set new standards in recording Gothic detail” ( ODNB ), and his numerous articles published in the Gentleman’s Magazine are crucial contributions to the contemporary Gothic revival movement. The second volume of the Magazine is entirely the work of Carter, who designed over 180 plates and accompanied them with detailed descriptions. His drawings “cover a remarkably wide range of subjects – farm-houses, inns, a hospital, a public library, shop fronts, town houses, villas, cottages, garden buildings, chimney pieces . . . and probably for that reason remained in demand for some forty-five years” (Harris, p. 131). The Builder’s Magazine was popular enough to justify multiple reprints from 1774 until the early 1820s. While the present edition is undated on the title page, ESTC collocates it as published between 1794 and 1817, the latter being the year in which the printer, Michael Allen, ceased to work. The second front free endpaper of this copy bears the watermark “1801”, which supports an early 19th-century date of completion and binding. 2 volumes bound in 1, small folio (256 × 203 mm). Contemporary calf, spine with gilt ruled raised bands, red

page), 4 others within the text and on rear cover, 23 photographic reproductions on Vélin de Rives paper. A fine copy. ¶ Mourlot (355–6). £2,250 [158534]

morocco label, covers bordered with a double gilt fillet, gilt decoration to board edges. With 185 architectural engraved plates, several of which folding. Calligraphic ownership inscription “Tho[ma]s Halford Jun[io]r, Ludlow, July 23rd 1829. Aged 22 y[ea]rs” to front pastedown; Halford went on to become the postmaster of Ludlow. Extremities rubbed, some scuffs to covers, short crack to rear joint at tail of spine, remaining firm, stains to some leaves of contents, occasional small and mainly marginal marks, paper flaw to lower margin of one leaf without loss of text, faint offsetting to a couple of leaves from two pressed primroses, otherwise remarkably fresh and clean throughout. An excellent, well- margined copy. ¶ ESTC T301349, not in Harris. £1,500 [158065] 18 CHAGALL, Marc. Derriere Le Miroir. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1964 First edition, number 147 of 150 copies on Vélin de Rives. It was published in conjunction with Chagall’s exhibition at the Gallery Maeght, June 1964. Folio. Original illustrated wrappers, lettering to front cover in black. With the original grey chemise and slipcase, lettering to spine in black. Two original colour lithographs (cover and double page) and one black and white (single

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Marc SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. Monte Carlo: Éditions Andrê Sauret, 1975 complete set of chagall’s tempest – First edition, number 217 of 270 copies signed by Chagall. The lithographs were proofed by Georges Sagourin and printed on the presses of Fernand Mourlot, Paris. The lithographs were executed by the artist in 1975 at the age of 88. This copy comes from the artist’s estate. Folio. Original cream wrappers, lettering to front cover and spine in black. With the glassine dust jacket. Housed in the publisher’s vellum clamshell box, lettering to front cover and spine in gilt. 50 original lithographs of which 31 are full page and text on Vélin d’Arches à la forme paper. Light rubbing to rear of box, otherwise fine. £9,750 [158059]

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21 CHINA; RAILWAYS. Chinese Government Railways: Travellers’ Notes and Through Booking Arrangements. Tianjin: N.C. Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd, 1918 Rare first edition of this extensively illustrated guide for business and leisure railway travellers in Republican China, with notes on principal destinations and many valuable tables of fares, baggage rates, and insurance charges. WorldCat records just five copies with none in UK institutions. In 1918, the Chinese railway system consisted of six main lines linking Peking, Hankow, Shanghai, Tianjin, and other important cities. The network was also connected to the South Manchuria Railway and the Japanese Imperial Government Railways. This is an especially detailed guide which caters to a variety of tastes and budgets. The unusual level of numerical information offers a detailed window into the network’s revenue streams and projected operating costs. Octavo. Original brown illustrated paper wrappers, front cover lettered in green and white. Half-tone frontispiece of a water gate in Songjiang after a photograph by Donald Mennie, 23 similar plates, 7 after photographs by Clarence Le Munyon, folding map of rail network and connecting lines in Japan and Manchuria, tables and illustrations in text, pp. 13 advertisements at rear (pp. 2 printed in red). Covers bright, spine worn in places, small losses to rear lower corner and corresponding part of final leaf, map and plates bright. A very good copy indeed of this fragile publication.

20 CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977 inscribed to an eminent irish collector First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Philip Murray, best wishes, Bruce Chatwin, Nov ‘88”. Murray was a noted Irish bibliophile and author of The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011); the sale of his library was Ireland’s largest ever single sale of first editions. Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. In 1982 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel for On the Black Hill and in 1988 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Utz . In Patagonia is Chatwin’s first book. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue map endpapers. With dust jacket. Black and white map frontispiece, 4 black and white double-sided photographic plates. Spine a little cocked, one corner bumped, a few trivial spots of foxing. A near-fine copy in like jacket, spine panel just sunned, not price-clipped, a touch of foxing to verso and flaps, free from nicks and rubbing, very fresh and sharp. £2,500 [155643]

¶ Institutional copies: Harvard, Oregon, Columbia, Michigan, and Freie. Not in British Library. £1,250 [157930] 22 CHRISTO & Jeanne-Claude. 75. Essay and Interview by Paul Goldberger. Cologne: Taschen, 2010 signed by christo First edition, number 638 of 1,100 copies signed by Christo, from a total edition of 1,510. Part biography, part critical analysis, part catalogue, this comprehensive overview of all Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects up to 2010 was designed by Christo himself. Conceived originally to mark Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s 75th birthdays, it features hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, drawings and plans, a detailed history, and in-depth interviews, including Jeanne- Claude’s final public conversation about her work. She died in 2009, a year before publication. The duo are perhaps best remembered for wrapping architecture and natural elements in fabric, such as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or the gates in New York’s Central Park. Folio. Original hessian cloth, spine and front cover lettered in red. Housed in the publisher’s hessian clamshell box, spine and front cover lettered in red. Photographs throughout by Wolfgang Volz, many full-page. Book fine, some rubbing to text of clamshell box. £3,750 [158063]

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23 CHRISTMAS – CALLIGRAPHIC MANU SCRIPT. The Wonderful Christmas Story told by St Luke. Snowshill, Cotswolds: November 1928 cotswold calligraphy A beautiful arts and crafts style calligraphic Christmas gift, inscribed in orange ink to the final leaf “Written for Miss Ellen D. Sharpe by her friend S. B. Russell at Snowshill, on the Cotswolds, in November 1928”. The work was created by Sydney Bolton Russell (1866–1938), the father of the arts and crafts furniture designer Gordon Russell (1892–1980). The recipient of this Christmas gift was Ellen Dexter Sharpe (1861– 1953) a patron of the arts in Providence who gave numerous donations to the Rhode Island School of Design. Russell travelled to Boston in October 1926 and likely met Sharpe on this visit.

churchill’s “elegiac” autobiography – in the famously elusive dust jacket First edition in a very presentable example of the extremely rare dust jacket, retaining much of its vibrant colour. This is a conspicuously attractive copy of Churchill’s “witty and elegiac account of his youth shot through with regret at the decline of the social and imperial order in which he had grown up” ( ODNB ). Churchill’s first volume of sustained biography is a highly entertaining account of his childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military training at Sandhurst, experiences as a war correspondent in Cuba, and service attached to the Malakand Field Force on the NW Frontier of India, charging with the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, and as a POW in South Africa during the Boer War.

This copy is of the second state, with 12 lines of Churchill titles on the half-title verso, and in the second state binding, with 5-line lettering to the front cover (the first state has 3-line lettering). Octavo. Original pinkish-violet cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Half-tone frontispiece and 15 other plates, folding map, maps to text. Gilt of spine a little oxidised, a few other minor pale marks, slight tape residue to front free endpaper recto and offsetting to following leaf, a bright, square copy, title page unopened; jacket spine sunned, variable fading to panels, a few scuffs to front, splits to folds, other nicks, chips and tears, old tape repairs on verso but remaining very good. ¶ Cohen A91.1.b; Woods A37(a). £22,500 [156835]

Quarto, (280 × 186 mm), pp. [18]. Finely bound at time of presentation in blue morocco, spine in compartments, raised bands ruled in gilt, titles in gilt to front board, blue marbled endpapers, turn-ins elaborately rolled in gilt. Text written in black with red initials, colour nativity illustrations pasted to title page and final page of text. Spine very lightly toned, minor scuff to edges, faint offsetting to free endpaper margins, a near-fine copy. £1,250 [145380] 24 CHURCHILL, Winston S. My Early Life. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930

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will be: ‘stand firm’ . . . where there is no fighting going on and no close cannon fire or rifle fire can be heard, everyone will govern his conduct by the second great order and duty, namely ‘carry on’.” Churchill’s inspirational message is followed by detailed instructions on just how to stand firm and carry on. Print-run details show that over 14 million copies were printed: “The huge print run might leave one with the impression that the leaflet would be commonly found today. It was, however, only a leaflet anticipating an event that never came to pass. In the event very few copies have survived” (Cohen). There are two issues, with and without a red overprinted notice, the latter issued for the coastal communities which would need to be evacuated.

25 CHURCHILL, Winston S. Beating the Invader. A message from the Prime Minister; [together with] If The Invader Comes. London: Issued by the Ministry of Information in co- operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, 1940 & 1941 churchill prepares the nation

First editions of Churchill’s rallying cries to the British people during the darkest period of the Second World War, two leaflets distributed to all households in 1940 and 1941 to prepare the citizens for invasion, and to set out their duties to their country if so. Beating the Invader was issued in May 1941. “If the invasion comes everyone – young or old, men and women – will be eager to play their part worthily . . . When the attack begins, it will be too late to go . . . for all of you then the order and the duty

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vehicles and hide their petrol. Aside from complying with orders, the British people must be ready to resist – “In factories and shops, all managers and workmen should organise some system now by which a sudden attack can be resisted”. “Make sure that you understand the system of defence that has been organised and know what part you have to play in it”. The leaflet concludes “Think always of your country before you think of yourself”. 2 quarto single-sheet flyers (280 × 210 mm), text both sides. Presented in double-glazed oak frame. Old creases and toning, very good. ¶ Cohen B76; Woods A69. £1,250 [153380] 26 CHURCHILL, Winston S. The First Collected Works. Centenary Limited Edition. London: Library of Imperial History in association with the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, 1973–76 superb set of churchill’s works First complete collected edition of Churchill’s writings, published to mark the centenary of his birth, a splendid and imposing set of the works of the great wartime leader and statesman, whose extensive writings in the varied fields of history, biography, fiction, and essays were rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. The Centenary Edition is the only complete collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. 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 number 119, with the limitation bookplate loosely inserted in the first volume. “The specifications were titanic: five million words in 19,000 pages, weighing 19 lbs, taking up 4.5 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” (Langworth). 34 volumes, octavo. Original full vellum with 22-carat gold blocking, including spine lettered gilt, armorial device to front covers and ruling to spines and front covers, marbled endpapers, printed on Archive Long-Life Text Paper, gilt edges. Housed in original green imitation leather slipcases

stamped with the Churchill arms in gilt. Frontispieces, and folding maps and illustrations throughout. As usual, typical natural variation to the tone of the vellum and patches of discolouration and cockling to some volumes, slipcases a little tight with a few instances of peeling, still an excellent set. ¶ Cohen AA1; Langworth ICS AA1; Woods p. 391. £6,000 [158247] 27 CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1984 inscribed copy of his first novel First edition, enthusiastically inscribed as such by the author on the half-title, “First Edition! Tom Clancy”. The Hunt for Red October , famously described as “the perfect yarn” by Ronald Reagan, was Clancy’s first novel and the debut of the character Jack Ryan. A film adaptation, directed by John McTiernan, was released in 1990 and starred Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. The book and film also led to two video games. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and rear cover lettered in silver, blind-stamped decoration on front cover, grey endpapers. With dust jacket. Cloth bright, contents fresh. A near-fine copy in very good dust jacket, couple of nicks and short closed tears, small tape repairs to verso, mildly toned, but overall quite bright. £1,500 [157819]

If the Invader Comes had been distributed by the government to civilians in June 1940 to prepare for an invasion by German forces, an invasion feared imminent in the month which saw both the Dunkirk evacuations and the fall of France. The chief purpose of the leaflet was to prevent panic, as fleeing civilians in Holland and Belgium had clogged up roads and frustrated the military response. “If you run away, you will be exposed to far greater danger because you will be machine-gunned from the air”. For the same end, the leaflet cautions against spreading or believing rumours. The public must avoid giving the Germans any help, follow all government instructions (but look out for German impostors), report anything suspicious, disable their motor

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28 COBBETT, William. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire. London: William Cobbett, 1830 “an enduring classic” First edition of this masterpiece of political journalism, deservedly the best known of Cobbett’s works, handsomely bound. The distressed state of English farming in the face of economic fluctuation and industrialization was Cobbett’s greatest concern in the 1820s. Rural Rides was based on a series of tours across Britain made on horseback, originally published as a series of letters in the Political Register , the weekly periodical Cobbett established in 1802 and conducted until his death in 1835. “The vividness and force of his writing, whether in describing the countryside or his encounters with those who worked in it, have made his work an enduring classic. In his accounts of the poverty caused by widespread enclosure he struck the first blow in the long struggle for improving the condition

of labourers on the land, and the opinions he expresses in many ways anticipate the doctrine of the Young England group as led by Disraeli” ( PMM ). Octavo (186 × 109 mm). Recent red morocco, green morocco label, gilt in compartments with floral device, front cover lettered in gilt within a compartmentalised frame containing a repeated device of a field mouse amid ears of corn, gilt and blind turn-ins, floral patterned endpapers, edges uncut. Housed in custom red cloth solander box, green morocco label. Terminal advertisements repaired and defective, else collates complete, with supplementary leaves pp. 45*–124*. Slight browning to contents. A very good copy. ¶ Goldsmiths’ 26974; Kress C.2480; Pearl [166]; Printing and the Mind of Man 294. £1,250 [158460] 29 CORNWELL, Bernard. The Last Kingdom series, with the supplementary volume. London: HarperCollins, 2004–20 the complete set, with the rare supplement, all signed First editions, each signed by the author on the title page; together with the scarce supplement Warrior’s Story , also signed, in which Cornwell outlines his inspiration for the series. Waterstones originally distributed the supplement for free alongside purchases of the newly released Sword Song in 2007. Complete sets are not often encountered in commerce.

The Flame Bearer is signed and dated by the author within three weeks of publication on 6 October 2016: “Bernard Cornwell 22/10/2016”. The BBC released a televised adaptation of Last Kingdom in 2015; Netflix took over the production from the third season, and released the fifth and final season in March 2022. 14 works, octavo. Original blue boards, spines lettered in gilt, silver, or bronze, sides of War Lord stamped with gilt centrepiece encircled by the titles of each work in the series, colour endpapers (many featuring illustrations). With dust jackets. Warrior’s Story issued in wrappers. Map in each volume. Couple of bumps and spots of rubbing, contents clean. A near-fine set in like dust jackets, not price-clipped, presenting sharply and brightly. £2,500 [157114] 30 CROWLEY, Aleister. The Diary of a Drug Fiend. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1922 “it is all a phantasmagoria of ecstasies”

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First edition of Crowley’s first published novel, a semi-autobiographical story of drug addiction vaunting the curative properties of the Abbey of Thelema. Written in less than a month and attacked upon publication in the Sunday Express as “a book for burning”, the Diary became a classic of its genre. “ The Diary of a Drug Fiend , which presents an idealized and, at times, tempting picture of [Crowley’s] abbey – his depictions of the surrounding scenery contain some of his best writing – is based on the idea that through magick and Thelema, one could learn to take or leave drugs as one willed” (Lachman, p. 226). The book very quickly sold out its first run of 3,000 copies. Deeply impressed with the novel, Collins urged Crowley to write an autobiography, his future Confessions . Later, following the onslaughts in the Sunday Express , he allowed the book to go out of print. Octavo. Original blue cloth, lettering and publisher’s device to spine and front cover in red. Spine ends a little creased, extremities rubbed, the binding overall square and sound, offsetting to endpapers, contents clean; a very good copy indeed. ¶ Fuller, Bibliotheca Crowleyana , 50a; Yorke 50a. Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley. Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World , 2014. £1,500 [158090]

31 CRUIKSHANK, George. Fairy Library. London: David Bogue; & Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1853–54] rare complete set of cruikshank’s fairy library in the original wrappers A lovely set of first editions in the original wrappers; Hop-O’My-Thumb and The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk with all of Cohn’s first issue points. Cohn notes: “ Puss in Boots is extremely rare”. Cruikshank’s Fairy Library “contained some of his best drawings” (Mitchell, p. 146), and “remain fascinating museum-pieces of moralism” (Zipes, p. 38). Although Cruikshank’s illustrations for the first English translation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales received a great deal of praise, this foray into the world of children’s fantasy proved less successful. Many, including Charles Dickens, criticized the artist for the temperance-inspired slant he put on these traditional stories. In Cinderella , for instance, the court prepares for the ball by setting fire to its entire reserve of alcohol. Alterations such as this prompted Dickens to write and publish a satirical attack on Cruikshank entitled “Frauds on the Fairies”, in Household Words magazine in 1853. Cruikshank’s fine woodcut illustrations failed to gain him support and Dickens’s

view prevailed, crushing one of Cruikshank’s last hopes for public acclaim, an offence that would not be forgiven: “when Dickens died in June 1870, Cruikshank pronounced, ‘One of our greatest enemies gone’ ( TLS , 2 May 1935, 288)” ( ODNB ). 4 volumes, small quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, titles and pictorial designs printed in black to front wrappers. Housed in custom late 19th-century blue straight- grain morocco case with titles in gilt to spine, double-gilt ruled sides, brass clasps. Each with etched frontispiece and 5 similar plates by Cruikshank, publisher’s advertisements to rear wrappers. Cinderella : with ownership inscription of Algernon Frederick Edward Thomas Hussey (1849–1884) and gift dedication inscription “Algernon Hussey from his cousin Florance [ sic ] Jan 16th 1855” to verso of front wrapper and free endpaper, W. H. Smith embossed stamp to rear wrapper. Hop-O’My-Thumb : bookplate of Harry Bache Smith (1860–1939), American composer and lyricist, to verso of front cover; wrappers darkened with small burn to outer margin of front wrapper. Puss in Boots : upper outer corner of front wrapper torn, still attached but fragile, repairs to verso of one plate. Light soiling to wrappers, spines worn and split at tail but holding firm, some foxing to contents, but generally clean; a very good set indeed, remarkably well preserved. ¶ Cohn 196–9. J. Zipes, Victorian Fairy Tales , 2016; S. Mitchell, Victorian Britain. An Encyclopaedia , 2012. £2,500 [157541]

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35 DESCARTES, Rene. The Passions of the Soule in Three Books. London: printed for A[ndrew]. C[rooke]. and are to be sold by J. Martin, and J. Ridley, 1650 the rare first appearance in english, in contemporary sheep First edition in English of Descartes’s last major philosophical treatise, “his fullest account of the interaction between soul and body, and his most significant contribution to moral philosophy” (Moriarty, p. xviii), rare in commerce, and especially so in an unrestored contemporary binding. Rare Book Hub records four copies at auction and only the Macclesfield copy in a contemporary binding. The Passions of the Soul , Descartes’s last lifetime publication, grew out of his correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia during the 1640s. The work was first published in French in 1649. Drawing heavily on their discussion of mind- body duality and the then-unpublished Traité de l’homme , it makes the “essential distinction between the soul and the divinely-endowed seat of consciousness, will and rational thought, and the body as a machine or automaton subject to the laws of physics, and only indirectly controlled by the soul through the nerves” (Norman). Descartes locates the soul in the pineal gland, and for the first time uses the word “reflex” in connection with the action of the nervous system. “The first part

32 DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 with a signed slip, in the original dust jacket First edition, first issue, signed by the author on a slip pasted on the half-title. This is the author’s second book for children and, in the words of biographer Donald Sturrock, his “most famous children’s book”. The US edition precedes the UK edition by three years. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover stamped in blind, yellow endpapers, top edge purple. With price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Joseph Schindelman. Child’s ownership inscription of one Rand Wilcox, dated 1968, on the front pastedown. Spine ends bumped, lettering to spine rubbed, fore edge faintly soiled, a very good copy in the like jacket, spine faded and rubbed, nicks to ends, scuffs to front panel. £3,750 [156297] 33 DAHL, Roald. Dirty Beasts. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983 inscribed by the author in celebration of a birthday First edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Happy birthday William, Love Roald Dahl. 6 July 1983”.

Quarto. Original illustrated boards, spine and front cover lettered in yellow, white, and red, yellow endpapers. No dust jacket issued. Full-page colour illustrations, black illustrations in the text. Spine sunned, covers and illustrations bright, bump to fore edge of boards with spot of wear, contents clean. A very good copy indeed. £1,375 [157200] 34 DAHL, Roald. Boy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984 an inscribed copy First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “To Dorothy Love Roald Dahl”. In his autobiographical collection of stories from childhood, Dahl includes his fondness for confectionery, his Norwegian ancestry, and his loathing for most schoolteachers. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. With black and white photographic illustrations throughout the text. Foot of spine slightly bumped, a near-fine and bright copy. Minor toning to dust jacket spine and top edge, diagonal crease within the laminate of the front panel, foxing to front flap, head and foot of spine very slightly rubbed, a very good example of an unclipped jacket. £2,750 [158498]

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R209232; Norman 626 (for French original); Thomason E.1347[2]; Wing D1134. Not in Guibert. Michael Moriarty, intr. & trans., The Passions of the Soul, and Other Late Philosophical Writings by René Descartes , 2015. £22,500 [157285] 36 DEXTER, Colin. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn. London: Macmillan, 1977 “there’s always time for one more pint” First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes always, John! And thank you for your support. Colin Dexter”. This copy is possibly inscribed to Dexter’s brother, John, a fellow classicist. This is the third Inspector Morse novel; the books were made into one of the most successful British television crime dramas of all time, running from 1987 to 1993, starring John Thaw in the titular role. Octavo. Original dark green boards, spine lettered in white, cream endpapers. With dust jacket. Neat ownership inscription of J. H. Stanley-Jones on front free endpaper. Spine a touch cocked, spine ends and one corner very lightly bumped, a touch of rubbing to extremities, edges a little foxed. A near-fine copy in lightly toned jacket, price-clipped, very sharp, with just a few creases to one corner and top edges of flaps. £1,500 [156518]

published in his lifetime . . . Portions of this work constitute what we have of Descartes’ moral theory” ( Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy ). Duodecimo (139 × 82 mm). Contemporary plain sheep, covers ruled in blind. Housed in custom brown cloth solander box. Early notes to rear free endpaper, pencilled underlining and minor marginalia to contents. Spine a little rubbed with minor wear at extremities, a few scratches to rear cover, still a particularly well-preserved copy. ¶ ESTC

of the text explains the nature of passion in general, the second describes the principal passions, and the third the further passions that derive from these; but each part ends with some definite recommendations concerning the attitudes or behaviour we should adopt in the light of the foregoing explanations” (Moriarty, p. xviii). It remains the “most extensive account of [his] behavioural physiology to be

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38 DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 a finely bound dickens classic First edition in book form, in a handsome Bayntun- Rivière binding. Dickens had been catapulted to fame with the success of The Pickwick Papers , and to secure his next novel Chapman and Hall offered Dickens £150 a part, a sum ten times greater than that which he had received for Pickwick . It met with great public enthusiasm, which has continued unabated: Dickens’s biographer Peter Ackroyd remarks that the novel “has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote; it is perhaps the funniest novel in the English language” (p. 262). Octavo (224 × 138 mm). Early 20th-century red morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, spine lettered and decorated in floral gilt compartments, raised bands, portrait of the author to front cover and facsimile signature blocked to the rear in gilt, single gilt fillet to boards, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, binder’s stamp to rear turn-in. Engraved portrait of Dickens by Finden after D. Maclise with facsimile signature and 39 plates by Phiz. Spine faintly sunned, very slight foxing to contents, a near-fine copy. ¶ Smith I.5. Peter Ackroyd, Dickens , 1990. £1,500 [157780]

37 DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 handsomely bound and extra illustrated First edition, a superb extra-illustrated copy with the scarce suites of plates by Thomas Sibson and Frederick William Pailthorpe – neither of which are in the celebrated Suzannet and Vander Poel collections – in a particularly fine binding by Rivière, whose work was renowned for “the quality of the materials, the forwarding, and in the delicacy of the tooling” ( ODNB ). This edition includes the complete suite of Sketches of Expeditions from the Pickwick Club , a series of ten unofficial illustrations first published in 1838 to

accompany some of the “most striking scenes” of the novel. Also included is Pailthorpe’s 1882 series, 24 Illustrations to the Pickwick Club , all hand-coloured, described by Grego as “thoroughly in harmony with the first series of plates” by Phiz and Seymour (p. 450). All the original plates are also present in their early states as called for, with no titles or imprints, Dickens’s first novel transformed the obscure journalist into England’s most famous writer within months. The first monthly instalment was issued in an edition of 1,000 copies in April 1836. The work became a publishing sensation after the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the fourth instalment, issued in July 1836, after which the publishers reprinted the earlier instalments so that readers could catch up. Octavo (270 × 129 mm). Late 19th-century red morocco by Rivière & Son, spine lettered in gilt in floral compartments, raised bands, triple gilt filleting to sides, floral gilt dentelles, dark blue coated endpapers, gilt edges. With original wrappers of part III bound in to rear. 112 engraved plates, including etched vignette title page (“Weller”, no priority), frontispiece, 41 plates by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne (“Phiz”), with 2 additional plates by R. W. Buss. With bookplates of the barrister Herbert H. Smith to front pastedown and of Jeremy and Penny Martin to front free endpaper, and faded ownership inscription of one Alex F. Little to engraved title page. Very minor rubbing to extremities, light foxing to contents and offsetting from plates, a bright and attractive copy with sharp hand-coloured plates. ¶ Podeschi, H1137; Smith I.3. Joseph Grego, Pictorial Pickwickiana: Charles Dickens and His Illustrators , 1899. £2,500 [157782]

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