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edge blue, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Slight shelf wear, very light offsetting to endpapers, edges faintly foxed, a near-fine copy in like jacket, price-clipped, tiny chip to foot of spine, extremities a little rubbed. £2,500 [153570] 138 SLEIGH, Bernard. The Gates of Horn. London: Aldine House, 1926 a beautiful work by fairyland’s cartographer First edition, in a particularly bright example of the uncommon jacket. The Gates of Horn is a “tongue-in-cheek collection” of fantasy fiction compiling a casebook of fairy stories, each tale following a human encounter with a fairy creature in the Celtic tradition (Bleiler). The work is “purportedly written seriously for a (mythical) society, but actually poking fun at A. C. Doyle’s acceptance of fairies” (ibid.). In one case, the protagonist ingests a peyote (a type of cactus from which a hallucinogenic drug is made), giving them the ability to see the fairy world. Although the publishers marketed the novel for children, Sleigh had intended it for an older audience. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Title page and frontispiece printed in green and brown, woodcuts in the text. Spine slightly cocked, lettering on spine darkened, hint of foxing to edges; a very good and attractive copy in a remarkable example of the uncommon jacket, lightly rubbed
untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom green cloth-backed folding box. Illustrated throughout by E. H. Shepard, folding map at end. Minor browning to endpapers, two adhesive tape marks and abrasions to preliminary blank, largely unopened, a fine copy. Dust jacket toned, minor adhesive tape repairs to reverse, extremities rubbed, some soiling, a good copy of an unclipped jacket. £12,500 [157029] 137 SHEPHERD, Nan. In the Cairngorms. Edinburgh & London: The Moray Press, 1934 the poet who lived “all the way through” First edition of the author’s sole volume of poetry, a meditation on her beloved Cairngorms, and the last of her works published before a 40-year hiatus and the publication of the book she considered her finest, The Living Mountain . This work is commercially uncommon, here with a well-preserved example of the scarce dust jacket. Shepherd (1893–1981) was posthumously recognized as one of Britain’s finest writers on the natural world and is cited as a key influence by writers such as Richard Mabey and Robert Macfarlane. Growing up and living her entire life in Aberdeenshire, Shepherd had a deep knowledge of her local area and the nearby mountains, articulatated in her poetry, written in both English and Scots. Octavo. Original light brown cloth-backed boards, pale brown patterned sides, rounded spine lettered in gilt, top
and foxed, paper reinforcement to verso of foot of spine, chips to top edge at head of spine, closed tears to fold ends, puncture to centre of front flap fold. ¶ Bleiler 1480. £3,750 [158189] 139 SMITH, Adam. The Works. London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies; F. C. and J. Rivington; Otridge and Son [& 14 others], 1811–12 first collected edition, in contemporary calf First edition of the complete collected works of Adam Smith, including the first biography of the economist, by the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart, first published in 1794. An attractive set in contemporary calf. 5 volumes, octavo (207 × 127 mm). Contemporary calf, tan labels, spines gilt in compartments. Portrait frontispiece to vol. I. Front pastedown of vols. I, III, and V with bookseller’s ticket of William Walker in the Strand (active 1813–1837), front pastedowns with bookplate of William Barlee (probably the rector of West Chiltington, 1791–1850), front free endpapers with modern bookplate of David Oliver, of Marlborough House in Westbury, Wiltshire. Light rubbing to bindings, chipping to labels with minor loss to lettering, insect abrasion to rear cover of vol. III, slight wear at spine ends, joints firm, some spotting to contents else clean, small burnhole to vol. III leaf E1 with loss to a couple letters. A very good set. ¶ Tribe 110; Vanderblue, p. 45. £5,000 [156748]
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