her life, initial experiments, artistic approach, techniques, albums, sitters, and sources of inspiration. Quarto. Original grey cloth, lettering to spine gilt. With dust jacket. With 1,389 photographic illustrations, 60 of which are in colour. Fine in fine dust jacket. £600 [157990] 176 CARROLL, Lewis. The Complete Works. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939 First one-volume edition published by Nonesuch, presented here in a handsome binding by Bayntun-Rivière. Octavo (185 × 112 mm). Contemporary red morocco by Bayntun-Rivière, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, twin blind fillets bordering covers and enclosing decorative gilt centrepiece, turn-ins with floral roll in blind, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Line drawings throughout by John Tenniel. Light sunning to spine, contents clean. A very good copy indeed. £750 [157902] 177 CARTER, John, & Percy H. Muir (eds.) Printing and the Mind of Man. Munich: Karl Pressler, 1983 Second edition, revised and enlarged, with a new bibliography and introduction by Percy H. Muir. This is the best edition of this major reference work for book collectors, which was originally published in 1967. PMM , as it is usually abbreviated, is regarded as a standard bibliographical reference, and offers a survey of the impact of printed books on the development of Western civilization. Quarto. Original brick-red cloth, white lettered labels on both spine and front board. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Fine. £95 [111397]
172 BRADBURY, Ray. R is for Rocket. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962 First edition, signed by the author on title page in red ink. This is a collection of science fiction short stories, the title story and “Frost and Fire” being published here for the first time. Octavo. Original blue boards, spine lettered in silver. With illustrated dust jacket. Ownership inscription of one Alice Powell on front endpaper. A very good copy, slight rubbing at the spine ends and around the edges, contents with minimal foxing in like dust jacket, unclipped, front panel bright, nicked along the edges, mostly at fold ends, minor rubbing to spine, damp stains on verso, imprints of pen scribbles on recto, and pen trial on the front flap, remaining a sharp example. ¶ L. W. Currey, Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors , 57. £500 [158199] 173 BRIGGS, Raymond. When the Wind Blows. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982 First edition, second impression (“reprinted before publication”), presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Margery Fisher With best wishes from Raymond Briggs 1983”. The recipient was the literary critic and academic, Margery Fisher (1913–1992). Quarto. Original illustrated boards, spine and front cover lettered in black. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout in colour by Raymond Briggs. Head and foot of
spine bumped, corners very slightly rubbed and bumped; a very good copy. £475 [158947] 174 BULLARD, Sir Reader. The Camels Must Go. London: Faber & Faber, 1961 First and only edition of this uncommon and thoroughly engaging memoir, recalling an official life spent in a series of hotspots: the Turkey of Abdul Hamid and the Young Turks; Iraq throughout the First World Way; Jeddah when King Hussein was overthrown; Greece and Ethiopia; the Soviet Union of the early 1930s; Morocco; and Persia during the Second World War. Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With dust jacket. With 8 half-tone plates, one full-page illustration. Ownership inscription on front pastedown of one Desmond J. Cosgrove (dated 1961). Touch of foxing to edges, jacket unclipped and very bright, a particularly sharp copy. ¶ O’Brien F0174. S. H. Longrigg review, International Affairs , vol. 37, no. 4, 1961. £650 [157354] 175 CAMERON, Julia Margaret – COX, Julian, & Colin Ford. Julia Margaret Cameron. The Complete Photographs. London: Thames and Hudson. 2003 First UK edition, of this catalogue raisonné containing all of Cameron’s photographs, together with information on
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