234 ROWLING, J. K. The Casual Vacancy. London: Little, Brown, 2012 First edition, signed by the author on the title page and with the author’s authenticating hologram to the verso of the half-title. The Casual Vacancy was Rowling’s first, and wildly anticipated, novel for adults. It was well received by critics and adapted into a BBC TV serial which was broadcast in February and March 2015. Octavo. Original black boards, lettering to spine in gilt, orange endpapers. With dust jacket. Ticket to Cheltenham Literary Festival 2012 loosely inserted. A fine copy. ¶ Errington A16(a). £500 [159288] 235 RUSSELL, Bertrand. The Autobiography. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967–68–69 First editions, first impressions, of volumes II and III; third impression of volume I (the same year as the first), attractively bound, with the binder’s instruction slip on how to care for the books loosely inserted. Russell completed and published his autobiography during the last three years of his life. 3 volumes, octavo (226 × 146 mm). Contemporary light blue calf by Bayntun, spines with raised bands, red morocco spine labels, ornate gilt frames in compartments, covers ruled in gilt, elaborate floral decoration to board edges and turn- ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece to each volume. Spines uniformly faded, partially extending to boards, boards of vol. III slightly bowed, contents clean. A very good copy. £450 [158209] 236 SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Garden. London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1946 First edition, signed limited issue, number 158 of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author; an attractive book, beautifully produced on handmade paper. This long poetical sequence on Sackville-West’s favourite subject “tries to sum up her own horticultural aesthetic and is in some respects superior to its predecessor The Land ” ( ODNB ). Large octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, floral frame on front cover enclosing gilt titles, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 7 section title vignettes by James Broom-Lyne. Rear free endpaper with faint stamp of Times Book Club, Wigmore Street. A little rubbing and trivially faint
splash marks to cloth, clean and fresh internally. A very good copy. ¶ Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.44(b). £675 [157912] 237 SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Heart of Midlothian. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 First edition, first issue, with the half-titles present, volume 1, p. 1 lacking the signature mark “A”, volume 2, p. 52 misprinting the word “wichtcraft”, and volume 4, p. 348 misnumbered “438”. This is the seventh of the Waverley novels. 4 volumes, octavo (171 × 101 mm). Contemporary speckled half calf, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled boards, red speckled edges. Volume 1 foot of spine sometime repaired, covers and corners worn, board edges rubbed, top edges dust-toned, slight offsetting to corners of endpapers, contents clean. A very good copy. ¶ Todd & Bowden 122Aa; Worthington 6. £475 [159151] 238 SERJEANT, Robert Bertram, & Ronald Lewcock (eds.) San’ā: An Arabian Islamic City. London: The World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983 First edition, number 1,218 of 2,000 copies only. This book is a case study of major scholastic importance in which the society – along with the complex religious, legal, and mercantile setting – long history, crafts, arts, and religious and vernacular architecture of this
traditional Islamic city of north Yemen are exhaustively described and analyzed. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With glossy dust jacket and matching green slipcase, gilt. With 42 colour plates, one double-page, double-page coloured plan, profusely illustrated in black and white. Book block square, a very good copy in bright jacket, short tear at the bottom edge repaired on verso with archival tape, a very good example. ¶ C. F. Beckingham, “San’ā’, an Arabian Islamic City”, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , no. 2, 1983. £650 [157141] 239 SEUSS, Dr. Green Eggs and Ham. New York: Beginner Books, Inc., 1960 First edition, later printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper verso, “For Marcus! Dr. Seuss”. The recipient visited Dr. Seuss at his home in La Jolla California while staying with a mutual friend in 1986. Green Eggs and Ham remains of the best-loved Dr Seuss titles: in a survey by the US National Education Association the title ranked above The Cat in the Hat for popularity. Small quarto. Original pictorial orange boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in white with vignette in black, white, and green. Illustrated throughout by the author. Spine faded, partial adherence of pictorial endpapers to pastedowns, otherwise a very good copy. ¶ Younger & Hirsch 27. £450 [158227]
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