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We are delighted to present this year’s Chelsea Bindery catalogue, featuring first, limited, and special illustrated editions, focusing particularly on our onlay designs. One of only a handful of binderies in London that still practise the centuries-old tradition of fine leather bookbinding, the Chelsea Bindery currently produces around 150 fine bindings each year. While the tools, processes, and materials have remained largely unaltered, we try to stay true to the spirit of each book, working with our own artists and illustrators on fresh designs that showcase the Chelsea Bindery’s mastery of artisanal techniques. There is a timeless quality to the works we create. It requires time, skill, and dedication to train as a master bookbinder, and only a dedicated few make this their chosen profession. The Chelsea Bindery is proud to preserve a craft passed down through generations of bookbinders, breathing new life into the books that pass through our hands and ensuring their longevity through the quality of the materials and methods we use. Our customers appreciate the skill and passion involved in creating each binding and take joy in the look and feel of a hand-bound book. We believe keeping the craft alive will allow future generations to enjoy the special atmosphere of retiring to a library or quiet corner with a beautiful book whose binding tells as much of a story as its pages.

The Bindery has had a particular focus on producing onlay designs this year. We are very excited to feature for the first time our new onlay designs for Tender is the Night , War of the Worlds , and The Tiger who Came to Tea , alongside some of our popular designs, such The Hobbit , The Old Man and the Sea , and Five on a Treasure Island . From the initial design stages to the delicate work of assembling the interlocking pieces, creating onlays is a painstaking and intricate process. The onlay work alone for The Hobbit took 35 hours, before any of the binding work was executed. Each piece is an individual work of art, created using the best materials and finished by hand. We have also been fortunate this year to work on some wonderful private commissions, working closely with clients to advise them on how best to bring their vision to life. One such project this year was our collaboration with Waterstones to produce a unique copy of Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See (opposite) with a stunning onlay design. Emma Doyle emma@peterharrington.co.uk

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BINDING A BOOK

Sewing the book sections : The first step involves sewing together the different sections of the book (also sometimes called signatures) to ensure that the book block has solid structural integrity. Gilding the page edges : A Gildmore machine is used to apply a thin metallic foil to the edge of the pages in a process called gilding. Rounding and backing the spine : A layer of glue is applied to the spine to prevent the book sections from slipping. The spine is then rounded using a backing hammer. The backing hammer folds the sections over each other and the book block is then placed in the rounding and backing machine. A metal roll is brought across the spine of the book block several times to smooth out irregularities and sharpen the edges. Trimming the boards : The boards for the covers are cut slightly larger than the page edges using a machine called a board chopper to give the pages protection. Headbanding : Three different coloured threads are wound around a core made from cloth and paper to create the headbands at the top and bottom of the spine. These are then sewn or tied down to some of the sections to attach the headbands firmly to the spine of the book. Lining the spine : A few layers of lining are glued onto the spine, starting off with a strip of mull (a type of muslin) that ensures a strong adhesion and base for the other linings. A few layers of craft paper are used to create a hollow, then attached to the spine. Each layer is rubbed down using a bone folder – a small hand-held tool that makes defined folds and creases on paper or leather. Traditionally these were crafted from animal bone. Adding raised bands : Bands are created across the length of the spine by gluing on raised strips of leather that are neatly trimmed to size. Covering : This is the process of encasing the book in leather. The leather is cut to an appropriate size, pared down to become thinner, dampened on one side before a cold water paste is added to the other. The leather is wrapped around the book and worked onto the spine firmly using a band stick – a wooden band used to smooth the leather over the raised bands. The corners of the leather are cut away so that they can be mitred – or joined neatly at a 45-degree angle. Band nippers – metal instruments used to further adjust and define the leather onto the raised bands – are then used.

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Finishing : Gilded decorations are created by applying a substance called glaire to the leather before pressing on layers of 22ct gold leaf using a heated brass tool that permanently attaches the layers of gold to the leather. The loose gold is then wiped away from the leather. The bindery has a variety of golds and decorative tools, types, pallets, and rolls that can be used to add a variety of decorations to the leather of the covers and the spine. Adding titles to the front cover and lettering to the spine : Lead lettering slugs are created for each title using an Intertype machine. The lead slugs are placed into a type holder and applied to the spine in a process similar to adding decorative details. Once a book is complete the lead slugs are melted down to be used for the next book title. Blocking : This involves creating a sunken impression on the leather or other material using a blocking machine which allows for larger images to be blocked onto the book covers. Onlays : These are very thin pieces of leather that are pasted onto the covering of a book. They can be used to create elaborate multicoloured and highly decorative designs. Due to their thinness and the fact that their edges are smoothed down, they are often not noticeably raised. Pasting down the endpapers : This is the last process carried out before a book is finished and involves pasting down plain or decorative endpapers onto the inner boards of the book covers. A video of the binding process at the Chelsea Bindery is available to watch on our website

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1 BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1902 a wonderful festive binding First edition, first printing. Baum, best known for his Wizard of Oz books, recounts the fantastical pagan origins of Santa Claus. Although not part of the Oz series, this title introduces the Gnome King, who later appeared in Oz books including Ozma of Oz (1907). Santa Claus was also a guest at Ozma’s Emerald City birthday party in The Road to Oz (1909). Baum wrote two short story sequels, both published in 1904: “How The Woggle-Bug And His Friends Visited Santa Claus” (in Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz ), and a more direct sequel, “A Kidnapped Santa Claus”, in The Delineator magazine. Small quarto. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt with raised bands and gilt compartments, front cover lettered in green onlay and gilt, pictorial multicoloured onlay of Santa Claus going down the chimney, after the original cover illustration, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, edges gilt. Colour title page, illustrated dedication and contents page, and 19 colour plates by Mary Cowles Clark. A fine copy. £4,500 [134681] 2 BLYTON, Enid. Five on a Treasure Island. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942 “lashings of ginger beer” First edition, first impression, of the first Famous Five book. Octavo. Finely bound in blue morocco with wraparound pictorial onlay depicting the famous five rowing out to Kirrin island after the original dust jacket, titles to spine in red, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, red endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. A fine copy. £4,500 [154727]

B. Kork, whereas the English edition has illustrations by the prolific illustrator Charles Robinson, whose younger brothers Thomas Heath Robinson and William Heath Robinson also became illustrators. Octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial title block on front cover in gilt with onlaid morocco floral pieces, turn-ins twin ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, gilt edges. With 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson. A fine copy. ¶ Grolier Children’s 64. £2,750 [152157]

3 BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Random House, 1931 beautifully illustrated Signed limited edition, number 112 of 450 copies signed by the artist. Leighton’s woodcuts inspired the set design of the 1939 film adaptation of the novel, starring Laurence Olivier. Octavo. Finely bound in green morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue and green patterned endpapers, gilt edges. With 12 wood engravings by Clare Leighton. A fine copy. £2,750 [150583]

4 BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911 First UK edition, first impression. The Secret Garden first appeared in a publication aimed at adults, The American Magazine , serialized between November 1910 and August 1911, one of the earliest examples of a children’s story first appearing in a magazine with an adult readership. The book was first published in the summer of 1911 in New York by Frederick A. Stokes, followed a few weeks later by the UK edition. The American edition was illustrated by M.

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6 CLARKE, Harry (illus.); POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1933 First Tudor edition. Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Tales of Mystery and Imagination were first published in 1919, and established his reputation as an illustrator. The book was subsequently reissued in 1923 with additional colour plates, which the present edition reproduces. Clarke (1889–1931) was a leading figure in the Irish arts and crafts movement, particularly noted for his work as a stained-glass artist. Quarto. Finely bound in black morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial title block on front cover in gilt, turn-ins twin-ruled in gilt, black and white patterned endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece, 7 tipped-in colour plates, and 24 monochrome plates. Couple of minor creases to frontispiece otherwise an excellent copy in a fine binding. £1,875 [147497] 7 DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964 dahl’s most enduring and popular work for children First edition, first printing. This US edition precedes the UK edition by three years. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been made into two musical films, in 1971 and in 2005; a film exploring Willy Wonka’s origins, entitled simply Wonka , is to be released in December 2023, with the character of Willy Wonka played by Timothée Chalamet. Octavo. Finely bound in purple morocco, spine lettered in gilt, decorative multicoloured lettering and chocolate bar onlay on front cover, turn-ins twin-ruled in gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. ¶ Grolier Children’s 98. £3,750 [150012]

copy of The Hunting of the Snark with an inscription dated 24 April 1876. The present set is unrecorded by Carlson and Eger. Carroll’s diary entry for 12 September 1877 records a visit by the author to the Hardy family to “meet Evelyn again (she is now ‘Miss Evelyn’)”, where he “walked on the Parade with Mrs. Hardy and Misses K. and E.” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the first published edition, the second overall: the book was originally printed in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in June 1865, but was suppressed when Carroll heard that John Tenniel, the book’s illustrator, was dissatisfied with the quality of the printing. It was withdrawn before publication and now survives in tiny numbers. The book was entirely reset by Richard Clay for the present authorized Macmillan edition, the earliest edition that can be realistically obtained. Although dated 1866, the edition was in fact ready by November 1865, in time for the Christmas market, and was published in a print run of 4,000 copies. The copy of Through the Looking-Glass is the first edition; like its predecessor, it was published for the Christmas market and bears the following year’s date in its imprint. It was actually published in December 1871, in an edition of 9,000 copies. 2 works, octavo (176 × 117 mm). Finely bound in red morocco, spines lettered and with motifs in gilt, raised bands, covers with pictorial roundels replicating the original binding design and single rule in gilt, elaborate turn-ins in gilt, gilt edges. Housed in a custom morocco entry slipcase. Illustrated frontispieces, with tissue guards, and illustrations to the text, all by John Tenniel. Occasional finger-soiling and foxing; near-fine and attractive copies. ¶ Carlson & Eger, Dodgson at Auction 1893–1999 , 1999; Williams, Madan, Green, & Crutch 46, 84. Edward Wakeling, ed., Lewis Carroll’s Diaries , 1993–2007. £95,000 [150957]

5 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; [together with] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 & 1872 a matching set of presentation first editions First published editions of both Alice books, presentation copies inscribed by the author to Margaret Evelyn Hardy, the daughter of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. She is recorded in Carroll’s listing of recipients of presentation copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as noted in his diary. The inscriptions comprise “Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author” on the half-title of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and “Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author. Christmas 1871” on the half-title of Through the Looking-Glass . Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, (1814–1906) became known to Carroll’s Oxford circle in 1865 when he was nominated to stand in the Oxford University constituency. There were three candidates: William Gladstone, William Heathcote, and Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. Carroll records signing a voting paper in his diary for 10 July and Jackson’s Oxford Journal for 15 July notes

that “Dr Dodson [ sic ], of Christ Church” voted for Gladstone. The final result was Heathcote 1331, Gathorne-Hardy 767, and Gladstone 735 votes. The election prompted Carroll to write his Dynamics of a Particle (1865), a satirical pamphlet masquerading as a mathematical treatise in which chapter two refers to the contest between Gathorne-Hardy and Gladstone. The politician was responsible for Carroll’s admittance to the public area of the House of Commons on 8 April 1867, and when Gathorne-Hardy visited Oriel College, Oxford, Carroll invited him to Christ Church to have his photograph taken. Carroll noted in his diary on 10 June 1867, “He had not long to spare, but I succeeded in taking two pictures of him, neither of them, I fear, particularly successful”. On 24 June 1867 the politician wrote to Carroll stating “my little girl’s names are Margaret Evelyn, and I am sure she would dearly treasure Alice in English and French, but has no right to tax you for both”. Gathorne-Hardy had married Jane Orr in 1838 and they were to have four sons and five daughters. A correspondence between the two men commenced and Carroll continued to send copies of his books to Margaret: we know she received the 1869 German and French translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and her inscribed copy of Through the Looking-Glass is dated Christmas 1871. She also received a

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11 DISNEY, Walt. Donald Duck. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936 the classic disney character First edition, first printing. Donald Duck’s first solo appearance in book form was in a comic book of the same name published in 1935; this is his first solo hardcover book. Quarto. Finely bound in yellow morocco, spine lettered in red, onlay of Donald Duck on front cover with lettering onlaid in red, twin rule to turn-ins in red, red endpapers, gilt edges. Colour illustrations throughout by the Walt Disney Studio. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding. £2,750 [147533]

8 DAHL, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970 First edition, first printing. The US edition preceded the UK edition, published the same year. Fantastic Mr Fox formed the basis for Wes Anderson’s 2009 film of the same name and has been successfully adapted into both a stage play and an opera. Octavo. Finely bound in brown morocco, spine lettered in black, two raised bands, front cover with multicoloured pictorial onlay of Mr Fox standing in front of his tree taken from the dust jacket, turn-ins twin-ruled in black, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. £2,950 [138203] 9 DAHL, Roald. The Enormous Crocodile. London: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper in green ink, “To Leslie love Roald 1987”. This was the first of Dahl’s works to be illustrated by Quentin Blake. Quarto. Finely bound in bright yellow morocco, spine lettered in black, wraparound pictorial onlay of the crocodile and the children after the original covers, turn-ins twin-ruled in black, red endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a bright yellow flat-back cloth box, spine lettered in red, by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustrated in colour throughout by Quentin Blake. A fine copy. £5,000 [152702] 10 DAHL, Roald. The BFG. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 First edition, first impression. Dahl’s fantastical tale was expanded from a short story within his 1975 book Danny, the Champion of the World . A film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in 2016. Octavo. Finely bound in pink morocco, lettering to spine and front board onlaid in grey and blocked in black, pictorial onlay wrapped around front and back board after the original dust jacket, twin rule to turn-ins in black, plain black endpapers, gilt edges. With black and white illustrations by Quentin Blake. A fine copy. £3,250 [144304] Jonathan Cape, 1978 an inscribed copy

12 DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1888 sherlock holmes’s first appearance in book form First edition in book form, second impression, with the first and last signatures reset, of Conan Doyle’s first book. A Study in Scarlet first appeared in print in Beeton’s Christmas Annual (1887). It was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool, and the first Sherlock Holmes story to be adapted for the screen. In 1914, G. B. Samuelson produced a silent film of the same name,

with Holmes played by James Bragington. Doyle was influential in establishing crime fiction as a widely read literary genre, and Holmes’s name has since become a byword for fictional detective. Octavo. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, raised bands and gilt compartments on spine, triple rules and tooled cornerpieces in gilt on covers and turn-ins, dark green endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red leather-entry slipcase. With 6 full-page illustrations by Charles Doyle. Bound without advertisements at front, with 14 pp. advertisements at rear. Faded ownership inscription at head of title page, margins trimmed a little close, paper repair to gutter of pp. 8–9 with loss of two words to p. 8. A very good copy indeed in a fine binding. ¶ Green & Gibson A1ai. £22,500 [157566]

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top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 20 colour plates mounted and tipped in, with tissue guards. A fine copy. ¶ Hughey 21. John D. Yohannan, Persian Poetry in England and America , 1977. £3,500 [113617] 16 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Alexandria Quartet. [Comprising:] Justine; Balthazar; Mountolive; Clea. London: Faber and Faber, 1957–60 “art like life is an open secret” First editions, first impressions. Perhaps Durrell’s greatest success, a study of love and political intrigue in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II. 4 volumes, octavo. Finely bound in red, blue, yellow, and red morocco respectively after the designs of the original cloth bindings, gilt lettering on spines on contrasting coloured labels, twin rule to turn-ins, plain blue endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom red leather entry slipcase. A fine set. £5,000 [121818]

13 DOYLE, Richard. In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem by William Allingham. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1870 doyle’s masterpiece First edition of one of the masterpieces of Victorian colour printing. Doyle’s illustrations were executed by Edmund Evans, the preeminent wood engraver and colour printer in Britain during the second half of the 19th century. Evans “was the key figure to whom the trio of great illustrators of the end of the century, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, owed recognition, encouragement and brilliant colour reproduction” (Watson). Folio. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, twin rule on covers, gilt pictorial title block on front cover, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 16 coloured wood engraved plates, painted by Doyle, engraved by Edmund Evans. Some mild browning and spotting to leaves, an excellent copy in a fine binding. ¶ Victor Watson, ed., The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English , 2001. £3,750 [130950]

14 DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Lyrics Pathetic & Humorous from A to Z. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1908 whimsical children’s alphabet First edition of this humorously poetic children’s alphabet book. Each letter has a limerick penned by Dulac below the coloured illustration. Quarto. Finely bound in grey morocco, spine lettered in gilt, multicoloured pictorial onlay on front cover after original cover design, roll on turn-ins, black endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated with 24 colour plates by Edmund Dulac. A fine copy. £3,250 [66581] 15 DULAC, Edmund (illus.); OMAR KHAYYÁM; Edward FitzGerald (trans.) Rubáiyát. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909] " a joy and a treasure" Signed limited edition, number 131 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Edmund Dulac’s illustrations for the Rubáiyát helped to confirm his position as “a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham” ( ODNB ). FitzGerald’s translation was first published in 1859 and slowly gained recognition as a masterpiece of English literature. By the early 1900s many of his phrases had entered the common stock of English quotations and allusions; a growing “cult of the Rubáiyát ” found expression in “the Omar Khayyám Clubs of England and America” (Yohannan, p. 202). Hughey, in her bibliography of Dulac, records the opinion of the publisher George H. Doran (who published the American edition). Doran stated that “the book was a joy and a treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great”. Large quarto. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, pictorial title block to front board gilt after the original design, twin rule to turn-ins, red and gold diamond patterned endpapers,

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truly scrumptious First editions, first impressions, of the complete set of Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stories. 3 volumes in one, octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, two raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, colour onlay of the car on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by John Burningham. A fine copy. £2,950 [151831]

Octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, pictorial title block on spine and front cover in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations throughout by by E. Caldwell. A fine copy. ¶ John Buchan, “Review: Jock of the Bushveld”, Times Literary Supplement , 6, 24 October 1907. £2,250 [154559] 20 FLEMING, Ian. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Magical Car. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1964–65

17 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Complete set of works published in the author’s lifetime. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920–41 the king of the jazz age First editions, first printings, of every book published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his lifetime, and his posthumous Last Tycoon , together comprising five novels, four short story collections, and one play, uniformly bound. 10 works, octavo. Finely bound in green morocco, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt twin rule to turn-ins, purple endpapers, gilt edges. A fine set. ¶ Bruccoli A5.1a; A6.1a; A8.1a; A9.1a; A10.1a; A11.1a [ Great Gatsby with requisite textual points]; A13.1a; A15.1a; A18.1a [ Taps at Reveille with first state points]; A19.1a. £20,000 [140791] 18 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934 “my god", he gasped, "you’re fun to kiss” First edition, first printing. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald’s fourth novel, appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby .

Octavo. Finely bound by in green morocco with wraparound onlay depicting the French riviera after the dust jacket, dark blue endpapers, twin rule to turn-ins in black, gilt edges. Housed in a green cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. With decoration by Edward Shenton. A fine copy. £5,000 [156755] 19 FITZPATRICK, Sir Percy. Jock of the Bushveld. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1907 “one of the best dog stories ever written” Scarce first edition, first impression, of this South African classic. The first impression is distinguished by having three uncorrected marginal illustrations of a dung beetle on pages 65, 337, and 457. Later impressions show it rolling its load correctly with its back, rather than front legs. John Buchan, writing for the Times Literary Supplement , hailed Jock of the Bushveld as “a children’s book of the first order … 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. We know of no African book in which there is the same minute and loving observation of nature. Sir Percy sees the beauty of a landscape while the average man thinks of a waste of thorn and swamp. There is something of Jefferies in the style, something of Borrow, a touch of Mr. Kipling, and a great deal which is his own”.

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Octavo. Finely bound in blue morocco with wraparound onlay depicting the fishing village copied from the dust jacket, titles to spine in silver, twin rule to turn-ins in silver, blue endpapers, silver edges. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box lettered in silver by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy. £4,750 [158223] 24 KERR, Judith. The Tiger Who Came To Tea. London: Collins, 1968 “a big, furry stripy tiger” First edition, first printing, notably scarce. This children’s classic telling the story of Sophie, Sophie’s mummy, and “a big, furry, stripy tiger” has never been out of print: it has been translated into 11 languages and sold over five million copies. It has also been adapted for the theatre, and an animated short film was produced for television. Quarto. Finely bound in bright blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, onlay on front cover of Sophie having tea with the tiger, onlay on rear cover of Sophie riding the tiger, turn-ins ruled in gilt, orange endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a blue cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Colour illustrations throughout by the author. A fine copy. £6,750 [156774]

21 HAMMETT, Dashiell. Complete detective novels. [Comprising:] Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man. New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929–34 "tomorrow i'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight" First editions, first printings, of the complete series of Hammett’s seminal full-length detective novels. As usual The Glass Key is the first American edition: the scarce first edition was printed in

London three months earlier during Knopf’s ill-fated attempt to break into the British market. 5 works, octavo. Finely bound in dark blue morocco, pictorial motifs in gilt on front covers after the originals, covers and turn-ins ruled in gilt, purple endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase by The Chelsea Bindery. A fine set. £12,500 [116919] 22 HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 “you do look glum! what you need is a gramme of soma” First UK edition, first impression, published on 2 February 1932, preceded only by the US signed limited edition of 250 copies published on 21 January. Brave New World is a seminal dystopian novel which established Huxley’s “fortunes and reputation as the best-known British novelist between the wars” ( ODNB ). Octavo. Finely bound in red and blue morocco with lettering onlaid in tan morocco above an onlaid diagnonal stripe in white and tan morocco, white onlay of soma tablet on rear cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. £3,000 [155381] 23 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1952 “now is no time to think of what you do not have. think of what you can do with what there is” First edition, first printing. Hemingway’s final work of fiction and among his best-known works, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and was cited by the Nobel Committee in their awarding of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

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27 LOOS, Anita. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 one of the great comic novels of the early 20th century First edition, first printing with “Divine” for “Devine” on the contents page, inscribed by the author on the first blank, “To Keith Baker, it would be strange if I turn out to be an authoress. I mean, at my home near little Rock, Arkansas, my family all wanted me to do something about my music. With best wishes Anita Loos”. The author’s classic satire of the Jazz Age was an instant best- seller, and has serious Modernist credentials. It was hailed by Edith Wharton as “the great American Novel”, and was selected by James Joyce for his daily designated reading time when he was half-blind and working on the first draft of Finnegans Wake (see Graham). The novel was first adapted into a Broadway musical in 1949. It is the 1953 film adaptation, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, which is remembered as one of the greatest films of all time. Octavo. Finely bound in bright blue morocco, pale blue morocco spine label lettered in dark blue, pictorial illustration on front cover in black with Lorelei’s hair onlaid in yellow and her lips blocked in red, title block on front cover in silver, turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral patterned endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by Ralph Barton. A fine copy. ¶ Elyse Graham, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, The Modernism Lab , available online. £3,000 [154824] 28 LOWTHER, George. The Adventures of Superman. New York: Random House, 1942 first novelization of a comic book character First edition, first printing. This book is the first novelization of a comic book character, and the first Superman story credited to someone other than Jerry Siegel. It was Lowther who first provided many now-familiar details of Superman’s birth and early life.

Octavo. Finely bound in crimson morocco, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial onlay on front cover after original cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Joe Shuster. Couple of minor blemishes to prelims, an excellent copy in a fine binding. £2,750 [144740]

25 LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960 the pulitzer prize-winner First edition, first printing. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Jonathan Daniels remarks that this is “an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well understood” (dust jacket review). Octavo. Finely bound in dark brown morocco, pictorial onlay of a tree wrapped around covers, quote blocked in gilt on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a green cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy. £6,750 [151713] 26 LEWIS, C. S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. First edition, first impression. “A whole generation has grown up of people who read the Narnia stories in childhood, and have passed on the secret to their own children in turn. Whatever Lewis’s future reputation as a theologian or literary critic, he is certain of a place among the classic authors of children’s books” (Wilson, p. 220). Octavo. Finely bound in green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial onlay of Lucy and Mr Tumnus walking through the woods set within oval frame on front cover, onlay on rear cover of the children tumbling out of the wardrobe, turn-ins richly gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour-printed frontispiece and line drawings in the text by Pauline Baynes. A little spotting to prelims, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950 the first narnia book

otherwise a fine copy. ¶ Grolier Children’s 100 , 90. Andrew Norman Wilson, C. S. Lewis: A Biography , 1990. £7,500

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29 MACKENZIE, Thomas (illus.); RANSOME, Arthur. Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme. London: Nisbet & Co., [1920] some of the illustrator’s finest work Signed limited edition, number 249 of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. Quarto. Finely bound in crimson morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, pictorial block after the original design on front cover in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, dark green endpapers with original endpapers bound in, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 12 tipped- in colour plates, captioned tissue guards, and numerous monochrome illustrations throughout. A fine copy. £3,250 [140199] 30 MILNE, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., 1926 the first collection of winnie-the-pooh stories First edition, first impression, of this much loved children’s classic, Milne’s first collection of stories featuring the famous bear. Octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, multiple pictorial blocks on covers in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral endpapers with original map endpapers bound in at front, gilt edges. Illustrated by E. H. Shepard. A fine copy. £3,500 [151916] 31 MILNE, A. A. The House At Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co., 1928 introducing tigger and the game of poohsticks First edition, first impression, of the final Pooh book, featuring the first appearance of Tigger. Milne had bought his son a stuffed tiger, “Tigger”, and told Shepard that he was longing to see the

illustrations for this new character, who would become one of the author’s most popular creations. “ The House at Pooh Corner is probably now the most loved and popular of all as it introduces Tigger and the game of Poohsticks” (Thwaite, p. 109). Octavo. Finely bound in pink morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, decorative gilt blocks on covers, turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral endpapers with original endpapers bound-in at front, gilt edges. Illustrations throughout by E. H. Shepard. A fine copy. ¶ Ann Thwaite, The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh , 1992. £2,500 [151833]

32 MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company 1936

First edition, first printing, with the copyright date May 1936. Octavo. Finely bound in yellow morocco with wraparound onlaid silhouette of Tara in black morocco set against a hand painted sunset, spine lettered in gilt, black endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom black cloth flat- back box, spine lettered in silver. A fine copy. £4,500 [148154] 33 NIELSEN, Kay (illus.) East of the Sun West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914] nielsen’s most spectacular and celebrated book signed limited edition, number 83 of 500 copies signed by the artist. The richness of the 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 and Dulac, which characteristically utilised a traditional three-colour process. Quarto. Finely bound in blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, pictorial block in gilt on front cover after the original, turn-ins ruled in gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 25 colour illustrations and monochrome drawings in the text. A fine copy. £9,750 [114031]

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34 PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965 “i have suffered the atrocity of sunsets” First edition, first impression, of Plath’s most enduring poetry book, published two years after her suicide, edited by Ted Hughes and with an introduction by Robert Lowell. Plath believed her Ariel poems to be the best she had ever produced, “announcing to her mother that ‘they will make my name’” ( ODNB ). Octavo. Finely bound in bright blue morocco, lettering blocked on spine and front cover after design from jacket, bright yellow endpapers, turn-ins ruled in yellow, gilt edges. A fine copy. ¶ Tabor A5. £1,575 [153598] 35 POGANY, Willy (illus.); COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: George Harrap & Co., [1910] “he stoppeth one of three” Signed limited edition, number 458 of 525 copies signed by the artist. This is arguably Pogany’s best work, and a well-illustrated edition of Coleridge’s masterpiece. Quarto. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial title block on front cover in gilt, inner dentelles in gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Colour illustrated title page, 20 tipped-in colour plates, lettering, colour and monochrome illustrations in the text by Willy Pogany. A fine copy. £2,950 [140200] 36 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905 First Rackham edition. Quarto. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial block on front cover

The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird , in which the central chapters tell of a child “who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old … and flew back to Kensington Gardens”. Barrie developed this story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), this book of 1906 (the first to appear with the name of the character in the title) and, finally, the novel Peter and Wendy , which was published in 1911. Octavo. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, compartments ruled in gilt, gilt fillets and cornerpieces on covers and turn- ins, green endpapers, edges gilt, original grey free endpapers with illustrated map of Kensington Gardens bound-in at front. Colour frontispiece and 49 similar plates tipped onto heavy grey paper, with captioned tissue guards, occasional woodcuts in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Foxing to prelims and occasional margins, contents otherwise clean, illustrations bright. A near-fine copy, handsomely bound. ¶ Riall, p. 74. £3,500 [134784] 38 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1909 Signed limited edition, number 168 of 750 copies signed by the artist. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn and coloured. Quarto. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial onlay of the dwarf from “The Water of Life” on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With 40 colour and numerous black and white illustrations by Rackham bound in with text. The occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy in a fine binding. £5,750 [134021] 39 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales. London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1917

Signed limited edition, number 340 of 525 copies signed by the artist, with the extra plate that is often missing (“He Hurried Away with Long Strides”) also signed by the artist bound in at the rear. Quarto. Finely bound in green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial block on front cover, inner dentelles gilt, original endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, 43 black and white illustrations in text. ¶ Latimore & Haskell p. 46. £3,750 [102175]

in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 51 tipped in colour plates as issued, captioned tissue guards, bound in at the back. A fine copy. £2,250 [63508] 37 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 the first appearance of peter pan in the title of a book First Rackham edition, inscribed by him on the half-title of this trade issue copy, “from Arthur Rackham”. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906.

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40 RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, 1913 from nonsense to lessons learned Signed limited edition, number 588 of 1,130 copies signed by the artist. Quarto. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial onlay on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 13 coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Half-title slightly toned, occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy in a fine binding. £3,750 [111922] 41 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); STEEL, Flora Annie. English Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1918 reviewed as “a sumptuous feast” Signed limited edition, number 128 of 500 copies signed by the artist. It was positively reviewed by The Bookman : “it would be difficult to find a more fascinating and artistically produced volume than the collection of English Fairy Tales retold by Mrs Flora Annie Steel . . . It is a sumptuous feast and a gift that will be prized by all art-loving and imaginative children”. Large octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, decorative title block on front cover in gilt, inner dentelles in gilt, floral patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 mounted colour illustrations, captioned tissue guards printed in black, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy. £3,250 [144198]

42 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1920 Limited edition, one of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Quarto. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, gilt pictorial title block on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 colour plates, captioned tissue guards, and numerous black and white illustrations. A fine copy. £3,000 [157101] 43 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest. London: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, [1926] “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 278 of 520 copies signed by the artist, and including an additional plate, “Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell”, not present in the trade edition. This handsomely bound copy pairs the enchanting illustrations of Arthur Rackham with one of the most magical of Shakespeare’s plays. Quarto. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial block on front cover in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 tipped-in colour plates. A fine copy. £3,000 [140206]

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44 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A. A. Milne. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940 the final work illustrated by rackham Limited edition, number 1,991 of 2,020 copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers. Rackham was originally offered this as a first illustrated edition, but being busy at the time declined, a decision he was later to regret. He later illustrated the 1940 Limited Editions Club edition which ended up being the last book he illustrated before his death in 1939; it is from this edition that the present was reprinted. Quarto. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial onlay on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 colour illustrations by the artist. A fine copy. £3,950 [129537] 45 RANSOME, Arthur. Swallows and Amazons. With illustrations by Clifford Webb. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931 first book of the series with new illustrations First fully illustrated edition, published a year after the first edition. Ransome disliked the proposed illustrations by Steven Spurrier for the first edition, and it had been issued with only a frontispiece. Octavo. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, multicoloured onlay on

front cover depicting the two flags and shield held up by pirates after the title page design, blue and green patterned endpapers with original map endpapers bound in at front, gilt edges. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy in a fine binding. £2,950 [133864]

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46 ROBINSON, Charles (illus.); SHARP, Evelyn. The Child’s Christmas. London: Blackie and Son Limited, [1906]

48 SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in The Rye. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1951 one of the great works of american fiction First edition, first printing, in a beautiful binding after the eye- catching jacket designed by Michael Mitchell. Octavo. Finely bound in crimson morocco, spine lettered in black and gilt, pictorial title block on front and rear covers in black and gilt against red and white morocco ground, turn-ins ruled in gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. £4,750 [153253] 49 SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1919 the author’s best known war poems and previously unpublished work First edition, first impression. “Sassoon's savagely realistic and compassionate war poems had established his stature as a fully fledged poet, and despite all his later prose and verse, and his growing aversion to the label, it was mainly as a war poet that he was regarded for the rest of his life” ( ODNB ). Twelve of the poems included appear in print for the first time here. Small octavo. Finely bound in red morocco, white morocco spine label, and front cover lettered in black, turn-ins ruled in gilt, dark green endpapers,

an old-fashioned christmas season First edition, first impression.

top edge gilt. The occasional spot, an excellent copy in a fine binding. ¶ Keynes A20; Reilly, p. 286. £1,375 [148152]

Quarto. Finely bound in crimson morocco, pictorial title block on spine and front cover in gilt after original design, inner dentelles gilt, decorative holly and berry endpapers with original endpapers bound-in, gilt edges. Ownership inscription on half-title, the occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy. £2,450 [105837] 47 SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943 “the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart” First edition, first printing. The original manuscript was in the author’s native French, but it was both written and published in America, the English and French editions appearing in April 1943, perhaps simultaneously. It was the author’s most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide. Quarto. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, spine lettered in black with two raised bands, covers ruled in black, pictorial onlay of the Little Prince on front cover, turn-ins ruled in black, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Illustrated throughout by the author. A fine copy. £4,000 [153260]

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